Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-08-26

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time admitting that he voted the
Populist ticket as well.
For an elaborate account of his last
campaign respectfully refer to that
written by a gentleman now enjoying
q position in the present State ad-
ministration by appointment OF the
Governor, and which gentleman was
q co-worker of the State Chairman in
the late campaign and wherein he is
referred to as being "blood sucker
of the candidates and the party"
Taking the party helm when the I
party was composed of thoroughbred
Democrats with a majority of over
fifty thousand, and after four years Of |
his management the result is oombi-
nation, not party, composed of re-
dictionary Democrats, men who vote to
keep regular, Populists and renegade
Republicans.
I said of him that a part of this time |
he handled the funds without being |
required to make statement of dis |
bursement. made it upon the author
ity of the published statement of his
predecessor as State chairman. He |
has never denied it nor does he deny |
it now, but shuns the point by saying |
that the treasurer of the pres
ent committee has made his statement
as required by law. have no doubt |
but that MIR. Zetbeg has made cor
rect statement of all money going into |
his hands, but that Is not pertinent to |
what was said. He knows as well as
any person living that this law re-
quiring a statement of receipts and
expenditures of campaign funds was
not passed till since he went into par
ty management. I made no reference
to the "fusion campaign" as he calls
it, neither did his predecessor when
he made the statement above referred
to.
Condemning and denouncing as cor
rupt and unfit to be voted for any
man accepting free passes from rail-
road he condones in himself what he
condemns in others. He admits he
gets the passes and attempts to create
the impression that they are for
advertisement in his paper, and by
way of courtesy. He says "there is
no question but this pink of personal
perfection is greatly horritied over the
crime of any citizen using advertising
or complimentary railroad transporta-
tion." Now let him hold still and not
distract attention by shouting "trea-
son" and "Filley STRIKER" until have
made witness of himself to prove his
own hypocrisy and dishonesty. He
holds passes not given to him OH
account Of advertisement, therefore
he uses the word complimentary"
80 then 1t stands confessed by him
that he enjoys complimentary passes.
What Is a complimentary pass? 1t is
one not issued on account of advertis-
ing, for all railroads make advertising
contracts, and transportation on that
account is so marked and is In the shape
of mileage. But complimentary pass
is one that is commonly called'a "free
pass" and is issued because it is given
free to the user. Any pass not given
on some business account is marked
"Complimentary" account. He is
enjoying just the very pass that he
| condemns In his club resolutions. II
was he and none other that denounced
the taking of such passes as crime
and as corrupt in the taker. But the
hypocrisy of which he is guilty in
condemning the act which he is doing
| himself is not the whole of 1t. He
gets them on exactly the same princi-
pie that the highwayman gets your
| pocket-book when he compels you to
stand and deliver. He takes advan-
tage of his official position in the
dominant party of the state to demand
them and the railroads yield because
a man in his position, spending SO
much of his time as he does In the
lobby of the legislative hall, is better
friend with pass In his pocket than
an enemy without one. If such con-
duct is 80 corrupt in others as to
deserve public condemnation, why is
it not go in him?
Crashing and striking every object
that comes within his range in his
paroxysms of rage he is really a pit
able sight to look upon. Having in
vited view of himself as he really is,
and seeing all of his political predic-
tions within so short time fall to the
ground, he is a proper subject for a
touch of commiseration. Dollar wheat;
a general resumption of business
throughout the country; the smiles of
contentment of prospering people
are removing the carcass of stagnated
business upon which he has been feast
ing his eyes and feeding his political
existence. He begins to feel that his
days as a prophet are drawing to a
close and In all this he sees the justi-
fication of the Democrats of this State
who believe that party is means of
applying just and correct principles in
the administration of government and
not the means simply of getting office
and gathering party spoils.
His shouts of treason and treachery
have no terrors for those who reso-
lutely stand by the old standard OF
Democracy and refuse to surrender it
into the hands of its enemies. The
men who refused to take the back
track and desert the teachings of the
Democratic party for an hundred
years, are contented to submit their
acts to the severest scrutiny and to
await the verdict of the impartial his
torian. Very respectfully,
GEO. ROBERTSON.
| COOK WITHDRAWS.
To the Editor of the Ledger.
| MEXICO, Mo-, Aug. 25, 1S97.-By re-
sort to vituperation and personal
abuse the editor of the I1,teltioencer has