The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-14

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spectacle of seeing the press bribed, the
religious journals degraded, the pulpit
prOstituted and the American flag de-
bauched, all in the name of an honest
dollar. That grand old American flag,
that has commanded the respect of ma :
tions and has been looked to by the op-
pressed of all lands, was dragged in the
mud and reduced to mere advertising
sheet. Every form of deception, every
form of coercion, moral, financial and
otherwise, was practiced; all for the
sake of turning the government over to
a class of men who wanted to use it for
their private ends at the expense of the
people, and who wanted to perpetuate
a financial policy that is running our
country; who wanted to perpetuate a
theory of government that exalts the
dollar and destroys the man. 1t was
the most gigantic confidence game ever
practiced upon the American people.
PRAISE FOR HARRISON.
The time is at hand for the people to
record their condemnation of these Ell
forts to practice great confidence game
upon them a second time. In about
two weeks Carter H. Harrison will be
sworn in as mayor of Chicago, and 1 be-
! lieve that the reins Of government in
this city have never been held by a
firmer hand than will control them Tor
| fuyO 7 LJor
| rison has more manhood and honesty Of
purpose in his little finger than you
will find in a regiment of those phari-
sees who fill the air with a pretense of
iquity.
The German people have the reputa-
ton of being candid people, and upon
the whole an honest people, who de-
test hypocrisy and pharlseeism. There
is therefore peculiar fitness in sup
porting Mr.. Harrison, for in so doing
you have the satisfaction of knowing
that you are not joining in a movement
to deceive and gull the people of Chica-
go.
And let me say to those who support
ed Mr.. Bryan in the last campaign that
Mr.. Harrison is the oily man whom you
can consistently support at the coming
election. In the last campaign you
| demonstrated to the world that you are
not hypocrites; that you are not phari-
sees; that you are not pretending; that
you are not mere birds of prey seeking
carrion, for that class of men did not
| support Mr.. Bryan; they supported the
Republican party and its one-eyed SER
| want girl, known as the Palmer move
ment. 1t is gratifying to know that
! the forces that rallied around the Demo-
! cratic standard last fall in support Of
the rights of the great people of this
country are standing as firm as the he
roes of Thermopylae. 1t is claimed that
| Mr.. Harlan is saying some splendid
things on the stump Very WELL Whose
candidate is Mr.. Harlan? The candi-
date of the newspaper. There Is today
! no agent in American politics that is
so fiercely hungry, SO thoroughly un-
sorupulous, so absurdly destitute of
every principle of honor as the great
newspapers of this country, and God
has not yet made the man who can do
anything great or good for this city or
| this republic while guided by their in
| fluence.
VOTERS LEAGUE CALLED PARTI-
SAN.
| In recent years there has developed a
! spirit of political independence among
some Of our people. This in itself is
highly commendable, but the Republi-
| cans, who have shown themselves able
| to prostitute and pollute everything in
this country, from the courts to the pull
pit, from the flag down to the school
house, for partisan purposes, have found
! a method of harnessing these indepen-
| dent people, and in the end tying them
| to the Republican gate post.
| You have in this city now what is
called the Voters League, who assumes
to tell the people who are the right peo-
pie to elect aldermen, and an examina-
| ton of it's list shows that just about
| four out of every five of the men whom
it recommends are Republicans. II is
only here and there that Democrat is
| found who is sufficiently mild and harm
less to secure the support of this So
called "non-partisan league. You
need not 20 into an analysis of the work
done by these people. A mere glance
! at it's recommendations disclose5 the
false pretense Of it all. If the managers
of such movements were candid and
were openly to declare that they were
Republicans and we're working in the
interests of the party, one could respect
them But do not be deceived by that
kind of tactics YOU are as capable Of
Judging whom you want to represent
you as is a man who is placed at the
head of non-partisan league by Re-
publican manipulation.
| Now, my fellow citizens, this election
is one of the greatest importance to ali,
because it determines whether we shall
have a pharisaical and hypocritical rule
thoroughly rotten, or whether We shall
have straightforward, manly admins
! tration of public affairs. And to those
/ of my fellow citizens who stood together
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