People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-10-27

the methods were tolerable, but
when the party is imposed upon BY
designing politicians who, through
political trickery and betrayal, cheat
the people out of their rights and
choice, we protest, and neither
threats, sweets meters nor beautiful
strains can lure us into accepting
such outrages as.have recently been
heaped upon the party.
I'VE have frequently accepted po-
lltical situations that were very I'M
satisfactory because OF methods
which were distasteful, but in the
case at hand there has been such o
wholesale bartering away OF the
peoples rights in the selection OF q
Judge, and majority OF the county
ticket, that hundreds OF good solid
Republicans are disgusted and sick
at the idea of the party being made
a bit OF political merchandise to be
traded around promiscuously, with
out regard to the wishes of the vo.
tiers.
The move TO defeat Judge Emery
Tor a second term met with stubborn
ulSapprOVal from the very start, and
when Mr.. Leland found that the at.
Tempt to hoist Mr.. Stuart upon ths
party was calling down such a pro-
nounced protest from thepeople that
IL became necessary for him to tele-
graph home from Washington to his
friends to help pull Stuart through
ana then had to follow home post,
haste and make the fight of his life
TO carry his and Stuart's home town.
Troy, he should have, as Il good Re.
publican, Interested in the welfare of
MS party, abandoned the move and
allowed the people to have their
way. But this was not done: men
We're whipped into liue; some by
threats some 10y promises and some
by pleading as occasion demanded.
For years the Republicans OF
Donlphan county have been long
suffering people, who have born their
mlStreatment with fortitude. and
still have walked up to the polls,
and helped, by their ballots, to swell
the glorious Republican majority.
Iheirlove OF party and faithfulness to
IL nave been imposed upon all these
years, and any man who has had
the nerve to raise his voice in opposi-
tlon to the wishes Of Mr.. Leland has
been Immediately marked for slaugh-
ter. lie has been hammered. kicked.
cuffed and abused until he gave up
and begged for the privilege OF lick.
ing Leland's boots. There are a
good many OF these fellows whom we
tnlnk Leland should be cOngratula-
ted Tor kicking out, but he should be
equally condemned forreceiving them
back and setting them up on a high
plane in the party. The methods
which have been employed In this
county to fOist candidates upon the
people whom they did not want, and
the bold manner in which numerous
county Offices were traded off in
the last county convention, together
with the obnoxious bargaining away
OF officers one, two and three years
hence as a means OF pulling Mr..
stuart through, has Disguised hum
1reds OF old-time Republicans. Fol.
owing this the unsatisfactory man.
ner in which the judicial nomination
was secured by Mr.. Stuart further
the people of this county,
and particularly OF the judicial dis
yrict.
This disgraceful termination upon
top OF the previously created discord
1as placed the Republican party in q
perllous condition in the judicial
'ace, and insure the overwhelming
1efeat OF Stuart. The Republicans Of
Nemaha and Brown counties are dis
5usted and mad, and in DOniphan
county they are sick and discouraged,