Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-27

the methods were tolerable, but
when the party ID 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 DO.
htlcal situations that were very nR-
satisfactory because of methods
which were distasteful, but in the
case at hand there has been such a
wholesale bartering away of the
peoples rights in the selection OF a
Judge, and q majority of the county
ticket, that hundreds OF good solid
Republicans are Disguised and sick
at the idea OF the party being made
bit OF political merchandise to be
traded around promiscuously, with
out regard to the wishes OF the V0-
tiers.
"The move to defeat Judge Emery
Tor second term met with stubborn
disapproval from the very start, and
when Mr.. Leland found that the at
tempt to hoist Mr.. Stuart upon the
party was calling down such ~ nHO-
nounced protest from the people that
1t became necessary for him to tele,
graph home from Washington to his
friends to help pull Stuart through
and then had to follow home post
haste and make the fight OF his lii6
to carry his and Stuart's home town.
Troy, he should have, as a 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 by promises and some
by pleading as occasion demanded.
For years the Republicans OF
Doniphan county have been long
suffering people, who have born their
mistreatment with fortitude, and
still have walked up to the polls,
and helped, by their ballots, to sweH
the glorious Republican majority.
Theirlove Of party and faithfulness 10
1t have been imposed upon all these
years, and any man who has had
the nerve to raise his voicein oppQsi-
ton to the wishes Of Mr.. Leland has
been Immediately marked for slaugb.
ter. He has been hammered, kicked,
cuffed and abused until he gave up
and begged for the privilege of lick
Ing Leland's boots. There are q
good many of these fellows whom we
think Leland should be congratula-
ted for 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 az a means of pulling MIR.
stuart through, has Disguised hun.
1reds OF old-time Republicans. Fol-
lowing this the unsatisfactory man
ner in which the judicial nomination
was secured by Mr.. Stuart further
ncensed the people Of this county,
and particularly OF the judicial DIS
trict.
This disgraceful termination upon
top OF the previously created discoTd
has placed the Republican party in a
perilous condition in the judicial
race, and insure the overwhelming
aefeat of Stuart. The Republicans OF
Nemaha and Brown counties are dis
gusted and mad, and in Doniphan
county they are sick and discouraged.