The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-10-28


the methods were tolerable, bvt
when the party is imposed upon ~
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-
htical situations that were very uia-
satisfactory because of methods
which were distasteful, but in the
case at hand there has been such q
wholesale bartering away of the
peoples rights in the selection OF q
judge, and q majority OF the county
ticket, that hundreds of good sold
Republicans are Disguised 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.
1.-The move to defeat Judge Emery
for a second term met with stubborn
disapprOvai from the very start, and
when Mr.. Leland found that the at
tempt to hoist Mr.. Stuart upon the
party was calling down such a pro-
nOunced protest from the people that
lt became necessary for him to tele-
graph home from Westinghouse his
friends to help puff Stuart through
and then had to follow home post.
haste and make the fight of his life
to carry his andeStuart's home town,
Troy, he should have, as good Re-
publican, interested in the welfare of
his party, abandoned the move and
allowed the people to have their
way. But this was not done; men
were 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 fortftude, and
still have walked up to the polls,
and helped, by their ballots, to swell
the glorious Republican majority.
Their love of party and faithfulness to
1t have been imposed upon all these
years, and any man who has had
the nerve to raise his voice in opposi-
ton to the wishes of Mr.. Leland has
been Immediately marked for slaugh-
ter. He has been hammered, kicked,
cuffed and abused until he gave up
and begged for the privilege of licls-
ing Leland's boots. There are q
good many OF these fellows whom we
think Leland should be congratuiA-
ted for kicking out, but he should be
equally condemned for receiving them
back and setting them up on q 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 I'm which numerous
county offices were traded off In
the last county convention, together
with the obnoxious bargaining away
3f officers one, two and three years
hence al a means of pulling MIR.
Stuart through, has Disguised hu2-
1reds of Old-time Republicans. F0-
owing this the unsatisfactory maA-
ner in which the judicial nomination
was secured by Mr.. Stuart further
ncensed the people of this county,
and particularly OF the judicial dk-
trict.
''This disgraceful termination upon
top OF the previously created discOrd
las placed the Republican party in q
perilOus condition in the judicial
cace, and insure the whelmning
1efeat of Stuart. The Republicans Of
Nemaha and Brown counties are dis
yusted and mad, and in DOniphan
county they aresick and discouraged.