The Red Cloud chief., 1898-09-30

w ny marvel az the rank ~dlSnOnesty
employed in conducting a political
campaign What could we reasonably
o. pect from a party that has declared
10 every convention and on the stump
from the beginning that q railroad pass
is a bribe, and its candidates then 90
out forthwith and hound after Every
railroad official in the state to bride
them, do it quickly and as thoroughly
as possible; a party whose official fami-
lies and their relatives are riding free
on the railroads at an aggregate rate
Of SOC, 900 miles a year, which il paid
for at the regular rate as hey try to
deceive the great plain people into be.
lieving is done, would amount to s24 900
per annum; a party that produced a
d-n the constitution Schrader
and a Cunningham from Harlan coun.
ty to declare that President Mckinley
ought to be hung; a party that has
placed itself on record times innumer.
able in convention assembled that it
believes the office should seek the man
and resolved against the pernicious
caucus, but which has hastily receded
from the abstract article to real con.
: crete populistic reform" lapsed into
a system Of ofice.seeking, ring.rule
and bossism unparalleled in the history
Of political parties; a party that has
ever professed such deep concern and
eternal vigilence in maintaining the
purity If the ballot, which unseated
, five members Of the last Legislature
duly elected, seating five who were moi
, and with this stolen majority on join,
ballot attempted a high.handed fraud
upon the ballot box, the main safeguard
of our liberties, for the sole purpose Of
: counting in an amendment overwhelm
ingly defeated at the polls, that they
might seat upon the supreme bench
Q two popocratic judges; n party tho
I rails and raves against favoritism ant
nepotism in Office, but whose member,
" high in author ity have drawn clos,
: about them in Official positions thei
near friends and relatives as a hel
gathcreth together a brood under he
l. wings; a party that will advise its vot
ers to wear Mckinley badges an,
march with republican clubs, and Of
u election day go to the polls and vot
u for w. j. Bryan; aparty that has stole
> and starved the Home for the Friend
y less, and is feeding Kansas City butter
u inc to the blind and insane, when tn
. farmers of Nebraska could furnish a
excellent grade Of gilt-edged butter;
party that will frank its campaign Ii
" erature through the mails at govern
ment expense; a party that has a wi
liam V. Allen, who when discussin
;, the subject Of expansion and anne,
!. alton, the weightiest questions now q
- gaging the attention Of the America
u people. declared himself as opposed
annexation In the city Of Fremont, an
y on the evening OF the same day viii
: addressing the old soldiers in Lincol
Z came out boldly and with vehemenC
10 10 its favor; a party whose newspap,
8 editors have become so degenerate
10 aud unpatriotic that they reach dow
to the fevered brow Of the sick and d
ing soldier boy with their deceptio,
sentimentalism, with the sole and SC
fish aim Of manufacturing polite
ne capital; n party (parties) that NEE
n under the guise of CALLED fore of T.
~ FORM" and selects conference cOmmi
:" tees TO chase back and forth betwe,
be convention halls for days aud night
al when the very fact Of fusion itself npc
We the basis NJ an equitable division
=, the offices Is a public admission tlat
=" is spoils and not principle for whiC
u they are ~contending; a party who
every direfnl prediction OF prophe,
ic has proved false, but still it swears |
the Omaha platform aud idiocy of
>" to 1; still holds the people at that le
&C. rible verge Of moral, social aud fiua
Ed cial ruin, when the Prosperity OF pr
n. lection an l sound money Is above, b
:, meath and around MS, aud the poop
throughout our whole country are no
u on tho certain highroad Z o hsppine
A. ~ $4,000.