The Advocate and news., 1898-09-14


These creatures are seeking to buy the
nomination and election OF George
LOunsbury for Governor Of Connecticut,
and 1t is openly charged and almost uni
Versally believed in that State that IL
LOunsbury is nominated it will be done
solely through the corrupt use Of money
Opposed to him, as the candidate of the
decent Connecticut Republicans is John
Addison Porter private secretary to
President Mckinley. Mr.. Porter has
money, but he refuses to allow any Of
1t to be spent for other than legitimate
campaign expenses. He has also shown
himself man of decency in refusing the
demand made on him by Ex-Governor
Bulkley, who asked for a promise of
the removal of the present McNall com
missioner Of insurance for the heinous
offense Of compelling Bulkley's company
to pay several hundred thousand dol
lars into the State treasury. Mr. Porter,
as Is usual, is standing up for the mi
nority in representing the decent Re
pubicans Of Connecticut.
1t is so in Ohio. NJ A. Hanna, who
ought to be in the penitentiary, is in
the United States Senate. He is a con-
Victed briber and boodler of the worst
type, and the investigation of his wick
edness is hung up by Republican inhu-
enCes where it is safe to remain hidden
from the public.
It is true in other States; it is true in
Kansas. The good business" admins
tration of II. ~ Morrill, and his asso-
ciates was the worst piece of business
perpetrated on the State in a long time
The Republican convention at Hutchin-
son was dominated by the bosses and
those working in harmony with them,
and Leland man was nominated for
Governor. He is man who recognizes
no labor problem, no injustice in the
grinding down Of the producers, no
Golden Rule in politics, 1t is saying too
much to assert that should we have
Stanley administration in this State
the next two years there would be a rep
etitiOn Of the Morrill, scandals, for we
must credit the Republican managers
with some shrewdness. They know that
the people of the State are thoroughly
dlsgusted with Republican misruIe and
that the rank and file Of the Republican
party do not hesitate to admit the dis
grace Of the good business administra-
ton" They know that repetition Of
this would kill the party's future
chances Of success in Kansas. But, on
the other hand, 1t is openly avowed even
so early that the Republican party is
bound hand and foot to the influences
which go beyond the limits of the law
in making money at the expense of the
public You find it cropping out in the
speeches Of the Republican candidates
you will not find Republican candidate
who will deny it, for they are making
their campaign on those grounds and
on money made in that illegitimate way
The Prohibition party Is avowedly
Christian because it upholds a Christian
cause, although it is fighting against
only one of the wings Of the great army
of corruption. The Peoples party is
fighting nearly every influence which
places money above men. But the Re-
publican party is openly and brazenly
theminion Of wealth; and just so sure as
cOmmerclalism has been the mans of
wrecking great nations, just so certain
as "the love of money is the root of all
evil,' is the Republican party rotting
to brilliant and shameless past.