The Philipsburg mail., 1898-11-04

0cratlc party in this county and to rid il o
these jobbers who would sell the party TO tb,
highest bidder is to down the entire tick et from
| top TO bottom-boss and ali-that in two years
hence we may be able to have clean party and
| place clean ticket before the people. lam p
democrat, devoted to the high PRINCIPLES of m,
party, and do not intend by any means to leave
the great party because some unholy and greed,
individuals who are democrats by name opl,
have brought disgrace and humiliation upon us
but | viii do all in my power TO bring dafe.t
upon the so-called democratic fusion ticket be.
leving hat the surest way to cure an evil is IN
stamp it out, and in this ! an supported bv
many an honest democrat who will do the Same
thing. In pursuit of my business meet demo
Gratis every day who frankly tell me that they
will vote the silver republican ticket this YEAR.
not because they intend to leave the party (or
are disgrnntled, rs the ca,hop politicians pleas,
to cai it,, but solely to purify the party and rid
it of these machine politicians so it mag in two
years hence be brought to the 'front.' where it
should be and has been before To ACCOMPLISH
'hls "on!d encourage every true democrat to
assist in defeating the democratic ticket this
year mat our patty may not De disgraced any
longer by such shameful acts Of false leaders
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much CT your time and space but knowing how
shameful the de nocratc party has been be-
trayed IN our county this year. consider it nv
duty to call the attention of other democrats TO
the facts and inform the general public of the
dSgr"cefu methods that have been EMPLOYED TO
advance the personal interests Of Il few ring
leaders. They cond have gone about this in a
manly way and put up good ticket as we'll as
not. There are plenty Of good men in the DEM
ocratlc party, but it seems it was not the good
men the prime movers were after-it was some.
thing else, and they undoubtedly got il. II
makes real democrat blnsh to know that he
has been sold by the ring for what they deemed
him worth, or for whatever they could get. and
the thus outraged citizens of this great free
country will never sanction it, but will record
their vote of opposition in most emphatic
terms.
The silver republicans of this county are TO he
envied for the splendid ticket they have put M.
Every candidate is Il representative man of the
community where he lives, and the leeislatiye
ticket particularly deserves special comment
1t Is my personal knowledge that all three of
the gentlemen are thorough silver men and a
credit to any country. The goldbug argument
of the democratic ring is as absurd as it is false
Every resident in this county knows how the
vote stood in '98 for W. J. Bryan (gs per cent in
his fayor)- and republican county at that,
Ask them to explain this fact when they tell
you that the silver republicans are goldbugs
Judging from the way the democratic party in
this county has been handled this year. 7 hon.
estly believe that a majority OF the two per cent
which voted against Bryan two years ago were
democrats as fixed things up for the pres
ent campaign.
Democrats, do not permit yourselves to be
sold like sheep Stand up for your rights and
demand that this sort of cathop machine work
must stop and stop right now. The advise of
a true democrat is to vote the outrage down.
and the more completely you do this the better
1t will be for party two yeurs from now.
NOW. do not wish to be placed in the so-called
disgruntled class since | am as good demo-
crat to-day ever before, and have no intention
OF leaving that party; neither have any apollo
gies to make for the above facts or for placjna,
my views before the people of Granite county.
l believe in free discussion Of the prevailing
conditions in times like these, in order that TN,
right course will prevail, and this is given sole
ly as an expression Of true American principles.
AN OLD-TlME DEMOCRAT,