The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-12-14
NAN SEDUCTIVE BATH TUB.
rvpLANATION OF THE DEFEAT OF
TIFF KANSAS POPULISTS.

cultivation of Effeminating Luxnries and
p,otocratic Tastes Was the TObog-
Gan Slide Which Led to Ever
lasting Destruction.
We have heard a deal Of talk since
,,+o unnlsasantnes as to the cause
@r the defeat, but the real cause has
not been told.
Tho real cause is the effeminating
hob,rs of luxury and plutocratic tastes
od,n+ed and cultivated by the leaders
- tho cohorts of reform. A short time
bofore the election his home paper call
\ ID attention to the fact that Senator
Titps Of Harper county had put in his
home porcelain lined, roll rim, dec
grated bath tub.
When the leaders of the cohorts get
10 this point, the cause of reform
i on the toboggan slide which
loads to everlasting destruction.
what caused the downfall of mighty
PompY When was It that she started
from her high plane of greatness ana
world vide power toward her decay
grd final destruction? 1t was when
the Roman senators and consuls began
touse porcelain bath tubs and lave
themselves with perfumed water.
In the early days of the populist par
s Nv We would like to observe the color
Ncftbe mans hirsute adornment who
4 would have acknowledged that he had
porcelain lined bath tub in his house
Hand still have asked for the support of
1.-THE serts who were writhing under the
#Acel Of the money power. There
wOuld have been no more demand for a
imam Of that kind than there would
be for a winter Oyercoat in the neigh
8 borhOod Of the central furnace of
#hadeS.
Those were the days when a populist
candidate announced to his enthusiast
lie constituents: Gentlemen, my
wlte Is just as dirty and greasy as any
CI your wives" We might say, in
passing, that we are informed that his
Wiie WaSa neat, clean woman, who
pad more sense in minute than he
ladina day and half, but his Lam
glage shows that no effeminating lux
Flry was allowed to mix mp with the
farly movements of reform.
senator Titus is not the only exam
#ple OF the way in which plutocratic
lu4Qry IS sapping the very foundations
CI 'ne reform movement and Turing its
Leaders into habits of ease.
When Jerry Simpson was the idol of
l' constituency the hair on his ankles
SFeW rank and unshaded by combining
nose Then the serfs contributed free
En- OF their hard earned silver coin that
Perry might be elevated to place
o his lar.
DgI IKE the Roman senator's, Jerry
P5sIued to the seductive temptations of
terminating luxury and his power be-
~ 10 Wane. In golf suit and silken
slVsIery ne coaSted down Pennsylvania
'tuue In company with bloated mil
Gna'feS. tie attended the banuuets
t. tne our Hundred and filled his in
lsSIlor with high priced and phizzine
ETb."eS' WhlIe his eyes were dazzled by
I -e, appearance and conversation of
|sTTI{o"Oorh DANES dressed decollette.
us great leader of reform and the
IT, I'n Ii p'on OF the plain, common peo-
~ VINO was supposed to be whooping
huP III Jhelr interest like John the
FrPy'SV crying in the wilderness, and
NH I5" :, principally on jack rabbits and
II IN ~. unions, was now In the clutches
.rit tbT IoctaPus and eating and drinking
.Mtl the putes.
i b eo rot Mckay, in The early days of
Lt,,i ie'9rm movement, could only re-
n %aIn himself from violence by a
os Snty effort when the name of a cor
E,5in was newfoundland began
less " cS. VI pass furnished by heart
'S w. corporation.
.ni "e might extend the list, We
RIa3?n speak of Judge Foote, at first a
eoinn 1''hinon, wind-filled reformer.
6tpal??n"' ooat with the soft summer air
Bnen t, " through the rents in the base
hgent ", el nis pantaloons; next road
bieb,T ,u,lIng himself with rare and
|cJsd p lced yiands at the Hotel Savoy.
|hsya III H. 5ft raiment such as would
pfbis " "I solomon gasp in the days
bass porcelain bath tub, the railroad
' SOU ralment and other evil