The representative., 1900-10-04

Kinley's pettifogging fetters Of acceptance
and not blush with shame, there Is no
earthly hope that he will ever be redeem
ed. Think of the president bran0ing all
who differ from him and his party, g .oqr
adversaries." They mean to carry hlM-Vu
the White House for four more years by
making the thoughtless believe that all
who differ from Mckinley and the Repub-
lican party are enemies TO this republic
and are struggling to tear it to 1hreds.
The mighty syndicates. trusts and corpora
tions, with their stolen millions, arc all
there. ready to spend three hundred mil
lion. If necessary, to elect this plant tool.
this stool pigeon. that by q special privi-
lege in return therefor they may perpetuate
their reign of vassalage and plunder. /
see no escape from the menacing doom, save
In the Peoples party, and the election OF
Barker and Donnelly. These men have
more than thousand times demonstrated
their unstinted devotion to the people and
honest government. Their long and event
full public services are without a single
stain. They stand upon q platform that
challenges the admiration Of every honest
man OF this republic today. and II elected,
which 1 fervently hope and pray, this
country will witness the cleanest brightest,
wisest administration since Lincoln. The
rascals. like Mark Hanna, will be relegat-
ed to their proper niche.
E. W. 3. HARVEY.
We believe Mr. Harvey has drawn
here a picture of the average Republican
voter that is remarkably true to fact.
Partisan stupidity lies at the bottom
OF all our national ills.
Mark Hanna is today going about
declaring to the voting cattle that this
country is enjoying unprecedented
prosperity. and even the out-of-work
dupes believe him.
Leading Republican dailies have the
shameless effrontery to represent by
cartoon that in 1896 we had Is men out
Of work to job, whereas In 1900 we
have Is jobs to / man.
No more shameless falsehood could be
told, and yet thousands OF the unem-
ployed will believe it. 80
Hanna declares there are no trusts
and his admiring followers plaud- him
to the echo. ,
Believing all these phases of the Sit
uation to be true, still we are inclined to
a, somewhat different conclusion from
Mr.. Harvey.
In 1896 125,o0o votes properly distrib-
uted would have given the election "a
Bryan instead of Mckinley.
In 1896 Hanna had a $4,000, 900 cam
paign fund. 1t was contributed largely
by the Carnegie steel interests, the
Cramp ship building interests, Standard
OIL and National Banking interests
1t may be readily seen that since 1896
all these interests have had their pound
of flesh. Each has enjoyed a benefit
through executive of congressional &C.
tion. These interests have received
back several times $4,000, 900 in favo1s
at the hands of the administration.
The steel magnates got armor con-
tracts and are just now getting more
contracts that will extend through the
coming four years. The Cramps got
ship contracts and they, too, are now
being fixed for the next four years.
Standard Oil sold the government a lot
of worn-out boats for our navy, got the
N. Y. custom house and NJ Y. Stand
ard Oil banks got the deposit Of immense
sums of government funds, besides
many other benefits to Standard rail-
roads and other interests
National banks got the gold standard
and Republican senate which protects
them for the next four years.
The beef trust and numerous other
trusts which helped Hanna in 1896 and
have had their reward and been Sc
cured for the future by time contracts in
most cases.
Meantime, there are other trusts not
so fortunate who are clamoring for place
at the crib.
There Is the silver mining barons,
headed by Clark, of Montana the ice
trust Of Cookers, coal trust of Morgan's.
express companies that want the Loud
bill passed, the Nicaragua canal schem-
ers and the sugar kings, who stood in
with Grover. All these people are get
ting hungry, they have strong friends
in Democratic members of congress and
we believe are pouring money into the
Democratic campaign barrel.
Certain it is that Democrats are no.
where short of ready cash for this cam
paign. Cash wins elections and is cer-
tain of its reward, whether under a Nc
Kinley or Bryan administration.
We are inclined to believe the great
Republican trusts have already received
a feed sufficient to keep them quiet and
happy during four years of Democratic
rule and that there is a sort of tacit un-
derstanding that for this campaign the
other fellows may contribute the bulk
OF the campaign fund and be led I'D
to the Bryan trough.
The nation will fight another sham
battle between the same two old frauds
and alternate in November to another
set of trust masters
It makes little difference to Populfsts
whether the skunk or the HEDGEHOG
wins. f. At
HOW 1T GOES IN MISSOURI AND