The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1902-06-06
Friday, June g, 1902.
Republican Conventions.
State nominating convention at Jeffer-
son City, June oath.
State Judicial convention at Joplin,
July 18th.

July 18th.
The Same Old Blind.
The Democrats are still getting in
their work. Last fall they pushed the
Kansas City World into every mans
house possible in all Northwest Missouri.
The game looked innocent, and Repub-
licans bit at it in great numbers. The
subscription was put down to one dollar
per year for the paper daily-and also
go many votes thrown in. A piano was
offered for the greatest number of votes
for some young lady in voting contest,
and usually the daughter of some good
Republican was induced to compete for
the pisno. Then following upon the
heels Of the World scheme came the
Gazette Herald division-leaving all the
Republicans of Northwest Missouri who
had subscribed originally for the St.
Joseph Gazette, an out and out Demo-
cratic paper. Now, third in the list Of
schemes, comes this week The Kansas
City Times, another Democratic sheet
and is being showed under every mans
nose in town-free(?) It is claimed that
the Times has maidstone sort Of combi-
nation with the Kansas City Star, an
independent paper and that the thing is
to come daily-one day with the name
'.Star" leading in the head lines. and
the next day the name ''Times" shining
out the most prominently from the fore
most. 1t just looks to US like another
scheme to induce Republicans, young
men and others, to read Democratic
literature. Where is all this thing COM
ing from anyway-and is the whole state
being "worked" in the same way that
Northwest Missouri is? The SENTINEL
thinks it high time that the Republicans
of the state were waking up. How do
We know but what this scheme to flood
the state with Democratic literature
eminated from Jefferson City, and but
what it is part of the rings scheme to
try to Offset and checkmate the dire in
fluences of the Cardwell case testimony
that we all read last year. How do We
know but that the expense Of all this is
being paid by the lobby-with money
wrung from the corporations by the
pledge in advaace of no adverse legisla-
ton next winter. No, we don't know
the why's and wherefores, Of course, for
we are not upon confidential terms with
either the ring or the lobby-they do not
belonging to our politics there is
one thing that we do know, and that is
that the Democratic party Of this state
is extremely afraid that is going to fail
in electing majority of the legislature
this fall, and that it will thus lose a
United States senator. Well, If any
marty in any state ever did deserve to
lose power it is the Democratic party in
Missouri. For more than 30 years that
party has had control in our state, and
It has ruled too with an almost iror
hand. 1t is perfectly disgraceful the
way they have geryma ndered the state
for everything -congressionally, sena
torially, judicially-and every other way
but it is only by this means and that
of the Nesbit law in St. Louis that they
ever hope to hold the state in theil
column. The Republicans cast almos
one half of all the votes cast in the stats
two years ago and this too in spite Of
the disgraceful condition that they hac
to confront in this city of st. Louis
where the names of more than 1900
fraudulent registrations we're dropped
from the list soon after the election wa
over.
But we don't See why they should sc
persistently push their Democratic lit
erature into Holt county. The Repub
licans will carry this county all righ
whatever the lobby and the ring ma!
do, for We are in the habit of doing
things up here, and we don't propose t.
be gulled into reading all the Democratic
literature that is stuck under our noses
in the form of cheap or free daily papers
either. These papers contain mere ex
cuses for their party. They deal mostl.
in the opithets, you're another, etc.
when answering the hide-fetching ar
raingment of th.ir party that the lead
ing Republican papers of the state arr
now giving them. Young Republicans
and Republicans of Holt county ant
Northwest NJ ssouri, generally: We here
and now warn you against these chesl
Tor free, socalled "Independeut' Demo
cratic newspapers. Refuse to subscrib,
for them. Refuse to receive them free
or otherwise. The proprietors of thes,
papers are not sending them to you jus
for the fun of doing so,-nor either be
cause they are sick, and that they thinl
this will benefit their health. No, in.