Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-17
WHAT IS THE MATTER !?
wardie White of the News Asks a Whole
YOlIey of Pertinent Questions.
DARE THE LITTLE JEW BOSS TRY TO
ANSWER THEM?

The Phillipsburg News arepublican
newspaper of this city of last week
became discouraged with the outlook
for republican success all over Kansas
and stopped to ask a few questions
why. The News does not believe the
fault lies with the doctrines of the
party, but with the character of the
men who are at present in charge OF
the party machinery. A prayerful
consideration of the questions raised
by the News might result in great
benefit not only to the repu blican
party but to the people at large.
Following are few of the questions
raised by the News
''We read almost daily in the lead
ing republican papers of the state of
intense bitter factional fights in the
republican party in nearly every
county. In the Topeka Capital of a
few days ago there appeared an earn
est appeal to the republican voters of
the state to not scratch their ticket at
the coming general election, but vote
it straight. This appeal was followed
by another of equal earnestneSs in the
Mail and Breeze.
What does it mean?
Are the republican voters over the
state less intelligent than in years
passed? Are they more careless and
Indifferent to their duties as citizens?
Do they by reason of such careIesSness
and Indifference, if such really exists,
stand in need of political guardian
ship or chaperonage?
Again we ask, what is the matter?
What has caused all this fractional
bitterness? Why are these earnest
appeals necessary?
Are the political conditions of the
state, in the other counties thereof,
the same as in Phillips? If SO, then
it is no wonder these appeals are made.
Have the p0stmaSterS and other APP
pointeeS in the other counties ruled
with the iron hand of the ''boss'' as in
this county? Have the political boss
eS in these other counties ruthlesSly,
wantonly, and arrogantly run the po-
littcal band wagon, with the rule or
ruin spirit. over the true and tried re-
pub1icanS as has been done in this
county?
Have the self-constituted political
bosses in the other counties, as in this
county for years, backed up and aided
by political patronage, literally dis
penSed by the congressman, and in ac-
cordance with the command of the
chief boss of the state, Cyrus Leland,
arrogantly relegated to the rear all
the tried and true republicans who
had the manhood and courage to re-
fuse to do the bidding of this ring of
politicians?
Does there exist in other counties of
| this state clique of practical ring
Sters dominating the republican party
as in this county, who have the brass,
gall and cheek to prepare, arrange
and agree upon ticket and slate be-
| fore the converting of the convention
and force such ticket upon and through
the convention as was lately done in
this county, and all this that their
choice for nominee for the legislature
should succeed in securing such nomi-
nation? II so, no wonder these ap-
pealS for harmony are going up.
Will the honest republicans over
the state heed this cry of anguish and
despair, coming as it does from men
who have ruled the people so unjustIy?
Will they dance as Of old to the whack
of the party lash and whip? Will they
permit the chaff to be thrown into
their eyes and thus perpetuate their
political Serfdom or will they repudi-
ate these political despots?
AS has been wisely said in the past
you can fool some of the people all
the time, but you cannot fool all the
people all the time: The political
boss everywhere sees the handwriting
upon the wall, and his cry of dispair,
coming as it does under the past and
present conditions, seems to the -ordi-
nary man as the death-beb repentance
of the fellow who all his life had rails
ed his hand against all mankind.
With fear and trembling their
lower jaws have fallen and their knees
are knocking together.
You can trust the people always to
throw off the yoke of the political boss.
He may thrive for time, but the peo-
pie will sooner or later paralyze him
and his cohorts. This is the only way
the people have of Kidding themselves
of political bosses, political ringsters,
political boodlerS and other numerous
political vermin that aff1ict the body
polite of this nation"