The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-03
Unholy Brick-Fogarty Combine

as follows:
For at least one more campaign
the Republicans of the Thirteenth
district will be compelled to follow
the banner of Abraham Lincoln
Brick, chiefly because the rank and
file of the party will not take the in
itiative and toss % one de, the
gangsters who. to save their political
skins, are always taking the initia-
tive and telling the people what to
do.
Since the visit of Brick to Warsaw
a week ago, the word has been hand
ed out that there really is nothing
doing except in the Brick line and
that the Brick bandwagon has been
newly repainted and regilded for an
other tine and this is the time to re-
serve seats in the vehicle.
That the visit of the South Bend
statesman" was not altogether a So
cial one, has been proven by the fact
that, since he left, the word has been
passed around among he faithful
and also the somewhat unfaitfful-
that, regardless of the opinion OF the
rank and file of the party who will
be asked to vote for Brick for con-
gress,, the delegates to the next con
gressional convention will be selected
in each county by mass conventions
and the Brick pensioners. who have
something TO lose, must see to il
that Brick men are on hand to do
the voting for Brick delegates.
No particular effort is TO be made
TO get cut the voters who may be in
clined to consider the pretensions OF
any other candidate and who may be
inclined to send uninstructed dele
cations to the convention.
! The truth is that the rank and fIle
of the Republican party are to be
buncoed into staying at home, while
the Brick henchmen and county COM
mitteemen fix things and then are
to be bound and gagged and forced
by the party lash into voting for the
ticket, and Brick will be at the head
OF The ticket
While rothing definite can be said
at this time. it is understood that
there is little prospect for Charles
O. Merica TO be candidate for con-
gress. Mr.. Merica himself will not
discuss the matter and only admits
that he is not candidate for any
other office than congressman.
The plea OF his friends that he
make the race for the judgeship
meets with no encouragement from
him. The truth is, although he will
not say so, that he cannot afford TO
be used even by his friends, as a
chronic candidate for any and ali Off
ces.
In connection with Mr. Merica
Republicans are saying that Brick
tried to work a smooth political trick
while he was in Warsaw, by suggest
ing to his friends that they see to il
fthat Merica be given place on the
delegation which will be sent from
Kosciusko county to nominate Brick
1t was an almost childishly foolish
plan and it is not probable that Mer-
lea will allow himself TO be used as
tin horn to be footed in Bricks
interests regardless of his own fut-
ure congressional aspirations.
Brick is the center of bad com
bination and it is admitted that the
man who can beat Brick for the con
gressional nomination must be ab.t
to break up the iniquitious Fogarty
Brick combination which control:
the politics of South Bend and St
Joseph county.
That such an alliance exists be
South Bend and the Republican con
gressman from this district is ad
mitted by many decent politician:
both Democratic and Republican
who have looked behind the scenes
and that the honest voter OF botl
parties are being portrayed by those
two political pirates is past all argu
ment Brick supports Fogarty fo1
mayor OF South Bend and in return
gets the support of Fogarty for con
gress.
The principal questions now be
fore the voters are: Will the Repub
licans allow few machine politici
ans to do all the work of selecting
their candidates and force on them
congressional candidate who ha:
proved that he 6s failure from
every point OF view. and. will tn,
| Democrats OF ST Joseph county ant
South Bend in particular continue
to follow man who uses their vote
to carry ont his part OF so unholy
compact as has been made and car
| ried on between Brick and Fogart,
for their own personal profit.
Neither man is fit to hold his pres
ent position and the best interests
Iiof both parties would be served il
abruptly throwing them out of offic'
and stop the present system OF cor
rupt;on by which decent men arr
made to vote for gangsters through
mistaken notion of party loyalty
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