Show A VOICE IN THE wilderness weeks of labor and momentous nien tous exhaustion the mountain monn tain has been delivered of a mouse in the form of a manifesto or an address dress from the mckinley goldbug guldburg republican state committee it is by the signatures of I 1 sir john dooly and a mrs farnsworth as president and secretary respectively to an untutored ear the screed sounds like the wail of a lost soul while wandering in plutonian i darkness dreading the fire of retribution to which it knows it is inevitably drifting the appeal of sir john the lord chancellor of the exchequer to the recalcitrant pseudo members of his party is agonizing and piteous he first tries to reason then to threaten ind ina at last to cajole all for the purpose of getting into line of action the scattered forces of the in rout g 0 p now scampering aid disorder from the field of battle it is is the weak voice of a com vainly striving to stay the stampede of a panic stricken army of voters the keynote of the comment doo ament is protection reciprocity pro city and bounties L is true these nauseous drugs are augar coated with a little silver in older to make the dose go down like the mother who administers casto oil to her boy and promises canda cand afterwards to take the bad taste out of his mouth sir john dooly has made mckinley and protection the corner stone of the campaign and with a few garbled figures and false statements tries to convince his party that prosperity like manna will drop from the aides ud aid that every man will either be ai owner or an employee in a 3 paying manufacturing institution in sixty lays after mckinless McKin leys election Hs he attacks the administration for their issue of bonds in time of pace but omits to state that the leading hading senators and congressmen of his own party supported the measure and defended the action of cleveland and carlisle in this matter A small chunk of taffy is ia held out to the old soldiers by way of an assertion that the democratic party has ha exhibited the bitterest hostility to every deserving union soldier in the face of the fact that the pension rolls are am larger now than ever in the history of the country this sounds like one of artemus wards wants jokes this attempt to flaunt the eman guined under garment doubtless caused the wobbling banker who penned it to wink his other eye and dream that it might be the means of permitting him to strut like a pigeon along pennsylvania avenue with the cognomen of the senator from utah added to his hia euphonious name A little lily white mating coating is extended to the ae ladies for the purpose of getting the fear fair sisters siam to espouse the cause came with zeal zea and alacrity the address addren con concludes dudes with an appeal to allow we uns to nominate a set of mckinley electors and you uns to unite with we uns to elect a congress j man and local officers and notice is given that no test will be required at the primaries and that no barriers will be erected to keep out a I 1 bryan voter taken altogether the committee through their chairman have presented about as stale dale a dish of crow as can be imagined it is the voice of one crying in the wilderness der ness we are lost come to our rescue or we perish the gold bugs of utah will gather around this standard but the people will seek relief under the banner of bryan and free silver |