Show 1 THE CAMPAIGN OF SLANDER S Tn their frantic efforts to blntkcn the good name of the city nml tohoW that bribery corruption and illegal voting were rampant here the Democracy and its allies went very far in the campaign I I which has just rlosctl I Vllh out the slightest renjon they made all sorts of villainous dhiige and when called upon to back them up they failed mlBCfnbly their organ confess ug practically that it was impossible to bring any proof of their charges These charges were not only shameful I IE against Individuals they wore di ect libels Upon the city And yet vhcn they were answered as they deserved there was an outcry l that the lamiercrs were being abused It eomed to be actually asserted lint men had the right to charge all BorlB of villainy upon others but must not hcniselves be held to account forhcir jascless vituperation their gratuitous insults By what code ot ethics this 1 astonishing claim was Justified did not I appear nor can It be made to appear I Jt Is perfectly proper to answer the lllfler according to bin villainy But the charges of corruption and jrlbery having utterly failed of evenT even-T shadow of materialization there having been no response save personal abuse and flings at the County Attorney when he very properly and candidly proffered to propscule any case brought to his attention a whlaperlng cnm mlgn of scandal and ulandcr l was resorted re-sorted to A prompt demand for the arrest and punishment of these as aeslns of character compelled 1 them to feel retrcaT and what work they did afterward was in yet darker depths 1301 It did not cease It was a filthy umpalgn indeed on the part of the Democrats and their allies Then seeing the Immense reglKtra I tion the opposition Jumped to the con elusion that it might be fraudulent nd u t campaign of bulldozing and in Irnldatlon wns entered upon and the also qry wilt raised that the Rcpubll nnn contemplated gross frauds 1 which ho Democrats heaven save the inark vhon was tile Democracy ever any but t a fraudloving party 7 would thwart urul expose But what came of it all Though the registration MttH were op dilly posted < for IL week but two canes of illegal registration in the hnle city were claimed and these undoubtedly arose from the misapprehension that nbc months residence in the State en Itlea ono to1 vote whcrouH the low require re-quire a year And what of the voting Never vcre there fairer or more honoiit I nomInations campaign and election Nothing but puacu and oood faith were mywhere in evidence The Democratic stir that numbers of deputy sherIffs would bo l ncceKsary to prevent illegal voting was Hhowuto be mere pretense and utterly unjustlticd Time claim of the organ of the halters whluh didnt jcem to be much of a Democratic organ during the campaign that tIme Pinkerton dntuHlve nfoncy was entering into the light to preserve the purity of tho ballot box here IK emphatically em-phatically and specifically denied by W A Plnkerton who was merely here on a casual tour and had not the slightest Idea of Interfering w any way I The claim that he wns to take j I part war at once a groen libel < 1 on tho 1 city first as assuming that there was D necessity for him to do soj and second I as assuming that we are not able ourselves I our-selves to enforce our laws without Pinkerton help I And KO the campaign of humbug indecency in-decency and fraudulent claims went on It was a new experience to most of the people here And the outrageous phase of it was that rill thlSCampalgn of malignant ma-lignant and wholly unwarranted libeling libel-ing and false pretense was conducted ostensibly In the Interest of purity and against fraud and corruption It was as indecent and shameless an attack at-tack upon the city and upon the Republican Re-publican party and Its nominees as could be shown anywhere In this broad land from ocean to ocean |