| Show THE convention SCENE the standard regrets that its editor found it necessary to make a scene in the republican convention on saturday last our language was severe and plain we do not believe in going behind a mans back to charge him with that which we dare not say in the face of the accused and before all the world we believe in calling a elade a spade we believe the men who so cowardly attacked us in whispers and behind the curtains of the state journal and the press have no right to protest against giving us a hearing in a convention to which we were a delegate of course hanson and knew what they had been guilty of and for that reason caused all rules of parliamentary usage to be thrown aside and they applied the gag rule otherwise we would have been heard only one objection is made to our remaria and that is that we used the word dishonest we do not know of any word that can supplant this word true we could have insinuated but insinuations are the tools of cowards and we make no to such we have always had the courage to speak openly and plainly in all we have had to say it courage honesty and directness were desired then we were in order how on earth shall tricksters trick shysters shy and dishonest men bo called down it the truth Is to be suppressed we serve notice to all that we shall take an active part in the management of our countes coun tys affairs even though our part be small and humble and further wo shall oppose fight and denounce dishonesty and trickery in our party as well as out of it it Is unnecessary to call any attention to our ambition we are ready to sacrifice all our ambition to obtain honesty in politics our ambition Is not nearly as large as some people think it Is we can forego it readily can others do the same one word more there are those who have unkind orda to say about us who did not have the nerve to say them in the convention they are now offered free space in the standard to prove ajl they have said we like a bold openhanded open handed man come gentlemen publish all you have to say over your signatures we do not hide our head under a bushel basket why should you |
