Show AT 11 CITY ecbert at city tuesday made a speech and blood or the st louis platform the citizens of the county should study out for what tin s open allegiance to the mckinley banner signifies hie apologists who by tho way are McKinley itea themselves deny that be defended the st louis platform they resent the charge with all the warmth of their natures and seem to say you have insulted robt mcfarland how dare you say he espouses the cause of mckinley does it take a very keen observer to discover a in the fence think of McKinley ites protesting against a statement that one of their number has seen fit to openly avow his allegiance to the existing gold standard I 1 can one con ceide a hippodrome better calculated to excite contempt for those who join in the farce and shallow travesty how can men of such audacious temperaments expect the confidence of a community the reason tor the double role the McKinley ites are playing is to be found in their desperation their instructions are up in the one sentence anything to win it they are inspired by a principle it they believe the st louis platform elands for good government they aro hypocrites if the deny their allegiance with the expectation of winning public by doing when McKinley ites rise up in our midst to shield a fellow candidate from the odium attaching to professions of faith they brand themselves as unworthy of a respectful learing they cannot be honest men |