People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Fair Oaks Facts. [ARTICLE]

Fair Oaks Facts.

Editor Pilot:—l notice in the last issue of the Rensselaer Republican, an account of the Lease-Gouger moeting at your place. The editor claims that iMary Lease is the brainiest and also the most malignant and anarchistic leader of the Populists. He further admits that both are able and entertaining speakers; but not more able than misleading. Now, we believe that the editor of the Republican lacks a great deal of being an angel and we pause to consider over his article. He also states that they had very large audiences, though made up mostly of the residents of the town, who attended from mere curiosity. Now, he further says in the same issue that these speakers excite the minds of the weak and ignorant to hatred against the government. They are anarchists, and between them and Herr Most and Lucy Parsons, there is mighty little to chooso. If there was a sufficient large element of the ignorant, the weak minded, and the discontented in the country for them to work upon, the Leases and Gougers and the rest would have a bloody civil war in progress in this country inside of six months, and there is grave danger even as it is. Don’t be alarmed, Mr. Marshall. the people go to hear through curiosity, as you s;:.y, and they are Repubii--aus that attend, too, and we expect t hem to vote with us rext election. Vou surely forge! yourself when you are calling the voters in ■ your own party ignorant and weak minded. You should con-1 sider your own articles before having them in type, or they are apt to cause some distrust as to the rottenness of your own party by these ignorant and weak minded persons. John Casey.