People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — REPUBLICAN DEFAULTERS [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN DEFAULTERS

Are Sugar Coated by the Plutocratic Press. No Populist official has been guilty of a defalcation or misdemeanor —but let a lie be told about one and Tom, Dick and Harry leap into blazes of horror and condemnation. But let a republican defalcate, rob, bust or perjure to debase the courts—rob a state of $350,000 in the midst of poverty—then what do the republicans do? Why, they shield him, pet him, sympathize with him, palliate the wrong. They tide over the people’s indignation with the usual promises of complete restoration, and make out the defaulter to be a very good, but much-abused gentleman. Meanwhile the hugry thousands swallow it all —and get ten cents on the dollar a year later. Where is Haggerty of Aberdeen? It is the old story. The republican secretary of the national treasury'under Harrison, ‘busted’’ and left widows’ and orphans’ and other estates out to the tune of $600,000. The same old sugar-pills were administered. The people smiled a baby smile, took their medicine—and will take their dividends —when they get them. The Madison bank sang the same melody.—Great West (Redfield, S. Dak.).