People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — The Kilkenny Cats. [ARTICLE]

The Kilkenny Cats.

Neither one of the old parties have been able to hold a convention in any.state this year that was harmonious. On the contrary, platforms have only been adopted by the worst kind of bulldozing tactics, often coming to blows. They have not only disagreed about platforms, but everything else as well. In Kentucky and in lowa the official pap suckers, by the severest bulldozing schemes and gag rules, managed to force a goldbug platform through, while in Kansas where the republicans last year promised all things to everybody. and by that means succeeded in fooling enough people to elect their ticket, can not, or rather will not, fulfill any of

their promises, are now in such a condition that they, them selves, admit that they dare not hold a convention, well knowing that their partv will be completely rent asunder with bickerings and discords. The state central committee has been called to meet at Topeka this week to see if they cannot find a way out of their troubles. If these old, rotten, corrupt parties are thus badly torn up now in an off year, what will they do next year when the big campaign comes on?— Tipton Union Dispatch.