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Mi ft i I biso make Hoots 01 American ami French kids, una Doiigolu In ull widths. NO SHODDY XORSrraSTITlOX! THE LOCAL politiv.il val-vuox. Local politics have become very much like those of the worst wards of the largo cities. There is no longer even a pretense of appealing to the reason and conscience of the voter. The heeler has completely supplanted the stump speaker.

The candidate of the minority party can "get there," or come with-a point of it, if only he is shrewd and unscrupulous enough. All he needs is money to pay for "treats" and employ "workers." It may be well-known that he secured the nomination by trickery, that he urged the adoption of, and stands upon, a platform which does not represent his views, and all this because he itches for a petty office, its pay and perquisites yet in the face of all this hundreds of noble American freemen will vote for him, under the influence of the misrepresentations and cigars and "appetizer" of his Such is ballot-boxism everywhere, Valley Falls and Jefferson county being conspicuous illustrations of the rule. in the mad rush for the enforetment of this law. The whole iover of tlio civilized tribunals of the land is placed at the disposal of those who feel it their duty or undertake as a matter of personal gain to t-ee that the law is executed. Cruel and excessive punishment is inflicted upon all who violate its provisions.

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Address, FAIR PLAY, Valley Falls, Kansas. The Register wants to know if the Valley Fallsites have heard from Iowa. Yes, and they know that Horace Boies is Governor because Democrats up there antagonized the prohibition infamy uncompromisingly instead of dancing upon a prohibition platlorm to the tune piped by a so-called "People's Party." Jefferson county Democrats can not exult with very good grace over the Democratic triumph in Iowa. It was no Buch abandonment of principle that won for Iowa Democrats their deserved victory Tltv 111 oil HhIvh. Horace Boies of Waterloo, the Democratic resubmission party's successful candidate for governor of Iowa, addressed the eople of that State in no uncertain tones, Below we reprint some of his utterances The plainest principles of common honesty and fair dealing are ruthlessly violated by a system of legislation that first made a business lawful and then, when millions of money was invested in it, col.ily and cruelly destroyed it all.

Are we so blind as not to see that the principle of this legislation, carried to its legitimate results, places every man's property at the mercy of the majority Can we ex pect capital to come into our State and take the chances of a dominant public sentiment that de-stroys it without mercy or remuneration whenever in the judgment of the majority the public good demands it? I know that most of the men who clamored for this legislation and who now clamor for its complete enforcement claim to be honest men, who love justice and abhor wrong, and when I think of this I am filled with amazement that it has not occurred to them that if the public good demanded the practical destruction of such large business inter, ests and of the property employed therein, every dollar in value of has been acquired under the sanction of the law, simple honesty required that the public should pay for that good with dollars and cents instead of stealing it through the aid of the ballot. It has been well said that there is no tyranny like that of majorities. An angry mob will strangle a human being without compunction of conscience in any of its members, when not one of all the throng would meet his victim alone and with single hand send him into the predence of his maker. A great party, by the deposit of a ballot in the hands of each of its members, will destroy, without compensation, millions upon millions in value of property as legally acquired as any in the State, and yet not one of these would apply the torch to the very least of all the accumulated wealth. There is not living to-day a ruler of any nation of the earth who, if he had the power, would care, single-handed and alone, to issue an edict confiscating the property of his subjects to the extent that is done by the law in question.

If he did, an army of impoverished men, crazed by the loss of fortunes and smarting under what to them would seem an incomparable wrong would seek and take his life. That the law was haish and cruelly unjust in some of its features was known to the men who made it. That its enforcement would meet with the most determined opposition was equally apparent and so the legislature undertook to provide for what everyone knew must come. There is not in all the penal code of Iowa another statute armed with such extraordinary means for its enforcement. Judges are admonished that they must call the attention of the grand jurors to its provisions at every term of court.

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