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Riding Two Horses At Once

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
October
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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RIDING TWO HORSES AT ONCE

Is a Harder Trick Than Pingree Thought.

HE LOST THE SILVER MEN

When He Sold Them Out and Fixed Up a Gold Platform to Run on, and Now His Attempt to Win Back Democrats by Abusing Republicans May Cost Him the Votes of Thousands of His Own Party.

The Grand Rapids Democrat publishes an interesting report of an indignation meeting of prominent Republicans held in Grand Rapids after Gov. Pingree's speech, in which he so viciously abused Senator Burrows and other leading Republicans. From this report we take the following: Among the prominent Burrows supporters present were Robert D. Graham. George E. Covell, Samuel L. Lemon, Marshal Wheeler. James A. Coye, Postmaster Bishop, and several members of the legislature from "up north." After closing the preliminaries of the meeting in the lobby the leaders passed up stairs to conduct their deliberations in secret. From the general tone of those gathered in the lobby the character of the meeting up stairs can best be judged.

Said Marshal Wheeler. who was as happy as a crawfish in a rainstorm:

"If a man were to baste me as Pingree has Burrows I would retaliate, but the senator pays no attention to his quibblings; he just cuts wood, in the same old way. Now. wouldn't you retaliate, too? Some time ago District Attorney Covell and myself called a meeting, formed a committee, drafted resolutions and agreed to stand by them. declaring that Pingree was not a Republican––that he is a demagogue––and that the Republican party would be better off without him. In fact, we cartooned him as one of Balaam's mules, destroying himself with the jaw bones of the same animal, but he"ll meet the fate of Lot's wife when he gets to looking back too hard, some of these days. We prefer a good. clean, gentlemanly Democrat any time to a windmill Republican. Whiting is an excellent gentleman. If the Democrats vote for him (and I have always given the Democrats credit for more sense than to support a demagogue who has been a silver man. a gold man, a Populist, a monarch and a self-aggrandizer) Mr. Whiting will be elected. For the good of the Republican party we must lay Pingree on the shelf."

That is pretty rich, of course, and indicates very nearly just what the upstairs Burrows meeting meant. With the two Republican factions calling each other rascals, boodlers and other pet names, it is evident that to vote for an honest man you must vote for Whiting.

District Attorney Covell voices the marshal's statements, and he thinks that astronomers will find sun-spots on the moon if Pingree is elected. "The tide is turning, says the smooth-faced, genial attorney. and Pingree will find that he cannot berate his party and remain with it."