The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-04-04


journals il Kansas, Joins with the hePHO-
Ecar press Of the SITE generally IL Con
demning the manner in which the Governor .
in his letter to the Troy CHG, undertakes
TO petiifoy the currency question, ana !
demands that the men to be put On our
State ticket next Fall shall be men OF posi- |
tive convictions upon the great queslions
nertaipiny TO the currency,-which are now
the only live questions before the
country - and that they shall be
in full accord with the people
upou these great issues. We have no war
to make upon the Governor or anyone else /;
we recognize the right of every man to en-
terrain such views as he may think best,
upon this issue, as upon ali others, and We
are not disposed to question any mans hon
esty because his views do not coincide with
ours upon this issue or any other, but We
insist, in common with our contemporaries
throughout the State, that the men who are
put forward as candidates for the suffrages
of the people should be men who fairly rep
resent the sentiments of the people upon
the great issues before the country; and
at such a time as this, when there is
an impending conflict between the
money power, and the labOring masses oil
the country, it is especially important that
the men who fill our pablo places should
be in full sympathy with our people upon
this issue-should be men in whom we can
place the most implicit confidence, and IN
whose hands we can intrust our cause Win
out shadow of doubt as 10 its being fairly
and faithfully defended, at all times and
| under all circumstance With the position
We have thus taken, no fairminded man
can take issue We have no DISPOSE
ton to make any captious oppose
tiop 70 the Governor on this or any
other issue. When he was a can
didate two years ago weopposed him to the
best of our ability; We stated, IN terms 50
plain tina, they could not be misunderstood
by anybody, the reasons why we opposed
him, and those reasons we sustained, by Inc
evidence Of certificates, affidavits and court
records which no intelligent man could
question; very respectable minority
of the Republicans Of the State sus-
tanned our objections to the candidate;
vet. though he ran over seventeen thou
sand votes behind his ticket, he was
was elected. That ended ihehght, so far as
We were concerned we felt that We had
discharged our duty in the premises, and II
the people of the State saw fit to support
him, in the face of his record, it was their
business, not ours; election day ended that
part of the fight, so far as We were
concerned, and since then The TINES has
treated the present Governor Of the State
Just as it would have treated any other man
in the same position. We have commend
ed whatever We thought worthy OF com
mendation, and We have condemned what
/. yer we thought deserving Of condemns
ton. When he showed disposition to de
fend the interests Of the people by compel
, ling a railroad corporation to do its duty
We promptly and cheerfully gave him cred
: il. in terms as handsome as we could com
mand-iust as we should have given any
other man credit for deserving act; ant
when he attempts to dodge, and vascillate
and pettifog, when called upon TO face th'
currency question, We condemn him-jus
as we should condemn any other man I'm
der the same circumstances. We have NJ
l disposition to live in the years that ar
d gone; the issues of the living present ar
vastly more to US than the memories O
the dead past. Most important OF all tn
live issues OF the present is the currenc
question. and it matters little 10 Us, or t
: the people OF Kansas, that a man may hay
been right upon the accomplished issues G
the last century, or the last decade, If h
= be wrong upon the live Issues of the present
= And it is upon these issues that We propos
e to Judge the Governor, and every other ma
Il who solicits the sufrages OF the people.
4 The article referred to, from the ClaTin
n is as follows:
We publish in another column the letter {
Governor Anthony TO the editor OF the Iro
Chief, defining his position on the financ
question, and If this is the most definit
| statement he is able to make, it is well that
| is made now.
, The Governor appears TO be more dispose
a to pettifog than to make any open and uns
q quivocal declaration of his position on I
4, nance, and the fling that he attempts TO max
| at editors on the Missouri border assumin
| the responsibility for the political welfare {
. the State" is a menace at every journalist
the State who dares to express an opinio
without first consulting his Excellency.
1t matters little TO the people whether tn
u Commonwealth is the executive organ or mo-
( and the threadbare story of the 'spinste
weeping" over an imaginary catastrophe
| very much like the action of the OUTLETS
| when pursued by an enemy; IT disgorges a
] inky substance which so colors the water q
to hide ii from view.
& While in the second section of the articl
O the Governor declares himself in favor OF 81
: yer, in the third section he acknowledges tn
fact that he takes the same view of the maj
ter that the gold party did before the remor
job to favor dealers in SILVER bullion. Thi
, appears TO trouble the Governor, SO that hi
judgment does not heartily approve the act {
RECOMMENDATION after all. But these are matter
n | of the past; what the people desire TO know
N | Is how their Executive stands on the que'
tons of finance which are yet TO be settle
by legislation. How he stands on the n
sumption act, the act providing for witt
drawing from circulation all national ban
bills and replacing them with greenback
l. the issuing of bullion certificates TO circula'
, as money, and a definite statement as I
| whether he is in favor of a further contraciio
of the currency or not. These are live issu,
e of to-day, and any man who is looking fo
v ward for a position at the hands of the peopl
this fall or winter, will be required to stan
! square on the finance platform, or stand asid
, for some one that will.
:. The attempt OF the Governor to belittle tn
!. currency question, gives strong color to tn
truth of the charge that he should have sal
on former ocSlleon, "that he had, no SYN
l patby with the debtor class " The attemf
to fall back upon the record of the republics
| party and the attempt to show that tn
| pledges made by that party have not been ca
u ried out, and the comparison drawn betwee
Is the duty of the party in carrying out thos
/ pledges and the providing a suitable and sta
/, BILE currency adequate to the wants of the ma
tion shows that Geo. 7. Anthony is not i
sympathy with the people of The West on tn
finance question. To show the respect tn
Governor has for the opinions OF tn
l of ha ,f1.,ex