The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-28
From the Troy Chief
Governor Anthony Rises to Explain.
TOPEKA, March 16, 1878.

style "the gold gamblers of the east"
The last phase of this discussion is
your demand for better information 4
than guesswork, in the following par
agragh from your issue of March 18th
inst.
sThe Lawrence Journal says it
thinks Governor Anthony is silver
man in good standing Gov. Antho-
ny is very positive man in his ex-
pressions, in view of which, together
with the position he occupies, people
ought to have some definite knowl-
edge of his views, without being COM
PEELED to guess at them. We have
never seen him reported as being any
thing but the hardest kind of hard
money man, and some papers have
quoted him as using very heartless
language relative to the debtor class.
The people ought to know the views
of public man, not be compelled to
guess at them, and perhaps find them
selves deceived, when 1t is too late for
remedy"
Had you thought of this before, a
great waste of printers ink in Kansas,
aud loss of sleep to editors on the Mis-
souri, border, who assume responsible
lily for the political and moral welfare
of our State, might have been saved.
You are right in saying that | am a
every positive man IN my express
sions." No one will charge me with
the suppression of a conviction or SEN
timent, to deceive others, or benefit
myself. What | have to say i'll this
connection shall be characterized by
the positiveness with which you cred
it me and all the directness at my COM
mand.
You assume, and assert, that the To-
peka Commonwealth is an organ and
mouth piece of mine, and proceed 10
say that tits generrlly understood that
my financial ideas are such as are ex-
pressed by the Commonwealth and the
eastern gold gamblers" Having as
sumed and asserted this, you sound all
the various notes of alarm, warning
the people OF the State against the
menacing peril of allowing a man TO
occupy my position, who is not man
but thing-a tool of the bloated bond
holders and goddess gamblers. Like
the poor spinster, of half century
of desolate summers, who sat weep
ing at the open door of heated oven,
certified at the thought, that if she
had baby, and that baby should creep
into that oven and get roasted TO death,
what an awful thing it would be; SO
you bewail the possible loss of Sil-
rer Senator by the hand of death, and
the appointment by me Of a geld Sena-
tor to the place, who should at once
wips out the more than two-thirds
majority in Congress, demonetize sill
YER, aud ruin the country generally.
Answering your demand for definite
knowledge of my views ''aS test OF
the claim of the Lawrence Journal,
that am 81 silver man in good stand
ing" ] beg TO say: First, that your
assumption that the Commonwealth is
my organ, is utterly and absolutely
unfounded in fact, or in reasonable
suspicion. 1t never has in the past, it
never will in the future, speak for me,
or in any manner have authority to
bind me by its political or other utter
ances. In this connection it Is due to
say of the Commonwealth, that it has
never sought or assumed 10 speak for
me, and had this been true of the
Chief, and other journals, there would
have been no cali for this writing.
Second, never had an unkind
thought, much less an evil design,
against silver; ALWAYS liked silver
sought silver and "mourned because
found it not" | was never in favor f
Accommodating 1t, and had been
member of Congress, should have pro-
tested and voted against it, unless q
better reason was found than has yet
been presented, in justification of the
act. and in defense of those who voted
for it.
Third, | have never found any rea-
son for abandoning the bi.metallic
standard of values and when stripped
of its jobbery in the interest of bull
lion brokers, or, what in your style
should be called silver gamblers" nv
Judgment most heartily approves an
act of reconciliation.
Fourth, have an abiding faith in
the integrity and intelligence of the
people, as represented by the Republi-
eau party in its ayowed doctrines and
formulated policy. AS a representa-
tive and trusted agent of that party,It
is my duty, as it ever has been my
pleasure, to hold the clearly expressed
own as a rule of action. As all men
in like positions are, and of right
should admit themselves to be, am
the servant, not the master of the peo-
pie. This admission does not involve |
the surrender, but the subordination
only, of personal judgment. Ii there
fore it should occur, as trust it never
may, that it were my duty to fill by |
appointment vacancy in the United |
States Senate, it would be flied by |
man who would, in my judgment, rep |
resent the State in its political senti- |
mcnts and civilization, i'll the most |
complete aud satisfactory manner. The |
man who could be righttully suspect
ed of doing less than this, would be |
unfit for any public trust.
To this | must be permitted to add,
that | have no sympathy with the men,
in or out of the Republican party, who
seek to belittle its mission by ridicu!e
aud contempt for its GLORIOUS past "
The attempt to write currency" over
the word country" upon its banners
is alike disloyalty TO party and trea-
son to country. The work for which
the Republican party was brought in
TO being is not yet done. Treason to
the fundamental doctrines Of our gov
eminent is not dead, but is restless and
active III the expectation of ultimate
The political and evil equal
ty the Republican party stands pledg-
ID to establish aud maintain, are not
liked facts. The head of our national
government, elected as Republican
)y Republicans. stands in open hostil-
ty to the spirit and essence of free
government, declaring that ''inselli-
gence and property" not legally con-
'tituted majorities, must rule. And
o-day he looks on with apparent in
Inference TO that rule. i'll large por. ;
ion of our country, knowing that It
iefles justice, imprisons patriots, and
majoritics, whose inteli-
,ence is not equal to the work of as
and who have no proper
Y in shot guns land ammunition for
hat purpose.
If it be true that the only remaining
work for the Republican party is to
determine the number of grains of sill
er which is to constitute the dollar
init of value, aud regulate the vol
me of currency TO meet the wants of
rade," then, indeed, the statement inn
rted, upjustly | hope, to President
iayes, that he found the Republican
ariy dead at the time of his inaugur-
ton, might as well be true. Finance
as become the ''bonanza" of dema-
ogery; let it not be made the grave
f patriotism.
Asking publication OF this, with as
urance that your patience and space
hall not again be taxed in like man
er. Very respectfully, {