The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-29
GOVERNOR ANTRONY's
VIEWS.
How ne stands ON Ihe silver
and GAlher QnesEIons.

Some of the State papers have
been guessing as to how. Governor
stood ON the silver ques-
ton, aud among the rest the Troy
Chief, which put Linn down With
''the gold gamblers of the East," be-
cause it supposed the Topeka Com
expressed his views. In
his characteristic style, he writes
the following letter to the editor of
the Chief:
Topeka, Kas., March 16, 1878.
EDITOR Troy CHIEF: My atten-
tioa. has been directed to q discus-
sion emanaling from an assumption
on your part that l am, goods and
chattels personal, in the ownership /
of what you are pleased to style
s'the gold gamblers of the East"
The last phase of this discussion is
your demand for better information |
than guesswork, in the following !
paragraph from your issue March |
14lh:
1.-THE Lawrence Journal says 1T thinks
Gov. Anthony is a silver man IN good
standing. Gov. Anthony is a very posi-
tive man In his expressions, in view OF
which, together with the position he &C.
-eupies, people ought to have some definite
knowledge of his views, without being
compelled to guess at them. We have
never seen him reported as being any
thing but the hardest kind of the hard
money man, and some papers have quot
ed shim as using very heartless language
relative 20 the debtor class. The people
ought to know the views OF public man,
not be compelled to guess st them,
and perhaps find themselves deceived
when II is too late for remedy" 1
Had you thought of this before, a
great waste of printers ink in Kan
sas, and loss of sleep to editors on
the Missouri border who assume
the political and moral welfare of
our State, might have been saved.
You are right in say ing that l am
q every positive man in my express
sions," No one will charge me with
the suppression of a conviction or
sentiment, to deceive others or
benefit myself. What have to say
in this connection will be character
lied by this positiveness with which
you credit me, and the directness at
my command.
You assume, and assert, that the
Topeka Commonwealth is an organ
and mouth-piece of mine, and pro-
coed to say that it is generally
understood that my financial ideas
are such as are expressed by the
Com m onwealth and the Eastern
gold gamblers" Having assumed
and asserted this, you sound all the
varied notes of alarm, warning the
people of the State against the mean
AGING part of allowing man to oc-
cupy my position, who is not a man.
but a thing-a tool of the bfoated
bondholders and goddess gamblers.
Like the poor spinster of half
century of cesolate summers, who
sat weeping at the open door of q
heated oven, Mortified 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 be-
wall the possible loss of silver
Senator by the hand of death, and
the appointment by me of q gold
Senator to the place, who should at
once wipe out more than a two
thirds majority in Congress, de-
monetize silver and ruin the country
generally.
Answering your demand for de-
finite knowledge of my views Gas q
test of the claim OF the Lawrence
EJournal, that am a silver man in
good standing" beg to say: First,
that your assumption that the Com
EmonWealth is my organ is utterly
land absolutely unfounded in fact,
or in a reasonable suspicion. Ii
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 il
? has never sought or assumed to
lspeak for me, and had this been true
4 of the Chief and other Journals
there would have been no call fol
this writing.
Second. 1 never had an unkind
thought, much less an evil design
against silver always liked silver
sought silver, and "mOurned be
cause l found it not" was never
in favor of demonetiZing it, and haC
= been a member of Congress
should haye protested and voted
against 1t, unless better reason wa
found than has yet been presented
in justification of the act, and In de
: Tense of those who voted for 1t.
Third. / have never found any
} reason for abandoning the bi-me
, tallic standard of values, and WheI
stripped of its jobbesy In the inter
lest of bullion brokers, or, what ii
your style should be called "silveI
? gamblers" my judgment mos
heartily approves the act ofremone
d zStioR.
Fourth. 1 have an abiding faiti
in the integrity and intelligence o
3 he people, as represented by TIT
! Republican party in its avoweC
doctrines and formulated policy. A
a representative and trusted agen
of that party, it is my duty, as il
:, ever has been my pleasure, to nOlC
8 the clearly expressed views of thu
s party paramount to my own as {
rule of action. As all men in like
positions are, and of right should
j admit the mselVes to be, / am the
D serVa.,', not the master of the PEG
4 pie, This admission does not in
: Ivolve the surrender, but the subor
dination only, of personal judgment
IL, therefore, 1t should occur, as
: trust it never may, that it were my
: tduty to NIL by appointment I
Vacancy in the United States Senate
II il would be filed by q man who
( would, in my Judgment, represen
| the State in its political sentimen
2 and it's civilization, in the mos
e complete and satisfactory manner
The man who could be rightfully
of doing less than thi
e woald be unfit for any public trust
To this 1 must be permitted Il
add that l have no sympathy will
the men, in or ont of the Republican
Z party, who seek to belittle its mis-
D sion by ridieule and contempt for it
I GLORIOUS past" The attempt tC
: write currency" over the WORD
: acountry" upon its banners, is alike
, disloyslty to party and treason Il
country. The work for which The
the Republican party was broughi
into being is not yet done. Treason
to the fundamental doctrines of ouI
government is not dead, but is rest.
less and active in the expectation O.
ultimate mastery. The political and
civil equality the Republican party
;a rlaa0a1 ko aato hliah and rnofnfo ;