Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-31

live issue to his party-Oscar Folsom
Cleveland The Democratic candidate for
vice president, Thomas A. Hendricks, is .
man whose public life has been marked by
. blot that should condemn him in the
hearts Of every lover Of his country. When
the life of the nation hung in q balance, he
did what only coward and disloyalist
would do--aided and allotted his enemies.
He refused to sustain by his vote our SOL
diers in the field, and when the thanks Of the
country were offered to the living and dead
soldiers, he refused TO add bis voice; and
when pittance was offered the manned he
Disloyal in the beginning, his disloyRlty has
grown with his growth, and strengthened
with his age
The Republicans of Kansas present as
their chief candidate Col. John A. Martin,
whose history is the history of Kansas.
For more than twenty-five years his
time, talents and means have been
devoted to the development and
upbuilding of his chosen state. The school
houses, churches, railroads, shops and
farms bear testimony to his enterprise, and
those like him, who believed in Kansas and
made her what she is-the phenomenal
state in patriotism, in love of law and order,
in education. in general intelligence-in en-
terprise second to no state in the union.
When not more than boy he led the
Eighth Kansas regiment to the defense of
his country, and for four long years on the
battle fields of the south, east and west,
made record for the soldiers of Kansas
that will live as long as the love Of country
remains in the hearts of the people. In pri-
vate and social life an example worthy Of
emulation.
His opponent, George w. Click, like his
prototype, Thomas A. Hendricks, was born
an obstructionist. Opposed to rebellion, but
opposed to the means used to conquer it.
| Opposed to the defeat of our armies, but
opposed to thanking our brave men for vic
tory. Opposed to victory for rebels, but
opposed to giving our soldiers the means to
prevent it. Opposed to the colored man
being a voter; opposed to his enlistment in
the militia, and opposed TO his attending
the public schools.
From 1870 to 1882 monopolist, then sud-
denly turning anti-monopolst. To use his
own adopted report, '.soiling his shoes in the
barnysrd and joining the army of Patrons
and Husbsndry."
Voters! We claim Kansas by an old-time
Republican majority. See to it that the
claim is made good.
| A vote for james G.. Blaine for the presi-
dency will be vote against a retrograde
movement in the public policy of the nation
and vote for the progress in the develop
ment of our nationality and prosperity. 1t
will be an intelligent vote for man whose
principles are not obscure for he is at once
the leader and representative of his party.
II will be vote for the continued ascend
ency of the party whose record is written in
the most glorious chapters of the history of
the country.
Rebellion for slavery crushed; slavery
abolished; the freedmen enfranchised; all the
productive industries of the country cher
ished and protected; specie payments re-
sumed; the laborer rewarded for his toll;
public credit inviolate; the national
standard advanced; and Ameri-
can commerce enlarged. And it
will be a vote tor a man whose private life
has been ransacked, his private papers pub
lished by his enemies, and yet who comes
out clear as the MONDAY sun. Slandered as
to his domestic life, he is the honored head
of as happy n family as there is in the land,
with wife and children acknowledged as
his own. 1t will be vote for man who
has had the hearts of the masses of the Re-
pnblicans for ten years, and who had in the
Republican convention two-thirds of the
representatives of Republican districts and
states, and who was swept into the candidacy
for the presidency by force he did not d.
rect nor control. 1t will be vote against
the party that left the control of the Ma
tional government, only to attempt through
its leaders the destruction of the government
A vote against party that during its Danish
ment of twenty years by the people, has
nursed its malignity; party that is notori-
Gus for its dishonesty, has no principles of
national Importance, and, locally, no issue
but personal liberty, alias free whisky! 1t
will be vote against committing the direc-
ton of affairs in the hands of those who, but
a few years ago, attempted To destroy the
country and against giving the law-making
power to the law breakers. 1t will be vote
against disturbing the business which for
the past twenty years has had no parallel in
the history of nations; against the submits
sion of the union to the solid south. Re-
member that the house of representatives is
now in the hands of the Democrats,
majority of whom are from the
solid South. Remember that the Sem
ate is only Republican by very
few votes, and that if the senate become
Democratic rs the house, rebel soldiers will
be pensioned the same as union soldiers, the
efforts to destroy the union, will be saddled
upon the country, the fruits of the war all
lost, and as We said before, revolution
backward will have been accomplished.
Therefore, when you vote for Blaine and
Logan as representatives of a national poll
CIV, and Col. John A. Martin as the repre-
sentative of Kansas Republicanism, be care
full to vote for the Republican nominees for
the state legislature, that United States
senator in accord with Republican Kansas
may be elected. II. I. BoNEBRAKE,
WRIT W. WALTON, Chairman.
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