The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-16

the Free Press says: 1.-The Champion |
attempts to ignore the political issues
of the day. At time when the coun-
try Is IN imminent peril, and millions |
of loyal people in one-half of the land |
are being turned over to the tender |
mercieS of exaSperated and remorseless |
traitors the paper (Champion) has only |
soft words for the ears of the author of |
all the peril and the crime.'' The edi-
tor of the Atchison Champion was
''Skulking behind the pillars of the
AtchiSOn post office"
And on October 6, 1866, the Free
Press says that lin all things the Cham
plOn has been the defender and sup
porter of the personal character and po-
litical integrity of Andrew Johnson,
has denied everything and admitted
nothing"
In the Daily Free Press of July 25,
1867, the editor of that paper speaking
| of the AtchiSOn Champion, said:
at is not very long since it whimpered at the
feet of Andrew johnson like whipped cur, nor is
ii long since it sat straddle of the fence of public
! opinion, tipping this way and that on negro suf
| frage. One great difference in the editO-
rial management of the Champion and Free Press,
is that the Champion takes frequent occasions TO
string ont long articles in which !, John Alexan-
der Martin, Is made to appear man of much con-
| sequence, and whose opinion should be reyer
enced, even though tomorrow il be directly Op-
posite of to-day etc.
Beautiful record, that, for gallant
soldier and Faithful Republican
We presume he points to it with pride
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Let us go back little. September
II, 1862, the Republican State COnven-
ton met at Topeka. 1t was called to
order by I. Dwight Thatcher, and F. p.
Baker was chosen president John A.
Martin and John ]. ingalls, bOlted that
convention. On the 10Th of September,
1862, ingalls, was nominated for Lieu
tenant Governor at Lawrence, and run
against Tom Osborne, the regular re-
publican nominee. \. L. Williams, of
Topeka, was delegate to the Lawrence
convention. In that campaign both
John A. Martin and ingalls, supported
Geo. w. Click for the Legislature from
the Atchis0n district. Mr. Click was
nominated by a Union convention of |
democrats and republicans; and on page |
225 of Wilder's Annals we find this |
statement, under date of October l, 1862: |
The Republican State ticket is sup |
ported by eighteen papers, the Union |
ticket by four, namely: LeavenwOrth |
Times, Lawrence Journal, AtchisOn
Champion and Manhattan Express" |
There were three democratic neWSpa- |
pers in the state at that time. The |
AtchiSOn Champion was a very good |
democratic organ i'll those times tAat |
tried mems souls. And that paper |
kept at its mast head, 1T is better to |
be Right than to be President" and |
John \. Martin editor and publisher.
So long as the gallant soldier could
hold the AtchiSOn pOSt-Office he was the
servile supporter of Andrew Johnson
and my policy. And not till after the
Tenure of Office act by Johnson, which
was in March, 1867, did the gallant
Colonel again msheath his blood
stained sabre, and march forth to battle
for his country, and-fOr the spOils of
office.
Such is the gallant Colonel who is
now implOring the republicans of Kan
Sas for their suffrage, to elevate him to
the highest office within their gift-tO
make him their Governor, perhaps their
ruler. Perhaps they will.
\ post office has its charms and al
lurements, its salary and emolumentS,
its fees, commissions, and perquiSites-
and for these the gallant young sol
der" supported the most reasonable
administration that diSgraceS the pages
of American history! But his conduct
at that time is strikingly harmonious
with his present attitude. Two years
ago he was opposed to the nomination
of CT TObn aO1 ODnOca6 70 ,1rObi |
Now, being a candidate for Governor,
he started out by opposing resubmissiOn
as democratic demand" Until a
short time before his nomination, he ia
vOred anti-prohibitiOn in his newspaper
at AtchiSOn, and has all along printed
saloon advertisements in his paper.
Now he is Endorsed by the State Tenn
perance Union, and those prohibition
lists who love the almighty dollar and
their tOddy better than they do
the cause they outrage and betray
Now this gallant Colonel is straddling
the issue of prohibition by talking about
an oath of office taken by all the consta-
DleS and road OverSeerS in the state,
Dr. by keeping mum forty days before ,
he election, just as he did in AtchisOn
eighteen years ago, when the Republic,
weary with the experience of war, was
on the verge of a second re-
)elliOn.
Patriotic and loyal man Gallant"
Col. John A. Martin. While the cries
If widowed mothers and orphaned chill
lren were yet heard in the land, and
he smoke of battle had scarcely van
shed, he was willing to betray the
government of his country, and
he liberties of his cOuntrymen, into
he bloody hands of a conquered foe for
he privilege of eating fodder from the ,
public crib, and drinking the nutrient
luid which flowed from the MY Policy /
acteals -
After the lapse of twenty years, and
Ifter the settlement of all the great is
ues involved in that conflict,
jOl. John \. Martin parades his mill
airy record before the people, in these
ines of peace, and asks for the ''solid
older vote" to lift him into the execu-
i've chair BY irritating the healing
Wounds of rebellion, by ignoring the
wing issues of the hour, and in the
of an ambition that stoOps
o conquer, he asks the intelligent peO-
lie of Kansas to make him their Gov
NOR
No truly brave man; no man of I'M
loyalty; no man of abiding con-
lotions, and of fidelity to living prin-
iples; no man who loves his country
etter than himself, and who has de-
emit respect for the opinions of man.