Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-12-19
Breakfast Table Letter to the
President,

washington National RefM6lscdH, Ediforial.
Mr.. PREsIprNr: The sudden death of
Thomas 4. iIcndricks,. vice president of
the United States, in the quiet of his
home at indianapolis, Ind, has produced
a profound sensation. By the death of
the second officer of the republic the
people are aroused and awakened TO the
fact of the existence of mighty chasm
in our form of government, upon the
brink of which they stand to-day.
The failure to enact wise law TO meet
the situation, such a measure as a Re-
publican senate passed and a Democratic
house OF representatives neglected to ac-
cept, this fact fixes the responsibility of
criminal failure and want of statesman
ship upon the Democratic party on a
question vital to the continuance of our
government under constitutional FORMS
If the death Of the vice president shall
produce such action as shall protect our
people from the evils Of an unauthorized
government, he VIII not have died in
vain. All classes Of our people, embrace
ing every shade of political opinion, will
expect you to make recommendations to
congress upon this subject. Such recon-
menGations as yor can make can do much
to relieve your party from odium and
your country from danger.
The present is the time to act. Patri-
otto statesmen of both parties should not
allow this occasion to pass without pro-
vldlng a remedy in our statute law, for
the succession of the chief executive
officers of our government in every stu
alton of affairs that can be reasonably
anticipated.
The death of the vice president has
another aspect: its effect upon political
parties. by changing combinations already
planned, TO obtain political power. Demo-
Gratis are divided upon the questions of
civil service the coinage OF silver dollars,
and the tariff. You have boldly taken
position In favor of civil service reform
and for the suspension of the
coinage of the silver dollar. The
late vice president represented opposite
views. and was fast becoming the central
figure around which the opponents of
Your administration within the Demo-
cratic party We're forming, to nominate a
ticket in SO. 1t is believed that, if power
full enough, it would have named Hen
dr;cks and Hill as the nominees of the
Democracy for president and vice presi-
dent. Thus again We are reminded that
man proposes but God disposes.
In the future your health and long
life will be drank with equal zest by the
bourbon and the reformer of your party,
while every patriotic Republican will
pray that you may have the grace and the
patriotism to serve your country well
during your constitutional term of Office.
When that shall be finished they will
work consistently and earnestly for Re-
publican successor.
Many things might be said concerning
the lntrigues within your party to defeat
your nomination in 1888 that the pro-
prieties Of this occasion would not per-
init; and were it not for these combina-
tions ex-Gov. Tilden, of New York, would
not have voiced the sentiments of Gov
hill, the Tammany society, and other
confederates, that they regarded the
death of the late vice president as one to
be deplored as public calamity" But
at the grave the war of factions must
cease, even if their hopes are destroyed by
the death of their leader.
1t is said and believed by many that
you are man of destiny. The happen.
ing Of this great event may confirm them
In their belief, and whatever obstacles
obstruct your pathway, however dark
and portentious it may appear, the charm
of that destiny will remove all opposition
Whether man of destiny, or a plain
matter-os-faet citizen, you occupy the
highest position on earth, wherever You
may be, in the executive mansion, ex.
ercising power for the good or i'll o.
nearly 60,000,000 of souls, or iourneyins
/. to and from the obsequies of the MAJ
who would have filed your position had
the circumstances been reversed, still yor
will receive from all the people the honor
and the homage due the president OF the
republic.
TIE NATIONAL. REPUBLICAN.