Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-11-29
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A. r. to which | belong and of which |
was one of the founders, is a political
organization of the republican party,
to which | also belong. and of which |
was one of the mighty few founders
now living. 1t was bold clam. and
so considered at the time. The article
was copied and commented on with Sc
.vereity by hundreds of papers, and
friendly Indians marked the papers
containing these comments and sent
them to me with letters more or less
spicy and vicious. l was called liar
by some, and traitor to the order OF
the G.. \. r. by others, while some of
the playful photographers, who were not
born when | and few friends were
LAYING the foundation of the republican
party and of the G. A. r. spitefully
bcalled me a crank and other pet names,
and by people who have no reason and
no facts on their side, and are forced
to substitute epithets for logic and gall
for brains.
More fully informed by the logic of
events, L write now simply to the pa
per which first gave publicity to my
views on the subject, to reiterate and
repeat over and over and ten times ov
er, with all possible earnestness and
emphasis, every letter and syllable of
my former article on the subject, and
beg you to republish it in justice to
me and to truth. | confess that | am
as human as anybody, and l felt keen
I ly the scanaalous abuse showered upon
me at the time you published my form
er article, by those who were wholly
ignorant about the subject or willing 20
prevaricate about it to deceive the pub
lie. | am no liar whatever | am. |
have not yet got my eye on the men or
set of men that | feared | believe III
candor and truth. ] despise treachery
and hypocrisy. l love truth and plain
speaking, hence denounce as silly,
useless, hypocritical lie the statement
that the G.. A. Il. is not political bO-
dy organized and intended and employ
ed to aid and comfort the republican
party This is not its only object. 1t
is grand system of charity, fraternity
and loyalty among its own members.
1t is all that; 1t is more; it is the re-
publican party, all there is of the re-
publican party, its heart, its head, its
brains and head, its guide, philosopher
and friend, its ally and its all in all.
Oh, yes, We have few democrats,
good, easy quiet souls, in our order,
but they are SO few and feeble that
they don't count; for they have no Of
fees, therefore no power.
1t is not any part of the written law
of our order that We must be republic
ans. 1t is the unwritten unspoken law
of the order, as unalterably fixed there
as any Median or Persian law ever was
fixed in bible times. No man can
stand well in our order unless he is a
republican. 1t never honored any man
yet unless he was a republican.
When dare democrat president
show himself in our presence? They
would have been Kissed to scorn at St.
Louis and Columbus, for the simple
reason that we are republicans of the
EXTREMIST kind.
Away with the hypocritical that W.
have no political object. We control
the politics of this nation, always did
and always will. We cast 1900, coo
votes for Ben Harrison, We and our
sons, in 1888. We own this cohntry.
We are its sovereIgns. We are its
lords. We know our rights, and know
ing dare maintain them, and that is to
rule this country as we please.
The politicians prate and pirate about
tariff. Tariff, nonsense; the soldiers
did it; they did it all. They want no
reduction in the surplus. Let the pol
iticians dare reduce it before they pay
us all they promised, and there will be
music in the air in 1892 Any failure
to do this would disinteg crate the G. A
Il. and divide it about equally between
democrats and republicans. and SO end
the mission of the republican party.
This article is the plain, unvarnished
truth. 1t will be better understood in
three years from now than it is to-day
And here | rest the case.
Yours trul Y,