Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18
q NoTAnLE CONVERT.
Ex-Solicitor OF the Treasury Jordan Re-
pudfates the G. O. r.

nOunces the Republican party of to-
day as humbug and has left it to
vote for Grover Cleveland.
| The greatest blow that has been
dealt the Republican cause since the
| campaign opened in this vicinity is
that which Edward Jordan, one of the
oldest and most honored of the early
| founder of the ssGrand Old Party"
aimed at its fraudulent professions,
| protestations and doctrines in this
| city.
Every Republican statesman in the
country knows Edward Jordan. Solic-
| itor of the Treasury under Abraham
Lincoln and Andrew johnson.
Every public man of standing in the
National Government and the House
of Representatives for the last twenty
eight years knows Edward Jordan,
| who was made Solicitor of the
Treasury by Secretary Chase and who
was summoned from Portsmouth, in
the Southern part of the State of Ohio,
to take the important Office at time
when the country was rocked to its
very center by the conflict between the
North and South. att Ja
Mr.. Jordan is at present practicing
his profession in this city, at No. 160
Broadway, and was found there by a
Herald reporter. He is fine looking
old gentleman, with face and head
strongly resembling those of the late
sixty years old.
When called on by the writer Mr..
Jordan was engaged in consultation
with some professional friend, but al
though very busy the moment the
question was put to him about his pro-
posal to vote for Mr.. Cleveland his
face lit up and he became interested
at once.
'.Is it true, Mr.. Jordan. that you,
who have been so prominent a Re
publican, have left the party?" said
the reporter,
.sIt is, SIR" replied he in courteous
though positive accent, 81 have left
the Republican party, so called, be-
cause it has abandoned its principles
and has repudiated the faith of its
founders.
II was an active member of the Re
publican party for many years and
only ceased to be one when 1 POUNDS
that the speculative and certain
manufacturing classes were entrench-
ing themselves in tariff ring which
they deemed to be impregnable and
which I knew was ruinous to the
country. Of course could not return
TO the Democratic party at once, be-
cause it was no better apparently than
the Republican party; but after the
election of Mr.. Cleveland / observed
with pleasure that his Administration
was gradually bringing it back to first
principles and making it something
like the great and useful Democracy
ofsmy younger days.
''At last his great message on the
tariff was sent to Congress and saw
at once that he had forced the DEM
ocratic party into its proper position
as the real protector of. the American
people. Then I knew that Grover
Cleveland was the right man TO elect
as President of the United States.
saw at glace from his message and
letters chat the Democratic party was
once more the conservator of the
rights of the nation at large and not
Of any part or class thereof, and that
the Republicans and Democrats had
changed places. A.
'"Then left the Republican party
and cast my lot with the Democracy
led by Grover Cleveland.
''The word protection as used and
applied by the Republicans means
plumber. The platform of the Dem
ocrats means protection.
s'The absurdity of the outcry against
the Mills bill appears to be . species
of insanity. 1t certainly is nonsense.
The Republicans themselves must be
aware of this, for they above all others
fully comprehend that the Mills bill is
a good measure and will be attended
by beneficial consequences, not to
labor alone, not to capital alone, but
TO both.
cat first the willy and designing find
it easy to appeal to classes and to in
dividual manufacturers who have
grown up and come into existence
under the policy and class and special
protection of the Republican party. |
These classes and individuals can be
shown that they will suffer little at first
by reason of the Mills bill and other |
proposed Democratic measures sug-
gested by the St. Louis platform. But
let me ask: What are the Mills bill and
the planks of the platform for? Are
they not for the improvement of the |
country at large and not for classes; |
neither for labor alone nor capital |
alone? Both must and, will reap the |
benefits to accrue from the proposed |
policy and the legislation under the |
Administration of Grover Cleveland.
''The greatest good for the greatest |
s..x,1ber and for the entire nation is the |
OBJECT of the present Democratic Ad- |
isxlnistration- This is genuine protec- |
lion hY which and under which the