Wichita eagle., 1888-09-27
THE IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES OF
SOUTHERN BORN REPUBLICAN.

THE IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES OF 1
| SOUTHERN BORN REPUBLICAN.
| GODDARD, Kan, 1883.
To the Editor OF the EAGLE:
All men ought to be able to give {
reason for the faith that is in them, ever
if it is poor reason, as poor reason i
better than none, or simply to sa,
because"
I am a southern born, converted Re
publican and propose to give few COM
mon sense reasons why am a Repub-
ican. First, am strong believer il
the fundamental principles Of the party
After closely studying the doctrines O.
the party, as taught by the leading meI
Of the party-ieaders that are, in my
judgment, not alone equal, but far supe
rior in craftsmanship to any set Of
men that are or ever were at the head OF
any party in this country or any other
country on earth, (Bismark not excepted
and one that is unprejudiced, impartial,
not narrow minded, but ever ready t.
accept and study the interest of hi:
country:I say, any one thus inclined
cannot help but accept and believe.
as well as cling to and forward the prin
ciples of the Republican party.
have been voting with the Republi
can party for many years, notwithstand-
ing that | was born, raised and lived in a
community where the Democratic party
controlled both state and national cleo
tons and am therefore familiar with
the doctrines and teachings OF
that lone man" party. If the
Democratic party las anyone fundament-
al principal, aside from that innate desire
to hold office and makingof false promises
while hunting the Office from president
down to constable, which promises are
not and never have been kept after the
party got into office, it is not recorded in
the books that have read, or in any of
the platforms that have sprung from
their national conventions from the days
of Jackson, (which, by the way, is the
best they ever ha6 down to the ex-sher-
if that is at the helm today. If you don t
believe this why read the platform of the
time in which they declared themselves
in favor of the rebellion by declaring the
war failure. and when they said the
rebellion could not be suppressed but
how sadly they were disappointed when
can see, if you will look, that the ex-
sheriff fails to keep his promises, as did
all of his predecessors before the war. 1t
is the same old party with the same kind
of a ring on its tail. The war, though
bloody, did not change the principles or
ways that ever characterized the present
zone man" Democratic party.
The Republican party is one Of pro-
gresS and reform-busineSS like, and the
country prospers when the party is in
control and power.
When Mr.. Lincoln took charge in 1861,
he found an empty treasury and the
country's estimated value at that time
amounting to about fourteen billion dol
lars. Lincoln not only smothered the
rebellion. but also freed four millions of
slaves, with the help of the loyal Demo
Gratis of the north, while the disloyal ele-
ments of the Democratic party were aid
ing and abetting. in ciandestlne way,
the ''rebs" in divers ways.
During the twenty-five years in which
the Republican party had charge of and
controlled the business affairs of this
country the country was so prosperous
as to increase the estimated value from
fourteen to forty-eight billion dollars,
and this is my second reason for being a
Republican.
have often heard the term rebel ap-
piled to Democrat, but never heard tell
of a rebel Republican. Did you?
My third reason for being a Republican
lies embodied in the following: When
old Buchanan sneaked out of the white
house at Washington with his cohorts
following him, to give place to loyal
administration in the person of Lincoln,
the bonded debt of the govern
ment was seventy million dollars.
These bonds were drawing 6 per cent in
terest and were II per cent below par. 1t
millions of men and billions of
dollars to suppress the rebels and their
cohorts (the English government, if you
please.) 1t becoming necessary for this
government to greatly enlarge the bond
ed debt which was done during the Re-
publican administration, provisions
had to be made then to meet
these bonds at maturity and. this was
successfully done by the Republican
party with the assistance of few loyal
Democrats who were in Office at the
time, while thousands of disloyal Demo-
Gratis, all over the north, were doing all
in their power to defeat the measures
and destroy the credit of the best gov
IN the world. Now they have
the audacity and impudence, after seek
ing to ruin the country during the re-
bellion, to call on the voters of this
to continue rebs Of the south in
power, with these 1873 electoral votes
solid as the''Rock of Ages" made thus
by depriving Republican voters of the
south of their right and privilege of
voting. If one endeavors to argne and
reason with them as to the justice of this
act and treatment they simply reply as
Eustis to Ingalls,, viz: 1t is none of |
your business. / know of one |
precinct in LaRue county, Kentucky, |
that has ten or twelve colored voters |
who never have voted, because they |
were not allowed to vote, but have been |
assessed and taxes collected from them |
aver since the negro has been freed.
The negroes of the south stand no |
more chance at the polls, SO far as vot- |
ing their sentiments is concerned, than a /
cat in hades would have without claws. !
But not witnstanding the opposition /
Of the disloyal element Of this great one |
man Democratic party to the mode of /
paying the bonded debt as adoped by the |
party. provisions We're made
by the Republican party.
The provisions as made by the Repub- |
ican party were 30 successful that those |
per cent bonds instead of remaining |
L. per cent below par are today % per |
cent above par, as evidenced by the fact !
hat the government bought them with