The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-08

Ting good 'feii0w, eVerJbody admits
who CAN stand tise fan Just a. long ..
anyDOdg-whO can be prohibitiOnisi
as strict as the stricteet q pfphibitiUsl
company and foEsest .tlSs '3here ever
was such thing IS prohibition when
he is array from home and with con
| genial companions. He Is the merry
fellow who, st The Chicago convention,
when 4sked how Kansas woaikf. vote
OEi Albert G iffin's attenpt to have q
prohibition plank inserted IN the
| national platfOrE1, replied: what
Go We cafe about prohibition? We
always leave that at home" In short
Colonel Hallo@ell is one of those Jolly
good prOhibitiOnists and Republicans
who will never alarm Congress with
any radical views ON economic Ques-
tions, nor find much trouble in subor-
dinatipg bis convictions to expediency
and party discipline.
The platform upon which Colonel
HallOwell was nominated b, 20 ase the
vernaculaf, 81 dandS.'' It declares
for an adjustment and reduction Of
the tariff and indorses the Mckinley
bill. II lauds Harrison and goes into
ecstacies over Blaine. IT calls fog
antitrust legislation and indofhsS. In
galIs. 1t aSks:fog unreetrietkd. IS .pSSch
add. praises Reed.n It scaIhes the
fai1f6ads and ID. run by the greatest
railroad corporation in the west. But
the height OF humOf Il feaefied.Nhen
it declares that 1--WE hereby absolve
the nominee OF this convention from
the dictatiOn of party caucus upon all
economic issues. We bid him enter
the halls of Congress free man to
battle for the material and business
interests "a well as the moral and po-
Iitical welfare Of this great state"
That is funny, coming from q radio
ri conventiOR Ia Kansas, but yet it
has its serious side. OF course Jim"
Hallowell isn't going to bolt any eau
Gus decree. No Kansas Republican
chirpeN ;Gpitei loudly before the roll
vas called The imam. who wrote that
plank no doubt ehaeklad gaudibly tFh6iI.
he heard it read, but it is significant,
for all that. 1t means, taken in con.
nection with the rest of the double
jointed platform, that even in the
overwhelming Republican Seventh
Kansas district the Republican pOliti-
clans re alize that tie national policy
of the Republican PARTY has reached a
point where, in agricultural communi-
ties, it must be h5tndlcd NTH gloves.
Ii lauds the principles of the Republi
can party and declares that the inter
ests Of the agricultural classes. are of
the first consideration, and thsu finds
it necessary to tell the republican,
standard bearer that he need not be
bound by caucus dictation on, econo-
mic issues. Whyp II tbs Republican
party is the, friend of Che :fsfmefn,ff
its principles, as out lined in the Nc
Kinley bill and fully developed in Con- |
gress, are those which are for the best |
interests of the .fAttaefs Why be 30 |
careful to instruct the candidate that |
De need not act with his party on the
Questions which are OF more vital i'm |
pOrtance to his constituents than any
others upon which. he viii be called to |
voter The answer is easy, The con-
recognized that the interests |
of the district were not with the Re-
publican party and the politicians
we're afraid to let the nominee 60 be-
forf the people without absolution.
They were afi lid to turn him loose
without giving him authority to hood
wink his granger constituents by quot
ing the platform and assuring them
that on economic" questions he would
be guided Only by their good and not
By party considerations. 1t was a
square back-down and humiliating
confession of weakness and cOwardice.
Jim" Hallowell may be elected, but
4 he Is it will be because he Was afraid
20 run on his party principles.
The platform is the best evidence
hat the Republicans are scared and
Ma trying to crawfsh. They do not
fare SO Before the people on Eit6ff re-
,ord.-K G.. Times.