Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-10-23
The Kansas Republican League.


The peoples party fellows are hav-
ing much grief over the. secret feature
of their organization. They realize
that it is entirely un-American for any
political party to hold its meetings in
secret lodge rooms accessible to only a
certain class of citizens, and then con-
coct schemes to capture and control
the government of all the people. Its
leaders well know that their party as
secret political organization cannot sur
vive the present campaign. Already
the signs of disintegration are coming
thick and fast. How to hold the men,
bers together until Nov. 4th is the alb
sorbing question with them. All kinds
of frivolous and illogical reasons are
given by the speakers and union labor
papers why this secret combine should
continue one campaign at least. They
resort to fraud, deception, deliberate
lying and every other unfair means
under the hope that possibly they may
not be found out until after election.
The Monitor of this city in order to
present some plausible excuse for the
secret meetings of its party sits down
and calmly hurls into the face of one
thousand members of the Kansas re-
publican league in this county the
startling falshood that the league is a
secret organization and that its mem
bers are required to take an cath upon
initiation.
There has never been a secret meet
ing held by the republican league in
this or any other county in the state of
Kansas. There has never been meet
ing of republican league in this state
that any democrat or union labor crank
could not have attended without the
least restriction, and have heard every
word and witnessed every act. There
is not the first element of secrecy about
the Kansas republican league and
never was. and every-it might be say
ing too much to say that the Monitor
knew tit knows very little-man
with thimbleful of intelligence knows
it. Nor is any member of the league
required to take an oath of any kind.
Ali that is required of him is that he
promise to support the republican
party, its principles and its candidates.
The only purpose of the Monitor in
publishing such a willful, deliberate,
malicious falsehood was to deceive its
readers and give them some possible
reason for continuing political party
which in its theory and practice is
foreign to the foundation principles of
a republican form of government.
That the editors of the Monitor DELHI
erately lied can be no question. They
personally knew the league is not a
secret order yet they publish the false
hood to their readers. No wonder the
leaders OF the peoples party try 10 pre-
vent their members from attending
meetings of other parties, aud forbid
their reading respectable and reliable
newspapers. We believe this repre-
sentation by the Monitor is just as fair,
just as honest, just as truthful, just as
damnable as the rest of the rot which
that paper and the ring leaders of the
party to which it belongs is weekly
dishing out to the farmers. We miss
our guess if the farmers who are led
into this peoples party movement do
not find that they have sold them
selves for the poorest mess of pot
tage that was ever dished out to them
by lot of sycophantic partisans.