The advocate., 1891-09-09
sGs Democrat, the leading Democratic
ranop of kha state.

STATE, Dub IL ID DoLWoon hepuDucdnS anu OennO-
crats not between the Democracy and the Pe0-
pies party It Is fusion Of conservative, SenSi-
BILE citizens Of Kansas, who realize chat the good
name and credit Of the state are at stake, and
that it would be dark day for Kansas 70 have
the political ermine degraded and men elected
10 the bench who would pervert the law and use
their power arbitrarily against the eastern capt.
talists who are lOaning their money In Kansas.
The people Of Kansas are honest and pay their
debts They are not repudlstOrS
And this is what is being done in
all the judicial districts where cleo
tions are being held this year. The
two wings of the old buzzsrd will
flap in unison in Kansas, and the
Peoples party will run q show Of it's
own. II any of the poor, innocent
Republican farmers should be led
into the main tent of the great un-
washed, they will find the double
headed Demo Republican snake on
exhibition and great variety of
''babboons" clspping their hands in
applause. But listen again:
The ex union soldier would better steer clear
of these Sub-treaSury refOrmers, for IL the peo-
pie put them in power and they get their sub
treasury greenback mill to running they will
print and pay the pensioners In a worthless and
deprecated currency, and by that time you Will
be too old to kick.
Shades of the departed heroes OF
the republic! Think Of an adherent
of the Republican party protesting
against the payment of soldiers in a
deprecated currency! Did this inn
maculate party ever pay the soldier or
his widow and orphan anything else
during the darksome days Of the war,
or for many years thereafter? Depre-
ciated currency is a Republican in
vention, and it was pWrpoSely (mark
the word), pwrposely deprecated in
order to distinguish between the SOL
dier and the bondholder in the kind
of money that they should be paid.
In proof of this we will refer to the
discussion of the act by which this
deprecated currency was created.
Mr.. Hooper, good Republican author
ity, said:
am opposed to this amendment Of the Senate
that requires the interest on government notes
and bonds to be absolutely paid In coin, because
It's effect tUiu be to deprecidte these as compared
l0ith cOtn BY declaring them IN ddUGnCe to be so
appreciated. 1t creates necessity for the gov
ernment to obtain large amount Of coin by
purchase, 1t Is not received In taxes and loans,
which hold out an inducement to speculate on
the necessity of the government, by collecting
and boarding the coin against the time that It
win be required by the government to pay It's In
terest.
But in remained for Thaddeus Ste-
vens, that grand old commoner of
Pennsylvania, who SO nobly and truly
battled for the rights of the soldier
as well as the common rights of hu-
msnity, while his traitorous associates
were executing the most gigantic
conspiracy recorded in the annals of
time, to place this act before the
American people in its true character.
have [Said Mr.. stevensl very few words to
say. I approach the subject with more depres-
Son Of spirit than ever before approached any
question No personal feeling or motive infu-