The advocate., 1891-09-09

Inc ABOVE sCartllng headlines greet
the eye Of the reader Of the Capital Of
September 8. Jerry in opening a
speech in Pennsylvania is reported as
saying:
do not come before you as a party man. I
do not belong 20 any party. AS Congressman
regard myself as the servant Of the people Of the
United States, and not Of any party. AS that
servant have come preaching this new gospel
to you. In fact it Is not new gospel; It was
preached by Christ eighteen hundred years ago.
It Ia the gospel Of doing unto others as you
would IKE 10 be done by. The American people
have been oppressed for hundred years. They
have been betrayed by their public servants.
Out In Kansas recently we resolved that we
would put an end to that sort OF thing, and so We
went down into the cOrn0elds and picked out
men for the Legislature. Then these men went
to Topeka to elect United States Senator, and
were subjected TO great temptations tempta-
tlon Of the plutOcracy, Some men were offered
as high as $4,000 for their vote. But not man
proved traitor, Every man was true to his
political principles, That fact was great
revelation to us. We had been told that every
man connected with political place was cor.
rupt; that wN II victorious in the contest, would
become corrupt. But thank God cur men were
faithful. Not one Of them was Judas. It
showed that at heart the American people are
honest; and our victory was prophetic Of what
might be done In this country to purify politics.
The Capital in opening it's COM
ments on this paragraph, says:
The astounding declaration with which Jerry
introduced hts speech will be read with very
proper resentment by his party snpporterslR
Kansas. That the man whom they lifted from
dry goods box, In an obscure village, to the dis
tingulshed and lucrative Office OF q Representa-
tive OF the greatest legislative body In the world
should dlsown all connection with the party
whose votes elected him and say, II do not be-
long to any party" Is almost enough to persuade
them that men accidentally elevated to offices
for which they are notOrlouSly unfit are likely to
betray their trust.
The above clearly indicates what
constitutes the Capitals highest con-
ception OF American craftsmanship.
It is that a member Of Congress shall
not be "a servant Of the people OF the
United States" but a tool of a party.
This is what majority Of our Rep
resentatives have been for the last
thi:ty years, and this is what the
Capital would have them continue to
be. 1t would have them legislate in
the interest Of the few who furnish
the sinews Of war to carry elections
Joe Hudson has no conception Of the
possibilities of that broad and COM
prehensive statesmaship which en-
sbles q Representative to rise above
the narrow limits Of his party and be-
come "the servant of the people Of
the United States" And because we
have elected men Of this exalted char
acter he says the people Of the party
which elected them will read their
declarations with proper resent
ment" The people knew what kind
of men they were electing, and If the
Capital desires to see how they will
resent such declarations Of fealty TO
the interests Of the whole people let
il keep its eagle eye on the elections
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