Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-08-12
EX-CONGRESSMAN KELLEY'S
REASONS FOR GOING OYER
To THE PEOPLES
PARTY.


PARTY.
Topeka Capital: I'VE present to-day
ex-Congressman Kelley's reasons for
leaving the republican party. General
Kelly, or any other man, has the I'M
doubted right to change his political
views and follow the bent of his con-
victions. In giving his reasons for be-
coming disciple of the third party
our old friend invites the criticism of
those who have heretofore supported
him for official honors in the republican
party.
General Kelley arraigns the republic
can party for whatP His one single
charge is that 1t failed to pass the
Force bill. Does he expect to expedite
the passage of measure to protect re-
publican voters of the south by assist
ing the alliance to throw the election
| of a democratic president into the
house? Does General Kelley not know
that every leader from Polk to McLal-
lin, including PETER, Simpson, and all
the rest denounce this waving of the
bloody shirt and say that the war issues
are not in the discussion? Has Con-
| gresham Kelley failed TO note the ridi-
Guile of alliance orators of all republic
can stories of ostracism and injustice
to white and black republicans in the
south? The people party ADVOCATES at
| Ocala denounced sectionalism and
claimed to have buried the "bloody
shirt of the republican party forever.
No mans radicalism on this question
has been more severely denounced than
that cf our ex-congression during the
last campaign, and on many occasions
since by the peoples party orators
| General Kelley leaves the republican
party because 1t failed to pass the force
bill, and goes oyer to party that de-
| nOunces the force bill and all men who
favored it,
AS stalwart prohibitionist, how can
General Kelley unite with party too
| cOWardly to put word Of endorsement
| of the principle In its platform? The
orators of the peoples party said it had
ceased to be an issue in Kansas as much
so as slavery had. How is this, Gener-
al Kelley?
General, you believe in a protective
tariff. You have been in harmony with
your party on this question. AS the
alliance party and the democratic party
occupy the same position on the tariff
question, are you in sympathy with
your new party on this great issue, or
are you still republican on the tariff?
You say you do not endorse the sub
treasury scheme. You say you do not
endorse the land loan scheme. How is
it about the per cent scheme of PETER
which is accepted as the doctrine Of the
peoples party in Kansas? Do you en-
dorse the government buying all the
railroads and telegraphs? These are
the very foundations upon which the
peoples party is built. Cheap money,
easily obtained, and governmental con-
troll OF every possible interest-thesea are
essentials with the alliance party. Are
you an advocate of these chimerIcal
and impractical ideas.
General Kelley, you know if the alli-
ance party ever secures national sue
sess, the possibility of which 1t is for
tunate for the perpetuity of this goy-
eminent is remote it will be largely due
to southern support. AS friend of the
pensloned soldier, do you not know that
any party depending upon the south for
success will be hostile to the payment
of pensions?
There are good many difficult ques-
lions for lifelong republican to an
swer who is adjusting his political opIn-
ions TO new organization that COM
bines so many wild communistic ideas
and schemes that will change the char
acter Of the government. The Capital
will cheerfully give space to General
Kelley if he will give his old republican
co-workers and supporters some better
reasons for going over to the peoples
party than the failure of the republi-
cans to pass the force bill. In view of
the utterances of the leaders of the rev
party on this subject, the Capital, with
out intending discourtesy to General
Kelley, must say that his letter will not
satisfactorily explain his change of pol
itics, nor is its reasoning compliment
tary to him as our ex-congressman.
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