The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-12
THE YOUNG CROWD m KANsAN.
From the Standpoint of One that Stands
on "Memory's Golden Shore"

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| From the Standpoint of One that Stands
on "Memory's Golden Shore"
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
| What means these reports OF secret
conclaves of Republicans-of young Re
publicans, of braves. reared under the
flag of the party of Fremont, Lincoln and
Blaine, cutting loose from" the old crowd
and putting themselves at the head OF
affairs. Young republicans, forsooth-
young in republicanismy but old in years
-wreckers, demagogues, ''rule or ruin
fellows, disgruntled politicians of an
uncertain age, each one of whom has a
personal grievance, fancied as it may be.
The time has arrived when the level
headed members of the Republican party
must call a halt Neither the young
crowd" nor the sold crowd have right
to meet in secret conclave and, following
the tactics of the pernicious Alliance,
scheme to commit the party to plans they
may devise. Are the young Republicans,
so-called, ignorant of the fact that the
Republican party was built up over the
ruins of the secret Know-Nothing
party and that the bitterest
fight ever waged by the
party, except that against slavery, was
to rid itself of the stigma that attached
to four-fifths of the Know Nothing party
in the north, that fed to the Republican
party as though the mountains were
about to fall upon them or the seas to
swallow them up
As one who has politically. so far as
honors are concerned, had nothing to do
with the old crowd-as one who, at 16
years OF age fought valiently for the
sway of the Republican measures and
never scratched ticket up to date,
claim the right to put in word of eau
ton right here to the young fellows who
are seeking to displace the men who took
their lives in their hands for the sake of
a principle and have stood by the party,
st. John and Robinson Notwithstanding.
The new crowd says, eve will insist on
organizing the party On live national
issues rather than on war reminiS-
cences. By this every old soldier in
the land is notified that service pensions
and all prohibitory measures against
paying pensions to rebel soldiers
and war claims to rebel sympa-
thizers is at an end. Hence
forth the slogan of the regenerate
party of Republican dudes is to be ..Reci- |
proclty and the Mckinley Bill" Well, |
that is good Republican doctrine, but |
when the Young Crowd" seeks to put |
on airs and strut as the cock-of-the-walk |
they must not lose sight of the fact that |!
800, 900 of the old boys on national |
issue vote the Republican ticket. That |
each one of these voters has son and !
who vote as the old man has !
shot, and when you estrange this ele-
ment from the Grand Old Party you
knock out not only the band wagon. but |
the old clown and the spotted ponies. l
am one of the fellows that stand on a
platform large enough to hold
all the menagerie which thirty-six
years of prestige has added to
.he party. The Abolitionist and the
Mason and Dixon line advocate:
.he on to Richmond crowd and the M
promise fellows, the confiscation outfit,
he Acknowledgement of rebellion partic-
pants, credit mobilier, and last but not
SetSl, ZIG IIlcLu W I)cilSiOIS. LOCALLY
mere has been the prohibition question.
Now upon all these issues where does
he ''young crowd" come in? What
lave they doue to deserve the recogni-
ion at the hands OF the party to the ex-
fusion of the ''old crowd" And who
S the new crowd anyway? Are they
he sons of worthy sires who fought,
bed and died in the interest of the party
,r are they interlopers without antece-
lent-leecheS as it were-who have
to the body polite and are
,oing for the g. o. p. for ali that is in it?
having no axes to grind and no favors
o ask, L dare to speak out
n meeting, and l warn these
ecret conclave fellows and the
Dung crowd in general, that their
meetings are antagonlstic to the time | [
IGNORED principles of the party, and it
ehooves every man who claims al
egience to the party of Fremont, Lin
DIN, Garfield, Blaine and Harrison to |
tand aloof from any organization that
) secret or OathbOund, claiming to be {
he Republican party, OF from any body
f men who seek to create discussions in i
he party by organizing branch, call
10 it either the Young Crowd" or the ,
Old Crown" The man who is not a
lean cut Republican, in full harmony !
nth all the tenets and teachings of the
arty from Fremont to Harrison is a :
lugwump, a non-descript. He is not
ne of Us and has no part or parcel with
5. One word as to the would-be leaders .
the party in Sedgwick county. We r
re onto your racket, and we tell you it =
'ont win. There will be such an up
sing of the rank and file, when the
'ue inwardness of your movements are =
lade public, that will recall to your
Kinds the crater of Petersburg, Va. A r
ord TO the wise is sufficient. +,
As / never hide behind monde
lume [ will sign myself simply a Stall g.
VI. STEWART.