Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26
THE STEADFAST FRIEND OF KAN.
SAS.
From the Kansas City. Mo-. Journal.

If the republican party has not clear.
ly demonstrated its right to the title Of
the consistent, unwavering friend OF
Kansas" then must courage and fideli.
ty to lofty principles be considered OF
no significance in matters polite. This
does not rest alone upon the party's
course with reference to the recent ALL
ance or third party craze, but goes back
to the time when it first became a
prominent factor in governmental
affairs. Without a single exception it
has been found upon the side of pro-
gress toward higher and more en-
lightened civilization, and it has per-
sistently advocated only those principles
which appealed to the moral conscience,
intelligence aud sound business sense of
the community.
Never in single instance has it
yielded to any of those sudden epldem-
les of popular fallacy which have peri
odically swept over the country, but
has steadily held its course for those
principles which elience and sound
business judgment dictated. Frequent
~ it has exposed itself to defeat, and
sometimes has suffered defeat for adher.
ing to this line of conduct, but in every
instance popular sentiment has after
ward almost unanimously endorsed the
position it maintained.
And above all things it has never
sought to benefit itself at the expense
of the state. Other parties, in the hope
OF securing some temporary advantage,
have at different times assailed it's credit
and its good name, but the republican
party never. The good name of the
state and it's continued well being have
ever been it's melting motives to action.
A few years ago the democratic party
sought to hoist itself into power by
spreading exaggerated reports broad
cast concerning the mortgage indebt-
edness of the state and the distressed
condition of it's people generally. 1t
was the republican party which came to
the states rescue, and such valiant
battle did it wage in its behalf that
overwhelming defeat was visited upon
the calumniators.
1t has been making the same good,
sturdy fight for the right during the
last year and half, and in the face of
odds which might have induced an or
ganization less influenced by lofty
principles to have bowed it's head some
what to the fierce storm which beat
down upon it It's only effect upon the
republican party, however, was to slim.
ulate it to renewed efforts in the direc-
ton which 1t believed to be right. Pro-
foundly impressed with the belief that
the intelligence of the people would
eventually assert itself, it has steadily
labored to place before them all the
facts bearing upon the present si.ua-
ton in the state. It has also spread
these facts broadcast throughout the
country to show how ill-founded are the
slanderous statements which the alli-
ance orators have directed against the
good name of the state.
Probably the best work which it has
done in this direction is the statement
recently put forth by the convention of
republican league clubs. No more COM
prehensive, lucid and convincing docu-
ment was ever put forth, and it cannot
but greatly aid in the work of elimina-
ting the elements which have so sefi-
ously threatened to retard the return
of good times to the state. When the
true friends of Kansas read this and
consider the causes which drew it out,
they will indorse all that the Journal
has said of the party responsible for it.