Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-25
The New Party.

We nave 70 look INTO bHo causes OF
Republican dissatisfaction which dis
turb political calculations, which IN
the West have driven from Republi-
can ranks that were once inyincible
legions in the Republican phalanx;
which have even torn fair Kansas
from her once proud allegiance, born
in suffering and love, and turned
over to a medley of enthusiasts of
men and women that dream. We
cannot dismiss this phenomena as a
summer shower, or as the outcome of
hard times or a sudden outburst of
Demagogy. The demagogue prefers
ripper pastures than the lowly prairie
grangers of the West. The enthusi-
asm which anImates these new move
ments is born of the enthuiasm that
swept the north for Fremont, carried
Lincoln into the presidency and
fought the war to successful issue.
Where has 1t gone?
The subordination of the Treasury
to the demands of Wall street is
among the potent causes of the dis
satisfaction. I have no doubt that
this has been magnifed, and that ad-
ministrative conveniencies have been
served by this contact between the
Treasury and the money center of the
Union. But when this administra-
tive touch becomes the subordin a.
ton of the Treasury to the money
power, when the people who are as
far removed morally from Wall street
as physically they are far from the
moons of Jupiter, see that the trend
of legislation and administration is in
constant symPanthy with an agency
which has never served the nation ex-
cept to live upon 1t, which has ever
antagonized the independence of the
republican sentiment; when men are
camly considered, for high, even
for the highest places because alone
of the money they may possess or COM
mand, can well note causes for re-
sentiment.
THE WESTERN SENTIMENT VoICED-NoT
COMMENDED.
1t may be said that this comes from
some momentary turbulence of the
Imagination. But imagination is a
force IN politics, as it is in SO many
of the affairs of men, from the foun-
dalton of religion to the develop
ment of circus show. do not COM
mend the sentiment or apologize for
its existence. 1t is there-a factl
Garfield recognized it when at the
outset of his administration, he said
he would never take his Secretary of
the Treasury from Wall street. But
Wall street was too strong for Garfield
When the Secretary was named al
though credited to a Western State,
his immediate life and employment,
his entire financial sympathies were
with Wall street. The power which
forced Window upon Garfield con-
firmed him in the Cabinet of Mr.. Har-
rison, a statesman. of a less flexible
character than his predecessor, and
found a successor in Mr.. Foster
Sensitive suspicious republicans in
the West felt that there were infu-
ances that surrounding the admins
tration above principals or politics
when they read the ELUSIVE telegrams
addressed to a Republican Cabinet
official by the Democratic Senator
from his own state, by a statesman
whose qualifications for the Senate
have been found in a short and sac
cessful career as a corsair on the
Barbary coast that may be said to ex-
tend from the portals of Trinity to
to the Wall street ferry. There are, I
know, as Mr.. Garfield once SAID in a
speech, the idea of which I quote in a
ragged fashion from memory, flowers
of friendship which grow on the gar
den walls of politics whose bloom and
perfume are a comfort and blessing
even to the antagonisms of ambition.
I am in no way averse to this species
of political horticulture. But it does
not happily impress plain serious
men-to whom politics is conviction,
almost a religion They come to re-
gard it as the strifes of the stage
heroes in the meiodrama, which never
interferes with counting the gate
money, when the play is done, nor
make it improper for the murderer
and his victims to celebrate their
proves over a bowl of wine
John r. Young in the Nsto York
Press.