Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-17
Hon. JosEpH G. Lowe, democratic

i Hon. JOSEPH G. LOWE, democratic
leader of the fifth district, publishes
an open letter in reply to Judge
John Martins recent letter appeal
ing to the democracy to support the
fusion ticket. The letter is quite
lengthy and we can only give few
extracts. Mr.. Lowe says:
The Judge says that we will act
as the allies of the third party and
thus defeat the republican party,
and when this is done will turn our
decimated aud tattered ranks upon
tie populists and drive them into
the democratic party. and thus make
Kansas great democratic state, or,
failing in this, will upon Bonded
knee implore them out of gratitude
for us for our assistance to volun-
tarily join us and aid US in building
up an organization which for all
coming ages will control the desti-
MES of the state. Such rot! Clothe
the peoples party with power in
this way and they will not feel that
sense Of gratitude and obligation to
US that will compel them to lay
aside the mantle of victory, or vol
unfairly surrender it to. and place it
on the shoulders of a disgraced ally.
Once IN power and we would have
the same difficulty in dislodging
them that We have experienced in
trying to expel the republicans.
We would still be the minority
party, the weak part. and we all
know how difficult it is for the
weak to conquer the strong. Many
democrats think, aad honestly, too,
that the only way to reach the
object of Judge Martins ambition.
the ultimate defeat of the republican
party in this state. is the defeat Of
the populists this fall, and that it is
the duty of all good democrats to at
least refuse to aid in the election Of
their state ticket. Then they will
join the six million democratic vot-
ers and aid them in hurting from
power this unrelenting foe Of demo-
crazy. the republican party. Upon
principle we cannot vote the state
ticket and from policy we ought
not, for in so dong we surrender
the party into the hands of another
from whose grasp We will be unable
to free many whom we induced by
our action to vote with them when
we come to reorganize the party, if
we ever do. When we adopt the
man VT also adopt the views he
entertains. Does. then. the demo-
cracy of Kansas. once proud, once
defiant, once honored and respected
believe that for more than a quar-
ter Of a century" it has struggled
for power and plunder,' that the
controlling influences" or the party
has permitted existing dreadful
conditions without serious efforts to
prevent or restrain them," that we
do not now promise the people ''any
substantial REFORM" that we have
conspired with the republican party
to suppress and ito ignore in the
coming campaign every issue but
one, that We propose to drown out
the cries of Il plundered people with
the uproar Of sham battle over the
tariff, so that capitalists, corpora
tions, national banks. rings, trusts.
watered stock. the demonstration of
silver and the oppression of the
usurer may be all lost sight of; that
we propose to sacrifice our homes.
lives and children on the altar of
mammon, to destroy the multitude,
in order to secure our corruption
funds from the millionaires?" IfI
you do you have no abiding place in
the democratic household but should
at once join the ''howlers" and get
home.
Notwithstand the elegance of the |
judges presentation yet, the position
IN which the democratic party of |
Kansas is placed by action of the
state convention is indefensible by |
any process of honest reasoning. It !
was without excuse and we search |
in vain for a precedent or a parallel. |
It required surrender, giving up
of principle, OF our organization, of |
manhood and of independence, and
of political honor, and now like sea
weeds and drift wood the party |
moves with the current without any
purpose and powerless to direct its
own political course. ANY attempt |