The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-03-18
STAND TO YOUR GUNS.

The Duty of Republicans in the Approachs
Ing Campaign-Stand by Your Princi-
pies.
The republican party of Kansas Is
the representative of law aud order,
and the consistent friend of every prac-
teal reform affecting the prosperity of
the people. 1t is the defender of the
good name of Kansas against the as
saults of political m ounte banks, and
the advocate of honest money with
which to paw honest debts. IL has
been in power in Kansas in adversely
and in prosperity, aud has maintained
its place in the hearts and minds of the
people because it has not been disloyal
to its trusts During the years it has
been responsible for legislation in Kan
sas, the financial credit of the state has
been as good as that of the Oldest state
in the country. Our public school sys-
tenn has rapidly developed, our state
educational and charitable institutions
are equal in character to those of any
western state. Defalcations among
public officers of counties have been
few and far between, while the state
has never lost dollar by a state pub
lie officer This is record OF which any
party may be proud.
AS the debt-paying power of our peo-
pie increases, and we slowly emerge
from the diff culties of past years of bad
crops and the general financial depres-
sion, the calamity craze, the false hopes
of cheap financial thinkers who imagined
themselves statesmen called to revolu-
tionize the monetary system of the
government must give place to the old
fashioned idea that the Only way to
pay n debt is to pay it. and that this is
not paternal government whose bust
ness it is to become the private banker
of individuals. All the fat politics of
the calamity howlers who adopted the
name of peoples party must give place
to second sober thought. The func-
tions of the general government are
not going to be superseded by the pri-
vate business of any class, and the
great issues between corporate innova-
ton and extortion and the people are
not going to be corrected by new polit-
ical absurdities. such as our six alliance
congressman are trying to force upon
the attention of the country, but must
receive the full and fair consideration
of the voters of the great national par
ties, and reach congress through pow
ers having votes to crystalize the wishes
of the people into law.
Now, what is the duty of the repub-
lican party in Kansas to-day?
AS the Capital sees the situation the
republican party should plainly, dis
tinctly, and withontequivocation enun-
ciate the principles AMI policy of the
national republican party with which
the republicans are in sympathy. Upon
our state issues there is no occasion
for n change of front towards the
democracy or the peoples party, nor
do the republicans of Kansas have oc-
casion in 1892 10 apologize to those
who have left the party because its
platform did not favor fiat money or
free whisky. The republican party OF
Kansas will win if it maintains its
principles and stands squarely by what
is right because it is right. The plea
that policy dictates concession here
and compromise and cowardice there, in
order to catch votes, will not win the
thousands of young men about to de-
eide with what party they belong, nor
will it hold the tens of thousands of
venerable gray heads who wish to re-
main with the political party that fol-
lows the line of conviction and priu-
ciple.