The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-04-08

PARIS, Tex, March ga SELL
satiOn has been created in this (the-t
Fourth congressfOuaD district by all
open letter to the people by Col. Sid.
Harper, chairman of the democratic
party. lie was in the convention that
nominated Hon. Is. B Culberson ia
this city two years ago. The letter
was received here today, and created
a sensation. 1t is as follows:
10 the People Of The Fourth Congressional
District;
- hereby tender my resignation as
CHAIRMAN OF the democratic party for
tAis- congressional district. My reasons
for so doing are that L go to n party
more democratic in principle, more
patriotic in practice and less prOscTip-
tive in management. Under the name
Of democracy the great mass of the
common people Of the South have been
iured step by step, each year being led
further away from the old land marks
of its founders, until today there is no
percepttbl5 difference between the
leaders and the vilest republicans.
The age of corporations, trusts and
combines in which We live is debauch-
ing OuT politics, cOrrupting our laws
and destroying our government, max
ing u wreck OF our liberties and pau
pers Of Cur people. During this era of
cOrruPtioH-ti people have been kept
divided, while the leaders OF the two
parties have been in partnership amass
ing millions of dollars out Of the very
corporations and fraud which they 10y
law have fOisted upon the people. The
land, the bank, the transportation,
the mining and manufacturing mono
poles are jointly owned ahCi-contrOlled
by the leaders Of thg-tW0 old parties.
The pres5i'tIis great political daIlies,
being largely under the influence Of
the great telegraph news combine,
must, of necessity, depend ON the enc
mics of the people (the trusts and com
AiHesl FOR the classification and trans
mission Of political news, BY these
methods tis-peOple were kept deceived
until they were educated otherwise
through their Industrial organize tiOns.
Looking back for thirty years over this
esa OF oOETuption and fraud coming
out and perpetuating itself iu the pas
siOns and preiudices of tlIe late war, We
end as the production Of modern demo
cracy and republicanism, OverS1 900
millipnaifes and 200 GOO paUpeys- each
year Over half the wealth OF the
Union is owned and controlled by T5;-
coo people whose corporation mauRg-
ers have a power in the assessment
and collection Of fTeights, tolls and
tariffs UHrivaisd by the royal blood Of
RUSSIA. States rights, individual
rights Rnd the liberties of our people
have been usurped by corporate greed:
/ What does the cry of states rights SIG
Nifty WHEN half a dozen corporations
managers ia the state of New FORK by
the stroke Of a pen, can collect over
$4,000, coo q year out of the people Of
Texas On fictitious or wateTeJ stock in
transportation companies. or fix the
salary OF = corporation officer at i've
times tbs salary Of the highest paid
state officer, ana make the people pay
Il with no power in tile modern states
rights to Prevent lit. What does the
cry of Individual rights signify when q
few chartered clnsses have "a IA ouopOiy
OF the government power 70 make coin
issue and control the money which
prices every individuals labor and pro
dse4s7sad thats too, without legal pow
e. or redress or preventiOuP Tho very
men who have carried our politics TO g
system % sgoliation. pl'f1isse and piislt-
/ ue- are now and have been about
equally divided among tire managers
and headers OF the two old parties. thus
proving their joint responsibility foE
the 1FQaas which exist ia this con
+ ditieiI, OF mat teES it Is folly to FNpeEt