Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-09-25
DESERTED THE REPUBLICANS.
A BRILLIANT LETTER WRITTEN
by A KANSAS ORATOR.

Honorabae JOHN Madden, q One Time
Prominent Republican Orator,
Refuses 90 Stump the State for
the q. o. n, and Arraigns IL Eio-
quently.
John Madden OF Kansas, one OF the
most eloquent speakers Of the State,
and four years ago Republican cleo
tor, has written the following letter to
the chairman OF the Kansas State Re- |
publican committee declining to adj
vocate Harrison's election. II is q
stirring epistle. and in part is as fol-
lows:
Hon. ]. M. Limpson, Chairman Of the
Republican State Central Com
mittee, Topeka, Kansas.
Dear Sir:-Yuur letter of the 9th |
instant, requesting my services in the
State campaign in behalf OF the Re
publican party duly received. l will |
state the reasons why i can not sc- |
cept your invitation, and hope the |
same may be received by you as sutfi- |
cient. and not intended 10 be personal, |
and hope you will receive them in
the same kind spiIit in which they are
penned.
There are reasons why oppose
system which in my own judgment is
not truly American. j have never
been what might be termed partisan,
for the reason | could never see any
thing sacred in political doctrines
when they did not impress the con-
science OF man n being right.
have always been opposed to pro-
lection OF one class Of men at the ex
pense OF the great wealth producing
masses, and never supposed any party
would be short sighted enough 20 At
tempt q thing OF that kind. find j
have been mietaken, like thousands of
other men who have been voting with
the Republican party, and we see our
r brethren of the producing and labor
n ing classes surrounded by conditions
:, which are absolutely appalling, and
the great question now is to save them
~ before IL IL TOO late.
~ am an American by birth. training
N and education, and as such ! am un-
% alterably opposed to any movement of
Z men that tends TO set aside the simple
faith and loyalty OF the fathers and
create conditions unnatural and un-
n American, whereby capital becomes a
N heartless oligarchy, aud labor drops
M down TO the level of homeless and
: hopeless peonage.
Partisan prejudice can not Close tho
N. food gates through which rush the
ny clear and living water of truth neither
can its blind dogmas draw into them
W selves respect, veneration or re verence
err when hungry thousands clamor for
Of bread and labor's voice is heard al
en- every altering demanding protection
ass and it is answered in Pinkerton bull
cir let's
to The motto, "Stand Up for Kansas,
"" on your letter head, in view Of the con
me diiion 10 which the toiling masses hav,
M been reduced in view OF the fact thai
your political system has contracted
~, the peoples money so that obligations
ust can not be paid in view 81 the lac
~, that homes are being sold under mort
Tor cages and passing into the hands o
for syndieates; in view OF the fact that ih,
"a people have been robbed by railroad
the corporations and transportation lines
as in view of the fact that trusts and com
'o.e bines control the peoples markets an'
aud get what is left; in view of the fac
4, 80 that you passed an ubiquitous law ex
risa tending municipal aid to railroads, ant
'stS now a great number Of the counties o
the Kansas are resting in the sleep o
and death under bonds voted by hired Va
!: /. tiers OF the companies through the Op
rye Grafton Of such law in view of tia
Ies' fact that such system of municipal
ent aid has been maintained. even wheI
he its repeal was urged by your patriots
iely Governor, John A. Martin; in view O
20, sns the fact that our immense wheat croI
eni of this year is being already absorbe'
NJ. by the railroads and wheat combines
for i'm view of the fact that the most in
e'd dustrious can scarcely maintain them
d.. selves and families, the motto "Stan'
pre- Up for Kansas" is unnatural, inhumai
IA. and ghoulish. and sounds like the hol
and low mockery OF winds blowing owe
graves.
TOP You say you want speakers "capa
so oi BILE of expounding party doctrine an'
especially the magnificent services
81 winch the present administration ha
rr rendered the farmers and iaboring mer
' of the country"
NOT FOR HARRISON NOW.
ie you know, four years ago, rs ON,
E Of the presidential electors of Kansas
use | east my vote tor Benjamin Harrison
In the Campaign OF that year I'D
-, ns vised he harefouled men whom ] me
:, At political meetings IN Western Kan
re sas TO vote for Republican supremacy
on shall never forget the pathos OF som,
81 Of those gatherings, when ] stood II
~ the presence of toll brown men aud
,rs women whose faces indicated that they
needed bread
n With these ,hings in mind, and
tic deeply impressed as am with the
70 frightful condition q the people, am
2, in no mood to expound the "magniti
n cent services" which y,,u ~, this nd
I'd minist-aiion has rendered the people
w Ii the services have beer rs ven claim
the peopl. need not be told of them, As
.. results would speak for themselves
The fact il, the administration has