The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-09-30
THIS Is WHY.


From the Marion Times.
Without resentment and without
any personal grievances to aveuge,
politically or otherwise, we to-day hau
down from the masthead of the Times
the republican ticket as "a protest
against machine politics.
This we contemplated doing lumedi-
ately after the Minneapolis convention
federal ohice-holders had extensively
denied the public voice-the wide,
well-kEown expression of public seuti-
ment, in favor of America 5 most emil
nent statesman and public spirited
citizen, but delayed doing so in the
| hope that our state and county con
ventions would be absolyed from the
domination of the state house and
court house rings, which hope was not
| realized.
We are for the greatest good to the
! greatest number, and desired that this
should come through the republican
party, but it is inert and silent on
questions that the people demand shall
! be made an issue-it stands, statue
| like, resting upon the work it has done
upon platitudes and aphOrisms in
its platform, vague, indefinite and eva
sive
There IS a stiffness in its attitude
towards the mutterings and grumb-
lings of society-the significant labor
| troubles, and other manifestations OF
growing unrest among the common
v,a0rIs. f1,a vr., 90 ag,-r,s,.- tl,+ 80 ...-
velloUsly strange and blndly mdiEsr
ent. 1t is "a stiffness that indicates
stagnation, decay and death, if It con
Uinues immovabIe to the appeals o.
the people.
The party that applies the soothing
unctiOn to its incarnate presence, tina
having accomplished the original pur
pose of its organization it has nothing
more to do than to PsrPetuate it,
power, that there are no more reform
needed, no other worlds to conquer
j will, as a necessity, die-be crushe,
under the juggernaut of progressive
and enlightened civilization. Il is tn
stiffness which precedes death.
must let the dead past bury its ow
dead. If it viii be the ittest TO sun
2 vive, it must be living entity.
@ We believe iii reform reform f
3 whatever is needfuI to humanity;
{ whatever binders the progress Of MAJ
4 kind, and in whatever may benef
society.
g We glory in the achievements of III
C republican party that have tended /
z this direction. We have been eyo
t eddy, radically identified with ut for
q lifetime, and believed with man
T. others, that reforms demanded by I'll
s people should be begun and carrie
@ ont within the lines of the republica
II party, but the passing years have den
C onstIy.ted that this was hopeless ey
+ Pectaney.
j. While we have been an ultra republ
e can of the Horace Greeley, Abraham
d Lincoln school, we nave been inds
y pendent and free tn express our di
T. sent from party measures when the
s seemed impolitic OF detrimental I
i- good government, and To the weltai
IS Of the misses, and we shall Gontinu
g to be independent and free TO expire.
70 cur convictions upon all questions
,. public utility. We do not believe
o allegiance 70 any party that requires
i serviIe manhood to attest the lOyuli
Is of its membership.
ii We FscogniEa Is "a tVtiEh in histoE
3 that no POLITICAL party has ever bee
s reformed within itself; that tbs lea,
"a ers are the last 20 admit new truth
: Even in the scientific world the oi
J. Students ana professional seisntis
G are the last 70 accept new diseoyerie