The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-08-25
Surrender of the Kansas Democracy.

The Democratic party went into Kan
sas with bloody hands to fight for slavery.
1t soon had to fight for its own existence,
and after little more than thirty years of
struggle it has surrendered and become
thing of the past. 1t now belongs to his
tory. 1t has no existence. The Sunt1ower
State will in this campaign have no cry
for "Cleveland and REFORM it will have
no Democratic rallies, it will have no
Democratic newspapers, it will have no
"Jetfersonian simplicity" The party is
dead and has left will giving all its old
traditions and all its recent enthusiasm in
the Chicago conven ton to the Peoples
party. There are but two parties in Kan
sas. One is the old Republican party
which fought to keep slavery out of Kan
sas, and the other is the Peoples party
not yet a week old. The Democratic par
ty has grown tired Of the struggle and
has surrendered without conditions.
The Democratic leaders asked for flu
sion, but the People party wanted no flu
sion that would not be in the interest of
| their ticket The Democrats accepted
the conditions and fused on the same con
ditions that some of the Kansas farmers
went into partnership with mortgage
sharks. The man who held the mortgage
became the sole owner. The Democrats
have simply surrendered to the party that
held a mortgage on their party. They
have been closed out and the waive note
has taken even their name.
1t may help the Peoples party in their
fight with the Republicans in Kansas, but
the first effect of the surrender is to drive
the old Democrats who We're under the
impression that they We're fighting for
principle, over to the Republicans
Colonel Harris, of Fort Scott, an old
Democrat, said at means defeat and
disgrace added to it. l say God help the
political party which loses the election and
loses its honor Also The Hon. Joseph
G. Lowe, of Washington, said: cit is an
unconditional surrender of the Democracy:
it may mean victory for the Populists, but
it is at the expense of the Democratic
party. We lose our self-respect. we lose
our party. we lose everytbing.' Colonel
Mcclure, of Junction City, said: 1T will
result in the complete destruction of the
Democratic party of Kansas" Colonel
William p. Tomlinson, the late senior edi-
tor of the Topeka Daily Democrat, one of
the pioneers of the party said: THE
last shameful chapter in the history of
Kansas Democracy has been written. The
humiliation and and degradation of the
Democratic party in Kansas is at last
complete. In this hour of breaking up
OF parties-this revolution amounting to
crisis in kansas-every man must obey
the dictates Of his own Judgment He is
under the imperative obligation to be true
what he believes is demanded by the
honor, the dignity and the best interests
of the State. As for me. yield to no one
i'll my love for Kansas. = The
border rutfians could not live upon
her soil in the Territorial days. | believe
that the slanderers and vilitels of the good
name Of Kansas will bite the dust before
the ballots of her Justly indignant sons in
1892
With Kansas producing this year
1.-THE greatest crop OF wheat ever
known, as reported by the State Board
OF Agriculture in its report made July &.
it will not be surprising to see good
many old Democrats, finding themselves
without party and without a principle,
turn like Colonel Tomlinson to fight for
Kansas and the good name of the State
against those who are making a calamity
campaign to drive capital and business
from the State. The Democratic party
has been sold OF given away, but il is
doubtful if the party managers can de
! liver the Democratic voters to the Peoples
party Inter Ocean.