The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-28
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
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BACK TO THE MAIN ROAD.
Do YOU remember how summer
rain begins? First solitary drop, a
long pause and then two or three
drops, shorter pause, and some more
drops, then fright smart" sprinkle
and at last regular down-pour.
Well, that is the way the old Re-
pubiicans who went off into the by
path of the Peoples party have been
getting back into the main road.
First there was Frank McGrath,
one of the strongest leaders of the
Peoples party, who left it because it
had fallen into the hands of "lawyers
without clients, preachers without
congregations, politicians without
principles, and statesmen out of a
job.n Then came Benz. Matchett,
speaker pro tenn, of the last House,
who left the Populists because he
found they were wrong in every pos
ition taken. Then followed Mrs.
Smith, of Horton county, and Gen.
Hugh Cameron, of Douglass, and ID.
H. Wooley, of Crawford, and Major
Parmalee, of Labette, and dozens of
others whose names we do not now
recall all making public announce
ment of the reasons that induced them
to come back to the Republican party.
And now if the following letter may
be trusted, it would seem that these
preliminary drOpplngs were but the
precursors of a steady flood. We
quoted two weeks ago the letter in
which Mr.. Olinger announced his re-
turn to the Republican party and the
reasons for it. The letter that follows
was written TO a leader of the Peo-
pies party in Illinois who requested
Mr.. OIingers views of the situation
in Kansas:
"HORTON, KANSAS, October IA.
Mr.. w. J. Church, Somerset, ILL.,:
Dear Sir and Brother-Your es-
teemed favor of the 10th inst to hand,
and in reply permit me to say: AS
you well know it will be an impos-
sibility for Gen. Weaver to carry a
single southern State, and in the
event that he did you know it would
not be counted for him; on the con-
trary, for Grover Cleveland. 1t is
serious question TO me whether the
people of the United States desire to
be ruled by those rebellious States, or
by those that were loyal when the
country was on the verge of destruct-
ion. / want to say to you that the
members of the Peoples party of
Kansas are changing very rapidly to
the Republican party, with which
they formerly affiliated. l am in a
position to know that the Peoples
party of Kansas since being absolute
ly controlled by the Democracy will
not poll 80 per cent, of the vote that it
did two years ago. / speak advisedly
when l make this statement. 1t is a
very conservative estimate to say
that the State will give the Republi
can electoral ticket 10000 plurality.
This result will be largely due to the
infamous treatment accorded Gen.
Weaver in the South during the past
two weeks, and which is roundly de-
nounced by our party, which sees
that there never will be any show in
the South until the elective franchise
is free and untrammeled.
Until within short time ago there
were some who believed that Gen.
Weaver would carry the silver states
Colorado, Nevada and Montana
but 1 have advices which lead me to
believe that the members of the Peo-
NlafG rfxr in fhnen Sfafn x-snrr
ing the conditions which prevail in
and will generally vote the RepubIi-
can ticket in November"
The position which have filled in
our party in this State, as Chairman
of the Congressional Committee of
the First district, places. me in pos
itiOn to know the strength of the |
party and the sentiments of its follow
ers. l have been in communication /.
with them personally and by letter,
and my observations are such as to
lead me to believe that the Peoples /
party has no more show of carrying /
Kansas than it has of winning in New |
York State. The party here has |
drifted into the hands of political .
steerers and mercenaries, who have ,
no sympathies in common with the .
farmer or laboring man, and the re-
ceptiOn given our leader in the South,
where he was guaranteed so large a
following, has been the means Ofdriv-
ing from our ranks those who were
faltering, and l am not so eXtravagant
in saying that thousands of our party
are leaving US every day, and for my
self do not feel that they are to be
criticized in this course.
eff you will pardon me, would
like to say to the members of the PeO-
pies party of Illinois, who love home
and a free American Government,
that there is but one duty before them,
and that is TO unite their energies
with the party that proved the coun-
try's best friend in its hour of need.
Very truly yours,
"D. @. OLINGER