The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-09-28
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the soldier, and an honest man, woule
be an opportune occasion to look int,
the Opaque substance of his record a.
public servant and a private citizen
Not content with parading him as
champion of free silver, when it is vel
known that he is a confirmed mono
metallist, and his record in congress
close their eyes against his equally no.
torious record against the old soldier.
Prior to his nomination several Re
publican papers did no. hesitate tc
brand him as a coward who never was
III a battle and who was practically
camp follower, man whose mission
was not to bare his breast to rebel bu,-
lets. but to sculk into the quarter
masters department where an oppor
tunity was better calculated to increast
his bank account than to lose his life
He went into the war poor man anG
came out a rich one. He never fired
gun, but devoted his time in serving
his country to robbing the government
aud the soldier.
After the close of the war, his passion
for robbing being as yet unsatiated, he
took to levying tribute upon the set
tiers of Marshall county, Kansas. To
aid in the building of the st. Joe and
Denver city railroaI in 1870 the govern
ment granted 100000 acres of the
public domain and a considerable por-
Oe To no l.
of Morrill, at the cost of nothing. Pre-
vious to this grant large number of
settlers had homesteaded these lands,
many of them being old soldiers. No
notice was given them that their lands
were granted to others and they went
on improving and building and tilling
until their claims we're made worth
something. Proof was made, the final
receipt issued, and then they were in
formed that these lands were not theirs,
that they were tresspassers. E. N.
Morrill, held the titles. To get a quit
claim deed from this friend of the peo-
pie, this good man, these hard working,
struggling settlers had to pay him, not
only for the land, but the improve
ments they themselves had made.
Thousands of dollars we're thus wrung
from these toll hardened farmers and
deposited in the Golfers of Morrill,. II
they could not pay just what he asked
hey were elected and their improve
nents confiscated although an add
5ionaI 100000 acres were granted from
which the grantees were to make up
for what lands had been settled upon
prior to the grant. but which was never
done, and the improved lands of the
-ettler' always taken. This shows his
friendship to the people Of Kansas,
rom where he is ashamed to register
,tid puts it down "from the west"
As d friend of the soldier, he charges
them % cents each for cashing their
pension checks, which are as good as
bank note, and thereby nets himself
several thousand dollars annually. He
it was, who had charge of the service
pension bill, but at the bid of the
money power of the east, substituted
II it's place one that was condemned
nd branded as the ''pauper pension
ill., His action i'll this raised such
torn of indignation against him that
re did not dare attempt to secure re-
lection in 1890. He was denounced by
she old soldier element in all quarters
IF the nation and especially in his own
district This shows his friendship to
the soldier.
As friend of silver he voted mo" on
the bill providing for the free coinage
of that metal while in congress and has
always since advocated the single
standard, up to within the past month,
,hen Cy Leland, chairman of the Re-
ubllcan state central committee, com
handed him to cease his ''goldbug
uouthings and talk silver until after
November, or the chances of his cleo
ion would entirely disappear" This
he has done, not because he wants to
Calk that way or believes that way, but
to make votes. This shows his friend
| ship to silver.
Now he has the monumental gall to
ask the old soldiers, and the early set
tiers of Kansas to elevate him to the
highest position the state can give, to
forget the wrongs he has did them, and
80 class him with honest men and pat
riots, to whitewash his record, which
~ the way should lead him to Lansing
md not Topeka, and elect him gov
rnor so as to give him another oppor-
unity to rob, steal and take with lie
ensed hands. The people of Kansas
are not such fools as to be caught by
such a fakir as he who is
ASHAMED of Kansas when her soil
Has won him the wealth ne craved!
Her baTtered acres bought his god.
BY which her now ensldvsdl
How dare he STAND among the thEt ngS
And ask for honest votes with zest,
And, proud of his power assert
~ hen east I say, IL from the west y!
A STRIKING CONTRAST.
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