Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-10-05

HHrEEeS Oh 1rldl.
EDITOR AGIrAToR: 1t is always
well in political campaigns to ana
lyzc, as near as possible, the motives
that actuate parties who claim to be
dominant and have the right Of way
in this country to the exclusion of
all others. Who put them in power?
The people. Why did the people
continue 70 perpetuate these old
parties after they had proved them
selves recreant to every govern
mental principle that called them
into power? On account of slavery
to party-because they the people,
fell down and worshipped the party
(medium) rather than assert at the
hallot-box the principle that called
these parties into life. 1t is for the
people to make and unmake parties,
aud, according to Thomas Jefferson,
"if they do this every eight years,
it would insure an honest, equitable
and stable government, while the
reverse endangers the perpetuity of
this republic" almost echoing
Washington in his Farewell Adj
dress to the American People"
when he says that party spirit Gu
dangers ,hc life of this republic
more than any external foe" Yet,
in contradistinction to the solemn
warning Of these two founders of
the American republic, we have two
parties, Democrat and Republican,
for PERPETUAL supremacy. That they
have become rotten and corrupt to
an extent that the putrescence
smells to high heaven appears to
make no difference. They square
of at each other and handy epithets,
but when the life of either is endan-
gered, they are a brace of Siamese
twins, held by a ligament that, if
severed, would mean the death of
both. These two old parties mar
ried in 1861. The Republican party
sprung into life like Minerva, full
aedged, from the head of Jupiter.
The old Democratic party was its
opponent. The South was disiran-
chised and Lincoln came in on a
vote of the Northern states. Ii
was, is to-day and always has been,
a sectional party. 1t has no repre-
zentation in the Southern states 1t
is weaker and always has been there
than the wo.year.old Populist party.
But, to go back little. 1t will
be remembered that in lS6l-3 the
Democratic party died and was
buried of disca known in those
war days as "Copperheadism." 1t
was buried a hundred fathoms deep.
Well. why didn't it stay dead Be-
cause the new-Aedged Republican
party wanted perpetual patent
right ON this government, and it
couldn't get it in any other way
than to fish down into the depths of
oblivion and resurrect the Old Cop.
perhead party. Whyy Because
they could play "bloody shirt and
the "bloody chasm" on that old
party, and, by using it as a foil,
continually hold the government.
They played this card successfully
until 1854, when the political ma
chine Republican, slipped a cog,
aud a Democratic president was
elected. The galvanized corpse
came to lite at last, aud was not a
straw man, to be knocked down at
will.
Now we have both Of these octo-
puses sending out their tcntacles all
over the country to perpetuaie life
that has brought our republic to the
verge Of ruin. They have ruined
our money system, establighed by
our constitution, by dvmonetizing
silver and permitting the Bank OF
England to set a price on every acre
Of groupd, on every bushel of grain
raised, and every dollars worth OF
realty and personal property in the
country, under the unit-ofgold sys
TEN. They have, by their vicious
class legislation, filled our country
with trusts, combines and monopo