The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-20
DEFENDS LEWELLING
Senator Martin Flies to the
Rescue of the Governor.
Saws There's No Purer Man
Than Lewelling.
WHAT DOES HE MEAN2
Martin tt is Said Has Instructed
POstmasters
To Work for and Vote the Pop
ulist Ticket

United States Senator John Martin has
thrown his Democracy overheard for the
remainder Of the campaign if his own
words mean anything.
Senator Martin has. it is said. since
last Sunday written no less than sixty
nine letters day to the Democratic post
N asters of Kansas asking them 10 lend
their support to the election Of the Pop
ulist candidates for the legislature.
In addition to this Senator Martin has
given ont lengthy Interview stating his
views of the political situation which the
politicians Of all parties interpret to
mean that Senator Martin will aid in the
election of Governor Lewelling and the
POpulist state ticket
In this interview Senator Martin says:
81 am 90 years old and so is Governor
Click and We are old enough. at least we
suppose we are, to know our own busi-
ness. We know enough to be sure that
if we thought that our left hand knew
what our right hand was doing we would
cut il off.
~ want it understood that am a Dem
ocrat and as good as any Democrat that
lives. but I have the right to raise ques-
tions of policy IN my owu mind and dis
cuss them.
"What 1 may do hereafter in this cam
paign Will be governed largely by cir
cumstances. The convention which nom
mated the Democratic ticket was com
posed Of Democrats of undOubted loyalty
to party who believed they were doing
the right thing when they put up ticket
before the people Its candidates are
Democrats whom we all respect and es-
TEEN as such. 1t is not question of 10y
atty to party. but of policy, which some
Democrats are discussing in this cam
paiGn
1T is possible that the present Dem
ocratic campaign may in effect be Of
more advantage to our old enemy, the
Republican party, than TO our own.
'sThe question is, do we want the Re
publican ticket elected in this campaignr
This is the material question we, as
Democrats, have the right not only to
consider but to discuss.
Il believe the Republican party will
lose in this fight | did not think so ten
days ago, but since then great change
has taken place in the minds Of the peO-
pie, and the Republican managers them
selves are responsible for il.
The American citizen is a great adj
mirer Of fair play, and he abhOrs villif-
cation. abuse and scandal, in politics as
in any other controversy.
'The Republicans have summoned to
their aid in this campaign notorious
gamblers, liars and pariahs. They have
called upon such vagabonds, slanderers
and liars as Pete Kline and Nels Acers
to testify that Governor Lewelling and
his associates are not fit to administer the
laws OF the state OF Kansas.
"IIline, Acers and their kind live by
law breaking: then they tell this people
they have been able to corrupt this state
administration to their own base pur-
poses 10 an unprejudiced mind it
would seem that law breakers who thrive
by law-br breaking would prefer the con
tinuance in office of corrupt men such as
they claim Lewelling and his associates
to be, that they might go on in their ne
farious business
Now no fair minded man would be-
lieve all this rot. Kline and Acers make
these statements for money They have
been used by the ReDu blican managers
to slander and vilify men whom l know
to be honest and upright There are no
purer men than Governor Lewelling,
Attorney General Little and Fred Close.
"Such infamy as the Republi mana
gers and their partners Kline and Acers
have employed and are employing in
this fight on this administration ought
to be and will be resented at the polls
These are some Of the reasons why / be-
lieve the Republicans viii be defeated
in this campaign. Personally, / wish for
the election Of Overmyer and hope the
Republicans will be third in the race"