The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-07
BOND BOLTED.
The Salina Man Tells It In an Open
Letter
COLONEL BLUE IS A GOLD BUG
We shall Never Have Prosperity
With such Men I'm Congress-. says


We shall Never Have Prosperity
With such Men I'm Congress. says
Mr. bond
Thomas L. Bond. the law partner Of
T. F. Carver Of Salina, who recently
abandoned the Republican party for the
Populists, gives his reasons in letter to
the Salina Republican. Mr. Bonds rea-
sons for leaving the party will be inter
esting to Republicans and Populists
alike They are as follows:
"The success of the Republican party
in the past has been due to its champion
ship Of human rights. 1t has in the past
earnestly commended for the protection
and elevation of the masses. 1t has
striven for that higher civilization which
can only be reched by the removal of all
barriers which obstruct the pathway of
the humblest citizen TO financial and ed
Vocational Improvement
''If in its age. it consents to emascula-
ton and cravenly surrenders to the foes
of American progress. sense of duty
requires me to raise my voice in earnest
protest and exert my utmost influence TO
deprive its captors Of the fruits Of their
victory.
I'VE would prove recreant TO duty and
false to the trust Of American citizen
ship should we silently witness this cap
ture of the Republican party by the ad-
vocate5 of gold mono metallism, and in.
actively mourn.
THE ease with which Grover Cleveland
construed the life out of the Democratic
platform convinced me that the only
hope for bi-netallism lay in the election
of bi-metallists to office, and before the
Republican convention was held, had
firmly resolved TO vote for man for
any legislative office who was opposed
to the free coinage Of silver. In my
opinion John Sherman is no firmer advo-
cate of gold mono metallism than is the
Isl
at-large. and though he may declare him
self thousand times in favor of bi-met-
allism, his voice and vote, if elected,
would be given for a single gold stand
ard.
blue belongs to the class who assur-
ed us that the repeal of the Sherman
law would be followed by a wave of I'M
exampled prosperity. SO far as / have
heard Kansas has not been drenched
with it.
These men now explain that the pres
ent oppression is due TO the fear of inju-
rious tariff legislation. All present in
dications denote either no tariff legisla-
ton or immaterial reductions So long
as present financial conditions remain
prosperity Will continue 10 be a will-o-
the wisp. The lack of confidence which
prevents investments is justified by the
continued falling of prices. This de-
preston viii not cease until the volume
Of currency in circulation becomes ade-
quate to the demands for business.
IF all of the silver mined in the whole
world for the next fifteen years should
be coined and added to the circulation of
the United States we would not have as
large circulation per capita, as that de-
handed by the Pennsylvania Republican
state convention. The California Repub-
lican state convention declared unequivo-
cally for the free coinage of silver at the
present ratio. VIII Kansas elect a con-
gresham who opposes the re- habilita-
ton of silver? l hope that no man who
IS a sincere friend of Kansas will permit
himself to be deceived IN this campaign"