The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-11-02
A MODEL REPUBLICAN.

Col. Norton Pours Some Hot Shot Into q
DflaPidated Old Republican Hulk.
Among the names sent us by some
enthusiastic and well-meaning populist
ce-worker. as a paid-up subscriber to
the Monthly Sentinel, was that of j.
Stephens, of Paxico, Kan. Not long
ago we received postal card from him
asking US to take his name ''off the
list;' that as an old soldier he would
vote as he shot, or words to that effect,
etc. We wrote him a pleasant letter,
telling him that it was paid for and
asking him to give the paper to some
good staunch republican who would
not be liable to be Influenced by it into
voting the populist ticket; that we
were in the army four years, etc. In
answer to our letter we received the
following:
PAxIoo, Kan, Oct 5, 1894.
8. F. Norton-Dear Sir: Yours Of the I'd re-
ceived and contents noted. will say in answer
l will do as you suggest with Sentinel as I
know that no good, patriotic republican could
be induced to join the populistS. Now, I do
not quite understand if you mean -four years.
in the United States army -four years. in
America. should judge from tone Of Sentinel
it to be the latter; but II the former more is
the pity say to you in all candor that no old
the same blanket with me. No, sir! II he
should come to my door a cold winter night
for shelter I would send him to the barn to
sleep with the cattle say to you that were
| an old soldier and had voted to bring about the
calamity that now blightS the nation 1 would
go hide my face for shame, 1 would further
| suggest that all old soldiers in Kansas who
vote the pop ticket send their boys to Winfield,
DR.. Pitcher, etc.. etc. Respectfully, yours.
j. B. STEPHENS.
If it will relieve the anxiety of Mr..
Stephens as to how long we have been
in this country we will inform him that
for over two hundred years our pa
ternal and maternal ancestors have
resided in this country. One of them
was signer of the old-time populist
document known as the Declaration of
Independence; and both sides furnished
revolutionary soldiers to fight the Hes
sian troops-the same as the writer
hereof is furnishing little powder
occasionally ION this occasion, for in
stance,) to fight the democratic and re-
publican Hessians as a more monstrous
European power than George III. ever
dared to be.
Never mind, Mr.. Stephens. you will
never have a chance to turn us from
your door out to sleep with the cattle.
If the alternative is ever presented to
us we shall voluntarily seek the society
of the cattle; even hog pen would be
preferable to the blanket of such an
old soldier. We do not believe that
the republican party, bad as it is, is
very proud of such hide-bound parti-
sanism.
1t is just about what the old soldiers
have been getting anyway. They have
been living with the cattle and feeding
on republican husks, while the bond
holder has had the head of the table and
the best bed in the front room. Paxico
Stephens is just in line. Gold for the
bondholder; deprecated greenbacks for
the old soldier.
Yes, indeed, "a great calamity is
now blighting the nation With the
exception of about five years we have
been under republican rule-and dur
ing even those five years we had no
republican policy. Grover Cleveland is
just as good republican as John
Sherman or Benjamin Harrison. The
only change has been in the ''of-
fces''-and perhaps there is where
the PaXlco chaps toes are stepped on.
With the exception of cutting down a
mere trifle in tariff on a few articles
there is not a law of the slightest i'm
portance upon the statute books of the
United States that was not placed
there by republicans And this, is
also, especially true of Kansas-for
owing to the republican judicial
count OUT the populists have never
had control of the legislature. And
yet here is a hide-bound pin-headed
republican bowling that he would
''hide his face in shame if he had ever
voted to bring about the calamity
which now blights the nation" 1t
makes us feel like exclaiming that in
stead of sending the boys to Pitchers
institution in Winfield, what pity
that Stephens father had not been sent
there at an early age of life!-Chicago
Sentinel.