Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-01
Mr.. Martin Talks
The Kansas Senator Discusses the
Political Prospect.

The Kansas Senator Discusses the
Political Prospect.
TOPEKA, October 20.-To a reporter
for the Star this morning, United
States Senator Martin broke his long
silence relative to the political situa-
ton in Kansas, and outlined his attl'
tude toward the democratic state tick
ct. 1t is his first utterance in the
campaign, and although he deserves
his record as a democrat his views
will be a disappointment to his stal'
wart friends, and a cause Of secret, II
not open satisfaction to the populists
for practically he declares himself IN
favor of the success of the popullst
state ticket, as a choice between that
and the republican ticket,
Asked first as to the report that he
and Ex-Governor Click were about to
issue their manifesto advising their
friends to support the popullst state
ticket, Mr.. Martin said:
Governor Click and l are Of ma
ture age. We are each Of us 60 years
old or thereabouts-old enough to
know, l believe, that if either of us
thought that cur left hand knew what
our right hand was going to do, we
would cut 1t of. Now about the dem
ocratlc ticket: l cannot say what &C.
ton we may take. 1t is certain that
we have not refused to give it our
support. What we may do hereafter
will depend wholly upon circum-
stances. There is no doubt that that
ticket is a good one-it is democratic
all the way through, and it was ln-
tended to be such when it was nom
mated. Phe convention which put it
before the people WAS composed OF
democrats; the men who made it were
sincere aud honest in their inten-
tions, and the party managers are en-
deavoring to carry out the will of the
convention.
while all this is true, the question
arises in the minds of some democrats
that perhaps the democratic campaign
may in effect, work more to the ad.
vantage of the republican party than
to that of our own. patty. Do we, rs
democrats, want the republican party
TO succeed in this campaign any more
than we did IN the campaign of 1892?
These are material questions and
honest Democrats have not only the
right to raise them, but to discuss
them in their own minds. The ques-
ton is, do the Democrats of Kansas
want the Republican party to sue
coed in this fight AS l said before,
circumstances may arise later in the
campaign which may guide us. Pos
sibly, to support would do our party
more injury than to go in and make a
fight for the ticket on the lines map
ped out by the committee. am talk
ing, not as a politician, but as a man
who has the whole interests of the
whole party of the people at heart.
DO / think the republicans will
win? To he frank with You, ten days
ago 1 believed they would be success
full, for all the signs pointed that
way. But a change has come over
the situation since. The signs now
point to the success of the peoples
party, and the republican managers
and campaign speakers are them,
selves responsible for it. Down in
the breast Of every American citizen
there beats the spirit Of fair play and
in this campaign that spirit is in re-
helllon against the methods pursued
by the republicans to overcome their
populist opponents. The people like
a fair, manly, open fight and per CON
ira, they abhor utilization, slundef
and abuse.
For the last two months the re-
publicans have been pouring out upon
the people the statements of such
men as Pete Kline and Nels Acres,
notorious gamblers, pariahs and out
casts whose testimony would not be
accepted by any court Of justice where
they are known, These men tell us
that they bought for money consid-
GRAFTON the Kansas state officers to do
their bidding-to nuliify the law and
close the courts of justice that they
might carry on their unlawful prac
tices, and continue to rob and swim
die honest people. They make these
statements, what for? Why. for the
purpose of turning down these Off
GERS whom they say they are able to
corrupt and mold to their wishes, SO
that another set of men whom they
profess to believe will destroy their
business, may be elected Now. is
that plausible? Does any fair mind
ed man believe that Pete Kline and
Nels Acres have become so conscience
stricken as all that? Nobody believes
it. The republicans who are indulg.
ing in all this mud-slinging do not
believe it, Fair minded men-and
let me tell you there are thousands of
them in Kansas can only believe that
Pete Kline, Nels Access and their Ms.
ssociate gamblers, driven out of husi-
ness, impoverished and at their wits
end for their next days breud, have
hired out as liars aud assassns of
character to the republicans, and are
making these statements for the mon
ey that they can get out of them.