Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-14

| uOCn, WIZ VII neNolm OOOoolOlo uu
ring the past twelve months has man
Tested his independence of party dis
clpline and who always tries to stant
up for the good in the republican
party, in the last issue Of his paper
the Marion Record, sounds a note o.
warning, and reads the state admin
istration and the party leaders a lee.
ture on good morals in politics. He
thinks he reads IN the signs a dispo'
sition on the part Of the men at the
helm to retrograde, and especially tc
abandon the prohibitory law. He
warns the leaders that 1t was because
the party put mediocre men forward
in 1902 the party went down to de-
feat, and that there will be danger Of
a repetition of this disaster unless a
higher plane of action be followed.
He says the party is not yet "out of
the woods"
With this introduction, Mr., Hoch
proceeds to declare that the men now
in charge Of the party already have
made some mistakes, ut was a mis-
take" he says, ''yes 1t was more, it
was crime, for prominent members
Of the state central committee to Grip
pie the party in it's great struggle to
regain public confidence by f'ppant
and promiscuous betting on the
result of the election, known Of all
men. That was gambling It was
unlawful. It is bad enough for indi-
viduals to dn SINGH things, and the fact
that it is awfully common makes it
none the less wrong. 1t is demorsl-
society a0d Obstructive of the
ling to -, oovernment--
DHslc principle OF o. will AT
the intelligent and unbiased
The people expressed at the polls. But
il was much worse for such things to
be prominently and oficiousy done
at 'beadquarters.' 1t is no palliatloh
If this mistake to say that the other
fellows did it, too, They did They
lid it by the Wholesale"
Another mistake, in Mr. Hoch's
was the inaugural ball On
his subject he says: I'VE think tho
BALI WAS q silly mistake
Dancing is not tenet of our party.
t is lot a party question There are
many thousands of republicans in
his state who don't believe in it, As
mere matter of party policy it was
mistake to needessly offend all
hese people. Not one man in fifty !
an dance any better than toad, and |
lardly that number care fig about
{, People who wanted to dance
ould have danced till broad day |
light if they wanted to. Why make
he party responsible for such fool
shness? Why do it in the name of
he party Why make an old gray |
eaded governor, the superintendent
f Sunday school, entering upon
rave and responsible duties, appear
noonsstant and ridiculous, or else
ompel him to enter an unpleasant
protest? Why put the Reys En-
,ree, Bernard Kelly and other re-
erend gentlemen, good republicans,
n ridiculous committee positions Of
be same kind! 1t was all beneath
be dignity of a great party. 1t was
Ward McAllister politics"
Worse than all the other mistakes,
Ir. Hook says, WAS the banquet at
Ieaveuworth in honor of Senator
,lect Lucien Baker This event af-
ords him a text for starting off for
prohibition, aud he unhesitatingly |
,ensures the three branches of the |
tate government for participating in
he affair.
Of this matter, Mr.. Hoch says:
All the accounts agree that liquors
lowed freely, and were served as part
If the regular menu. If this is true,
{ was an outrage. 1ntemperance is
jhe great evil of this age. Prohihi-
lion was enacted to remedy, as far as
L could, this evil. 1t is the law of
this state. We believe it ia not an
exaggeration to say that three fourths
Of the republicans of Kansas believe
in this law, and are hurt when any
thing is done to bring it into dlsre-
pute, especially by their own party.
But here were all three departments
of the state government, the legisls-
ture, whose business it is to make
laws and set an example of respect