The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-14
BILLS BIG VOICE.
VIM. P. Hackney Bursts Forth
Once More.
This Time He Rasps the Sneak
Editors"
Who He Says Run Some Republi-
can Papers
IT MAKES HIM BOIL
To Think That He and Other
Old Soldiers
Fought Through the War For
Such Contemptibles
AS SOME AMERICANS
Have Recently Shown Them
selves to Be.
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He Gives 'Ady a Hot Roast for
COWardice.
AS SOME AMERICANS
He Gives 'Ady a Hot Roast for
COWardice.

The following letter written to gen
tleman in this city by VIM. P. Hackney,
will be found interesting to all Kansans;
Col. Pat Coney. Topeka, Kansas.
DEAR CoLoNE1:-I picked up an en-
velope with your card on day before yes
terday morning and hastily tore it open,
because | knew it contained something
for me from you, and when | examined
the contents thereof l was more than
gratitied at the elegant manner in which
you skinned the imbecile editors.
wrote reply to some of their hogwash
aud sent it to them, but they remained
silent If there is anything in God
Almighty's world that is more disgust
ing than another, it is to be compelled
to listen to the everlasting twaddle of
cringing, cowardly whelp who happens
to be d Republican editor, and who is
afraid to say his life is his own for fear
it will reflect on England. I wonder
when these Republican ignoramuses will
ceas to fatigue US with their everlasting
crude financialisms. The average Re-
publican editor hasn't as much backbone
and brains as a last years birds nest,
and they never pen line that they do
not discover to gaping world what in
fernal fools they are.
l Just received by today's mail a clip
ping of Joe Ady's speech at the Baker
banquet. | wonder why in the name of
sense he did not make the same speech
for the past two years; if he had talked
all these years as he talked at that ban
quet he would have been elected United
States senator and not Baker.
I am in the midst of shoddy aristocracy
and purse- proud mediocrity and my men
tality is offended and tramped on every
day by their ignorant assum mptions on
this money question, but suppose 1 will
have to grin and bear it until common
sense and reason egain their sway. Surely
that influence must be overthrown in the
Republican party or else you and | have
no further business in it. We cannot
shut our eyes to the fact that our present
condition is made possible by Republi-
can legislation, conceived in the womb
of iniquity and born through legislative
rascality, and the masses blinded to such
venality and mendacity, until they are in
as deplorable condition as the paupers of
Europe.
1t won't do to say that the tariff had
anything to do with it, because that is
not a fact A committee recently re-
ported that it would take five million
dollars TO feed the idle and poor in Eng
land until the first of April, and the
committee appointed by Governor
Mckinley of this state to investigate the
condition of the idle and poor in the
Hooking valley, reports that the men
have not received on an average for the
past year for their wages, twenty-seven
cents day. The former conditions are
possible under free trade flag; the lat
ter conditions are possible under high
protection banner. The question of a
Tariff or no tariff had nothing to do with
the causes that made such results posi-
BILE; it was the appreciation of dollars, or
what is the same thing, the depreciation
OF everything else, by means whereof
enterprise has been stopped, trade and
commerce strangled and labor pauper-
lied. The mistakes of the past are
irremediable and the voters of
America are in no way RESPONSE
BILE therefor, because the crime which
made our degradation possible. had its
inception in foreign villainy and Ameri.
can cupidity Every time a Republican
editor asserts his willingness to have sill
yer as money when England consents
right then and there the traitorous vii
lain ought to be branded.
Tom Reed and John Sherman. Grover
Cleveland and john G. Carlisle are all OF
kind, and they lead the hosts of De
mocracy and Republicanism today. II
they are Republicans, and their conduct
meansRepublican principles. then neither
you nor l, nor men who think as we do
have any business in the Republican
party; and where in the thunder are we
to go? We believe in protection, and
Democracy and Populism do not, aud the
goldbugs of London and their emissar1e:
here, through the control of parties by
such leadership, prevent the amalgama-
ton thus far of the opponents of gold
mono metallism. and as they, each in turn
GRIND us little harder under the golC
press, Republicans howl for a higher
prosecton and their opponents for low er
ana thtis the friends of BIZ metalIism are
kept apart, to the everlasting shame, dis
grace ana dlshonor of their country.
On Lord, how long will Republican.
who think as you and do, and Demo
Gratis and Populists who think as we do
continue to be separated and kept apar
On minor questions to The injury of all.
Remembe me to my old friends. VIII,
nave the interest TO inquire concernins
me, and believe me a loyal Kansan al
WayA The ablest, brightest and pures