Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-08-16
REPUBLICANISM.

REPUBLICANISM.
We are not ingalls, men, but Mr.. ingalls,
vot,d have been a vast improvement over
moo 600 Senator Baker. ingalls, has brains ms
Rater has money. ingalls, was senator because
he has brains Baker is senator because ne
has money ..d-
AT one time, the Republican party was wed
ded to men; now, it is welded to money.
In any contest for office between the men OF
brains and the men of money, the men OF
money win.
Once, the Republican party was party OF
freedom: now, it is party of business
Wherever the Republican party, OF late years.
HOSTS the grand old banner Of liberty and ira
ternity, it blotches the stripes and denies the
stars with the legend of "busness." Money Is
the god of Republicanism. The little hnger Oh
Governor Morton, of New York, is thicker than
the loins of the immortal Lincoln. A railroad
attorney whose fortune was stolen from the
people by the corporation represented is pre-
ferred to a farmer or teacher. Wealth, not
merit Is the standard; avarioe instead OF ex'
oellence; devotion to corporations instead OF
devotion to the people.
We challenge any one to prove that the Re-
publican party of to-day is the party OF Lin
coin, Sumner and Seward. The party OF Lin
coin stood for downtrodden race. The party
of to-day stands for the treading down OF the
poor of all races. Human liberty and hunll
happiness was inscribed on the banners OF the
party of Lincoln. Corporations and wealth Is
inscribed ON the banners Of to-day Republican
ism. No god but Mammon, and Rothschild is
his prophet
The Republican voter in the days OF Lincoln
was imbued with passionate desire tor person.
al freedom of races of all nations. They went
to the ballot-box and fought for free speech,
free press, free ballot; for homes for the home
less and land for the landless.
Betrayed by the John Sherman type OF poll
ticians, held by that strange spell of name, the
Republican voter to-day is an OK led to the
Misunderstanding, but silent; loving the SUBJ
stance, but satisfied with the shadow; intellect
ual, yet uniformed.
The Republican of Lincoln's day was an in
fuence making the grandest pages OF history
in that he moulded higher and better civiliza-
ton. To-day, he is unwittingly moulding
shackles for himself, his children, for his race
and the races of other nations.
O, for the brain of a Lincoln, the eloquence
of q Lovejoy and the def hands OF Seward,
TO an the hearts and fashion the ballots OF
nsueration worthy to aspire to the grandest
achievements of the men of all history.
PoR some weeks the press has been publish
h letter on the signs of the times, signedby
Ex-Governor S. ]. Crawford. If Crawford wrote
the letter, we must say he is right; but does he
know that he Is arraighing his own party in
this great crime against the people 1t has
been the writer's fortune to be intimately asso-
ciated with S. ]. Crawford in years long gone,
and as result of the association, we are fore
ed to doubt the authorship. The question is
too forcibly stated to come from Crawford. He
is ex-governor and there is prestige in his name;
hut who wrote it 2 And will he act at the bal
lot.box as its teachings suggest voters should
The very atmosphere is surcharged with dam
I.-A