The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-14
! BILL HACKNEYS BOLT.
He Keeps Right on Boiling In a
Loud Voice.
Has Written Another Letter on
the Situation
In Which He Portrays the Present
State of Affairs As Seen Through
His Eyes.

has received characteristic letter from
W P. Hackney, who formerly lived at
Winfield and was one Of the best known
Republican politicians in Kansas
Hackney was chairman of the Repub-
Hcan state central committee for a
number of years and was always a Wig
9rous fighter. He is now located at
Cleveland, o., and has a paying law
pra' tice. The letter reads as follows:
Cleveland, O., Sept. 4, 1896.
w E DOud, Esq, Eureka, Kan:
My Dear Old Friend: have your
very complimentary letter of September
:. for which accept my thanks.
It is always to be regretted by any
man who has cast his fortune with a
party for a lifetime to see it seized upon
by tine enemies of mankind and made
to indOrse the EillainOus methods of the
Cleveland administration. No such in
famous treachery to the principles of
its founders has ever been exhibited in
the political world as the treachery
which the berayal of Republican prin-
ciples at St Louis emphasizes. A con-
unuaJOn OF present conditions IS de-
manded by the hordes whose mouth
piece Mckinley has become.
England has driven our shipping from
the ocean. BY the foreclosure of her
mortgages she has seized upon our
transportation upon the land, and by
changing cIassifcatiOns raises freights
at her own sweet Will, and she employs
the brightest and ablest men in this
nation. lawyers like DepeW and George
r. Peck and bankers like J. Pierpont
Morgan and John r. MulVane to man
age her properties, and she is strang-
ling the Industries of this country by
fastening upon us and perpetuating
single gold standard, SO that a sheep
that is worth so cents in Kansas costs Y
cents to buy the hind quarter in Cleve-
land; thus the farmer, through English
manipulation of our transportation ia
cilities, is robbed of his profit and the
consumer, by the same process, is de-
prived of his ability to purchase, and all
thereby Impoverished.
The Republican party has ever on the
stump and in the press declared for
American Independence It's orators,
newspapers and periodicals Numbered
every statement or publication made in
England against protection as reason
why we ought to have it. 1t was claimed
in England that protection was an eX-
ploded theory Of government, and now
every orator, newspaper and periodical
of that party is NCC1ferOuS with quota
lions from English orators and political
noudescripts, inimical to American in
dependence and favorable to a cOntin-
uation Of present conditions
With trusts and combines, special
privileges subsidized newspapers and
periodicals. bankers associations, rail-
way wreckers and mOnOpolistic cormo-
rants. all aggregated under the fepuD-
Hcan banner. with England to furnish
the money with which to corrupt Amer
lean voters in their interests, certainly
presents a front Of pOrtentOus menace
10 the liberty of the citizen, and threat
ems through the English policy OF d.
viding and controlling. to accomplish in
this country by means OF her money
and influence what her combined army
and navy has been and is now lncapa-
bic of accomplishing.
stand today where have always
stood. Not one word has dropped from
nv liDs in this campaign that changes IN
the least what I have said during the
of
half of the Republican party ana prln-
ciples and yet every word now utter
is for Bryan, America and the pefpeLu-
alton of human liberty How cOulu
he otherwise2 How could any man who
learned his politics from the lips OF
Abraham Lincoln, and who fought Ter
his country and its preser Hat ION 90
otherwise than vote for Bryan surely;
every man who loves his country ana
understands the pregnant issues OF TINS
camDaign VIII do the same rms IS no
ninety days conflict; the war IS only
commenced and whether we win In
this campaign or not II VIII not cease
mil we free ourselves from English
domination or have become one OF the
deDendencies of Great Britain.
r-vventv-five years more of the con-
contraction of wealth and capttal1suc
aggressiOnS upon the rights OF the GU
zen in the same proportion as mas cndI-
-,(.far5za5 that influence during the last
q wears will destroy the 1luepeIlueILC
Of American manhood and enteeble the
government. until IL W III VI AASe~-47-'A-'
become a prey and its liberties destroy
cd nv that power. over whose DOMAIN
the sun never ceases TO Snlhe' oWHlIlS
as she does from Halifax VIA the y
Lawrence and great lakes north to the
Arctic A Archipelago, the BermudaS, Ite
Rabamas Lesser Antilles and Brltlsh
Guiana with gigantr1c tortreSses anu
coaling stations from HahIaX 10 EoeIlle
clear across our Atlantic ocean front,
with every preparation made for war
with US. and we with none presents
such a spectacle as the world never saw saw
before and we supinely sit by, lulled
nv her capital and dare not ask her
what those war preparations mean
Surely the American people through
and by the same influence an organ
lied attempt is being made in this
campaign to yet fasten her 1etters
more strongly upon US
Mr. Bryan'S passage through OHIO
was characterized by the most wonder
full demonstration of the masses that
has ever been seen here before Re
publican clubs OF Bryan men are
surinerine- up everywhere. Judges, law
yers. merchants. clerks, laboring men,
and all classes outside OF the banks,
trusts. railway magnateS, corporation
combines and English Influences, seem
to be f1ocking to his standard, while
the influence and men last named, in
solemn DhalanX are marching into the
Mckinley camp, and at last we wit
ness the spectacle in America OF the
classes organized by English agents,
and marshalling under the blood stain
ed banner of RepubIicanism, while the
masses weary. and in many instances
hungry. without work and without
money, are marching into the Bryan
camp. It is no longer Republican vs.
Democracy, or POpulism against either,
but it is the question of whether the
perpetuity of this country is to be
maintained the liberty of the citizen
preserved or whether upon its ruins
there shall be reared a plutocTacy
which is only step between DemOcra-
ey and monarchy. Already capital is
demanding the Acknowledgement of the
poor. We hear such everywhere where