The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-10-13
LETTERS TO SIMPSON,
EpistIes Show How Principles OF
Kansas Republicans Have
b. Changed.

Committee, as he is now. He was
the author of the motto: "Stand up
for Kansas, used in the campaign of
that year. The Republicans are not
using the motto this year. UP 9
1892 John Madden, now the cand I.
d tie of the allied silver forces for
Congressman in the Fourth distric |,
was Republican. Simpson address
ed letter 10 him, asking him to make
some speeches for the Republican
ticket. Here are few pa a.rsphs
from Madden's reply: I
III have always been opposed to the
protection of one class OF men at the
expense Of the great wealth-pro lucing
masses, and never supposed any party
would be short sighted enough to at
tempt thing Of that kind. find L
have been mistaken, like thousands of
other men who have benz voting with
the Republican party. and we see our
brethren CT the producing aud labo'-
sng classes surrcu lded by 'nditions
which are absolutely appalling, and
great question now is to save them
before Il is too late. aaI
"The motto: Stand up for Kansa.,
on your letter head, in view of the
condition to which the toiling masses
have been reduced, in uiew of the fact
that your political system has con-
tracted the peoples money 80 that OBJ
ligations can not be paid; in view of
the fact that homes are being sold
under mortgages and passing into the
hands of syndicates; in view of the
fact that the people have been robbed
by railroad corporations and trans
portation lines; in view Of the fact
that trusts and combines control the
peoples market aud get what is left ;
in view of the fact that you passed an
iniquitous law extending municipal
aid to railroads, and now a great
number of the counties of Kansas are
resting in the sleep of death under
bonds voted by hired voters of the
companies through the operation OF
such law; in view of the fact that
such system of municipal aid has
been maintained, even when its repeal
was urged by your patriotic Cover
nor, John A. Martin; in view of the
fact that our immense wheat crop OF
this year Is being already absorbed by
the railroads and wheat combines in
view of the fact that the most indus
trious can scarcely maintain them
selves and families, the motto, Stand
up for Kansas is unnatural, inhuman
an ghoulisb, and sounds Ike the hol-
low mockery of winds blowing over
graves.
''You say you want speakers Cape
BILE of expounding party doctrine, and
especially the magnificent services
which the present administration has
rendered the farmers and laboring
men of the country
CAS- you know, four years ago, as
one Of the Presidential electors OF
Kansas, cast my vote direct for Ben
jamin Harrison. 1 hoped then a
change of administration would bene
fit the country and tighten son I
the burdens resting upon the people
Gin the campaign of that year 1 ad-
vi,ed the bsrefooted men whom met
at political meetings in Western Kan
sss to vote for Republican supremacy.
I shall never forget the pathos Of
some of those gatherings, when
stood In the presence of toil-brown
men and women whose faces indi.
Gated that they needed bread. With
these things in mind, and deeply i'm.
pressed as I am with the frightful
conditions of the people, am in nc
mood to expound the magnificent
services which you say the admins.
tration has reader the people.
''If the services have been as y U
cl iim, the people need not be told OF
them, as results would speak fol-
themselves The fact is, the admin
tration has rendered 'magnifi It SER
vices not to the farmers and labor.
ers, but to the Carnegies, with their
Pinkertons; to the McLeods, with
their coal trusts; the Armours. with
their beet combines, and the Goulds
With their railroad systems; and in
fact, all of the many agencies formed
for the purpose OF controlling the out
put of the mines, the shops, the field:
and the farms.
"Your tariff theories are surface
auestiOns and very iuCOmDletP be.