The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-09-18
BILL HACKNEF'S BOLT.

| Emeka, kanS., sept. I4.-W. T..
DOud has received a characteristic let
ter from w. P. Hackney, who former
ly lived at Winfield and was one of
the best known republican politicians
in Kansas. Hackney was chairman of
the republican state central committee
for number of years and was always
a vigorous fighter. He is now located
at Cleveland, Ohio, and has paying
law practice. The letter reads as fol-
lows:
Cleveland, o., Sept. 5, 1895.
w. E. DOud, Eureka, Kan:
My Dear Old Friend: 1 have your
very com plimentary letter of Sept. 2,
for which accept thanks.
1t is always to he regretted by any
man who has cast his fortunes with a
party for life time 10 see it seized
upon by the enemies of mankind and
made to endorse the vilinous methods
of the Cleveland administration. No
such infamous treachery to the prin-
ciples of it's founders has ever been ex-
hibited in the political world as the
the treachery which the betrayal Of
Republican principles at st. Louis en-
phasizes. A continuation of the pres
ent conditions is demanded 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 classiiications changes
freights at her own free will, and she
employs the brightest and aBlest men
in the nation, lawyers like Depew and
George r. Peck, and bankers like J.
PierpOnt Morgan and John II. Null
vane to manage her properties, and
she IS strangling the industries of the
country by fastening upon us and per-
petuating single gold standard, 50
that a sheep that costs so cents i'll
Kansas costs " cents to buy the hind
quarter Ill Cleveland; thus the farmer
through English manipulation of our
| transportation facilities, is robbed of
his profit, and the consumer, by the
same process, is deprived of his ability
to purchase, and all thereby impover-
ished
The Republican party has ever on
the stump and in the press declared
for American Independence. Its ora
tors, newspapers and periodicals
thundered every statement made Ill
England that protection was an ex-
ploded theory of government and now
every orator, newspaper and periodical
of that party is vocifervus with quota
tions from English orators and polit-
ciaI nondescrips, inimical to American
independence and favorable to a con-
tinuation of present conditions.
With trusts and combines, special
privileges, subsidized newspapers ana
periodicals, bankers associations,
railway wreckers and monoplistic
cormorants, all aggregated under the
Republican banner, with England to
furnish the money with which to cor
| tnr hoi int
Gel tainly presents front of portentous
menace to the liberty of the citizens
and threatens through the English
policy of dividing 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 incapable of accomplish
ing.
stand today where l have ALWAYS
stood Not one word has dropped
from my lips in this campaign that
changes in the least what have said
dllring the campaigns of 1884, 1888
aud 1892 in behalf of the republican
party and principles and yet every
word nov utter Is for Bryan. Amer
lea and the perpetuation of human
liberty. How could l be otherwise;
How could sny man who learned iis
politics from the lips of Abral,aln
Lincoln. and who fought FOX his coun.
try and its preservation do otherwise