People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-07-23

wagon and pie counter politicians
10 the west and the franchise states
men in the east, the great question
will receive a most sincere and pa
t.iotic consideration, with a result
most satisfactory, too, if in the com
ing national convention the silver
forces act wisely and do not allow
party ties and former affiliations to
blind their better judgement. 1t is
the great American financial party
now to the front; | am in favor of it.
The Republican party is wrong 10 not
50 recognizing i, and l am no longer
Ia Republican. They should have
marched as Of yore with convictions
of steel to the field and there dared
to do battle for the rights of the mas
Ses. They failed to do so.
Then think Of Republican in Ok
lahOma, defending a gold standard as
] itnow exists, when it has been the
/ practice for the past two years that
every time there were gathered to-
gether enough Of the party followers
TO select a president and secretary. to
declare for free silver, free homes.
statehood and Dennis Flynn. But it
may be if a man is determined 10
stay in the party, right or wrong, and
having gotten neither free silver.
free homes nor statehood, about the
most consistent thing he will be Ca
pable of doing here in the territory is
to vote for Dennis Flynn on the pres
ent gold standard platform.
However, 30 suggestions are herein
intended for the parti>anS who. like
Ruth, says where the Republican
party goes there | g, right or wrong.
l Can only hope to b. able toappeal 70
those who, since the st. Louis con-
VentiOn, know the Republican party
Is wrong, and admonish them to say
so during the coming campaign. |
hope that all fair-minded freemen
Will join in this conflict and refute in
the forum of discussion the two mon
StrouS dOgmaS upon which rest the en-
tire argument Of the gold standard
advocates, namely: That silver has
declined BY reason Of over productions:
aud that a silver dollar IS only a fifty
or sixty cent dollar. That is the as
sumption Of Mr.. Sherman and Mr.,
Carlisle and Mr., Cleveland. 1t has
been the stock argument during the
year against the free and unlimited
coinage of silver that silver dollar
was 5O-cent dollar, when the truth
more nearly is that gold dollar is a
two-dOllar dollar.
l have but little sympathy for that
species Of tea-drinking admonitions.
born of log party utilization, to stay in
the party because it used to be right.
Nor for those other words of delusion
and folly that other parties have
heretofore been wrong. The question
is, which party is right now on the
most important issue that ever knock.
ed at the doors of this great govern.
ment?
The most pitiable object for con-
temptation to my mind is the Ameri-
can citizen who knows, and has said
countless times during the past four
years, that the present financial poll
cy is the blighting and whitening
curse that touches, rObS and ruins the
very fountains of industry, life, health
and home, and yet has the tenerity to
say mal-administratiOn alone in the
United States during the past three
years has caused it all, and if the Re-
publican party be restored to power
another term it will all be renovated
and prosperity will rest upon the
Intel of every household. He must
be as old SQueers of Yorkshire. "in a
perpetual state Of establishment at
his own respectability" and political
SagaCity.
Return to US the money of our faith
ers, the money of the Constitution.
1t is wrOngfully stricken down.
Cease quibbling about progressed
friendship for silver, and your poll
cies to maintain the parity of values.
and your credit, in utter disregard of
the wreck and ruin of the many
for the enrichment of the few.
This is my doctrine. 1t overshadows
all Others in my judgment, and so be-
llevlng, so shall l act. | am no
longer a Republican. The party or
parties, or organization, that address
eS itself to the solution and the
Fighting of this mOnstrous, this az.
palling, this objectionable, and in.
defeusible wrong is my party.
W. S. WHITTINGHILL.
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