People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-09-24
BILL" HACKHErS BOLT.
He Keeps Right On Boiling In
81 Loud Voice.
His VIEW Or PRESENT SITUATION.
He POrirays the Present State
OF Affairs i'm tie Politics
Of the Nation.

Eureka, Kan, Sept. 14.-W. E.
Doud has received a 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 Republican state
central committee for a number of
years and was always a vigorous
fighter. He is now located at Cleve-
land, Ohio. and has a paying law
practice. The letter reads as follows:
Cleveland, O., Sept. 4, 1896.
W. E. DOud, Esq, Eureka, Kan:
Ny Dear Old Friend: l have your
very complimentary letter of Sep
TENDER 2, for which accept many
thanks.
1t is always to be regretted by any
man who has cast his fortune with
lifetime to see it Siezed upon by the
enemies of mankind and made to
endorse the villainOus methods of the
Cleveland administration. No such
Infamous treachery TO the principles
OF its founders has ever been exhibited
in the political world as the treachery
which the betrayal Of Republican
principles at st. Louis emphasizes.
A continuation of present conditions
is demanded by the hOrdes whose
mOuthpiece 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 ClasSifCatiOns 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 manage her
properties, and she is strangling the
industries of this country by fastening
upon US and perpetuating a single
gold standard, so that a sheep that is
worth 30 cents in Kansas costs y cents
to buy the hind quarter in 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 impoverished.
The Republican party has ever on
the stump and in the press declared
for American independence. Its
orators, newspapers and periodicals
Numbered every statement or publ
cation made in England against pre-
lection as reason why we ought to
have it. 1t was claimed in England
that protection was an exploded
theory Of government, and now every
orator. newspaper and periodical of
that party is vOciferous with Quota.
tions from English orators and politi.
cal nondescripts, inimical to Ameri.
can independence and favorable to a
continuation 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 Re-
publican banner, with England to
furnish money with which to corrupt
American voters In their interests,
certainly presents a front of por-
tentous menace to the liberty of the
citizen, and threatens, through the
English policy Of dividing and con-
trolling, 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
accomplishing.
] stand today where l have always
stood. Not one word has dropped from
mylipS in this campaign that changes
in the least what have said during
the campaigns Of 1884. 1888 and 1892
in behalf Of the Republican party and
principles, yet every word / now utter
is for Bryan, America and the pelpet-
uation Of human liberty. How could
Kbe otherwise? How could any man
who learned his politics from the lips
of Abraham Lincoln, and who fought
for his country and its preservation
do otherwise than vote for Bryan:
Surely, every man who loves his coun'
try and understands the pregnant is
sues Of this campaign will do the
same. This is no ninety days conflict