Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-08-13
D. o. MACS GOOD STORY.

D. o. MACS GOOD STORY.
D. o. MCCray relates the following
story in the st, Louis Republic;
A few days ago Webb McNall, the
leader of the republican free silver
bolt in the sixth district, was in Tope-
ka. He met his old friend Newt, Try
of Fort Scott, who has recently been
nominated by the republicans for
member of the Kansas legislature.
These two men have been the two old
cronies" Of the republican party Of
Kansas for years. They have slept to-
gether at state conventions, chummed
together atgrand lodge meeting, drunk
Kansas drug store booze out Of the
same bottle, and rounded up many a
delegation of Kansas "Jays" when the
bosses had on hand scaly job to run
through the Legislature or state con-
vention. The meeting here was the
first since Webb jumped over the fence
into the free silver pasture.
Ury was sitting In front Of the
Copeland hotel, where Kansas states
men who drift into Topeka congre-
gate. He was dilatIng upon the polit-
zeal conditions in Fort Scott and Bour-
bon county when he observed McNall
strolling up the street. AS the states
man from the Sixth district approach
ed wearing 16 to l badge that COW
cred the left lapel of his coat, Try adj
dressed him in this choice salution,
which is part of the Vocabulary of
all Kansas statesmen who have taken
the degrees of the order:
BY, Webb, you've played,
! thought you would be the last re-
publican to leave the party. Well, /
remember a remark you made down
in Fort Scott a few years ago when
an old populist jumped you and told
you that the republican party would
be wiped from the face of the earth.
You turned on him In your wrath and
said; Colonel, when that time comes
you will find one republican left and
voting the ticket, and that republican
will be Webb McNall.' And now you
have gone over to the democratic
party. Great 20, Webb"
The Cliff Dweller from the great
northwest was not Disconnected by this
brief but pointed lecture. "Wise mer
change, but fools, never" was the re.
ply. The fools, he insisted, composed
the membership of the republican par
ty in Kansas, because the party had
changed, but they had not yet discov
cred the fact. during the past 81,
years." be continued, the men who
have mapped out the policy and dicta
ted the platforms of the republican
party in this state, and who have con
structed the state congressional anC
county platforms, have been teaching
us fellows that the free coinage of sill
yer would be a good thing for thu
country. ] have been an apt scholar
I have accepted their pronuncismentol
as good republican doctrine, and haYe
from every stump and rOstrum in the
Sixth district, proclaimed these prin
ciples as sound republican doctrine
The great John J. ingalls,, the idol o.
hero worshipers, was one Of my teach
ers. The splendid Preston B Blumb
died a free silver advocate; in fact, al
of the men who have been prorinen
in republican politics in Kansas dur
ing the past six years have given us {
free silver died garnished with gold.'
Try undertood to interrupt States
man McNsll, but that gentleman hat
the floor and proceeded with his ar
gument Pulling from his inside
pocket an old, rusty memorandum, h'
said; Here is the money plank o
the republican party Of Kansas, adopt
ed at the state convention in $780,
and he read as follows:
The prscticel operation Of TIL