The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-20
JOINS THE Howl.
The Respected President of Cor
nell College
MingIes His Voice With the
DenunciatiOn
OF BRYAN DEMOCRATS
As "Blatant Red Flag, Social
lists and Anarchists"
Says Democratic Party Is Going
to COnfiscate Everything.

Ithaca. July 2O-Andrew D. White,
ex-president of Cornell university, ex-
minister to Russia, and one of the most
prominent men in state politics, has is
sued the following letter to J. Sterling
Morton of Nebraska, Frederic R. Cou-
dert, Charles S. Fairchild, Roswell P.
Flower Joseph c. Hendrix, Abram s.
Hewitt, Oswald Ottendorfer of New
York city and others:
LAS one who feels honored by a per-
sonal acquaintance with you, and who
respects you for your character, abiIi-
ties and public services, permit me to
address you regarding the present po-
Iitical crisis. believe that many of
you know, that though a lifelong Re
publican, I have always attempted to
do justice to the motives, theories and
acts of all honest men in your party,
sometimes even risking in consequence
the good viii of my own.
What 1 shall now say will not be at
all the utterance of a Republican as
such to Democrats. but of a citizen to
his fellow citizens, whom he knows to
be experienced, thoughtful and pat
riotic. I recognize the fact that from
the days of Jefferson and Hamilton
two parties, representing two great ma
turaI classes OF political thought have
been necessity; that they are neces-
sity now, and will long remain so, and
that the destruction, debasement or
perversion of either is an injury to the
other and to the whole country
1.-The majority, masquerading under
the garb of Democracy, at Chicago, has
done its worst. It has made platform
which is Numerically opposed to
Democracy, as developed by Jefferson.
Jackson, Benton, Seymour, Tilden and
all great leaders of the party
Mr.. White continues:
For you must know, too, that 1t is
but the first installment of anarchist
doctrine If not resisted and over
wheImed now it is absolutely certain
to be followed by other parts Of the pro-
gramme, especially the absorption of
the bonds and stocks of railroads. tele-
graphs and various productive enter
prises of the country, with payment
for them, if at all, in a paper currency
Of nominal value, and their manage
ment by the central government, under
the cry that all such things have been
built up for the people, belong to the
people and should be managed by the
people.
Nor will eOniseation stop even there.
Other extreme measures are already
pushed, and some which even the bold
est have hardly dared hint at will yet
be put in platforms to attract new
votes of cranks and dupes, and in the
hope that perhaps some new folly may
Obviate. modify or obscure the cOnSe-
QuenceS of the old.
The platform indicates this by it's
denunciation of any adjustment, no
matter how equitable, of the Pacific
railroad question, by its proposed treat
ment of the supreme court of the United
States, and by its demand, practically,
for free riots in every state
The candidate himself gives no I'M
certain warning of this more highly
developed policy of spoliatfon. You
will have noticed that he declares that
the right to coin money and issue
money is function of the govern
ment'
Taking this in connection with the
associates and antecedents we must
look for further step in this develop
ment of spOliatiOn under his guidance;
that is. the unlimited issue of ire
deemable paper, not only to cover eX-
listing obligations of the government,
but to pay for all private property
which anarchists and socialists may
think it best for the central govern
ment to absorb and administer.
THE coal and other mines can, by
arguments equally logical, be absorb.
ed, payment being made at first in de-
based coin. and finally in unlimited pa
per. ConfiscatiOn having thus taken
place under the forms of law, the con-
fiscated property must be managed for
the people, and this can only be done
by a concentration of powers in the
central government. and consequently
by a central despotism, not exce1led,
if indeed it is equalled, in Russia.
You think this picture Overdrawn.
It is but the logical outcome of the
present situation. Let me ask you
candidly is this future platform any
more probable to you now than the
present Chicago platform and candi-
date would have been to you four years
ago? Suppose that any one had proDh-
esied to you then that at the next con-
ventiOn of your party the controlling
spirits would be Altgeld and Tillman
openly, and PETER, Simpson and Stew
art secretly. Suppose, too, that any
one had prOphesied that the president
you were then nominating. and whom
you destined to elect-the only presi-
dent you have elected in IS years
would be treated with every insult,
both of omission and commission, and
the real bone and sinew of the party.
to whom alone it owed a new lease of
it's existence, kept out, or virtually
driven out, of the cOnvention-brutally
contemporary, indecently.
Would not such a prophecy have
then been thought infinitely more alb
sured than anything I prophesy now?
Remember that revolutions never go
backward; that. like other confiagra-
tiOns, they grow by what they feed up
on Meet them at the beginning with
right, reason and courage, and you
can turn them; temporize, and they
Will devOur you.
"On this platform, aiming at present
and prospective anarchy and socialism.
the convention and its galleries placed
Inc hoy FyIdtOA u lAe rate nav
| ing amused the assembled mob at Chi
cagO, he was repaid Immediately by
| the nomination to the presidency. 1t
was in obedience to a similar impulse
that a European despot in the last
century turned over his government to
the actor who had delighted him at the
! theater, and that a Roman emperor
! gave the chief magistracy of the repub-
| lie to the horse which had pleased him
| in the circus
For the first time in the history of the
/ United States we have an anarchist
/ and socialist platform, and for the first