People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-07-30
Not cable" LincoIn's Party.

Perry, Ia, June 25.-TO the Editor
Of the WOrld-Herald: l beg and pray
for someone to tell me where my
party is today. | stand a political
orphan, without party roof to cover
me, or table from which to eat the
: bread of republicanism. The Repub-
lican party, turning its back upon its
history and its traditions; ScOrning
the warning Of Republican leaders,
many now dead and, alas, too soon for
gotten, has wandered from the paths
trOd by its founders and is trOtting
down a cOwpath that begins nowhere
and ends in industrial slavery. am
egotist enough to believe that my
republicaniSm has never been called
into question by those who know me.
| learned it at the knee of the best
mother boy ever had, and had its
principles burned into my brain by a
fkGher 1 have studied its principles
at the feet Of the grandeSt man who
has trOd the earth since Christ walk
ed and talked in Gallilee-Abraham
Lincoln. | have seen its principles Of
universal liberty made triumphant
by the ShOtted guns of hosts led by
the greatest soldier since Joshua with
his Hebrew armies fought the battles
of the LOrd.-UlySses S. Grant.
have learned of its duties and its priv.
ileges from the lips Of the wisest
statesman Of his day and generation
James G. Blaine. In season and out
Of season | have advocated the repub.
liCaniSm of Lincoln, Of Grant, of Car.
penter, of Chandler, of Stephens, OF
Garfield, of Logan, of Yates, and OF
Blaine. still stand by the republi-
canism of these leaders and believe
that they saw with clear vision the
duties their party owed to the great
common people,
But now, after learning my Republic
can lessons from the words and writ
ingS OF these men, l am asked tC
brush them aside and accept the wis.
dom of such great Republican leaders
as Marcus Aurelius Hanna and Thorn
as Platt, | must beg to be excused
Four years ago the Republican party
announced that it favored bimetalism
and advocated the use Of both gold
Z and silver as standard money. Ii
Spite OF the fact of Whitelaw REID
and his opposition to organized labor
l stood up and was counted in the Re
publican column because | believed
that the Republican party was advO
eating the true principles of the
fathers. l have not changed my
mind since then, but l am asked t.
sweep aside the old-time Republican
principles of bimetallism and fal
down and worship the golden call
placed on a pedestal wrought by the
aleagenOus Hanna and polished by ]
PierpOnt Morgan and SOlOman Isaac
Rothschilds. l cannot do it. l hav,
lost none Of my Repu0li :anism: il
fact, am a better Republican today
than ever before. l still believe il
the principles of protection and recip
rOcity, in free ballot and an homes
count, and in making the old fla!
respected abroad; be it on sea or land
l still believe in the wisdom of tn,
men who founded the Republican
party: in the honesty aud integrit,
of the men who fought its early bat
ties, and in the honor and knowledg,
of the men who achieved its creates
successes. l do not believe in tn,
honesty or the wisdom of the mel
fwho have stood for one thing toda
and another tomorrow merely t
= Itch the breezes of political favor
IJwaS such men as last mentiOne,
who controlled the St. Louis conver
ton. They brushed aside the wis