The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-05
WHO BOLTED /?
Criticism of Certain Congress
men by Gold Organs
Better Be Transferred to the
Real Boilers
FROM REPUBLICANISM,
Blue and Calderhead, Who Got
Clear Away From Kansas.
Do Not Represent National Re-
publicanism, Either.

From the State Jonrnal's Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 5.-The criticism
of the few gold standard organs in Kan
sas of certain memb bers of the Kansas
delegation who voted for the silver sub
stitute for the bond bill does not appear
to be causing those members any loss of
sleep. The much harped on charge that
they deserted their party has as yet caused
appreciab BILE arrangement of their ner-
vous systems.
And the reason they are not alarmed
and that their consciences are at ease is
because their votes on that now dead
measure proved most distinctly and con-
clusively that they were true to Republi-
can principles, and those who took the
opposite side broke with every tradition
of the Republican party.
While the vote for the senate substi-
tute in the house was incidentally vote
for free silver it was primarily a vote
against authority to issue more bonds A
vote for the bond bill, and later a vote to
non-cencur in the senate substitute, set
the seal of approval upon the policy of
borrowing money to carry on the ex-
penses of the government.
The question was plainly one of in
dorsing a scheme of reckless prof1igacy,
That Oh running Cu0 SOF0EnnSnb On DOT-
rOwed money which posteritv would
have to pay, or of voting to rehabilitate
money metal which the Republican
party has always, in its platforms at
least, declared itself friendly to.
Those who believed in running the
United States on business principles
voted against the bond bill When it
came back to the house in the shape of a
silver substitute they still voted against
IA n hOn6Q
in time of peace, and in so doing cast a
vote friendly to silver.
When five of the Kansas Republican
representatives, Broderick, Curtis, kirk
patrick, Miller, and Long voted against
the bond bill, and only two, Calderhead
aud Blue, voted for il, it is difficult to see
where the "bolt" comes in. Only those
who are uninformed, or who are disin-
geuuous. attempt to say the bond bill
was a Republican measure. Persons
who learned their political economy by
rote from college text books may
assert it, but Chairman Ding
ley, who framed the bill, did
not have the temerity to claim il repre-
sented Republican principles. On the
other hand, he declared it was not Re-
publican measure, that the only possible
excuse was the emergency. The vote on
the bill showed simply a difference of
opinion as to the urgency.
When three Kansas representatives.
Curtis, Miller and Broderick-were in
favor of the free silver substitute, and
two more-Long and rkpatrick-voted
for American silver, while only two
Calderhead and Blue-were opposed to
silver in any form, preferring the issue
of bonds il is still difficult 10 see where
the "bolt" comes in.
For these reasons the members of the
Kansas delegation who voted against an
un-R public measure, which was ad-
mitted by its parents to be un-Republi-
eau, do not feel aa if they had any ex-
plantations to make. NJ. F. M