People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-07-30
B0WDlSH JOINS THE PEOPLE.
Writes a Letter to Editor Macdonald in Which
lie Declares for Bryan and Silver.
WICHITA, Kan, July is. 1896.

W lShllA, hdu., July 10. 1880.
Friend Mcdonald: Yours of recent
date expressing surprise at my repu-
diation Of the St. Louis platform re-
ceiYed, and until l read your editorial
10 this weeks Register | had not
thought of replying. l have always
been a Republican and since 1876 I've
been silver Republican.
l was on the floor of the House of
Representatives in Washington when
the final vote was taken on making
the standard silver dollar legal ten
der. 1t was defeated mainly by the
eastern vote. If the Republican ad-
ministratiOn had been honest with
the execution Of the Sherman silver
law there would rot have been any Of
this trouble now, and the country
would have been saved this last four
years of Grover.
In the last presidential campaign
made part Of the canvass OF Sumner
county with Major Whittinghill, and
| plead with the silver Republicans
and those inclined to Pupulism to stay
with the g. 0. p. THE same as you do
now. Mr.. Cleveland made fair prom.
iSeS TO the silver men that he would
do the fair thing by silver and the
consequence was that he was elected
and the West was fooled tue second
time worse than the first. 1t has
been clearly settled that Wall street
and eastern money sharks have con.
! tro'led both the Republican and Dem.
Ocratic administration since Lincoln's
time. They robbed the country then
but Lincoln could not help himself
You accuse me Of being a Pop. You
accuse me wrODgfully, although have
often wondered there were not more
of them than there are. Neither an
a Cleveland Democrat. am either
a Lincoln Republican or Jefferson
Democrat. | am sorry TO say that the
Republican convention at st. Louis
was largely bought by gold bug money
No one as yet has had the face to deny
this. The people were not represent
ed there except by misrepresentation,
with few exceptions. The eastern
papers call silver men cranks, crazy.
repndiatOrs and everything mean.
received a leading newspaper from
northern Illinois an editorial in which
said, "The Republican party mas nc
use for Republicans who are for free
silver: it is crazy notion. What the
people want is sound money and pro.
lection, and the quicker The Republi.
can party gets rid of the few thousand
tho better it will be off," | cut that
editorial out and returned it 10 the
writer with the sug gestion that il in
order to be Republican one must be
goldbug it would not take long tC
get rid of few surplus thousands
The people do want honest money
which as you very well know, is silvel
money, Is to l. And the people want
prOtectiOn-lrOm English and Wal
street dictation, as well from foreign
importatiOnS and foreign labor.
The st. Louis convention was domi
mated by eastern money sharks. Il
that is too strong, say by the East
The Chicago convention was dOmi
mated by the people of the West ant
South.
All former administrations that
know anything about have been main
Ily in the interests Of the East. TAX,
both platforms and compare them
Which is the most Abe Lincoln Re
Ipublicans Which administration
would be the most likely to recogDiz,
the interests Of the West? 1t seem
to me any reasonable person wOult
say the Democratic. You say th
Democratic party has always bee
wrong. That is true; but this is
new Democracy aud they are right
now, which is much better than tn
g. 0. p, which has been right but /
wrong now. You'll say what abou
the tariff? Yes, am willing at thi
time TO trust them for that. Tn
people will not stand any more bon(
issues to pay government expense,
and they will be obliged to increas
the tariff and it will not be all in tn
interest of the East. The Kansa
farmers wife will be protected by
tariff on chickens, eggs and butter
which will be worth more to the stat
OF Kansas than a duty on farm ma
chinery which permits an American
manufacturer to sell in South Amer
ica at about one-half the price it il
sold to the Kansas farmer. When il
! Boston some years ago l found ther,
were two shiplOads of eggs received
weekly from New Brunswick. Don'I
you think party in power dominated
by the West and South would remedy
things of this character by a reason
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