Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-30


actually owned by such Institutions
But how are you going to apply thi!
remedy? You cannot apply 1t excep
through your government, and you
cannot do it there unless you elect thu
right kind of men to represent you.
1.-THE republicans had convention
down here at Wichita the other day
They selected delegates to the nationa
convention and sent them uninstruct
ed, let them go down there to go in
for whatever the majority there said
regardless Of what the people of Kan.
sas want. II you want your condition
bettered, IL you want your children to
have an equal chance, you have got
to have more sand in your crop than
that.
II attended the republican conven-
ton at Chicago in 1888, where William
Mckinley was chairman. That con-
vention adopted a resolution denOunc-
ing the democratic party for attempt
ing to demonetize silver Again, in
1892, ring party passed a resolution
pledging the party to silver as a stand
ard money, and what was the result.
The election was hardly over until the
oddities of the party combined with
the democrats who had an equally
strong resolution, to .strik down silver
What does that lesson teach? 1t
teaches us that we have come to where
the silver men and the goldites must
part company.
"A great deal has beer said about
candidate and platform. In 1892 was
for Mckinley, but can not name my
choice now. This much, however, |
do say, any platform that the eastern
oddities support and any candidate
they put up and work for l am not
going to support. The time has come
when a compromise between the gold
ties and silver men is impossible, and
l think more OF the welfare Of my
country and the interests Of humanity
that I do the republican party.
] saw a cartoon the other day OF
man ON horseback right at the brink
of a high precipice, heedlessly squirting
his steed onward. That, my friends,
is just the position Of the republican
party today. They are on the brink
of the precipice, but are driving heed
lessly on.
IF the republican party don't take
a strong stand for silver, the st. Louis
convention of monetary reformers on
July % will put up a ticket that will
have the combined support of repub-
licans, democrats, populists and pro-
hibitionists, and will sweep the coun-
try"
]. B. Chapman, democrat, was then
introduced. He said the committee
had had trouble in getting a democrat
to take the rostrum with dyed-in-the-
wool republicans and talk for silver,
and he did not want to be prodigal
son. He pointed out the advantages
of an increased currency, and stated II
the democratic party continued to fol-
low the leadership of Grover Cleve-'
land, he would no longer follow the
democratic party.
The audience almost went wild when
Captain Joseph G. Waters was intro
duced. The speaker stood for several
minutes to allow the enthusiasm to
work off, then he lit into his talk with
a vim, first making an attack upon
George T. Anthony, on general princi-
pie, roasting him to a nice brown.
Right here in Topeka" he contin-
ued, IF there can be any more idle
ness, or any more depression in bust
ness could be brought about, God AL
mighty would have to do it, no states
man could.
They talk about protection here in
Kansas, where we haven't got a fac
tory of sufficient Importance to turn
out the woodwork of Jews harp"
He then showed how for 200 years
prior to 1873 silver and gold had stood
side by side, and how since that time
silver had gone down and trusts and |
had arisen, sphinX-like,
from the grave Of prosperity.
Yet" he said, here in Kansas we
yell ourselves hoarse for Mckinley and
where we haven't even the
smoke from a flue or the fire in a sin
gle furnace. What do cur people care
for protection?
1--WE once started a syrup factory !
here, and it didn't go up-it went to
the trust, which is worse. Then we
built big wooden mill, and we haven't
energy and enterprise enough to send
4 tracer after the machinery which is
On the road somewhere between here
and the shores of Maine.
They talk about new laws. We
nave the most magnificent laws On the
statute books, but cur Internal officials
will not enforce them. We have a
rust law to shut out such octopuses
IS the Standard Oil company and
)ther trusts and combines like it, but
no federal judge nor district attorney
lares to enforce it.
IF was county attorney instead Of
prosecuting poor devils, l would grab
hese monopolles by the throat and
,hoke them out of the state.
Il have always been a republican,