The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-06
Lifelong Republicans at LeaTen-
worth Who Can Not
Stand on a Gold Plank No Mat
ter
WHAT PARTY MADE 1T.
One a Heavy Fruit Dealer, An
other a Miller
One Is the President of the
City Council.
Still Another the Head Of a Big
Milling Company.
PARTY MADE IT.


OUT every day.
W. H. Farrell is one Of the heaviest
fruit dealers in the entire west. He has
a mammoth natural cold storage cave
and in a long business career he stands
above the suspicion even of any unfair
dealing Mr. Farrell has been a life
long Republican, voting for every ma
tional Republican candidate. Here is
what he has to say to a correspond
ent:
Am a Republican? I answer, yes;
always have been; because I believe
the doctrine of protection, to a reason
able degree, was expressed in that par
tvs platform, and which, when inter-
preted, meant that the protection of
the weak is the strength of the govern
ment. But the pronounced single gold
standard in the Republican platform
has caused me to reverse my judgment
and interpret it to now mean that it is
the protection of the strong which is
the strength of the government This
I cannot subscribe to or endorse, nor
can 7 uphold trusts of this kind, which
are destructive instead of beneficial to
the great body of the people. can
only lken it to Shakespeare 'Mer-
chant of Venice with the merciful
character of Portia left out. Silver, the
only thing that should be protected
and measure of exchange, equal with
gold, to uphold the worlds credit, has
been ruthlessly destroyed as primary
money. This, therefore, in my judg-
ment, above all other things, should be
the first great act of protection-to re-
store the silver dollar to its original
position in our monetary system, and
to that end I shall give my support.
We are constantly reminded by the
gold men that any legislation in favor
of the restoration of silver as primary
money by giving it full and unlimited
acceptance to the mints, equal to gold,
at a ratio of 16 to l. would be consider
ed unjust to the people, because. as
they assert, it could not be termed
other than class legislation in the in
tsrest of silver. But you never heard
anything of the injustice done to the
people by the special class legislation
in favor of the unlimited acceptance of
gold at the mints.
THE public judgment condemns
trusts as against the general good of
the people; but here is a trust of the
most gigantic character that has ever
existed, in the interest of the few
against the great body of mankind; a
trust which has the power to make and
unmake governments at will; a trust
which, by its imperial edict, lowers and
lifts the markets of the world to graft
no quality of mercy in it. thriving most
upon the commercial ruin which the
single gold standard has wrought. The
profits in the mining of gold are a mere
bagatelle compared to that made by
those who corner it. and block the
very wheels of industry to satisfy their
unappeased seIfishness."
H. =. Rush is at the head of the
great Rush Milling company, a large
flour plant, that has a capacity of 500
barrels of flour per day He is one of
LeavenwOrth's most substantial citi-
zens. always foremost IN any public
enterprise. More than once he has
been thought of as an available can
d1date for congress. Mr. Rush said:
Il have been a lifelong Republican.
and am yet. If I live. I will vote for
Mr.. Bryan for president for the reason
that I want to see a more liberal use
of silver. I do not believe it possible to
maintain silver at Is to 1 at par with
gold, but do believe in case the silver
party succeeds that silver will appre-
ciate Is to 20 per cent, which will bring
it up to about so cents to the present
dollar. have great confidence in the
ability of the people of this country to
maintain silver on a parity with gold -
w w Carney, a member of the Rush
Milling company, and who is the eldest
son of the late Thomas S. Carney. who
I want more money, but am not
silver man as defined by the Chicago
platform. believe we should have
more recognition of silver than we now
have"
P. J. Mcdonald is one Of Leaven-
worth's leading business men. He is
president of the city council, having
been elected to that position In a body
that is composed of nine Republicans
and three Democrats. Mr.. Mcdonald
said:
For 20 years have voted the Re
publican national ticket I am for the
1ree coinage of silver and gold and
don't believe that the power lay in con-
SreSs to demOnetiZe silver as was at
tempted to be done in '73 Mr. W. D.
Kelly chairman of the committee of
coinage. weights and measures at that
time, Messrs- Blaine, Voorhees,, Allison
Hereford. Beck and several others. sta
ted positively that such bill, demone-
t1z1ng silver, was never read in either
the house OF senate. These statements
Records l am IN favor of paying all
the national debt and all other fndebt-
edneSS, dollar for dollar-state NUM-
cipal and private-in gold and silver
the money of the constitution
NJ. H. Peck, a gentleman of this cftv
who has large experience in mining
talked interestingly on the subject Mr.
Peck has voted for the election of every
Republican president from Abraham
Lincoln down to General Harrison He
spoke as follows:
Il am mining engineer. have had
% years experience in gold, silver and
copper mining and reduction. The av-
silver dollar is over a hundred dollars
Millions OF dollars are suent an worth