The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-24
BOTH SIDES.
Seine OF the Arguments against JAS. A.
Troutmsn for Governor, and
Some For Him.

some EOr Him.
Lieutenant-GOvernOr Troutman has
permitted himself to be persuaded to
come out as a candidate for Governor
to succeed or supercede Morrill,. We
do not know whether it is mistake
or not. If he is nominated and elect
ed, it will not be mistake, for Sue
cess is not usually counted as a mis-
take. But it might prove a serious
mistake for the party to nominate
him. We have always liked Mr..
Troutman, and regard him as an able
young man. But, until within the
last two years, he has been known
chiefly for his connection with the
State Temperance Union, and as one
of the ultra prOhibitiOnists. While
the Republican party adopted pro-
hibitiOn and has sustained it thus far
it has never yielded to the radical
prOhi bitiOnists, or nominated man
for Governor on the sole ground that
he was radical prOhibitiOnist. If
Troutman is nominated, it will be as
sop to that element, that has been
making so much ado over MOrrills
expression of the private opinion as
to the efficacy of prohibition. If MOI
rill is turned down because he dares
to express an opinion that there may
be better way to deal with the
| liquor traffic than our laws, and a
man is nominated over him because
of his zeal in the cause of prohibition,
it makes that the leading issue of the
campaign, and the Republican party
cannot stand up under it. When we
said that the party had never nOmi-
mated a man on the sole ground of
being a radical prohibitionist, we
were not correct. 1t was upon that
ground that st. John was nominated
for third term. The result is not
forgotten. 1t would be repeated in
this case, with perhaps greater ma
jority. 1t would unite all opposition
elements against the republican par
ty, and drive thousands of Republic
cans from support of the ticket, who
have been gradually coming back to
the fold, but can never be held If the
party is placed upon prohibition as
its corner-stone.-Iroy Chief.
What Editor Sol. Miller says of
Mr.. Troutman every body is saying of
him-that they like him, and that he
is able; and nobody questions his in
tegrity and courage. What every
body says must be so, and such a
man ought to be just the kind of can
didate for governor. But the Chief is
afraid of his record as a prohibition
ist, and of his connection with the
State Temperance Union up to two
years ago. Well, if that be crime
in the eyes of the grand old party, let
us plead the statute of limitations,
that there may be no bar to the can
didacy of an able man whom every
body likes and respects.
Seriously, the supporters of Mr..
Troutman are not urging him "solely
on his radical prohibition record"-
they point to his lifelong record as a
stalwart, unswerving Republican;
to his stand against third party en-.
croachments, like a bulwark; to his
unsurpassed record as an effective
and eloquent campaigner; to his un-
daunted courage as a member of the
House during the Dunsmore rebel
lion; to his calm, good judgment,
readiness, tact and general accepta-
bility and credibility as lieutenant
governor and presiding officer of the
senate; in short to the general, all
around fitness for the position of gov
ernor, and especially, to the undis.
puted and indisputable fact that
there was such general, spontane-
GUS demand for his candidacy from
almost every section of the State as
has rarely if ever been seen in Kan
sas.
AS to the question of "sop" to the
prohibition element, we would ask in
all candor how, much longer the Chief
expects the party to win victories if
all the "sops" are thrown to the law
defying element? Has there not been |
entirely too much of that already? Can |
the dog be expected to be wagged by
the tail all the time and every year? |
What are the Chiefs environments,
who are its counsellors, that it sees
danger in throwing "sop" to the
conscientious, law-abiding temper
ance element of the party, and none
whatever in constantly deferring and
knuckling to the liquor element-no
danger at all in the repeated betrsy-
ais of the much larger element, that
which believes in common, decent re-
spect being paid to constitutional and
statutory law?-Oskdloosa Lndepend-
ent.
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