Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-16
WANNAMAKER, LIKE BANQUo's GHOST
WILL NOT BE sILENCED.

eral under President Harrison, has be-
come regular John ]. ingalls, in break
out every few days and pouring yitriol
into the republican camp. He says he
must speak and can't help it. His first
outbreak was made several weeks ago
and caused no little amount of alarm in
the republican ranks. 1t drove great
many of the republican bosses into hys-
terics and every effort was put forth to
silence Mr.. Wannamaker because he
stands high In the councils of the re-
publican party, nationally speaking and
every word he utters carries with it
great deal of weight among the faith
full.
TO show what the inevitable John is
saying we publish two extracts from
his famous interviews. They were Or
iginally published In the New York
Herald, but since that time have been
spread broadcast, as it were, all over
the world:
The foes America has to fear are not
theSultan ofTurkey, nor the insurgents
of Cuba, nor the territory -graspingBrlt-
ish, but they are our patient and heart
tired people, our own suffering, much
promised people who, betrayed and dis
heartened, no longer have faith in their
party and will turn to any leadership
that offers promise of better times, be-
lIeving that worse times can never
come than those now existing. 1t is a
terrible thing to observe public senti-
ment adrlft and unexplained, the PEG.
pie sweeping away from the affection
to the old party.
The young men are growing indif-
ferent to the republican principles, with
no respect for parties of broken plat.
forms who used national and state pat
ronage in payment of election con-
tracts. The political religion of the ma
ton is falling lower and lower under in
suits to intelligence, violation of law
| and reckless daring of INSCRIPTIONS
| bosses.
There will most assuredly come
day when there will be mighty revolt
and resistance, resulting in a revolu-
ton that will give birth to new polit-
lcal party. Laws continually despised
and dlsregarded, legislation conceived
for Matchmaking purposes, speculation
by public officials in trusts and other
stocks, while tariffs and other financial
bills are pending, must surely and ire
vocably ALLEVIATE the people from their
party and awaken a disposition and
desperation to substitute almost any
wild aud untried leadership with the
hope of possible relief"
The second interview:
Il chose two arguments to convince
them that they should stand I'D and
keep on working for the public good.
First, because of their ante election
promising speeches, which should be
kept in good faith.
Second, because of the creeping par
alysls of business and bitter want of
the unemployed.
what said was addressed to Penn
sylvanians, and much of 1t bore solely
on state politics. Much as love quiet
ness and peace 1t is not possible for me
to be Indifferent or silent in the present
condition of atfrirs. Neither can l take
nor give opiates.
In these times campaign speeches
are only empty shells, without kernels.
However we'll meaning, or whoever it
is who thinks he does good by them
must be forgetting that a million of
workmer and their children are hungry.
The man who looks for bread in such
speeches will not have much to eat.
THE public heart cannot be fired by
eloquence in this way just now, for the
power of patriotism is wet with tears
of suffering unemployed. Give me hold
of somebody's hand who will do some
thing, not.talk about it month after
month.
ITO keep work for the 5000 and more
persons in my employ and turn away
from the several hundred who apply
daily and beg for the privilege of labor
to keep the wolf from the door drives
me into fever, and must speak out.
Any citizen has that right.
81 cannot sit on fence with a stiff
wind blowing and whistle for prospect
ty, vanished bird of beautiful plumage,
to come back.
1--WE ought to have new, a better
tariff; but if we cannot get it, let us SET
tie down on the old one and adjust our
selves to it as best We can. If we can
not move out of the old house, we might
build wing to it or add another story.
"a republican house has been in ses.
sion since last December, and its rid
died tariff bill still losses about at the
other end of the capitol.
II to be impatient is unpatriotic
when the delays are so protracted and
seemingly unnecessary in adjusting
these two great questions uppermost In
the mind, then 1 must ask to be forglv-
en- for miscounting the pulse of most of
the people that meet.
There are not few who believe that
since the war no such exigency fell up
on the country as that which preceded
the election in November, 1896.
The spirit which moved the people
then is still alive. 1t will neither be
ignored nor dallied with. The tariff.
money, economy of expenditures must