The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-01-01
THE KICKER CLUB.
Congratulate President MoKinley Upon
His Success.


His Success.
The Kicker club met in a dugOut
west of town last week and directed
the committee on resolutions to draft,
plaigarize, remodel or clip from the
newspapers a suitable congratulatiOn
to President.elect Mckinley. The fol
lowing was reported and adopted by
unanimous vote:
Resolved, That we extend to William McKin-
ley, it,, our cordial personal congratulations
that he is chosen to the highest Office known to
our system of government.
We trust that his conduct of that high charge
may be as stainless as his personal character,
and may be actuated and guided, under his own
conscience, by only patriotic and humane re-
gard for the general welfare Of the great mass
of the suffering American people, without refer
ence to the policies of any other nation or of the
fabluOusly wealthy combinations which in our
midst are more dangerous to US than if across
seas,
And we, of the Kicker club, the anarchists and
regulators, the advocates of national discTedit
and dishonor in the late campaign, do hereby
pledge him our earnest appreciation in all he
may do OF suggest to promote the general vel.
fare, reserVing our American right TO protest in
constitutional and legal manner against what
ever measures We may regard as tending to OPP
press the people or postpone their redress.
We respectfully suggest that in order to &C
compIish the good of the people it may become
expedient for the president-eiect to cast off his
evil associates and say to them, as did Henry v
at his coronation: Il know you not
have turned away my former self so will those
that kept me company"
We congratulate the banks that they are e1
empt for a time for campaign assessments to buy
votes for the preservation of national honor
that confidence is restored so that they need nc
| longer hoard, nor threaten foreclosure, nor 70
fuse what they term accommodation"
We congratulate the manufacturing magnatel
| that the minis are closed and the mills are open
ed, so that the dread monster, "oysrprOduetion,
is no longer to be feared, and that "undeTpro
duction," with its attendant blessings, mus
speedily result,
We congratulate the life insurance companies
that their tears may now be dried which the!
shod over the apprehension Of being compelled
to pay widows and orphans when they SHOULD
pay at all in 5S-cent dollars, but we mourn viii
the companies that they viii now be compelled
TO accept 2OO-cent dollars in payment Of pre-
NUNS.
We congratulate the railway companies tina
they are freed from the crusl duty Of intimadat
ing discharge Or payment in deprecated dollars
thereby compelling men to vote, not work, 70
the subsistence OF their wives and little ones.
We congratulate the trusts and syndicate
that the ancient crime against the people o
"toTestalling" and ''engFOssing" may yet have
tacit lease of four years mOre-as in the pas
four years-unless the new president shall cas-
Of those evil associates.
To those evil associates We commend the word
OF the prophet Amos: Hear this, o ye tina
would swallow up the needy and cause the poo
of the land to fail, saying when will the neY
moon be gone that we may sell eoTni And th
Sabbath that We may set forth wheat Maxim
the epsh small and the shekel great, and dealin
Aa1ouAs VIII DeAoNe9 "a e~IAr --l'-F ~ A---a ~
the poor for silver and the needy Tor pair q
shoes. Shall not the land tTemble fo
this and everyone mourn that dwelleth therein
viii turn your fessts into mOuFnin
and all your songs into iamentation."
We congratulate the cOmmoneFs and him VII
has received their accolade, W. J. Bryan, On thi
noble contest with which the struggle begin
and We pledge ourselves to organize anew, s
that the Brooklyn Heights and Valley Forge
our var Of financial Independence may culmil
ate in a Yorktown at the dawn Of the new cen
ary.