The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-10
A Resignation Not Accepted.

The communication below is from q Re
publican in Brooklyn, who signs his name
and furnishes his address:
"The writer. like thousands Of other Republicans
who have always voted the straight ticket in an
honest effort TO have sound money and protect
American industries from rabid Anarchists, has de.
termined, at least for the next four years. TO give the
cowardiy gang Of .white-livored' MuEwumps or
'holier than thou traitors q good feed of
Organism by voting Tammany Hall straight. BY
that time they will be so sick OF their dirty tricks and
In such fear of losing their railroad stocks and bonds
that they will crawl and grovel on their weak, COW.
ardly knees and call for help. Why should we work
inrmen. who never owned Q United States bond or q
share in q railroad. vote for the benent of . GLASS who
cannot appreciate our enorts7 They put Tammany
in power when we had Tammany licked to q stand.
still. Now we will give them all they want OF it."
This is the language of disappointment
and evaporation, but 1t probably repre-.
sents the present sentiments and intentions
Of a great many indignant Republicans in
the Greater New York.
The evaporation Is natural, for such
treachery and such selfshness as have been
witnessed recently are likely always to pro-
woke the desire to punish the traitors and
the self-seekers by any means available
n at any cost.
But while there is a good deal of human
nature in our correspondents passionate
letter, there is very little political common
sense. The best way to show him that
this is the case is to answer plainly the one
question which he asks.
The Republican workingmen who were ap-
pealed to in 1896 to stand by the Repub-
lican party as the defender of the honest
Io11or and Tho copooryotor IF the potiop,a
honor, credit, and material prosperity, and
who were deserted in 1897 by some of those
who had appealed the loudest a year be-
fore, should continue to stand by the Re-
publican party in 1898 and in 1900 be.
cause it is their WI interest so to do,
IL for no other reason. Not for the ben
eft of a "class" which possesses rail.
road stocks and bonds did they vote
for MCKINLEY and HOBART in the great
crisis of q year ago, but for the ben
eft of themselves, and for the defence of
their country's good fortune and good
name. Their political attitude against
Organism was determined not by philan.
thropy toward bondholding Mugwumps
and others, but by enlightened self.in-
terest. They saw that the cause was
their own and a vast number of American
citizens who never handled a certificate
of railroad stock or cut a single coupon
voted for the protection Of their wages, for
the protection Of their savings bank &C.
counts, for the protection of their life in.
surance policies, when they voted for the
one-hundred-cent dollar; and they SAVED
the day.
What they did last time they must do
and will do next time. They cannot give
the traitors led by SETH Low and the Ne,D
York Tribune "a good feed of Organism"
without themselves p%artaking of that dead
ly repast; and they are not fools and sui
cides, however attractive just now the idea
OF vengeance may seem to them.
Our Republican friends resignation is
not accepted. He must fight on.