Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-10-20
STANLEY QUESTIONED.
PARTY TERRIBLY AssAILEp BY
AN OLD SOLDIER.
An Opon letter TO W. nc. Stanley, by nm
old Soldier who Knows What no IL
Talking About. Deception and Lying
Should Cease.


stop to notice as II was type OF your
party campaign; further than inform
you that II you expect TO be governor
OF Kansas by such campaign, rs Is
indicated In your speech, you will find
In November that the people will not
indorse such wholesale abuse and
villainous, false assertions. In that
speech you took occasion to crack the
same old chestnut cracked by your
party In every campaign, by declaring
that "the republican party is tho best
friend the old soldier has" You fur
Their said ~ stand on platform which
pledges me 10 the old soldier"
Your party never stands on any 9TH
err kind, but the misfortune is, they
never fulAll their pledges Very nice
talk to soft soap him and catch his
vote.
Sir, you must have known when you
made that assertion, that you were as
sorting that which thousands Of old
soldiers have found, by sud experience,
TO be utterly untrue.
AS one OF the old boys who has had
experience Of republican love for the
old soldier, / feel 1t my duty to defend
the old soldiers Of Kansas against any
such assertions, and deny any such
assertions and resent any such insult
to the old veterans, and In doing 80
shall bring to your notice some facts
which you dare not deny.
You know campaign never opens
but "pensions and the old soldier" Is
the cry Of the republican party.
The republican party loves the old
soldier. Yes, sir, they love him so
deeply, so fervently; but notice that
II is far more deep and fervent just at
the time when his vote Is needed to
put the party in Office. That Is your
case just now. When election is over
they soon forget he is living This
love OF the G. o. p wanes and dies out
intil next election, when 1t suddenly
bursts forth with the brightness Of the
Iun. After they get in congress they
get so busy legislnting for railroads,
corporations, banks, trusts and the
money lords, that they have no time to
think of him. They arc filing their
own pockets.
But more Of this perhaps further on.
Let us come nearer home. Let us go
up TO Hutchinson and witness the
brightness Of that luminnry of love.
The only wonder TO me is that it did
not sot the city on fire, so great was
The brilliancy. There was u state con-
vention Of the "Gold Only Party" held
there TO nominate state ticket Boss
Leland & Co. were the managers. The
people didu't have any hand in II, The
bosses do the thinking for them. You
we're up there too, but for fear you
don't remember all that took place,
will let the following clipping from the
Kansas City Times tell the story.
"Mr. Leland and the state committee
have these suspicious because guilt
haunts them. There were seven can
tidates for governor. Six of them were
old soldiers, and every one of them
was defeated for the nomination, and
the one who was not an old soldier got
II. There were four candidates for
treasurer, Three of them were old
soldiers and the one that wasn't got 1t.
1t was so all along down the line, For
congrcssman-at'large, Dick Blue, the
idol of the republican old soldiers Of
Kansas, was defeated and man who
was born since the war was nominated
In his stead. This was In fulfllment
Of a contract whereby an old sol
der was slaughtered for congressman
In the First district in the interest Of n
man who was born since the breaking
out of the civil war. Then that con-
vention, after the slaughter Of old SOL
diers was complete, in great outburst
of enthusiasm passed q resolution that
old soldiers were entitled to the
"snap" Of the earth and should have
the preference Of men who were not
old soldiers. The platform which con-
tanned this resolution was kept back
on purpose until after the nominations
were made and the old soldier candi-
dates were slaughtered. 1t Is no won
der that the state committee does not
want TO be responsible for any utter
ances Mr. Ingalls, may desire to make
about old soldiers in the campaign"
Do you remember anything about
thisP How can you then IN the face OF
such damaging evidence stand up be-
fore an intelligence audience and utter
such language as you did at LawrenceT
"The republican party loves the old
soldier" What sheer nonsense TO any
sensible man. Aud then to cover up
this dirty work, the state committee,
although disclaiming any responsible
ity, barred John j. ingalls, off thu