The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-29
KYLE TAKES HIS STAND.
Would Rather Be a Republican Than
Flock With Socialists.

New York Dec. ga special to the
Times from Washington says:
Senator Kyle of South Dakota, who
has been elassed in the congressional di-
rectOry, presumably upon his own au-
thority, as an Independent in politics,
but who repeatedly has voted with the
Republicans, has come out in declara-
ton that will justify the makers of the
directory hereafter in classifying him
as a Republican in name as we'll as in
fact He is out of line with his former
Populist associates and says So
Though am q. bimetallist and have
been so from conscientious convictions
for % years. he said, I would rather
take the most undiluted gold standard
ism than to accept bimetallism with the
ingredients of radical socialism that are
now associated with it"
He does not favor that part of sug-
gested legislation which gives to the
secretary of the treasury authority to
issue bonds at his own discretion. be-
lieVing that when the people of the
United States find it necessary to in
crease their public debt congress should
be consulted.
On the general question of voting for
the gold standard, he does not believe
that the enactment into law of a prin-
ciple which is now generally recognized
will affect the country disadvantage
ously. We have been practically op-
Grating under the gold Standard he
said, for 80 years. We have brought
ourselves into harmony with the money
systems of the world. 1t is a doubtful
proposition whether it is right to dis
EuFD values again Wnen Dy Sucn acIlOn
we do injustice to the creditor class and
at the same time put ourselves out of
joint with the rest of the world In 30
years we have adjusted ourselves to
new conditions and in going to BIZ
metallism now we might be committing
a second wrong, the demonetization of
silver being the first, in order to make
right
Senator Kyle says that the third
party movement has degenerated into
an Endorsement of all that is radical
and sOcialistic.
The chairman of the POpulist party in
South Dakota, he says, is a socialist of
the most pronounced type, whose news
paper advocates an entirely new form of
government. The Republicans and con-
servative Democrats who were assOci-
ated in the independent movement in
the past have returned to their former
political allegiance, not caring to fol-
low A1tgeld, DebS and other agitatOrS.
Because of these radical meetings" he
said, the American flag was twice torn
down and the red flag of socialism
raised in it's place. 1 am in favor of
American Institutions added Mr. Kyle,
'and I would rather take the Republi
can party, with all in it that is distaste-
full to me, than be allied with these who
have no respect for our flag and who
want to tear down our government.
rs the Independent movement in
South Dakota. at an end?'
TT is probable that the socialists the
radical POpulists and the radical Dem
OcratS will get together and operate
under the name of the reform party. In
the election last fall there was no or
ganfzed Democratic party and no Dem
Ocratic ticket. The name was complete
ly obliterated and yet it was not so very
long ago that the Democrats cast $1,000
votes in my state.
This congIomerated party can never
win. The present POpuliSt governor
was elected by bare majority of 300,
although previously the POpulists had
several thousand majority. In the last
election the Republicans, without money
and without a struggle, won by nearly
1000. In the presidential campaign next
year South Dakota will go for McKin-
ley by from 900 to Is, 900. The social
istic tendency of the third party people
and the prosperity which is being en-
joyed by the South Dakota farmers
have sounded the death knel of the old
movement