Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-29
GIVES HIS REASON.

| A. j. Felt, when he declared for Bry-
an and Breidenthal, announced his res.
ignation as chairman of the Nemaha
county Republican central committee,
but failed to state that he intended al
so to step down and out as a member
of the county committee.
This oversight on the part of Mr..
Felt prompted fine following letter
from w. E. Buck, secretary of the
committee, addressed to Mr.. Felt:
II am very sorry that you have re-
signed as chairman of the Republican
central committee. | do hope you
have not gone back on the G.. o. p,
and that We will find you in the front
ranks fighting for Mckinley and pros
perity. AS read your letter you only
| resigned as chairman and not as COM
mltteeman. Please let me hear from
you"
In reply to Mr.. Buck, Mr.. Felt for
warded the following letter:
My resignation as chairman intend
ed to cover my membership of the COM
mittee. have not gone back OIL the
old faith Of the g. .. Z. as you state
the case, but, while holding practically
the same views upon public questions
as have advocated in the press and
| on the stump from the time | support
ed Lincoln and every Republican can
dldate down to the present year, l am
more nearly in accord with the plat.
form adopted at Kansas City and re-af-
iirmed at Fort Scott, than the one
adopted by the Republicans last month
at Philadelphia.
Probably my decision IS as surpris.
ing to Democrats and Popu!ists as to
Republicans, but in view of new issues
in this campaign my duty is PLAIN. 1t
pains me deeply to sever my relations
with the Republican party. To that
party has been given my sincere candid,
unreserved, aud never ceaslng labor in
every presidential and state campaign
for thirty-six years. Had l regard
merely for my own personal interests,
certainly should remain in the Re-
publican party. Had in view pollt.
ieal preferment, of course, 1 should
strive to maintain my place with the
Republicans. With my earnest con-
yictions regarding the European policy
of the Mckinley administration in It's
| treatment of Porto Rico and the Phil
ipPlnes-with its attempt to retire the
| greenbacks aud form tue national
| banks into a. gigantic trust-with it's
| craven, un Republican and anti Amer
lean attitude in its cool and cold blood
ed refusal to tender its sympathy to
the struggling Boer republic IN the
| Transvaal-with its failure to enforce
the antitrust laws-with Its cool con-
tempt for the Grand Army of the Re-
public, by retaining at the head of the
pension office man whose plan in
dealing with surviving union veterans,
is TO use against the deserving pension
applicants the laws made expressly for
their benefit; with these views | can.
not consistently vote for Mckinley this
year.
You say you want me to stand by
Mckinley and prosperity If McKin-
ley is responsible for the foreign wars
and the foreign crop shortage, thus
creating demand for American pro
ducts, then jeff DAVIS was creator of
business prosperity in the north sfrom
1861 to 1865 by making unusual demand
| by his deviltry for northern food, cloth
ing, wagons, mules and guns. If Nc
Kinley is to be gloritied for good Kan
sas crops, then he IS equally RESPONSE
BILE for the hot winds, drouth and short
corn crop in our western counties this
year.
You and are too old, and hope
too sensible, to attempt to mlslead peo-
pie by clap trap about prosperity
We know that in 1896 we all declared
as Republicans, that the va lue of mon
az did not appreciate values or make
prosperity but the Philadelphia con-
| ventlon points with PRIDE to the fact
that Mckinley has increased largely
the money value and thus added to the
wave of prosperity
1T has been suggested to me today
that shall lose my friends by support
ing Bryan and Breidenthal. I hope
that is not true. Friends who lose re-
spect fer man who follows his earn
est convictions are not worth having.
Of course expect to be snarled at by
those who would vote for Satan if on
their ticket, but l can much more east
ly endure the criticism of such men
than to stifie my political convictions
as an American citizen owing no allie
glance to any flag but old Glory and
no feal,y to any country but the
United States. State Journal.
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