The representative., 1900-04-26
ANOTHER FLOP.


Lincoln Republicans.
More and more the distinctive featur
of the bolt from the Republican party /.
1896 is becoming whitfield away.
E. S. Corser, who holds the position o
surveyor general of logs and lumber II
Minneapolis, and who draws from SO,
900 to $4,000 year out of fusion, find
that the Democratic party of the natio1
Is about to drop the silver issue com
pletely, and to render it easier for tn,
Silver Republicans to still hang on t.
the coat-tails of Democracy, he proposes
TO change the name Of his party, OF pre-
tended party, from Silver Republican.
to Lincoln Republicans.
We find the following in recent issu.
OF the Minneapolis Times:
Lincoln Republicans" are to succeed
Free Silver Republicans" and the Nationa
silver Republican party is to give way tt
the Lincoln Republican party. The part,
OF one issue is to become the party of sew.
erai issues. and the issue to which it owe.
its origin is to be pushed into the back
ground. While changing it's name it be.
comes more democratic than ever, and, it:
leaders hope. more able to render effective
service to ''the regenerated Democracy
than in 1896.
The transformation scene is to take place
at Kansas City, July 4, when the national
conventions of both the Free Silver Re-
publican and the Democratic parties are In
session.
The underlying idea Of the proposed and
assured change is the same as that which
causes many former Republicans to say
that they are lust as good Republicans
as they ever were 1t is sought to convey
the idea that Republicans OF Mckinley
time are different in all but name from
the Republicans Of Lincoln's time Voters
who feel that their judgment and sympa-
thies are with the anti Republican side OF
the new issues are to be supplied with a
convenient political retreat where without
taking upon themselves the name of Demo-
Gratis they can yet be Democrats in fact
ana OF even more assistance to the Demo-
cratic party than as plain converts
+. s. Corser, who occupies the RESPONSE
BILE position of intermediary between the
national organizations of the various anti
Republican parties and combinations, today
issued statement in the form of a pros
pectus OF the Silver Republican convention
to be held at Kansas City, July 4, stimuli
taneously with the national convention of
the Democratic party.
This statement announces that the change
OF names will then take place, dwells on
the work OF the Lincoln Republican League
which has done the preliminary work ir>the
cause of the change, lays down the probable
planks OF the platform, tells how Lincoln's q
memory and sentiments will be celebrated
incidentally excoriates President Mckinley
and his administration, predicts the nomin-
alton OF Bryan and Towne and generally
the program of the convention.
AS will be seen from Mr.. Corser's state
ment, the change in the name Of the party
and the broadening of It's scope, have been
for some time. Work to that
end has been performed largely through
the medium Of the Lincoln Republican
League, which has been especially active
in Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and Minnesota,
the latter having really been the center of
the movement. But the intention to change
the party's name has been kept very we'll
covered. It Is now considered that the
time has come to make the intention public;
which Mr.. Corser, speaking authoritatively
rs member of the national committee Of
his party, and as its executive agent in
dealings with the allies, does in the follow
Ing statement: =
THE LINCOLN REPUBLICAN PARTY.
A most potential factor Of the campaign
of 1900 is already foreshadowed in the new
national organization known as Lincoln Re-
publicans. At present it has no national
and its organized form is that
If the Lincoln Republican League" which
s already issuing it's campaign literature in
he form of Lincoln Republican booklets. to
which reference will be made later in this
article
The Lincoln Republican League was the
natural growth resulting from the cleavage
rom the Republican party in 1896 of host
its best members because Of the final
reachery of that party to its repeated ma
ional declaration of loyalty to bimetallism.
rhe growth Of the league was, however,
greatly enlarged during 1899 by the adop-
and by the appalling devel-
'pment of trusts.
So marked was the growth Of the Lincoln
Republican sentiment that at the meeting of
he national committee Of the Silver Re-
,ublican party at Chicago. in November.
899. when the program Of the Lincoln Re-
publican League was presented and urged
Ipon that body it met with general favor,
md 1t became evident that when the ma
ional convention of Free Silver Republic
ms should meet in 1900, that It's platform
would be greatly enlarged and national
zed, and that as a natural and easily COM
distinction between Lincoln Re-
ublicanism and Hanna McKinleyism a
ew party called Lincoln Republicans"
hould be formed.
The Democrats first stole the name Of |
he Peoples party, and now the Free
|ilver Republicans want to steal the !
lame Of the Republican party, for, of |
curse, every true Republican venerates |
nd worships the name of Abraham |
lincoln. This is another instance of |
rying to get votes under false pre-
enses. Abraham Lincoln's whole bat |
lie during his lifetime was against the |
democratic party; they denounced and |
idiculed him in the most outrageous
ashion,, and finally crazy Democrat I
him. And now e. s. Corser
God save the markD is trying to turn
he nation over to that same Democratic
arty in the name Of Abraham Lincoln!!
1t is simply awful. 1t is to be regret
I'd that the laws against obtaining
loney under false pretenses and against
lrceny do not apply to political affairs.
they did, we all know where E. s.
orser would pass his declining years.
Look at 1t! The real Peoples party
obbed Of its name by a gang of ONCE
sekers, and compelled to call them
lives Mid-Road Populists to get place
a the state ticket. And now II. 8.
orser and his gang are invading the
lnks of the Republican party to steal
leir name, afivored by the name of the
atron saint Of all Republicans.
And 1t is by such tricks as these that
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