Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-24
SABETuA, KANSAS, July 80. 1900.
Sec'y Republican Central Committee

SENECA, July 81, 1900.
w. G. Buck, Esq, Secretary Repub-
lican Committee.-M Friend Buck:
Thanks for your kind letter Of yester-
day. My resignation as chairman in
tended to cover my membership of the
committee.' l have not ''gone back on
the faith of the G. o. p.," as you state
the case, but, while holding practically
the same views upon public questions
as have advocated in the press and
upon the stump from the time l sup
ported Lincoln and every other repub-
lican presidential candidate down to
the present year, / am more nearly in
accord with the platform adopted and
re-affirmed at Fort Scott, than with
the one adopted by republicans last
month at Philadelphia.
Probably my decision is as surpris
ing to democrat and populists as tt
republicans, but in view of new issues
in this campaign, my duty is plain
1t pains me deeply to sever my rela
tions with the Republican party. Tt
that party has been given sincere
candid, unreserved and never ceasing
labor in every presidential and state
campaign for thirty-six years.
Had regard merely for my own per-
sonal interest certainly l should re-
main in the Republican party. Had
in view any political preferment OF
course should strive to maintain my
place with the republicans. With my
earnest convictions regarding tht
European policy of the Mckinley ad
miniStration in it's treatmentof Porte
Rico and the Philippines: with is at
tempt to retire the Greenbacks anC
form the national banks intoa gigan.
tic trust: with its craven, unrepubli.
can and anti-American attitude in its
cruel and cold-blooded refusal to ten
der It's sympathy to the struggling
Boer Republic in the Transvaal: witt
its failure to enforce the anti-trus'
laws: with its cool contempt for tn,
Grand Army of the Republic by re
tanning at the head of the pension
office man whose plan in dealing
with surviving Union veterans is tt
use against deserving pension appli
cants the laws made expressly for thei
benefit: with these views l cannot con
sistently vote for Mckinley this year
You say you want me to 'sstand b,
Mckinley and prosperity" Dea
friend Buck, If Mckinley is response
BILE for the foreign wars and the for
eign crop shortage, thus creating de
mand for American products, the
jeff. Davis was a creator of bushes
prosperity in the North from 1861 t
1865 by making unusual demand b
his deviltry for northern food, clothin.
wagons, mules and guns. If McKinle
is to be glorifed for good Kansas croI
then he is equally responsible for tt
hot winds, drouth and short corn i
our western counties this year. 70
and are too old, and | hope too sens
Bile, to attempt to mislead people.
clap-trap about prosperity" W
know that in 1896 we all declared q
republicans, that the volume of MOI
ey did not depreciate values or max
prosperity" but the PHILADELPHIA
convention points with pride" to tt,
fact that Mckinley has largely il
creased the money volume and thu
added to "the waves of prosperity. !"
1t has been suggested to me toda
that I shall lose my friends by supper
ing Bryan and Breidenthal. l hor
that is not.true. Friends who lose +,
spect for a man who follows his carr
est convictions are not worth having