Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-08-05
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Judge ]. N. Haymaker Spends
a Few Days With His Old
Law Partner, and Talks
a Little Kansas Politics

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Judge in. Haymaker, of Wichita,
Kansas. who was for some days visit
ing Judge II. W. Holt of this city,
the week just passed, is Kansas
Democrat of the dyed n the
wool type. He has lived in Kansas
% years, going there when he was a
young man, from southern Indiana,
and was the law partner of Judge
Holt, when the latter lived in Wichita.
He has been in politics in Kansas,
in all of it's forms, since the days OF
John J. Ingalls,. He helped to elect
Hon. W. A. Harris to Congress and
then assisted in sending him to the
Senate. It the senate, Mr.. Harris
was called a Populist. He was, as will
be rememered. confederate soldier,
born in Shenandoah county, Virgin
ia, and moved to Kansas after the
war. He was first elected to congress
as a candidate at large and possibly
no Confederate soldier ever won a
more remarkable victory. Judge Hay
maker says that the popuIistic move
ment has lost identity there, and mas
become merged into the democratic
party, or the individuals have drifted
back into the old parties, but that the
"Insurgent" movement is doing more
for the cause of democracy in the
West, than can be conceived. They
have adopted nearly all the ideas
for which democrats have contended,
and are pressing them with more force
than democrats could do, because the
democrats could not get hearers
among the republicans, hence their
ideas took no root; but the insurgents
being republicans thew can get an
audience and can find believers, in
their own party. The democrats dc
not require conviction so that every
convert to reduction of tariff, corpo'
rate control and the paramount issu-
es of the day, comes, of course, from
the republican ranks. Wichita is the
home of Victor Murdoch, the leading
insurgent in the house. He is close
personal friend of Judge Haymake1
and is young man who, as the editor
of the Wichita Eagle the leading re-
publican newspaper in Southern Kan
sas has written and thought over the
iniquities of the tariff, and the un-
due power of corporations, and has
found that his people cannot, and do
not, draw adequate compensation
from protection to eastern manufac.
turers, and therefore decline to be
enslaved longer for their comfort.
He was in Kansas daring the recent
visit of Mr.. Cannon, who came and
talked before the Cautauquas in fav-
or of the Payne Aldrich. tariff bill and
plead the cause of MIR. Aidrich on his
Indictment by Senator Bristow, for
havfng9egislated money into his peck.
cts by an increased duty on manufac-
tured rubber, and he says that Mr.
Cannon convinced nobody. That he
rather famed the insurgent flame and
caused the fire to rage more intense
~ He further says shat whilst there
is NO party split in name, in the west
there is split in sentiment, and the
people who are endeavoring to force
an idea, and are as determined in
it, as the people Of the middle west
are, will not stickle over name.
They are going to win regardless of
sentimental convictions in the repub-
lican party if they can, out of it, if
they must. The name Of Lincoln is
very dear to them, but as the issues
of today are not those which formed
the party, and called Mr.. Lincoln to
be it's head, The eoffrt to hold them
by shouting his name in their ears, as
Mr.. Cannon did, has no weight. they
surrender no principle for which, he
stood in theirspresent position, indeed
they feel that as he was their cham
pion of Liberty, they can still regard
him with the same veration as of old
because they are now in sense slaves
and need a liberatOr, and they further
believe that their emancipation mus
come by reason of their determination
to force the republican party to light
en- their burdens, within its ranks
but if impossible, then as insurgents
they will fight for the liberty they
believe due them outside the party
Whilst here, Judge Haymaker visited
various portions of the county.
He,went with Judge Holt to Licking
ton to look over Washington and Lee
University and the Military Institute
and also to see objects of historic
interest there. He went also to TIN
University of Virginia where m
might see something of the hand o
jefferson, whose principles and teach
ings he has closely followed. From
there he went to Richmond and will
visit some of the battle fields. H
was born in 1858, hence can onl,
remember little of the war, whilst i
progressed but his interest in it
marked. He will from Richm ond e
to New York and Bosom, returnin,
home by Chicago, joining his famil.
on Lake Michigan where they ar
summering.