Year: 1878

ToPEKA, KANSAS, March l6, 1873.
EDITOR Troy CmEr:-My attention has been di
rected to discussion emanatns from an assumption
your part, to the effect that am goods and chat
tel. personal in the ownership Of what yon pleased
to style ..the gold gamblers Of the East The las
phase of this icussion is your demand for better in
formation than guesswork, in the following para
graph from your issue Of March lith inst
The Lawrence Journal SAYS it thinks Gov. Anthony
is silver man in good standing. Gov. Anthony is I
very positive man in his expressions, in view Of hch
together with the position he occupies people ought
70 have sos aenne ~ oi hS W. xers & sUe
seen him reported as being anything but the hardes
kind of a hard money man, and some papers have
quoted him as using very hearess language relative
views Of public man, not be compeRed to guess a
them and perhaps find themselves deceived, when il
is too late for n remedy.


Had you thought of this before. a great waste o.
printers ink in Kansas and los of sleepto editors OF
the Missouri border, who assume responsibility fol
the political and moral welfare of State, might
have been saved.


You are right in saving that / am "yery positive
man in my expressions.- No will charge me with
ceive Others or benefit myself What have to say
in this connection shall be characterized by the posi-
tiycness with which You credit me, and all the direct
ness at my command.


You assume, and assert, that the Topeka Common
~ealh is an organ and mouth-pece of mine and pro
eeed to say that it is generally understood that my
Financial ideas such expressed by the Con,
monreaih and the Eastern gold gamblers" Having
assumed and asserted this you sound all the varied
notes of ALARM warning the people the State against
the mcnacing peril of allowing a man to occupy my
position who is not man, but thing-a tool of the
bloated bondholders and goddess gamblers. Like the
poor spinster, of half century of desolate summers
who sat weeping at the open door of a heated oven
Mortified at the thought that if she had baby, and
that baby should creep into that and get roasted
to death, what awful thing it would be; you be
wall the possible loss of srer Senator by the hand
of death, and the appointment by me of gold Sena
tor to the place, who should at once wipe out the
more than two-thirls majority in Congress, demon
etize silver, and ruin the country generally.


Answering your demand for definite knowledge Oi
my views .tas a test of the claim of the Lawrence
Journal, that am "a silver man in good standing,
beg to say: First, that your assumption that the
Commonwealth is my organ, is utterly and absolutely
unfounded in fact, in a reasonable suspicion. II
never has in the past, it never will in the future
speak for me, in any manner have authority to bind
me by its political other utterances In this con
nectiou it is due to say of the Commonwealth that il
never sought OF assuIntu speak
this been of the Chief and other journals there
would have been call for this writing.


Second. never had an unkind thought, much less
evil design, against silver always liked silver
sought silver and "mourned because found it not
was never in favor of demonetizing it, and had
been a member of Congress, should have protested
and voted against it. unless better found
than has yet been presented, in justification of the
act, and in defense of those who voted for it.


Third. have never found any reason for abandon
ing the bietalic standard of values and when strip
ped of its jobbery in the interest of bullion brokers'
or, what in your style should be called "slver gam
bers," my judgment most heartily approves act Of
remone tizatiOn.


Fourth. / have an abiding faith in the integrity
and intelligence of the people represented by the
Republican party in its avowed doctrines and forrnu
lated policy. As representative and trusted agent
of that party it is my duty, rs it ever has been my
pleasure, to hold the clearly expressed views of the
party paramount to my own as a rule of action. As
all men in like positions are, and of right should ad-
init themselves to he, the servant the master
of the people This admission does not involve the
surrender, but the suborination only, Of personal
judgment. IT, therefore, it should occur trust it
never may, that it were may duty to fill by appoint
ment vacancy in the United States Senate, it would
be filed by who would, in my Judgment, rep
resent the State in its political sentiments and its civ


zation, in the most complete and satisfactory man
ner. The man who could be rightfnlly suspected of
doing less than this, would be unfit for any public
trust


To this must be permitted to add, that have no
sympathy with the men, in or out of the Republican
party, who seek to bettle its mission by rdicue and
contempt for its GLORIOUS past."> The attempt to
write over he Uor1 eaunfry- unou ita
banners is alike disloyalty to party and treason
country. The work for which the Republican party
was brought into being is not yet DONE Treason to
the fundamental doctrines of Government is not
dead but is restless and active in the expectation of
ultimate mastery. The political and civil equality
the Republican party stands pledged to establish and
maintain, are not fixed facts. The head of Ma
tional Government, elected as a Republican by Re
pubcans stands in open hostility to the spirit and
essence Of free government, declaring that ''intel
gence and prosperity not legally constituted maor
ties, must rule Andtoday he looks with apparent
Indifference to that rule, in a large portion of
country, knowing that it deies justice mprisons pat
riots and intimdates maorties whose intelligence is
not equal to the work of assassination and who have
property i'm shot guns and ammunition for that pur
pose.


lit be true that the only remaining work for the
Republican party is to determine the number of grains
Of silver which is to constitute the dolarunt of value
and regulate the volume of currency to meet the
wants of trade, then. indeed, the statement imputed.
unjustly hope, to President Hayes that he found
the Republican party dead at the time of his inaugu
ration, might well be true. Finance has become
the bonanza" of demasogery let it not he made the
grave of patriotism.


Asking publication of this, with assurance that your
patience and space shall not again be taxed in like
manner. Very respectfully. GEO. T. ANTHONY.
Organization Of . County Committee Of the


National Party.


Pursuant to notice, meeting was held at the Court
House. in Troy, Donphan County, Kansas, March l6.
1873


The meeting was called to order by R. H. Mont
gomery. Benjamin Harding was called to the Chair,
and r. H. Montgomery was appointed temporary
Secretary.