Year: 1878




the suddenness OF the transfer, l would not
have taken this action if had been deal
ing with the men Individually, or even as
an office, but dealing with the Union, which
1 could not control, but which could control
them, We were forced to take such meas
ures as would prevent even the possibility
of strike or OF any other movement which
would embarrass the daily business of the
paper. We have had many precedents in
that respect, and concluded to be prepared
for any emergency"


Governor Anthony Rises 60 Explain.


TOPEKA, KAs, March 16, 1878.


EDITOR Troy CHIEF: Ny attention has
been directed TO a discussion emanating
from an assumption, on your part, to the
effect that am goods and chattels personal
in the ownership OF what you are pleased
to style ''the gold gamblers of the East"
The last phase of this discussion is your
demand for better information than guess
work, in the following paragraph from your
issue Of March lilh, inst:


The Lawrence Journal says it thinks
Gov. Anthony is a silver man in good stand
ing. Gov. Anthony is very positive man
in his expressions, in view of which, to-
gether with the position he occupies, people
ought to have some definite knowledge OF
his views, without being compelled to gness
at them. We have never seen him reported
as being anything but the hardest kind OF
hard money man, and some papers have
quoted him as using very heartless language
relative To the debtor class. The people
ought to know the views of a public man,
not be compelled to guess at them, and per-
haps find themselves deceived when it is too
late for remedy"


Had you thought of this before, a great
waste Of printers ink in Kansas, and loss of
sleep to editors on the Missouri border, who
assume the responsibility for the political
and moral welfare of our State, might have


been saved.


You are right in saying that am "very
positive man in my expressions" No one


will charge me with the suppression .of a
4 conviction or sentiment, TO deceive others,
or benefit myself What have to say in
this connection shall be characterized by
the positiveness with which you credit


me, and all the directness at my command.
You assume, and assert, that the Topeka
| Commonwealth Is an organ and mouth-piece


of mine, and proceed TO say that it Is gen.


orally understood that my financial ideas


are such as are expressed by the Cmnoa-


,ceolh and the Eastern gold gamblers ~


Having assumed and asserted this, you


sound all the varied notes Of alarm, warn


ing the people OF the State against the men,


acing part of allowing man to occupy my


position, who Is not a man, but a thing-a
| tool OF the bloated b1niholders and goddess
gamblers. Like the poor spinster, OF half
century OF desOlate summers, who sat weed


ing at the open door OF a heated oven, hor-


ritied at the thought, that il she had a baby,


and that baby should creep into that oven


and get roasted to death, what an awful


thing it would be; so you Ibewail the posi-


BILE loss a siirer Senator by the hand OF
death, and the appointment by me OF gold
Senator 10 the place, who should at once


wipe out the more than two-thirds ma
jority in Congress, demonetize silver, and
ruin the country generally.


Answering your demand for definite


knowledge OF NV views ..as 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, o. in Il reason
able suspicion. Ii never has in The past, il
never AL III lulltIt, ltI VI III
any manner have authority to bind me by
It's political, or other uiterances. In this
connection it is due to say OF the Common


r.oth, that it has never sought or assumed
to speak for me, and had this been true OF
the Ciiet, and other journals, there would
have been no call for this writing.


Second. never had an unkind thought,
much less an evil design, against silver; al
WAYS liked silver-sOught silver, and
..mOurned because / found it not" | was
never in favor OF demoneiizing il, and had
been member Of Congress, should have
protested ard voted against it, unless bet
ter reason was found than has vet been pre-
sented, in justification OF the act, and in de-
fensa OF those who voted for it.


Third. have never found any reason
for abandoning the bi-metalic standard oil
values, and when stripped OF Its jObbery in
the interest OF bullion brokers, or, what in |
your style should be called ''sIlver gam
blers,' my judgment most heartily approves |
an act of demonstration.


Fourth. have an abiding faith in the |
integrity and intelligence of the people, as
by the Republican party in Its
avowed doctrines and formulated policy. |
As representative and trusted agent of /
that party, it is my duty, as it ever has
been my pleasure, to hold the clearly ex-
pressed views Of the party paramount
TO my own as a rule of action. As all men
in like positions are, AMI of right should ad-
nit themselves to be, | am the servant, not
the master of the people. This admission
does not involve the surrender, but the su-
bordination only, OF personal judgment. Ii.
therefore, it should occur, as | trust il
never may, that it were my duty to fill by /
a vacancy in the United States
Senate, it would be filled by man who
would, in my judgment, represent the State
in its political sentiment and its civiliza-
ton, in the most complete and satisfactory
The man who could be rightfully
of doing less than this, would be
unfit for any public trust.


To this l must be permitted to add, that
have no sympathy with the men, in or
out of the Republican party, who seek to
belittle its mission by ridicule and contempt
Tor its GLORIOUS past" The attempt to
write currency" over the word country"
upon its banners, is like disloyalty to party
and treason to country. The work for
which the Republican party was brought
INTO being is not vet done. Treason to the
fundamental doctrines OF our Government is
not dead. but is restless and active in the
OF ultimate mastery. The DO
itical and civil equality, the Republican
,arty is pledged to establish and maintain,
md not fixed facts. The head Of our Ma
ional Government, elected as Republican
" Republicans, stands in open hostility to
he spirit and essence of free government,
declaring that intelligence and prosperity"
lot legally constituted majorities, must .
ule. And to-day he looks on with appar-
mt Indifference to that rule, in a large por :
ion of our country, knowing that it defies
Istice, imprisons patriots, and intimidates
najorities, whose intelligence is not equal !
0 the work OF assassination, and who have :
% property in shot guns and ammunition
Or that purpose. IL
If it be true that the only remaining !;
FORK for the Republican party is to deter
line the number OF grains of silver which .
to constitute the dollar-unit of value, and
regulate the volume Of currency TO meet Z
he wants of trade" then, indeed, the state
tent imputed, unjustly hope, to President 4
Iayes, that he found the Republican party Z
cad at the time OF his Inauguration, might
; well be true. Finance has become the
bonanza" of demagoguery; let it not be
lade the grave of patriotism.


Asking publication Of this, with assurance
nat your patience and space shall not again
e taxed in like manner.