People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — Learn the Republican Party. [ARTICLE]

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Wheatfield, Ind., Nov. 12. ’94. Mr. T. J. McCoy,

Chm. Rep. County Cen. Com. Dear Sir:—l hereby tender you my resignation as chairman of the Republican Township Committee for Wheatfield township, and formally withdraw from the Republican party. I assure you that I do not take this step without fully understanding and realizing its consequences. It is no hasty act, but one which has received my most sincere and sober thought, I had always looked to the Republican party as the friend and protector of the weak, defenseless and oppressed among our people. That it ever stood ready to reward and honor those who by earnest and unremitting service had helped to achieve its victories. But when I see it turn away from the cause of the common people, and fall dowu before the golden idols of corporate power, when instead of heeding the cry of the oppressed it lends itself a willing tool to oppressors; when it arrays itself with the strong against the weak; when it disregards and treats with contempt the claims of those who have borne the burden of party service in the heat of day and permits a few men actuated by their own selfish interests to dictate its policy and elevate to office and leadership men who will do their bidding I deem it time for honorable and patriotic men to withdraw their support from it. T wish it distinctly understood however, that I am yet a Republican of Abraham Lincoln type, but not one of the .Charles J. Guiteau type by any means, and still remaining a friend to a friend and an enemy to an enemy. Therefore I resign the honor of the chairmanship of the above mentioned committee and respectfully request you to publish this letter. Yours Respectfully,

JOHN GRAVES.