Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — A FORMER RESIDENT. [ARTICLE]

A FORMER RESIDENT.

Tells Why the Republican Party Should Remain in Power. W. H. Henkle, a former resident of Jasper county, but now of Caney, Kans., in a letter to S. B. Jenkins, says: * Caney, Kans., Feb. 4 1901 I have been quite poorly the last two days but my general health for the last year has been better than fur me last eight. I have bought a little place four miles west of Caney—not for a farm so much as for the fruit and water. There is very poor waler in ibis country. When they dig it is gypsum or aikad. 1 have a noble spring about fifty feet from the kitchen door and plenty of fruit—apples, peaches, pears, plums, apricots, grapes, cherries, blackberries, eic Toe farm contains forty acres, thirty of which are improved and plenty of wood .on the other ten, which is all the land I can tend. I have been paying from sixty to one hundred dollars tent in and around Caney and had got tired of it. Now my dear brother I want to say iu all kindness, your last letter took me back so hard that I felt like I didn’t want to answer it. After pass ing through what we had of four years of Clevelandism; of smokeless furnaces everywhere; the couhtry full of tramps in time of perfect peace; the government having to bond 262 million for running expenses; wheat 40 cents; corn 15 cents. Don’t know what it was there. Tnese are our figures and wheat as low as thirty-five and then to emerge from that to 70c to SI.OO for wheat, twenty to fifty for corn, from 3 to 5 and 6 cents for hogs, and cattle from almost nothing to 5 and 6 cents, and horses from giving away to $100; factories and furnaces all over the land; work for everybody; no more tramps; better wages; and then in the face of all this to ask me it I didn’t think we needed a chairge. lam glad the people responded to that question in thunder tones, No! No! No! The demo-pops really had the last campaign nearer no issue with which to go before the people than ever be fore in recollection. There was no lightning in their campaign. It never killed where it struck. Every state that Mr. Bryan campaigned went for McKinley. Mr. Bryan’s pet hobby had fallen fruitless to the ground, after fefour years of a successful experiment

and was a corpse to start out with Another dead one was his stand against the war measure. There was never a political party in this ration or in any other civiliz- d nation that opposed the war measures of Hie gov ernment Ifi it was successfully prose cuiing a war, that was successful at the polls. Again their howl of m er-i-tlism was for nothing but to fill in for thunder; they no more feared it than I, although they told us on the stump if Mac and Teddy were elected there would never be another president. Our U S. Senator was told we would have two kings, Mac and Teddy. He remarked that two kings beat two jacks. Again, militarisim, another hobby, with t he smallest army for its population of any nation on the earth. Again.the idea that we should haul down the American flag in the Philippines, once it was honorably raised. There is not an archipelago in the known world that is not owned by some nation. I tell jou Fet that I firmly believe the God of Heaven rules the destiny of nations and in our Spanish naval engagem nts we s can hardly believe bu. that he directed the bartie which Dewey won.

W. H. HENKLE