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St. John Treason Claim Sparks Kansas Letter War
A Kansas letter to John P. St John defends his stance on party loyalty amid a Osage City Free Press attack. The writer argues historic party shifts by Thacher Ingalls Carpenter and others prove traitor accusations are unfounded, cites Prohibition and liquor policy as the trigger for leaving the Republican party, and defends a widow’s boarding house during a blizzard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. St
Charley Scheferdecker
John P. St. John
Free Press
Your
Palace Hotel
Osage
Republican Party
Charles Sumner
Gerrit Smith
Thaddeus Stevens
Owen Lovejoy
William Lloyd Garrison
Wendell Phillips
James G. Blaine
Abraham Lincoln
Logan
Democratic Party
Longstreet
Mosby
Mahone
Democratic
Kansas
Solon O. Thacher
John J Ingalls
Plumb
Riverside Park
J. Crawford
Congress
John C. Carpenter
Thomas A. Osborn
L. F. Simpson
James Snoddy
J. R. Hallowell
Stephen A. Cobb
John R. Goodwin
Third Judicial District
W. C. Webb
Anl
John Martin
George W. Glick
Bourbon
United States Senate
Thacher
Carpenter
Internal Revenue
District of Kansas
Simpson
United States
Marshall
Hallower
Crawford
Snoddy
National Prohibition Committee
Dred Scott
Walruff
Joan P. Sr. Jonn