The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-10-31

Pomeroy into political writing, an,l you have
the whole thing. We can write Greenback.
Just see:
vOx PEOPLEI, vox DIE!
All.
Laborers!
Freemen!
American Citizens!
Last night it was dark, but, thank God the
New Moon!
Tax Ridden Tramp, rejoice, for the next step,
your foot will be on the neck of the Oppressor,
Are you Slavesf
Do you want to be taxed to buy your OWE
coffins, when you are dead
Are you Niggers, and your children Mulat-
| tOesf
Aye, Nggers! That's it. Who but Niggers
must work thirty hours day, go to bed with
out their supper, aud have their sleep taxed to
enable the Bond holders to live in idlenessi
Farmers, where have your immense crops gone
to, that you labored and sweat night and day to
prodncei
Ugh!
Rats!
How long will you submit to having your
precious babes die of small -pox, while the pam
pered children of wealth, clothed in silks and
furs, enjoy the measlesf
Arouse!
Look ut yonr cribs filled with corn, yonr fat
cattle and hogs, and think that You are under
the thumb of the Bond holder, who mnst have
these things to live on, and who will force you
to take money at par with Gold in exchange for
them!
The remedy is in your own hands.
Demand Fiat Money for your Produce. Re-
fuse Gold and Silver, even though the Bond
holders wife and children starve in their gilded
palaces.
The voice of the People is the voice of God
If God made Gold and Silver valuable, the
People can make Paper more valuable, because
there are more of them than there is of God.
Then, arouse, and the Year of Jubilee, so long
fortold by prophets, will dawn upon you!
WHAT WILL BE THE REsULT!- Elsewhere We
publish the announcement of Frank Brown as .
candidate for District Clerk. He was already
the nominee of the Greenback party, but avow
ed himself still q Republican. While we must say
that he has made good officer, and that, had
we we been n delegate in the Convention, We
should have voted for his re nomination, yet we
are sorry he has determined to make the race.
The Republicans have kept him in the Office for
twelve consecutive years, and ont of the revenue
of the Office he has placed himself in Independent
circumstances. We do not see how it is possible
for him to be elected over two regular nominees
of the other parties, but the only effect his
ming will have, in our opinion, will be to defeat
the Republican nominee, who is needy as we'll
as worthy. The Democrats conut confidently
upon electing their candidate, now that Mr..
Brown is on the track, aud therefore will stick
closely to their man. Can Mr.. Brown get enough
Republican votes to elect him, when added to
the Greenback vote To u.s. it seems impossible.
But he may, by his personal popularity, get
enough to place Close below Kearney. 1t could
not be much satisfaction to Mr.. Brown to beat
Close, unless he could himself be elected-but if
he gets enough votes to beat Close, it will be
Kearney that gets the benefit of it.
A FRIEND OF THE PEoPLE.-Mr. Rippey is held
up as friend of the people. Let's see how il is.
The free school system of Kansas is the greatest
blessing enjoyed by our people. Under it, the
poorest mans child is educated free of expense.
Because q man has no property upon which to
pay taxes, it does not deprive his children of
school privileges. Those who have property,
pay the District School tax. This is grievance
of which Mr.. Rippey has complained bitterly.
He owns q large amount of property, and is re.
quired TO pay tax upon it to support the schools.
He has frequently declared it to be an outrage,
that people who pay no taxes, have the power
to vote heavy school tax upon those who have
property. The rich usually have few or no
children. What few they have, they are in IA
vor of sending to some select, aristocratic school,
while tho children of the poor, who own no
property, may grow up in ignorance. 1t would
be o nice thing to send Mr.. Rippey and Mr..
Symns to make laws for the people. Symns
would disfranchise poor men, and Rippey would
deprive their children of schools. Then the
"niggers" and the ''poor white trash" would be
placed on level, and remandod to barbarism, as
in the good old Slavery days, down South.
r. The Bulletin screeches about the herd law,
and wants Democrats elected, because they are
the only ones that right on the herd law.
We know scores of Democrats who are strong
herd law men. The Republican party is the
only party in this County that has taken party
action on the herd law, and they have taken the
only true position on the subject. They have
instructed their candidates for Representatives
to favor law allowing the people of the Coun-
ty to decide the herd law question by vote.
Every candidate for Representative and Com
missioner has pledged himself to carry out the
instruction. What did the Democratic party
say about the herd lawf Not . word; and it
didn't say anything else, except that it re- affirm
ed the Leavenworth platform. But now that
the Republican party has taken the ground that |
the people demand on the herd law question, |
the Bslietis kicks up dust, and claims that the
Democrats arc the chaps to trust on the herd |
law.
q We learn that E. F. Dixon has come out |
as an independent candidate for Representative |
in the Third District. Heretofore Squire Dixon |
has been too sound . Republican to engage in
any scheme to aid the election of q Democrat
but that may be the effect of his present candi- |
dacy. With two Republicans and Greeubacker
on the track, the chances will be in favor of tho
Democratic candidate. We understand that the |
issue in the delegate election at Wathena was
between Mr.. Selover and Squire Dixon, and that |