Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-04-02
PETERS VERY HOT.

Congressman Peters is very mad be-
cause the farmers alliance has been
passing resolutions cOndemning the
Kansas congressional delegation for
paying so little attention to legislation
actually needed by the farming and la
boring classes. Judge Peters takes
President Clover. of the state alliance,
as target, and proceeds to denounce
him and his followers in a public let
ter. Referring to recent letter of Mr..
Glover, the retiring congressman says {:
II wish to say first that insofar as he
seeks by cOwardly innuendo to charge
the Kansas delegation with having neg
lected their duty, he is either guilty of
willful ignorance or malicious false
hood. If his reputation for informa-
ton has been justly earned, then he
cannot be ignorant. Two of the dele
CATION are farmers; at least five of
them have been farmer boys. reared
upon farms, and all of them, by assO-
citation, as we'll as by the strongest
ties, have every interest in common with
the agricultural interests of our state.
Whatever legislation they have secured
has been uniformly and without sim
gle exception in the interest of Kansas,
and. by the way, they secured the pas
sage of more bills and amendments to
bills in the last congress than any other
state delegation. To verify this APP
peal to the record. In the Fittieth con-
gress over Onc-eleventh of all the bills
that passed and became laws were in
troduced and urged by the Kansas del
egation. Whatever legislation that was
desirable for our state and was not Sc
cured, was beyond the realm of legisla-
tive possibility. AS intend to retire
from public life, and will not under any
circumstances accept a denomination If
rendered, cannot be interested in this
record in political way. AS a citizen
of the state, and one who has an eppor-
tunity to know, am proud of the dele
cation and Of its record, and assert that
no state has cleaner, purer or better
one.
So far as the imputation against me
personally is concerned, have to say
that the heaviest drain upon my time,
outside of legislative duties, In commit
tees and in the house, has been made
upon me by ex-soldiers and by home
steaders and pre-emptors and what is
true of myself in this particular is also
true of the entire delegation. Mr.. Clio
yer knew this, because the confession
to which he refers, so stated. Whom
then, does he call "boodle-hunters" and
"pap-suckers p Let the more than
200 ex-soldiers in my district, whose
names have on my books, and whom
have, without money and without
price, assisted in pension and bounty
claims, answer. Let thousands OF home
steaders and pre-empt0rs whom l also
assisted, answer. l would rather have
the good will and friendship of these
people, even though they be denounced
as 'boodIe-hunters' and pap suckers
than that Of this self-cOnstituted guar
dian, who is scheming and waiting tt
get into the gubernatOrial chair of oul
state. In behalf of these farmers anC
soldiers 1 denounce this independent
candidate for governor, with democratic
and union labor attachments, as will
fer of Kansas and her honest citizens
l Will also add, for his delectation, tina
his assurance from some of the leaders
of these parties that no nomination will
be made for him or against him il
known, and that the time will never
come when such political trickstel
and demagogne as his actions and words
indicate him to be, will OCCUPY the hon
orable position of governor of the STATE
of Kansas, S. r. PETERS.