Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10
1.-THE Peoples Party" of Kansas.

Kansas has been prolific in third
parties and Notwithstanding repeated
failures and the sturdy republicanism
of the state that has caused them,
never a political campaign comes on
that "a third party movement. is not
set afoot with claims that it is going to
make seven-league strides into popular
favor. Two years ago it was predicted
that the union labor party would make
such inroads into the republican party
that the profoundest assurances were
given of democratic success, or the pos
sihility of it. And just here it is peril
nent to remark that all these third
party movements are ever looked upon
as helpful to the democratic party.
There have been third parties of every
hue and tint in Kansas, and invariably
the democratic party has hopefully
built upon them and encouraged them,
while in turn the third party, for the
time being, has been in a degree sub
servient and allied to the democratic
party, even the third party prohibition
lists in their day, as strange as it may
seem.
Just now there is third party move
ment on foot in Kansas. This party
has assumed the taking designation of
1.-THE peoples party" 1t proposes to
put full ticket in the field, and the
democratic press, with suspicious
promptness, predicts great success fol
it. 1.-THE peoples party'' is high
sounding name, catching one, but
when the component parts of the party
one inspected, 1.-The peoples party" is
seen to be a conglomeration of NAL
contents, vagarists and old political
hacks without principle but with an
appetite for Office, an egotism that can
not be assuaged and a love for notori.
ETY. that cannot be appeased,
Any kind of pretext is seized upon
to form a third party in Kansas, and
discomfort among the farmers, magni.
fed and exaggerated, is used to infiu-
ence the formation of the peoples
party this year and induce enlistments
1t is sought to pervert the objects OF
the farmers alliance to the further
ance of this political scheme, the
organization of the peoples party
But Will the farmers Of Kansas
can they be deluded into Sec
onding the efforts of such old
chronics as Glover, z. 2. Elder, Wake
field and others in the organization of
a party which they hope to use and for
which the democratic party stands
sponsor, the party which though its
only Galloway has done more to impair
the credit of the Kansas farmer than
the crop failures of score of years
could possibly have done?
We think not, The Kansas farmer
is not that kind of man. He lives on
land the policy of the republican party
has enabled him to homestead. He is
the beneficiary of republican legislation.
If an old soldier, and the majority of
Kansas farmers are old soldiers, he is
getting or will get pension, despite
democratic opposition to his just de-
mands. He has no business in being
deceived by any third movement, con-
ceived and perpetrated by the demo-
cratic party and instigated by demo-
cratic Misrepresentation,
There Is no room for third party in
Kansas, as has been demonstrated in
the past. The republican party is the
peoples party by $4,000 majority in
that state. 1t has served them in the
past. 1t can be trusted for the future.
There is not demand of any class or
a legally recognized interest in the
state with which the republican party
is not in accord. There is nothing
"the peoples party" may or can ask
wherein the interests of the people are
involved that the republican party of
Kansas does not favor.
There is no use for a third party in
Kansas, and those deceived or deluded
into making up such a conglomeration
will find out that they are of no USE
K. G. Globe.