The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-21
JUDGE PETER ON THE ALLIANCE
PLANS.


We want to say few words to tn
Peoples party in reference to the in
terview had in yesterdays Cdpito
with Judge PETER. In reply to tn
question what the Peoples party Il
the legislature hopes to do, Judg
PETER said:
| AS to State matters my own judg
ment is that the new legislature vii
! first provide for the enforcement Q
, the prohibitory amendment of the con
stitution so as to put us III harmon.
with the supreme court decision ant
the late act of Congress.
Why didn't your party say so, then
Judge, in its State platform? Yo'
asked the support of the people, VIII!
refuse to tell the people what you pro
posed to do? The Republican platform
spoke out boldly on this matter of pro
hibition. What right had your secre
politics party to go before the people
refusing to declare its purposes9
The judge goes on:
After that, suppose, the first sub
lject of great Importance will be thai
of taxation, involving a general over
hauling of our tax laws with a view Of
obtaining a larger measure of justice
among the tax payers.
Why didn't you say SO? A sound
plank pledging the party to this re.
form is contained in the Republican
State platform. If this was your pur-
pose, expressed in your secret eau
cuses, why did you not take the peo-
pie fnto your confidence as the Repub-
lican party did,
The next statement the judgemakes
is as follows:
In connection with this will be con-
sidered the subject of official salaries,
pbblic printing, unnecessary offices,
clerkshfps, public institutions, un-
necessary boards for public duties-in
short, all manner of public expenses,
with view to cut off all unnecessary
burdens,
Why didn't you say so? The Re-
publican platform came out unmis-
takably for reductions along this line.
Why were the purposes of your party
kept locked in your secret meetings
against the people whose confidence
you asked on the stump? You had
the first opportunity to make a plat
form and go before the people, and not
a word of your policy on this question
was given out.
The next sentence in the judges in
terview is this:
Our railroad laws will probably be
amended so as to enlarge the powers
of the board of commissioners. They
ought to be authorized to enforce their
orders. 1 think large majority of
the members will be i'm favor of elect
ing the commissioners by vote of the
people, and there. will likely be a
movement In favor of a general scaling
down of freight rates. There ought to
be, at least.
Why didn't you say so? Why this
dark secrecy on what you had in view
If the peoble elected your candidates.?
The Republican platform is outspoken
for the election OF railroad commits
sioners by the people. Where was
your platform when the people dis
cussed this reform?
The judge proceeds in the next SEN
tence:
The school book question will doubt
less occupy attention, especially that
feature of it involving the printing
and distribution of books by the State.
Why didn't you say so? The Re
publican plank on this matter is clear
and positive. The Republican party
kept.nothing from the people, nor held
secret meetings, nor tried to prevent
public presentation of both sides of
any issue, nor endeavored to boycott
the press of the enemy, but came out
flat-footed and took the people of Kan
sas into its confidence, trusting them
and conceding their right to know
what its purposes were.
Judge Peffer's statement of the pol |
Icy of his secret order is statement of
the Republican platform, line upon
line and precept upon precept. The
Judge evidently speaks by the card. |
He has the entree into the grip and
pass word meetings of his party and |
unquestionably outlines its intentions
in the legislature. There is not a |
made in his interview up
Oh which his party said word in the
but OH every proposition |
which he presents in the interest of
the people the Republican party pledg-
ed itself in the most positive terms.
In this interview as in his speeches on
the stump and his editorials in the
Farmer, Judge PETER declares that
the people cannot look to the old par
ties for the reforms they want. Yet
the Peoples party refused to say what
it would bring about in Kan
,as; and now that Judge PETER con-
1escends to enumerate them they are
word for word, line upon line, precept
lpon precept, the pledges of the Re-
publican party, a party which as
Judge Peffer knows has always car
led out in Kaneas the promises it
made on the stump. Judge Peffer's
is a high compliment to the
Republican party's devotion to the in
erests of Kansas and its foresighted
of means to effect
leeded reforms. We are obliged to
him.
HASKELL INCEITIrTE