Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28
From The Greeley News,1
That F. N, b. A. ''RevOlt.

He leads off in a column article Of
misrepresentation of the F. Nj. B. A.
lie says there is revolt i'm the order.
This will be news to the members.
The only revolt in the F. Nj. B. A. is
revolt against being led by leading { p
members to continue the same old
corruptionists in office. The F. M. B.
"A. revolts against letting others do
their thinking. 1t is revolt against
rascality in high and low places. AS
to the revolt among the members Of
the order, that is all in the editors
eye. He gets off the same old cry,
Democrat Union Labor side show"
and winds up by advising kepubli-
can members to 60 into the lodges and
kick up the very devil among the
members. He would like to see some
thing of that kind done, no doubt, but
they will never take his advlce-nOt
much. He may be ignorant of the
fact that the greater number of F. M.
B. AS. are Republicans, but they
have at last got. theirs eyes open to the
scoundrciism perpetrated by set of
thieves and cut-thOats in the name
of Repu blicanism. They have come
to the conclusion that the class legis-
lation of the last twenty eight years
is not republican doctrine. There are
a few farmers who, acting on Con-
gresham Perkins advice, joined the
F. M. B. A. with the intention of con-
trolling it in the interest of the Re-
publican party; but since joining, the
scales have dropped from their eyes.
and nearly all of them are now work
ing shoulder to shoulder with their.
fellow members for reform. Occa-
sionally there may be found in the
order a leading CD Republican or
Democrat who expected TO realize on
the order They expected, for con-
sideration, to deliver the vote of the
F. M. B. A. to their party. They
have failed, and then rush off to tell
their party paper that it is Demo-
crat side-shOw if in Kansas, but if
Just across the line in Missouri it is
denounced as Republican trick to
beat tho Democrats. Those old
PLAYED -out chestnuts will not work in
this year OF grace 1890. IL will take
good, sound arguments to convince
the farmers that they are OH the
wrong track and the fact is that the
are all on the farmers
side.--Kincaid KrOnicle.
We intended saying something
about that great "revolt"-that big
bugaboo the RIP. man tried to work
up, but we wanted to see some of the
members of the f. M. B. A., and ask
them if they had heard of revolt"
in their ranks, and, if they had, what
caused the trouble. We have seen
many of them, and each and every
one says he has heard nothing of it.
One member said that there were
few kickers-one in Rich township
and here and there one-probably
dozen in the coonty. These kickers,
he said, were Republicans who never
had agreed with the majority on any
into the order kicking,
and would 60 out kicking, and the
sooner they got out, the better for the {
order. The fact is as the Kronicle :
says-they joined the F. M. B. A. be- S
cause they were told to do so in order {
TO control the politics Of the F. M. B.
A. Because they can't control it, they
90 off and manufacture lies about the
order, and tell these lies to the editors 6
Of the subsidized sheets, and the edi-
tors of The subsidized sheets stretch