The Globe-republican., 1891-03-25
ALLIANCE MANIFESTO.

ALLIANCE MANIFESTO.
ne Farmer Members q eAs Late Kansas
Legislature ExYlain NsAtssp.
TOPEKA, Kan. March 4S-The fol-
lowing is the manifesto. mainly, Of the
alliance legislators:
Address of the peoples representatives Of
the legislature of the state OF Kansas to the
people of the state of Kansas:
Having closed our work in the legislature
We. through our duly appointed committee.
submit the result Of our labOrs to your con.
sideration. firmly convinced that IL will re.
eeive your approval.
The Legislature met January Is. ~ pro-
vided by law. Hon p. p. Elder was unani-
mously elected speaker. The committees
were at once appointed and the house pro-
ceeded to business on the second day there
after. with a celebrity hitherto unknown in
the history of this state, and were At work
two days earlier than any prior Legislature.
The senate elected two years ago last fall.
with two or three exceptions, was opposed
to our party and the platform upon which We
were elected The governor and executive de-
partments of the state, with the exception Of
the attorney general. were also in opposition
to US. No effort was spared by our oppo-
nents to divide and disorgsnixe our party.
The first matter of importance Was the
election of state printer The peoples can
didate. T. n. Snow, of Ottawa. was elected on
joint ballot receiving l01 votes. For years
MI. Snow has been advocating our principles
and was and is in full sympathy with our
demands The peoples party in conference,
after hearing the claims of all candidates
presented. decided ON w. A. PETER, editor Of
the Kansas Farmer, q man who largely con-
tributed to the success Of our party, and he
was elected to the high Office of United
States senator, to succeed John j. Ingalls,,
without a break in our ranks. The result
itself was worth all the effort of our party
last fall, as it makes a new era in the poll
tics OF this state and indicates the grand
success Of the party in the nation in 1897.
The schooled republican politicians Of the
nation were gathered in Topeka and our
footsteps were logged by hired Hessians at
every turn with offers Of pelf and political
honors. but without effect We point to this
with pride. as demonstrating that the chosen
representatives of the peoples party have
proven the falsehood of the ring politician
that every man has his price.
We found upon our statute books large
number of laws creating boards of commits
sioners, state agents. etc, which seemed to
have been placed there for the express pur.
pose of providing places for favorites rather
than for any benefit to the state; but We
have found it impossible to repeal these
laws. with the senate and executive depart
ment making a bitter fight against abolish
ing these sinecures. An attempt was made
on the part Of the house in good faith and
without any at empt to cripple any state in
stitUtion. penal charitable or educational.
to reduce the expenses to something like an
equality with the earnings of the average
citizen of Kansas. This attempt was met by
the senate with an absolute refusal to con-
slider any proposition which reduced the
wages or salaries of employees of state inst-
tutiOns which were under republican man
agement.
We present hereafter a comparison of ap-
preparations made two years ago and the
appropriations made this season. The SEN
ate insisted on higher appropriations except
in the proposition to appropriate $50 900 for
the relief of the people in the western p;rt
of the state, who were suffering from the Sc
we're drought of last year, and An apprOpria-
ton OF Sis 600 to provide for the destitute
insane who have been for years past confined
in the county 1ails in this state. The peoples
party of the house originated and passed the
bill appropriating 100000 for the relief Of
the western farmers of this state, which
was defeated by the senate. We have
not forgotten that in the drought in
eastern Kansas in 1860 several north
ern state legislatures appropriated large
sums of money for the relief of the people.
but when the peoples party passed the bill
western Kansas from a similar infection the
senate discovered that all such legislation
was unconstitutional By amendment in
sisted upon by the senate, the different coun-
ties in the western part of the state were
made responsible for the distribution Of seed
grain sent to them and the price thereof
must be returned to the state treasury, while
the recipients in the eastern part of the state
of the bountfes extended to them in 1880 re.
fused, through the republican representa-
tves and senators, to assist one dollar in the
RELIEF of sufferers in western Kansas.
The legislation of this session has not re.
suited in what We desired to accomplish nor
in what the people would have had the right
to expect from us, had we been in power in
all the branches of the state government. BY
and with the aid OF the senate 413 acts were
passed and will become laws upon our stat.
ute books, among the most important Of
which is one prohibiting the alien ownership
of lands in Kansas and providing for the
sale of all lands owned by aliens. acquired
after the date of this act, in from three to
six years time, or upon the death of aliens
holding the land previous to the enactment
of this law.
The appropriations for the next two years,
while thousands of dollars lower than in the
years past have been swelled by necessary
investigations and by the impeachment Of
one Of the district judges of the state.
Uc rcLudluUcI VI inc dOOTcSS Is Oc.
voted to an enumeration of the impOr-
tant bills passed by the house and de-
feated in the senate. 1t explains the
failure to appropriate for the worlds
fair from the peoples party standpoint.
and continues:
Not an important measure reported BY this
committee ever became a law, except one,
which was SO badly mutilated that its au.
thors could not recognize il.
The manifesto concludes as follows:
As q comparison of economy between the
two houses, We submit the fact that the SEN
ate with forty members had 1ls employees on
its pay roll, while the house with a member
ship of l2' had only eighty-two. making a
difference of sl23 per pay in the cost Of run.
ming the two houses.
In closing, we can safely say in refutatiOn
Of the charges made by our political enemies
and given such wide circulation, that we did
not consider or pass a single bin that could
in any way, directly or indirectly, disturb the
relation of debtor and creditor, nor leopard.
ize the collection of debts, nor to repudiate
any honest obligation, and with this brief
and careful summary Of only a few of the
important measures considered and passed
by the peoples house of representatives
during the thirtieth session of the Kan
sas legislature, with the action taken
thereon by the republican senate, we know