Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-04-07
A MANIFESTO.
THE ALLIANCE REPRESENTATIVES OF
THE LATE LEGISLATURES REVIEW
THE WORK OF THE SESSION.
An Interesting Paper

lature, we, through our duly appointed
committee, submit the result of Our
labors to your consideration, firmly
convinced that it will receive your
approval
The legislature met January 18th, as
provided by law Hon. p. 2. Elder
was unanimously elected speaker. The
committees were at once appointed and
the house proceeded to business on the
second day thereafter, with celebrity
hitherto unknown in the history OF this
state, and we're at work two days earli-
er than any prior legislature.
We were told that the farmers could
not and would not stick together The
daily press, not only here in Topeka.
but all over the state. with two honor
able exceptions, were opposed to us.
The first matter of Importance was
the election of the state printer. The
peoples candidate, E. II. Snow, OF Of
tawa, was elected on jcint ballot, receiv-
ing 1Ol votes. For years Mr. Snow has
been advocating our principles, and was
and is in full sympathy with our de-
maud.
The peoples party in conference,
after hearing the claims OF all candl-
dates presented decided on w. A. PEI
fer. editor of the Kansas farmer, man
who largely contributed 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 rauks.
| The result itself, was worth all the
effort of our party last fall. as it makes
new era in the politics Of this state
and indicates the grand success OF
the party in the nation in 1892.
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
representative of the peoples party
have proven the falsehOod of the rule
of the ring politician that every man
has his price.
We found upon our statute books a
large number of laws creating boards Of
commissioners, state agents, etc, which
seemed to have been placed there for
the express purpose of providing places
for favOrites, rather than for any bene-
fit to the state; but we found it impOsi-
BILE to repeal these laws with the senate
and executive department making a
bitter fight against abolisbing these
sinecures,
An attempt was made on the part OF
the house in good faith, and without
any attempt to cripple any state institu-
tuition, penal, charitable or education
al, to reduce the expense to something
| like an equality with the earnings OF
| the average citizen OF Kansas.
This attempt WAS made by the senate
with an absolute refusal 10 consider any
proposition which reduced the wages
or salaries of employees of state institu-
lions which were under republican
management.
We present hereafter comparison
of appropriations made two years ago
and the appropriations made this session.
The senate insisted on higher appropl-
ations except the proposition to aprro-
plate $50, 900 for the relief of the people
in the western part of the state who
we're suffering from the severe drouth
of last year, and an appropriation OF
Sll5, 900 to provide for the destitute in
sane who have been for years past con-
fined in the county jails of this
state.
The peoples party of the house, or
iginated and passed the bill appropriate
ing $50. 900 for the relief of the western
farmers of this state, which was defeated
by the senate. We have not forgotten
that in the drouth in eastern Kansas in
1860, that several northern state legisla-
lures appropriated large sums of money
for the relief of the people-but when
the peoples party passed the bill in the
house for the purpose of relieving