The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-07
A BITTER FIGHT CERTAIN.
Indications in Kansas Point to Hot
CAMPAIGN.

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Campaign.
Topeka, Aug. 4.-There is dispo-
sition on the part of the peoples party
papers and politicians to laugh at the
! democratic editors. When asked what
he thought of the refusal of the demo-
Gratis to form a combination with the
peoples party, DIR. McLallin, editor of
the Advocate, smilingly replied: NO
body asked them, sir"
Even the republicans, who are i'm
mensely plehsed with the result, can
not refrain from joking their old-time
enemies and new-found friends over
their refusal to enter household where
they had been NOTICED they would be
kicked out.
The Kansas Farmer declares that the
democrats and republicans are all of
lone family" 1t calls the democratic
manifesto ''the last will and testament
of the party" in which it is stated that
they will have no fusion in theirs, not
withstanding the amusing fact that no
| one had asked them to fuse"
The desperate earuestness with which
the peoples and republican parties have
enter d into 80 fall campaign is the
best indicl.i,I il,t a close struggle
| will take place in this state. Hereto
fore there has been no such thing as a
state central committee in off years.
Each county was allowed to make it's
own campaign, and while there has al
ways been a merry scramble for the
| county Offices, there was no significance
attached to it. The republican central
committee has been in continuous ses-
sion since the campaign last fall. 1t
has kent posted on affairs throughout
the state, and the action of the demo-
cratic editors is the most encouraging
development since the returns indi-
Gated the reelection of Governor Hum
phrey.
The peoples party central committee
will hold meeting in this city Au-
gust IL. Levi Dumbould, the Lyon
county legislator, who was elected
chairman of the peoples party central
committee when Dick Chase was de-
posed, will be given an opportunity to
display his political sagacity.
The congressional meetings which
have been arranged for September, will
furnish abundant chance for the alli-
ance politicians to feel the pulse OF the
farmers. The first meeting will be held
at Ottawa, and 2. p. Elder, who is an
avowed candidate for governor, will in
all probability inaugurate the boom.
The politicians have already decided
that Elder and Willis will be the lead
ing candidates before the alliance con.
vention, and every indication points to-
ward Willis.
There is feeling among the alliance
men all over the state that he was de-
frauded of his election, and il he wants
the nomination again he can get 1t.
Elder hurt himself with the peoples
party when he made such bitter fight
against the universal suffrage bill last
winter, and the Snow faction will fight
him to the death.
Notwithstanding their old political
prejudices and their recent declaration
in favor of an Independent fight, there
will be a large element in the demo-
cratic party which will vote for the re-
publican nominee for governor il q
wise selection is maze. And this same
element will vote for the peoples party
electors. The $4,000 democratic voters
in Kansas absolutely control the situa-
tion in this state if they are wisely
groomed. it will require much
shrewder management than they had
last fall, when fully half of their circu-
lar letters found their way into the peo-
pies party central committee before the
ink had fairly dried on Chairman
Jones' signature. But no such stipend
GUS blunders as that will be tolerated
by the national leaders. The Kansas
business men who vote the democratic
ticket, will slip in quiet vote for an
acceptable republican state ticket. II
is the logic of the situation, as il now
presents itself. and the crack of the
party whip and warnings of the parti-
san press will cut no figure.