Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-24

humbue, the SOU nIcred surplus, the ad-
SaEcipg deficit, the defective census,
the falsjhcd representation and the
revolutionary procedure OF the billion
dollar congres$-all justly condemned
by the peoples gr at uprising last
November, Il verdict which this time next
year will empower dcmOcrItie statesmen to
guide the peoples councils and to execute
the peoples VIII
! We cOngratu'a c the people of the stafe
upon the bencfic.nt results which followed
the election of a democratic assembly last
! autumn. That victor 80 uFed the election
| of a democrat to the United states senat6-a
| repre> entatiyc in full sympathy with the
popular majority on g at questions of fed.
/ er Il policy II give tn state the lowest tau
rate i'm thirty six year md for the first time
| I'm general on freedom from taxation for
i the general purposes of government 1t
gave New York City the means of securing
rapid trans {, n boon viii; n Tepubli' an legi'-
latOr' had fer y ars denied II gave the
people the saOrtest lc is alive ~e,siOn in
/ seventeen years tribute to the faithful in
duStry of the democratic assembly, by whom
this result was achieve in the interest OF
economy and good legislation. Our pledges
to the people contained in the democratic
platforms of 1857, 1S>S and 1881 were prompt
iy redeemed by the democratic assembly.
All these measures, pass. by the demo
cratic assembly in obedience to the demand
of tho popular majority. were feated in
the republican nate by tho ropes. natives
OF the minority of tn people.
Thus has the republican party continued
TO betray the pc Op e's int. rest lt defieS the
constitution and denies fair representation
in the legislature to 100000 inhabitants OF
the state by refusing to pass an enumeration
bill-the preliminary step to the abolition OF
the present antiquatrd app ~ onment OF
senate and assembly districts, winch is
based on the census OF sixteen years ago It
10 IA ffaffar nm ana
bureau to deprive the state OF an additional
commemorative in congress and in the elect
oral college BY a fraudulent count OF the in
habitants OF New York. bu- it refuses to
comp, V with the command Cf its own feder-
al congress to rea rsn > the tn rty -four con-
gressiOnaI districts o. the state. 81 that each
Shall contain as nearly as practicable an
equal number of inhabitants"
Ii ignOi es the emphati declar itlOn OF the
people, who, by Il plurality OF $4,000 votes,
recorded themselves IN faEOE of a cpnsfifq+
tional conyeHtiOn-
II insists upon the passag: of sumptuAEy
laws which needlessly Interfere with the
personal liberty of law abiding citizens.
: 1t DEMONSTRATES TING hypocrisy Of its pFo=
f,.ssfons by twice recording itself In the leg:
isl ,fure , favor OF FohibitionE endmelt
and then REFUSING to make pros n for its
su .,InI,si, n TO the people exeepcALA special
OF course Detroit can successfully
claim some of the very sweetest and
prettiest and most natural and bright
est girls that ever drew the breath of
life, but all of them are not quite up to
that standard.
nMamma, said one of theseinot-quits.
ups, sis it proper to say that q horse Is
bow-legged in his fore-limbs, or bow
Iimbed in his fore-legs?"
And the good mother looked up from
her work of sewing n reinforcement on
The seat of Johnnie's pants and never
aid word. but, oh. that loolx.-Detroit
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