The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-25

peoples party has become burdened
since its victory of 1890. The reaction
was natural, logical and inevitable, and
it will now be in order for those who
have run the peoples party on the
rocks of disaster to concede that some
thing better than the Ocala and Cincin-
natl platforms. something better than
mercantile monopoly, something better
than calamity bowling, something bet
ter than antagonizing the business COM
mon sense of the country is necessary
for the success of the third party move
ment-"
/ indorse every word of that as truth.
The Industrial Advocate, of FL Dora
do, Kan, a peoples party paper, says:
Looking over the history of the late
campaign we see what we conceive to
be some grave mistakes, which in
future should be carefully avoided.
Over confidence in our ranks was a
source of weakness. Another great
source of weakness arose from differ
ent individuals tramping up and down
Kansas, advocating extreme, ridiculous
and absurd ideas that found no origin
in our platform. Forty different speak
ers had forty different hobbies going
in forty different directions and each
hobby incubated in, forged from and
foddered by the insipid, diseased and
perverted brain of its hobby rider.
This element of men
worships no God but self-esteem, have
no idea they haven't distorted, no party
they haven't betrayed. Yet they
forged to the front, and after long fast
room Of the peoples party, and their
scramble for dictatorship broke more
crockery in thirty days than all the
bulls of Bashan could break in thirty
years. Utley is on the retired list, the
Vincents are in exile. Corning is or
ought to be in hades, while lesser
lights of like caliber have gone the way
of all things earthly"
Mr.. c. b. Gill, president OF the alli-
ance, Geary county, Kan, in a recent
address, alluding to the very men and
characters that am abused for talking
about, said, with the truth and bold
ness of Paul on Mars hill:
my friends good government is
founded upon the teachings of past ex-
perience, upon the ever accommodating
wisdom of all past time; our teachers
should be men of highest intelligence,
the most thoughtful, learned and patri-
otto statesmen, not dreamers, not men
who see visions, not men impatient
with the slow workings of natural laws,
not men without reverence for the laws
of God and man; these men full OF
ignorance, visions and the devil
whether they teach the weakly senti-
mentalism of the so-called Christian
socialists or the confscation of the
Henry Georgeites and nationalist, or
the confiscation of the communists and
anarchists; they all teach treason"
1t is high time intelligent men of
Kansas call halt and look around
them. They ought to pass the query:
Where are we drifting? Is there
anything in this move, as it is now
managed. except to put men in office
that worm themselves into the secret
conclaves of the organization? The
mountain labored once and brought
forth PETER, Simpson, Otis, Baker and
Clover. You have their record. l do
not allude to them personally; only
speak OF their political record. To-day
they have seats in the halls of congress;
they represent the intelligence and
honor of Kansas. viii their action
there be reflex of their speeches since
their election? II so, every honest,
self-respecting citizen of Kansas will
be forced to exclaim: 80 God, why has
this shame come upon our fair state?"
Mr.. Editor, allow me to correct the
newspapers that have said that 1 was
fighting the alliance. This is not true.
/ have never spoken or written word
against the alliance as such. 1t is the |
leaders of the peoples party that have |
dealt with; the men who have brought |
and almost financial ruin upon |
the people of the state of Kansas |
through the most ridiculous political |
howl that the world has ever known. |
Very respectfully yours,
JOHN II. RICE.