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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-14

which will henceforth be identified
with the Peoples party All things
considered, we believe it to be the
best exponent of those social and
political reforms which vitality affect
the interests of our common people
and the present agitation OF which
mark the beginning of the. greatest
revolution in the history OF this
country. Therefore we dedicate
our press to the advocacy OF its
principles, reserving always the
right to criticise it's men and meas
urcs as we have those of the old
paties. We believe very strongly
in all Independent press, but we
recognize the necessity of political
parties, and believe that every man
should be identified with that organ
ization which most nearly meets his
views.
1t is also our firm conviction that
hundreds of intelligent Republicans
and Democrats who read this article
will have to endorse it's declarations
if they fully and honestly express
the sentiment of their hearts.
The Manhattan Daily Republic
has been leading Republican or
gan, and it's leaving the party is not
a very good evidence in favor of
the assertions, made by the Repub-
lican remnant that "all who left
the party last year will be back in
1892.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-14
Farewell Old Party.

the Manhattan, Kansas, Daily Re-
public, announcing it's goodbye to
the Republican party 1t says:
Last spring, when the demands OF
the Farmers Alliance were made
known, we promptly acknowledged
the evils of which they complained,
and frequently expressed sympathy
with the movement, but insisted
that they should seek to accomplish
these reforms within old party lines.
We felt sure that the Republican
party would not turn a deaf ear to
these demands, having strong con-
fidence in the honesty and good
sense of the rank and file of that
party, although considerably skep-
tical as. to the disposition of it's
leaders. Hence, we deplored the
formation Of a new party, and tried
to hold the voters, in the last cam
paign,. to the support of the Repub-
lican organization, believing that
the party would repudiate its often
sive leaders and proceed to the con-
sideration of the questions which
agitated the people but in this we
were disappointed, as were thou
sands Of others.
Those who have read The Repub-
lie need not be told that its editor
has repeatedly expressed, in unmis-
taxable terms, his, dissatisfaction,
yea, even disgust, with the manage
ment of the Republican party,
which seems to have passed irrevoc-
ably into the hands Of INSCRIPTIONS
professional politicians, supported
by plutocracy that is the deadly
enemy of the millions of common
ers and bread-winners in this coun-
try who are the bone and sinew of
the republic and upon whom de-
ponds it's perpetuity.
We cannot here take time to
show in detail how the party has
failed to keep faith with the people.
In local affairs the machine, y
which has run things in this county
for twenty years with a high hand,
ignored, ridiculed and despised
those who sought reform within
party lines. In state affairs, no
less reprehensible policy was pur-
sued, as witness the proceedings OF
the Republican senate, the conduct
of the party managers, and the
course of the Topeka Capital, the
official party organ. In national
affairs, we have the selection of j.
S. Clarkson for president of the
Republican League, in whom no
party reformer has confidence, and
which simply means the preterment
of the old crowd and the old issues
in the next campaign. We have a
succession of events which indicate
that the party is hopelessly under
the control of the great money and
manufacturing interests OF the east;
and we find that at its Ohio conven-
ton, which it is claimed sounded
the keynote of The campaign of 1872,
high tariff is made the issue, past
legislation is endorsed, and not a
syllable is uttered which indicates
that the party seriously contem-
plates taking up with the great
questions of labor, land, money and
transportation. Patiently we have
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-14

Mr.. BYRON T. PARK, of Erin, N.
Y, sends for papers and writes
"Your leoven is working powerful
ly. You are firing red-hot shot.
Down with the cut-throat usurer
and up with the peoplel The
masses of the Empire state will be
with you just as soon as they get
their eyes open. The fire is kind,
ling, and we will help you bounce
the banks and burn the bonds. +"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-14
What the Subsidized Press is
Doing.

IHOSc ncPuUilCdH CdldiiiiCy liz w -
ers" tell us that better prices for
the farmers products cannot be Sc
cured by legislation" 1t is Begin
ming to be felt that the Republicans
have Eegislated adversely ON the
people in the country at large. ALL
will admit this. Then why cannot
we Iegislate prosperity for the peo-
pie of the whole country No one
will deny that Legislation is the ba-
sis of national prosperity. This is'
the conviction of all, and it is So
strong that they are purposing Leg.
islative remedies for existing evils,
and inequalities that Cypress us at
present. Under present conditions,
there is no intelligent farmer but
what wants his SON to follow some.
other pursuit !; and his older chill
dren, who have spent years ON the
farm. entertain the same hveliest
sympathy with that anxiety. This
is evidence, and shows that, under
the present economic conditions,
almost any pursuit is considered
preferable to farming. And in leav-
ing the farm, it causes an increase in
the cities, and thus the weaker are
crushed out Of employment. This
condition arises. from impositons Of
legislation, effected while the farmer
was devoting his whole attention to-
his immediate business, and intrust-.
! ing his interests as a citizen of the.
nation to representatives who have
betrayed that trust.
Not only the farmer, but the Ia
borers who compose the rank and
! file of both Republican and Demo-
cratic parties, make the allegation
that they have been previously de-
ceived and imposed upon but it
has never been by their will, or
their enactment of single national
law under which they are now suf
fering. Through the influence of
corruption, they have trusted others
only to be corralled by such condi-
tons that paralyze their various
vocations and weakens them in up
holding either Of the old parties,
from the fact that it threatens the
destruction Of the ownership of
their homes. After investigation
they find that these conditions are
caused by Legislation. They have.
been aroused, and demand that the
power that made them shall remove
them. And they propose not to wa
yer in their demands by any decla
ration of the two old parties, that
corruption will be made their oppos-
ing forces.
AS a whole they will be chrystal
lied into what are known as the AL
lance, and the Peoples party, and
will maintain their sincerity and
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-14

The g. 0. p. editors say that one
good crop will dispense with the
necessity for the Farmers Alliance
and Citizens Alliance You 6. o.
p. frauds, the people have been rob-
bed for the last twenty-five years by
set Of financial, transportation,
beef, pork and grain pirates, to
which the ones driven out of the
temple by the Son of God would be
saints in comparison and undet
the present system they will gobble
the next good and bad crops as a
hawk would June-bug
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-14
gerous; to the honest, unsuspecting
voter. PEOPLES PARTY

POINT us to an old party organ
that has the courage to- raise it's
voice in behalf Of the. poor, the
widow, the orphan, the coal-digger,
the hod-carrier,. the plowman and
the washerw oman, and we will VEN
ture. to- say to you that that OF.
gan is just on the eve of getting up
and saying goodbye old party
al TELL you, BILL" said Smoky
Mike, the burglar, ave hard-workin'
thieves don't make half as much
money out O. the business as them
dude bank presidents and Pennsyf-
wanna officials" THAT SO, Smoke"
returned Bill. '"An' that Just shows
the value of eddication, which
has frequently remarked Puck
SEND TEN CENTS and get big,
bundle of Reform papers to distrib-
ute among your weak-kneed friends
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The price of this recipe for max
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No farmer should be without it,
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WHATEVER criticism should be
made Of the Peoples party, it should
be made in a kind spirit Kind
criticism is good for any organlza-
ton. We must remember that only
a conference was held at Cincinnati.
In February next more will be done.
If prohibitionists who, because the
conference refused to put a prohlbl-
tion plank in the platform, are sim
cere in their sorrow, they will have
chance to demonstrate their SIN
cerity at the conference next Febru-
airy. To that conference they will
he invited to attend. If the party
is represented by the machine, re-
fuses to confer, upon it will rest the
onus of the failure to cooperate.
We will see then whether principle
rules or party dominates. Progress
siye ge
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The record-union., 1891-10-13
BEGGING FOR INDULGENCE.

It seems to be the opinion of the best
informed that Democratic success in
New York at the approaching local cleo
ton will mean the defeat of ballot reform
in that State. Assuming this to be sound
Judgment, it is reason enough for the de-
feat Of the party. A New York Demo
cratic critical paper says, that even if it
is conceded to be true that Democratic
victory viii mean repeal of the ballot
reform law of New York, poor as it is,
and handicapped by the paster system,
''it viii be only the postponement of the
reform in this one State; for the larger
and more important issues are those in
volved IN the National contest, upon
which the New York election must have
such vital effect" This seems very
adroit at first glance, but will be found
to be weak reasoning and mere begging.
Thefriends of ballot reform in New York
cannot afford to stultify themselves by
consenting that the little they have
gained may be wrecked in order to aid in
the triumph of whatever chieftain polit-
ical party may choose to honor in Ma
tional campaign.
The settlement of the local issue need
not imperil any other issue affecting the
well being of the whole country. If the
Democratic party is defeated in New
York by the exertions of the friends of
ballot reform, because of its animosity in
that State to that reform, the causes ofthe
result Of the election will be well under
stood by the people of the United States.
For it happens that the Democratic party,
as a national party, is not amenable to
the charge of enmity to ballot reform.
More Democratic than Republican Con-
ventions have declared for ballot reform.
To ask independent voters, therefore, to
aid particular party to success at the ex-
pense of convictions of right concerning
the inviolability of the ballot. is to insult
intelligence and manhood.
Let the ballot reform people .of New
The record-union., 1891-10-13
AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE.

John Crouch is large land holder in
steady progress in the way of aggregat-
ing the ownership of land for many
years. AS an illustration of the manner
in which civilization disappears follow
ing the ownerships by this land monopo-
list, he recently purchased the holding Of
one Barrows, who owned twenty-one
hundred acres. Adding this twenty-one
hundred acres to his already large pos
session, Mr.. Crouch found house which
had costl$15, 900. 1t was an elegant coun-
try home, built of brick. 1t was a sign
ofadvancing civilization. 1t was a place
in which children might be born and
reared to manhood and womanhood. It
was an evidence of the highest use of
land, to wit: for the purpose of establish
ing homes. Mr.. Crouch found the ex-
istence of this home with its embellish-
ment of civilized life an offense. He de-
clared that the Assessor would assess the
improvements at high rate if he main
tanned a home. He therefore proposes
to destroy the $4,000 dwelling and leave
the land devoid of any habitation except
a ramshackle substitute in which
to feed the men who work that
ranch. He is, therefore, going
to destroy elegance and reproduce
squalor, because that is the method by
which large land holdings are cultivated.
He makes no concealment of the bar
barous tendency of bodying up land
holdings in California. By this action he
declares that the fertile valleys of Califor-
mia, when they fall into the ownership of
few men-as they are fast doing-shall
haYe neither houses nor fences, parks nor
orchards; they shall be divested of all
attractive features they shall become
the waste places of greed and rapacity
Thus Mr.. Crouch purchases a well-im-
proved and elegant home and converts it
into waste which is called in California
wheat field.
This incident is not alone. Surround
ing the Gallatin tract in Tehama County
there are some ten or twelve houses and
barns standing idle because their owners
sold out to a single individual who had
no use for them. The case herein cited
relating to Mr.. Crouch is not the only one
which might be cited in his experience.
He has destroyed ten or twelve dwelling
places that the monopoly of land might
prosper.
The record-union., 1891-10-13
THE TRAIN-wRECK1Ne INCIDENT.

There ought to be spared no effort on
the part of officials to capture the muir
derous train-wreckers who threw the
west-bound overland from the track near
Colfax early yesterday morning. A more
deliberate attempt to murder helpless
people is not of record. In the blackness
Of night rails were torn up on high en-
bankment over which in few moments
heavily loaded passenger train must
pass. The criminals must have calcu-
lated that the probable result would be to
send the entire train down the long
grade, and that there would be conse-
quent terrible mangling and killing of
human beings.
That not life was lost, and that no one
was even seriously hurt, though one
sleeping car filed with people rolled over
and over down the embankment, is sim
ply miraculous. 1t is, indeed, sufficiently
marvellous to go far towards justifying
belief that divine care had the fortunate
people on the train in special keeping.
Train-wrecking is now capital offense;
whether life is lost or not, the penalty for
the crime is death, and properly so. All
the energy of the law, the entire force of
officers in this region, ought to be at
once directed to searching out the infam-
GUS men who plotted the diabolical
scheme and bringing them to the scaffold
The Southern Pacific Company an
nopnces that it will pay reward of S5,-
600 for the arrest and conviction of the
wretches who attempted to wreck the
train. That ought to stimulate officers to
best exertion to bring the offenders to
Justice,
The record-union., 1891-10-13

York stand by their colors and make no
compromises. If, after all that has been
said and done, the Democratic party in
New York is still so dominated by Hill
ism that it cannot approve genuine ballot
reform, let it suffer defeat for that reason,
and because party so situated it is not
to be trusted to keep promises. Such an
outcome cannot possibly affect any ma
tional issues in which the Democracy
may be marshaled on the right side. The
local promise to do well in the future in
the matter of the ballot law, if allowed to
sin little longer, is contemplate and
not worthy of consideration. Indeed,
Democratic ballot reformers in New York
do not hesitate to say as much to their
party.
The record-union., 1891-10-13
GOVERNMENT OF CITIES.


Seth Low, in the Century, says home
rule for cities, within well determined
limits. is based upon experience and
ought to prevail. True legislative con-
troll of cities is the synonym of corrup-
ton. TO govern city well the State
should make 1t as nearly Independent as
can be done and preserve constitutional
form of government. We believe Mr..
Low is sound in these statements:
The States have passed mandatory laws
compelling localities TO undertake public
works whether they wanted to or not, and
they interfered generally in the Cetails of city
action 10 an lnConceiVaDle extent. Sufficient
experience has been had of each of these rene
dies to make it perfectly clear that the remedy
is worse than the disease. These three points,
therefore, appear to be clear: First when un-
usual work Is to be done which cannot
readily be carried forward by the ordinary
officials OF the city, the city aud not the Leg
islature should determine the men by whom
the work is TO be carried on; secondly, the
state Constitution should prohibit the LegiS-
lature from passing mandatory laws to COM
pei O locality to undertake pubic works TO
be paid for by the locality; and thirdly, the
lie egiSlature should not be permitted continu-
ally TO interfere to suspend or alter the city
charter.
The record-union., 1891-10-13
ORDINANCE NO. 2S5.
An Ordinance Providing for the Election of a
Board of Fifteen Freeholders to Prepare
and Propose Charter for the City of Sac
ramento.

TTNHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
City OF Sacramento ordain as follows:
SECTION /. There shall be elected by the
the election 10 be held on the first Monday in
December, 1891, in the City of Sacramento. a
board of fifteen freeholders, who shall have
election qualified electors OF said city. and
whose duty it shall be, within ninety days
after such election, to prepare and propose O
charter for said city, pursuant to the pro-
visions contained in Section s of Article XII
of the Constitution OF California.
SEC e This ordinance shall take effect i'm
mediately.
Passed octocer IL, 1891.
w. d. COMSTOCK,
President Board Trustees
J. d. YoUSG, Clerk. ol3-lLt
The record-union., 1891-10-13

THE mob demonstration at Omaha was
greatly discreditable to the city. That
such lynching should take place upon
the border and in new settlement where
the restraints of the law are lax, would
not be surprising. But Omaha is large
city, peopled by some Of the best pro
ducts of American civilizations; city
where the machinery Of the law is sup
posed to be ample for the suppression of
the lawless spirit, which in such place
should be light. It is unaccountable how
such city should be so powerless before
mob. We cannot help thinking that
the officials were infected by the mob
spirit and that they did not care to offer to
the lawless crowd any serious resistance
This, if true, makes the disgrace only the
more humiliating. If SO important a city
as Omaha is unable to protect its prison
ers from violence, no matter what their
offenses, to the West there will attach a
very unenviable character.
The record-union., 1891-10-13
@prriul NnttreB.
zlr,u Anprrttar,,te.rta.
Notice Of Award Of Contract No. LOG.

PURSUANT TO LAW AND TO THE RES
4 olution of the Board OF Trustees OF the
CITY of Sacramento, adopted October IL,
1891, directing this notice, notice is hereby
Session. on the 18th day of October, 1891,
opened. examined and publicly declared all
sealed proposals offered for the following
work, TO wit:
That d street. in said city, from the east line
Of Eleventh street TO tho west line of Twelfth
street and from the east line OF Twelfth street
10 the west line OF Thirteenth street, be im-
proved Dy grading and graveling 10 the Off
ciai grade constructing redwood curbing and
filling behind the same for a width not to ex-
ceed eight feet
Rejected all bids except that hereinafter
mentioned and thereafter awarded the con-
tract for said work to the lowest regular re-
sponsible bidder, 10 wit: To K. w. PARKER
at the prices named for said work in his pro-
posal on file. j. ID. YOUNG,
Clerk OF Board Trustees of Sacramento City.
Sacramento, october / 2, 1891. o13.2t
The record-union., 1891-10-13

THE record of cures accompiised by
Hoods Sarsaparilla can never be COM
pletely written. The peculiar curative
powers of Hoods Sarsaparilla are sue
cessful when everything else has failed.
If your blood is impure, your digestion
out of order, try Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The record-union., 1891-10-13
REITZ PITCHED.

Sacramento Defeats Oakland to the
Tune of 6 to 3.
With Reitz in the pitchers box, the
Sacramentos defeated the Oaklands at the
Bay yesterday.
McCloskey's men punched their hits in
the sixth inning, and at the same time
Borchers, who was pitching for the Oak
lands, became wilG in his delivery. Reit2
pitched splendid game.
Following is the official score:
The record-union., 1891-10-13
Art1r ADVERTISEMENTS.
NATURAL GAS TO The FRONT

A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
n holders o. the Sacramento Natural Gas
and Water Company is called for THURS
DAY EVENING, October 18th, at 7:3o
O'Clock at the Courthouse.
All citizens of Sacramento who are inter-
ested in seeing the speedy Development OF
natural gas In this city for heating, cooking
and Illuminating purposes, are invited to be
present. S. S. SOU1HWORTH, President.
w. II. HUMPHREY, Secretary. rs. CT ol3-3t
The record-union., 1891-10-13

SACRAMENTO. o o o D 0 & 6
Earned runs-Sacramento 2. Two-base
hit = Hassamer. Sacrifice hits - Carroll,
Borchers First base on errors-Oakland 4,
Sacramento Is. First base on called balls
Oakland 4, Sacramento 3. Lett on bases
Oakland g. Sacramento 7. Struck out-By
Borchers 3; by Reitz 4. Double plays-ReitZ,
McHale and McGuirk; Borchers and Power,
Passed balls-Speer 3. Wild pitcnes-Borch-
ers Q, Umpire-Sheridan.
The record-union., 1891-10-13
DAILY RECORD-UNION
Weather Forecasr.

Forecast till p. NJ Tuesday: For North
ern California - Fair weather; generally
warmer; fog and clouds at night along the
coast.
The record-union., 1891-10-13

Browns Bronchial Troches'' are of
great service in subduing hoarseness.
Sold only in boxes.
The record-union., 1891-10-13

The San Francisco Board of Health
says: "1t is impossible to make a purer
or stronger baking powder than the
Royal"
The record-union., 1891-10-13
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