The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-05
CHA s F. SCOTT
THE PoPULIsT CONVENTION AMI
TICKET


TICKET.
The Convention, in point of mum
bors and enthusiasm, did the Peoples
party credit. The delegations from
most of the townships seemed to bt
pretty well filled, and the delegates
were very prompt to applaud when
ever anybody made point. 1t was
a well-dressed, prosperous looking
crowd, and it was pretty "well heel
ed" too, judging by the fact that q
collection of $3.50 was taken up in
ten minutes. a stranger coming into
the room would never have dreamed
that he was among a lot of "serfs and
slaves" in a country which is son the
verge of material ruin" The men
who made up that convention surely
did not look as if anybody was OPP
pressing them very hard.
So far as we know, the ticket nOn-
mated is made up of lnen who are per-
sonally honest and reputable citizens;
but it will hardly be claimed, even by
their friends, that they are as well
qualified, man for man, for the offices
they seek as are their Republican
competitors. Mr.. Baker, the nominee
for Representative, is farmer of
Usage. He has been very strenuous
member of the opposition for great
many years, working hard for the
Greenback party and then for the
Union Labor party. He has some
very radical ideas about finance and
if elected would doubtless endorse the
most extreme measures that could be
proposed. Mr.. Cash, of MarmatOn,
who was nominated for Probate Judge
declared with much emphasis that he
was not qualified to fill the Office and
that he could not be elected. He can
hardly expect the voters to put a
higher estimate on his qualifications
than he does himself, so it doesn't
seem worth while to discuss his cam
didacy. Mr.. DeHaven, the nominee
for Superintendent, has been teaching
in the district schools for several years
and is now the editor of the ElsmOre
Eagle. He is young man of good
bearing and appearance, but he lacks
the age, experience and education
usually deemed necessary to fill this
important office. Mr.. Robinson, of
lola township, who was chosen for
District Clerk, is a farmer and school
teacher, and is doubtless well quail
fled to fill the office. He was not
present at the convention and we have
not learned whether or not he has ac-
cepted the nomination. 1t lad been
the general understanding that the
convention would endorse the candi-
dacy of Alt. Campbell for county at
torney, and that was doubtless the
wish OF the politicians of the Peoples
party. But the lay members of the
convention got ION tOn the scheme and
flattened it out. If their party was to
have no candidate of its own they
wanted to make their choice between
the candidates of the other parties,
and so they passed a resolution that,
under the circumstances, is practical
endorsement of Capt. Slower. How
the county democracy will take this
slap in the face remains to be seen.
Taken as a whole the ticket is not
one that will tempt any Republican
to scratch his own, as there is no one
of the candidates who has any special
elements of strength or popularity.
At the same time it is ticket that is
entitled to, and will doubtless receive,
the support of all those who endorse
the principles of the Peoples party.
The fight this fall, even i'm county af-
fairs, is one of principles rather than
of persons. 1t does not matter much
whether Mr.. a or Mr.. b fills a given
office, granting that both are honest
and capable. But it does matter ev-
erything in Kansas this year what
principles are triumphant. The Peo-
pies ticket represents fiat money,
sub-treasury, and a reversal of
the business principles and policies
under which this Nation has grown
rich and great and powerful. The
Republican party represents a safe
and stable currency, and a continual
tion of the sound economic policy that
has brought our country to the proud
place it now occupies among the COM
mercial nations of the earth.
Choose We!
"FoTR or five years ago." said one
of the Peoples party speakers last
Saturday, ''when We met in cOnven-
ton there was only a mere handful"
'Mr. Robinson has been active work