The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-11-04
CLOSING THE COLUMNS.
The Populists Everywhere on the
Alert.
Preparations on the 1--we OF 8atsIe-Cfrsss
OGtPoUrIHE o. the People over tho
. Cou1tTy go Hear Wholesome
Eruths--On to Victory.



packed to overflowing at the late pco-
, pies party meeting in that city. ADD
dresses were made by Gen C. II Van
tVyclS and c. D. Shrader, candidates for
Rovgruor and lieuteuan Q governor, and
Robert Z. Wheeler, candidate for con
gress in the Second district. BEr
shrader spoke first and showed how
Nebraska farms were mortgaged. and
then took mp the transportation ques-
tiou and hgEdIcd the repu blicau party
Of Nebraska without gloves. lie said
that for fifteen or twenty years the re-
publican pnrty has had Z plank
in.-its platform declaring that Ne
braaSa rates We're tho high and
dem8nding n reduction, bat in all
sth:s time all they huse been ahle
20 accomplish ia the way of railroad
legislation was n railroad commission,
which costs the Taxpayers of the state
.sl5,GCJ a year and which brings in q
report declaring that the present rates
o are4ow enough, but favOriug slight
reduction on green apples, as that crop
hsd been partial failure Mr.. Wheeler
next spoke and said that it was time
Tor the mechanic, the artisan and the
turDaer to band themselves together for
victory at the ballot box, and that II
they did not get control OF the govern
ment IL was their own fault, Hcclosed
by calling on all good citizens to help
drive out the desPoilers of the temple
of American liberty, and to displace the
ahOddy aristocrs1cy of wealth for the
true aristocracy OF worth. When Gen.
NanWyclc arose to speak he was greeted
with a storm of applause. The general
said that this was not n timc for
sentiment, II was a time for action.
He said that the old parties told u 5
we were prosperous; granted, but who
bad tho prosperity. It had been cor
aercd by syndirates and trusts; the
only thing vouchsafed to rs now was
happiness; the Creator had made men
so that they could be happy even under
very adverse circumstances. He had
given them a key to their own hearts,
and that happiness was about the only
thing that wasn't controlled by some
syndicate, He said the independents
were charged with being calamity
howlers and discords; he said they
pleaded guilty, that all human progress
had been accomplished by intelligent
discomfort; that discomfort was what
made us different from the Indians.
He said the men of 17TG We're discon-
tented, they were calamity howlera W hen
they dumped the tea into Boston har-
Dor aud afterwards established this
grand republic He referred To the rise
OF the republican party thirty years
ago, of its use against slavery and the
defeat of the two great parties of
that time, and he said that the old
parties could not prevent the on
ward march of the reform party from
ocean to ocean. The mission OF the
peoples party was to make the world
better Gen. Van Wyck then review ed
the decline in the price of farm prud.
ucts To the farmer, and showed how the
prices were fixed by the gamblers and
spectators, so that while the farIussI
hardly realized the cost of production,
the workingTnan could not afford &C
have beef three times day under the
present condition. He closed with c
scathing review Of the grand old party
that had fOstercd trusts, moaopoIies
and combines and oppressed the honest
toilers of the country.
Fave MisreprezentatIous-
In refuting the statement that Jne
pOpulists are deserving their party in
Kansas, Chairman Briedenthal, of the
Populist central committee, recently
said; THAT Is q matter upon which
there has been more misreprcscntatio
than upon all others connected with
this campaign. The man who states
that any considerable number of oul
men have returned to the republican
partyis either woefully ignorant or is =
wiltul political liar. The facts are ne
man has left the party except a few o
the following classes: First, men like
Frank McGrath, who joined the move
ment in the hope of securing office, tuC
failing, naturally returned to the old
party l1eGoltlf men VINO AlluplA NOAel
the ticket on account of some personal
grudge against the republican party OF
some of its candidates. Third, wen whc
are in politics for the money there is il
it and have secured their price. Tho
peoples party has not lost ground. Il
is steadily increasing and its men arr
composed of the material that never
turns back and never surrenders- Fol
every one who has turned to the repub-
Hcan party I viii produce three vhc
have Joined US fresh from the repub
lican ranks"
Aiabauns Red Hot
The political cauldron was never siz
King so much or boiling SO intensely in
Alabama as now. The rotten egg in
cident in which Capt KoTb, candidate
for governor. and Maj. 5. s Booth
candidate for electoF on the fusion
ticket. were prevented from speak
ing at Gordon, has eliminated in q
new political sensation Capt Koft
returned to Montgomery much augered