The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-09-09
BATTLE In KANSAS.
POpulistS Poll the State and Find their
Strength Greater than 1t was
In 1890.
A SUPERB SYSTEM OF CAMPAIGN
Legislature and Senator Assured Every
Congressional District Except One
Sure for the Peoples Party.

lhepeople parry mas completed Us
polls of a large majority of the coun-
ties in this state, and the returns indi-
cate an increase vote over two years
ago. In order for the republican party
to win it was necessary to gain 10000
republican farmers from the alliance,
aud, if the first poll of the state was
not wonderfully defective, the popu-
lists will win in canter. In Shawnee
county, where the republicans have
the largest majority in the state, the
completed poll shows u large peoples
party increase.
-Four years ago Harrison received
1900 majority in the county, and two
years ago the republican majority over
the combined opposition was about
200. In order to show the braggart
CLAIMS of the republicans, this district
will illustrate. Curtis, the republican
nominee for congress, claims this
county by 5000 majority and the re-
publican leaders declare that it will
give him 1000. At democratic head
quarters Saturday i; was stated that
Whorton, the peoples party nominee
for congress, would poll the entire
democratic vote and the entire German
vote, part of which has previously
voted the republican ticket. In order
to win in the district, Curtis ma
iority must be 1000 in the county, and
he first poll shows that he will have
great difficulty in even carrying it.
What is true of the fourth congressi-
onal district is equally true of all the
others. The democratic vote will be
thrown in a body to the populist
ticket. In fact the Democrats seem
to eH;sl ths opportunity which the
democratic state convention gave
them for voting the Weaver electoral
and populist state ticket, This state
is more thoroughly united on the sill
yer issue than any other. 1t would
have been decidedly embarrassing for
the democrats to have conducted an
aggressive fight for Cleveland but as
it is the name of the Gray Gables let
ter writer is never mentioned in the
campaign, The sole duty of the dem.
ocratlc central committee is to look
after those democrats who are re-
ported as opposed to the peoples party
state ticket. AS a consequence it
finds little work to do. AS the cam
paign progresses it becomes all the
more evident that the peoples ticket
will receive the full democratic vote
and that unless there is d change in
the Wall street policy of the party n
democratic organization in Kansas
will be impossible.
1t is the hope of the populist leaders
to absorb the democratic party in this
state and they arc succeeding to such
an extent that the old time leaders are
beginning to get badly scared. In
nearly every school district there are
several democratic leaders who have
always been true to the party who now
openly announce that they have
burned their bridges behind them.
These leaders look for the same relief
from the peoples party and declare
that the time is quickley coming when
the south and west will unite on free
silver and tariff reductions The peo-
pies party is nominating throughout
the state for the legislature men who
represent this idea and the coming
legislature, which is certain to be con-
trolled by the new party, will be COM
posed of able and conservative men
who will elect successor for Senator
Perkins from their own ranks.
In the congressional districts the
peoples nominations have been wise
and with one exception the chances
are decidedly in favor of the populists
nominees, The First is the only dis
trict where the peoples party is in
grave danger Of losing, and that is be-
cause democrat is in the race upon
whom the peoples party leaders can
not unite, When King was Withdrawn
in the Second district in favor of
Moore, the democratic candidate, the
straight-out democrats in the First ex-
pected the withdrawal Of Close, peo-
pies, in favor of Carroll, democrat.
Carroll is national banker and the
peoples central committee has an
nOunced that it would be better to lose
the district than to jeopardize the rest
OF the state by CAROLS Endorsement.
In the Third district JEFF Hudson,
the populist nominee. is democrat
who went off with the peoples party
on the silver question. He is having
everything his own way and Governor
Humphrey, his competitor, will be the
worst defeated man in the state.
Many Of the republicans in this dis
trict are openly fighting him, while
Hudson solidly unites the opposition.
WhOrton, the populist nominee in
the Fourth, thoroughly unites the op.
position to republlcanism. He is an
ex-democrat but is thoroughly identi-
fed with the peoples party.
In the Fifth district there are three
tickets IN the field, Dut Davis, populist
! candidate, had 5000 plurality in the