People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-09
President Women's Pioneer Club
From Kansas.

WINFIELD, KAN, Sept. 5. ".
Kansas is now undergoing one Of
the most bitter political campaigns
ever waged in the history Of the
State.
AT last we have the lines closely
drawn between the corporations on
the one hand and the people on the
other.
The Republicans do not deny that
they are receiving help from the rail-
roads; yes, even Boosting Of it.
Their campaign treasury Is kept
full. They have unlimited means at
their command-and are using it.
Nowhere else have we seen such an
avowed attempt on the part of the
corporations to set aside the will of
the people.
We have done here what must be
done in every State before we win.
That is, secure the support of all the
honest Republicans and Democrats,
and force the balance to fall in with
plutocrats and to the defense of the
Carnegies, Vanderbilts and Goulds.
This movement, as understood by
us, is not a fight between the Peo-
pies party and the old parties for
offices, but it is fight between the
Nineteenth century American arts
tocracy and the people. In short, it
is the irrepressible conflict between
organized and rapidly centralizing
capital and labor, and free govern.
ment is now undergoing the crucial
test.
The old parties are the allies and
true friends of aristocracy because it
is their child, and they could not be
expected to disown it.
How near is our country to the
brink of material ruin. We oftimes
wonder, do the people of the South
realize these conditions that confront
us as we do?
The reform movement in Kansas
is no new thing any more. It is
feared by the corporate powers, and
at last they have awakened to real
ize that it really means the struggle
of labor, the foundation of wealth, to
wrest from the hands Of the cor
porations, the basis of aristocracy,
that govern nent for which our own
Washington fought.
How long, in Heavens name, will
the people of this country defend
plutocracy? We have driven the
Republican party in this State into
the last ditch-the arms of the cor
porations-and in November will
finish the job. Now, will the South
land come to our assistance by WHIP
ing out the other defender of plu-
tocracy, called the Democratic party,
and give back to the people their
lost liberties. Brethren of the
South, many earnest, anxious prayers
are going up from the fresides of
Kansas homes that the people of the
South will realize the true conditions
which we have to meet and unite
with the West, for we must conquer
or we die SO far as free government
is concerned. Our party is rallying
everywhere, animated by one
thought, that is, that it is a question
as to who shall rule, the people or
organized capital. We mean fight
to the end at the ballot-box. The
hour demands men who are good
and true, men who are willing to lay
their all on the altar of their country
for freedoms sake. We are inspired
by the thought that our Southern
brethren will be with us. I have
always been Democrat, am yet,
after the fashion of Jefferson and
Jackson, and was born in the South,
old Virginia, and [ had inherited the
most bitter opposition to the Repub-
ican party, yet the happiest moment
of my life was when | could take
my republican neighbor by the hand
and together go down to battle in
common cause, for our country and
our homes. We are happier peo-
plessaanow and united because we
know what confronts us and the
danger of being disunited. Breth-
rem, come to the rescue of the re-
public. eve must hang together or
hang separately"
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