People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-12-02
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

weaver votes WIFI inc nOIth-
With no ballot stufing and fair
count, Weaver carried Alabama, Georgia
and North Carolina.
In Illinois and Wisconsin the tariff
was not in it. The German Lutheran
vote carried those states for Cleveland
upon the parochial school issue.
In Alabama Harrison and Weaver
have $4,000 more votes than Cleveland.
No wonder the democrats wanted Har-
rison electoral ticket in the field.
The republican journals in the
western states seem to be trimming
their sails to catch the silver breeze. 1t
is no use. The peoples party will push
the silver campaign to successful ter
mination.
The democratic national platform
is pledged to the repeal of the ten per
cent tax on state banks viii they do
it? No; they don't dare to try 1.-THE
national bankers will not allow it
Butler mo Union.
One thing, at least, has been settled
by the recent campaign and the election
Just held The bugaboo of negro SUI
premacy" will no longer possess any
potency as a scarecrow. The democrat
ic party in the south is the negro party.
The tremendous increase in the
vote Of the southern states is an elo-
quent, though mute, witness to the
truth of past charges of fraud Thou
sands of negroes must have been per-
suaded OR forced to vote this year, who
never before were allowed to cast a
ballot.
What has become of that old fash
toned alliance man who predicted that
the populist would carry southern
states?-Gazette. What has become Of
that dumfuddled republican who said
that the southern alliance was a south
ern democrat move?-Emporia Kan.
Tidings.
The democratic party is now on
probation. If it improves the oppor-
tunity of needing the demands of the
laboring people of the nation, all well
and good; but if the spirit of the east
ern democracy prevails, it will be good
by, old parties, good-by," in earnest
Hutchinson Kan Alliance Herald
This third party is reading party;
it is also writing and talking party.
Right or wrong, it has reached mag
nitude which entities it to serious con-
sideration, for it means revolution. 1t
does not carry bombs up its sleeve, and
it does not mean to follow Parsons V
the gallows, but it does mean revolu-
tion.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
1t already has become very evident
that once more the people have been
fooled Grover Cleveland and his back
ers and advisers are not in sympathy
with the free trade or state bank cur
rency demands of the Chicago platform,
while Cleveland has lost no time in de-
fning his position upon the subject of
finance and the coinage of silver.
The liberties of a people are in
grave danger of being lost when par
tisan political leaders boast of the de-
bauchery of the ballot as a cause of
success. At the democratic celebration
at Memphis, Tenn, the speakers Landed
to the skies Jim" Dortch, the author
of the infamous ballot law which has
disfranchised the common people"
The names of Judas Iscariot and
Benedict Arnold will no longer be the
only synonyms for base treachery. In
the act of scattering broadcast, in the
name of the alliance, those democratic
campaign documents, j. F. Tillman has
dealt the cause of reform in the south
ern states staggering blow and carved
himself niche in the temple of Gin
fame.
If the democrats wipe out of exist
ence the Mckinley tariff law, ts they
have promised to do, and repeal the
state bank tax law, from what source
will they raise sufficient revenue to run
the government? Perhaps, though,
they intend to reduce (?) salaries. The
people are watching and waiting-they
want to hear something drop. Butler
(Mo,) Union.
-Populists, everywhere. should agi-
tate an amendment to their state con-
situations creating separate and distinct
electoral districts of all cities having
voting population of 100000. The
rag, tag and bobtail in the cities ought
not to decide elections contrary to the
will of the majority of the people of a
state. What's the matter with the
Michigan system?
If anyone wants evidence of uni
versal fraud in the late election let
him witness the holding back of re-
turns! Just as if twenty-four hours
were not long enough to count any pre-
cinct Fraud-aye-the ballot boxes
have been at the mercy of a lot of ras-
Gals wherever but one man reads bal
lots and but one man puts down the
reading-Great West
The ghost of the solid south was no
terror to the western people this year,
and it will disappear altogether when
the full vote of the states is shown up
in tabulated form When it is known
how faithfully the southern populists
are staying by their colors, and what
fearful odds they are working against,
the south will not be considered SC
solid.-Topeka Advocate.
The republican party in the west,
ern states is preparing to repeat its tao
ties of ten or twelve years ago, when il
obtained lease Of power by formulat
ing false promises. Gradually we shall
see the advocacy by western republican
journals of all the demands made by