Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-12-21
Some Blunt Traits.
MEDICINE LopaE, Dec. 4, feq,

MEDICINE LODGE, Dec. f. keg!
To the Editor of the Eagle.
1t is with pleasure we read in the daily Eagle
how loyal you are to Governor Lewellirg
You feel just as did at the soldiers reunion
in your city last fall. Many of the boys asked
me what kind of a man Simpson WAS. / told
them they were both sharp. bright men, that
they were both our boys-Jerry and Chester.
from Medicine Lodge. Ivoted for jerry and
all the men on the ranch did the same; for the
reason that he is farmer and owns a good
farm here, and we have rounded up cattle
with him in days gone by when he had no
socks, but we socked him through to congress
two years ago. AMI on election night he was
with us all night And when the returns all
got in, we had regular roundup over it. We
bid him goodbye tor two years more 1t was
desperate fight, but Chester does not whine
over it as some of the Republican press does.
Now. Mr. Marsh Murdoch, there would have
been another desperate fgnt for governor, IL
you had not said two years ago that the farmers
needed a change of base, which your true
manhood and honor compelled you to say. by
saying this and other things in the interest Of
farmers. your party did not nominate you.' If
they had you would have been goveruor-for
you were loyal to us and we did not forget it;
we knew your heart right.
In sc we are going to elect I'm Alliance presi-
! dent and send farmers to congress. This farm
ers movement is in its infancy yet Kansas
and Nebraska have started the ball rolling
and it will roll TO every farmers home in the
next four years, aud 10y our votes loosen the
/ grip that these trusts aud combines have on
Jour throats. by setting the prices we are COM
| peeled 90 take for our meats and grain, which
arc our ali i'll this great garden Of the west.
! They gamble with our hard earned products.
| Let US farmers stop farming two years. What
would thiscountry have left?
! Are farmers protected like the manu-
| features by tariff? No! The mana features,
! Let that stand alone awhile.
| l hear some eastern writer gay if the tariff
| is taken OF you close the factories and the
west will be flooded with tramps. Let them
! flood out here IN Kansas, us farmers can use
! these good men they call tramps there. 1t is
! hard to get help here, we waste by not having
! these whom they cali tramps, TO harvest our
crops more than the east Rises for the want
of this help.
Again, hear another eastern writer say we
| are going to frame such laws as to cheat a, be
the means of their losing their Investments in
Kansas. This is all bosh. The Kansas people
will pay every debt they owe, excepting some
capital which the eastern loaner through bad
management, was foolish enough to send some
of the landshark agents here and which was
invested in wild, rough and worthless lands,
taking & mortgage on the lands, through these
agents, for security for their money; and at
the time the loans were made the lands were
not worth half the face of the mortgage. This
capital did Kansas no good, for the men who
got the loans took the money and left the state.
Wheat looks lovely; stock doing nicely;
health'good.
Hastily, but respectfully.
| ELI BENEDICT.