The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-22
KANSAS ALL RIGHT.
No Combination Can Prevent Her Electoral
Vote From Being Counted Tor the Re-
publican Party.

| No Combination Can Prevent Her Electors
Vote From Being Counted OF the Re
publican Party.
Referring to an article in which
eotemporary claims the. coalition
between the opposition may lose thu
electoral vote of Kansas to the repub
lican candidate for president next fall
the Topeka Capital remarks:
1.-THE electoral vote of Kansas viii
be republican this year for the excel
lent reason that before the nationa
convention is held the peoples party Of
this state will have disbanded. We
speak advisedly. No less an authority
within the Kansas peoples party than
southern dose, sub-treasury and all,
said in his paper directly after the No
VEN Der elections that the existence OF
the peoples party hung upon the action
of the St Louis convention of February
%. DIR. McLallin volunteered the
statement that the failure of this con
vention to indorse a national third
party would be followed by the disor.
Ganization of the Kansas party.
Not even DIR. McLallin. we suppose,
will predict any other result of the st.
Louis convention than the death of the
alliance party in Kansas. Should the
northern delegates outnumber the
southern and carry the convention the
southern branch of the order would re-
pudiate the action. The only southern
state in which the movement for third
party gained any adherents whatever
is Georgia, and even the Georgia ALI
ance has elected solid anti-third party
dele cation to the convention.
Thousands of Kansas alliancemen
went into the third party without due
consideration of the merits of that par
tvs principles. They were persuaded
by false figures and sophistical argu-
ment that under our present financial
theories, based upon scientific princi-
pies and maintained by statesmen in
all parties and of all nations, their
property was gradually passing out
of their hands into the control of a
fictitious monster known as the
money power. They lost sight OF the
fact that thirty million acres of farm
land in Kansas, almost the entire cul-
tivable area of the state, was virtually
given to them by republican legisla-
ton, the price being but fourteen cents
an acre. They overlooked the fact that
this land is now worth from SIS to $50
an acre and that their farms have in
creased in value eighty per cent in the
last ten years, or at the rate of eight per
cent per annum. They neglected to
consider the fact that under our pres
ent financial system their crops sell
for money worth its face value;
and that, while owing to the
unprecedented development of raw
land into productive farms farm
products so largely increased in volume
as necessarily to fall, for time, in
price, yet under our protective system
manufactured products decreased in
price in greater ratio, 50 that bushel
of wheat will buy to-day more calico or
sugar or cotton or wooden goods than
it ever could under the best prices that
have prevailed since Cain became a
tiller of the ground.
THE farmers of Kansas have re-
volved these things in their minds, and
after the St Louis convention they will
not be slow to come back into the party
that first saved and then built up the
nation"