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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
A Test In Georgia.

The ordinary probate judge) Of
Glasscock county, Ga, died a short
while ago, and an election for the posi-
ton was ordered for Monday, June 20.
The democrats for the past two weeks
have been exerting every power to carry
the election, and asserted that the re-
suit of this election would be indicative
of the standing Of the third party in
the Tenth Tom Watson's) district.
About one week before election Cor
don, Northen and Black made their
now famous speeches at Gibson, the
county seat, where they endeavored to
turn the tide in favor of the democratic
party, but in this they signally failed,
as the gallant little county stood firm
for reform. The democrats selected as
their standard bearer Mr.. Seaborn
Kitchen, one of the most popular men
Of the county, and one having large
family connections. Mr.. ]. c. English,
the peoples party candidate, was elect
ed by a handsome majority of nearly
two to one on full vote. Hurrah for
Glasseockl 1t is said the city of Augusta
sent large amount of money to inhu-
ence this election for the democrats,
but it was of no avail, for the sturdy
farmers stood firm for their rights and
principles Party Paper.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
TWO OF A KIND,
Two Minds With But a Single Thought,
Two Hearts That Beat as One.


Two Hearts That Beat as One.
The latest news from Chicago by yes
terday's morning papers left the con-
vention voting and without official
announcement declare Cleveland nomi-
mated
The nomination of Cleveland and
Stevenson neatly closes up the conven-
ton work of the two old Wall street
monopoly parties-two minds with but
single thought, two hearts that beat
as one. This year has seen in the ma
tional conventions a power mightier
than that of the bosses. That power
which indicated its choice long prior to
the assembling of the conventions and
to careful observers it was no secret
who the heads of the tickets would be.
The bosses made a determined, old
fashioned politician fight for Blaine,
but the Wall street powers preferred to
trust Harrison.
The south and west made a most de.
termined resistance to all anti-silver
candidates, and Tammany to Cleveland
hut the money power stepped on them
and crushed them like an eggshell, and
placed Cleveland, the deadliest enemy
to the silver coinage policy so strongly
upheld in the south and west at the
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15

ready enrolled 100000 voters on their
lists. Draw your own conclusions, gen.
tlemen.-Denver Col. Road.
The time draws near when the peo-
pie are going to free themselves from
the thraldom under which they now
live Listen to the tread of the cow
hide boots San Antonio Truth.
In Choctaw county, Miss, the whole
county organization of the democratic
party joined the peoples party. 1t is
predicted that nine-tenths of the total
vote will be cast for the reform ticket
The old line democrats keep harp
ing upon that worn out string; "You
cannot legislate money into a mans
pocket" Thomas jefferson said: "You
can legislate prosperity or adversely
upon yourselves and your posterity."-
Great West.
Seven of the nine southern states
are in open rebellion against the demo-
cratic party and the greatest difficulty
was experienced this spring in getting
enough committeeman together to eff
feet state organizations. Deserted.
The peoples party caught them.-Den-
yer Road
The republican party robs the peo-
pie of ifty-four dollars out of every
hundred by high tariff, and the demo-
Gratis denounce this as robbery. 1t is
thieving; but the democrats propose to
rob you of forty-eight dollars by the
same process. Rob you of six dollars in
the hundred lesS-Southern Alliance
Farmer.
-Murat Halstead, in the North
American Review, insists that the ratio
of silver to gold should be changed to
Is to- Why should this be done when
1t is fact that the silver in dollar
actually costs &C cents, while the gold
in dollar costs only SO cents? Prob
ably some Of the Hutchinson econo-
mists would like to answer this ques-
ton. Ii so we will donate column to
him next week for that purpose. War.
ren Foster
I'm 1865 there was $50 per capita cur.
rency among the people-before con.
traction had got in its deadly work,
and before the credit strengthening
days Secretary McCulloch said: ''Tht
business is nearly all done on cash
basis, and the people are generally out
of debt All who want work can get il
at good wages; ali branches of bushes:
are flourishing, and the people are pros
porous and happy" Friends, we're go
ing to have those good old times agar
if we have to hang every thievine
money monopolist as high as Hannah
1t is business, now-musty old senti
ment isn't in it.-Exchange.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
PLuTOCRACYS TWINS.
Harrison and Cleveland Are the Person
ficatiOn of ShylOck's Methods.


fcation of ShylOck's Methods.
The work of the democratic national
convention of 1892 is completed, and
Grover Cleveland is the nominee of the
party. The claim is made, and it has a
surface support, that this is a nominal
ton in defiance of the machine, a yield
ing to popular demand for a leader in
whom the people have confidence.
Nothing could be further from the
truth. Banker Whitney, of New York
city and Wall street, engineered the
Cleveland boom and nomination from
start to finish. So far from the choice
of Cleveland being the popular will, he
was not even the choice of many dele
gates whose votes under the prevailing
unit rule, were cast for him. So well
did his leaders understand the situation
that they dared not allow the conven-
ton to adjourn at midnight, but amid
thunder, lightning, wind and rain they
held their forces together for the ballot
Had the necessary two-thirds not been
secured on the first ballot, the proba-
bilit;es are enough southern and west
ern men would have gone to Boies to
have nominated him with the aid of
Tammany's votes.
Cleveland is nominated, and all he
stands for becomes democratic party
issues for the campaign. Harrison is
nominated, and all that he stands for
becomes republican party issues for the
campaign. Both stand for Wall street,
usurious interest and plutocrstic domi-
nance in governmental affairs. Both
are against an increase in the circulat-
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Justice is the corner stone of the
alliance.
Cleveland and Harrison-the public
be id.
IF any man will not work neither
shall he eat"
Labor asks only free opportunities,
not special privileges
The people who ask for justice are
called calamity howlers st. Louis
Monitor.
The "hayseeds' will use the handles
of their pitchforks to knock the polit-
ical persimmon this year.-San Antonio
Truth.
The labOrer who can vote for Reid
and then grumble about low wages de-
serves to be condemned to bread and
water for life.-Exchange.
The solution of the financial ques-
ton is through government banks
charging no higher rate of interest than
would meet theexpense of the business.
Henry Clay said: "Anthing that
the government will receive in payment
of public dues is money, and good
money-no matter what its form may
be-"
Papers that have not been educated
beyond the ''two blades of grass where
one grew before" stage are of very little
use to the farmer in the coming strug-
educational Economist.
Texas casts about $4,000 votes.
Since 1890 the peoples party has al
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
A GLOOMY PICTURE.
Monopoly Has Control of All the Ma

Monopoly Has Control OF All the Natural
Opportunities aud Avenues Of Wealth.
Oh, Waterman, it is good that you
have taken up your place as Waterman
sver the peoples rights Long have the
people neglected to defend themselves
against the enemy, and while in peace
they have neglected to watch their
right, the enemy has laid hands upon
their dearest liberties But, now that
you are awake, sound loud and long the
bugle blast Of alarm that the robbed
and plundered people may be called
together for self-defense. While your
post has been vacant the heritage of the
people has passed into the hands of the
few, and large portion of them are to-
day homeless and houseless. In the
great cities the poor are huddled to-
Eether in garrets and cellars, like cattle,
without the chance to practice the COM
pon decencies of life. Children are
born and live a few short months in
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15

head of the democratic ticket. Having
secured the candidates for the heads Of
the two nominally opposing parties,
the corporation interest is satisfied
with the election of either-feeling
perfectly safe with its its veto power in
the hands of either Cleveland or Har-
rison, that no measure can become a
law which the plutocratic class is OPP
posed to, unless the people make con-
gress solid with two-thirds of major
ity for the public interest, rather than
that of the capitalistic class
The people without regard to former
party proclivities owe it to every in
terest their lives are bound up in to
pause and deliberately consider the
present conditions. Blaine was clearly
the choice of the rank and file of re-
publicans by an overwhelming major
ity, but the strategy of the monopoly
class with their ready money easily
overthrow their efforts and disregarded
their wishes.
Cleveland is the open antagonist of
the financial policy Of at least one-half
of the democratic voters, but they are
powerless as clay in the potter's hands.
The hope of the money, power is to d.
vide the voters of the country whose
cause is one, as that of the plutocrats
is one, but while thus arraying them in
two opposing bodies, they have made it
sure that they cannot win in voting
for or electing either of the candidates
nominated. Can the people be made to
comprehend this political strategy by
which they are to be again delivered
into the hands of their natural enemy,
corporate power? If they can they will
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
THE PARTY LASH.

silly Twaddle About the Force Bill In
dulged Ia by Southern Party Organs.
Every vote cast for third party can
didate, whatever be his creed or opin-
ions, is simply vote to help Harrison
fix force bill and high tariff robbery
on the south.-Americus Times-Re-
corder.
This has been the plan Of the old
party heelers for the past thirty years
Cry out force bill and high tariff.
Now let us examine this little and
see If there is any foundation for it.
Nobody has heard anything about
the force bill except when the demo-
Gratis OF the south howl about II to
drive the alliance people back into the
democratic ranks. The eastern demo-
Gratis also threatened the southern and
western democrats in the house with
the force bill if they voted for free sill
yer. Outside the force bill is as dead
as the democratic silver bill. It, like
the silver bill, was killed in the house
OF its friends BIZ few western repub-
lican senators who opposed the force
bill on principle.
0What about tariff and the position of
the parties on this great issue?
That tariff is robbery, there can be
no doubt The democrats say II is AT
least, and denounce their republican
opponents in the strongest terms. The
two old parties are almost together on
this the only question which divides
them. only six per cent difference
not enough to quarrel over.
Now these are the facts, and all the
cry about tariff and the force bill can
not DIVE the people from their prin-
eiples. They are there and there to
stay.-Southern Alliance Farmer.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15

turn and vote for their own candidates,
the nominees of their own class, the
candidates of the peoples party, their
party; new ship which sails out from
the fog-bound dead sea, where old par
ties lie water logged, freighted with
the hopes of the people who labor and
wait-oh, how long and patiently they
have waited and hoped in vain, but
their petitions have been scorned and
trampled under foot by both old par
ties.-Rising Sun Md Midland Jour.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
are 500. OOO OOO ~ oold Iool,

There are 500, 900 of gold locked
up in the vaults Of the United States
treasury and held for the redemption
OF greenbacks, and at the same time
there is a law upon our statute books
prohibiting their redemption. Interest
bearing government bonds were sold to
obtain that gold, and the people are
paying interest on those bonds to-day.
This is republican financiering. Do
the people desire to continue this kind
OF business? If so, keep right on voting
the republican ticket-Advocate.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
A Samnle.

The governments of Belgium and
France have control of the telephone
service there. The telephone rates be-
tween the two great cities, Paris and
Brussels, were complained of as too
high. Agents were appointed by the
two governments to investigate the
matter The result is a reduction of
tolls, by one-half, for a five minutes
conversation. If the system had been
owned by private corporations they
would have raised the price, probably
more than half as much again.-Great
West.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
RHHa1SS hbS G. -AMH&h"
WORSHIPERS AT THE SHRINE.
Nth But Single Thought That Beat as One"

ocOnrdt sienl
hepat Of the democrats ndH
ademoaM
aanhG
al rnsate
" he in spite O. the Urtonf nue
u
)Chrnile
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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15

Several townships in Fannin coun-
ty, Tex, have practically been aban-
doned by the democrats The peoples
movement there is going like prairie
fire.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
Mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a selfish race
Uf.ot ho,rd "a -foa., a,d faaN

That hoard and Sleep and ICED
men who will estimate law by its
equal application to all classes and all
men, and who will be content with
nothing until we have democracy in
business as we have in theory, at least
a democracy in citizenship.-New Ma
tion
The record-union., 1892-10-19


being of the people at home.
WOOL AND woOLEN INDUSTRIES.
Another of the great sources of wealth
to our country are our wool and wooden
industries. L have never been able to
understand why these of all our indus
tries should have been selected out as
doomed to overthrow and destruction by
the Democratic party.
Every State and Territory in the Union
is engaged in growing sheep for mutton
and wool. The sheep industry is more
widely distributed than any we have.
The woolen goods factories of the United
States are among the most important in
their relation to the needs of the people.
the capital invested, value OF product
and men employed.
I have here a table of the sheep in the
U Uuited States January l, 1892, as given
by reliable statistics. 1t shows the num-
ber of sheep in each State and Territory,
average price per head and total value:
The record-union., 1892-10-19

~ ".
Tsxas....... 5,o4o,175 81 SO S7,SO6, ,239
Ohio. ..........4 46S, ,0S7 g so l47245Sl
California-4, 4,O83,541 2 AZ 9,S74,2l1
Oregon. AK, ,4o6,O77 "a 5,491,7S9
Michigan 2, ,353,779 3 81 1850. .33S
New Mex..2,9674so 81 4,556, ,566
Montana..2, ,089, ,337 2 80 5,223342
Utah.......2, ,O55, 500 26 4,650,466
No. Head.
ana, Colorado and Wyoming
have each / 900, 900
Wisconsin ana Missouri each over. 100000
Illinois 100000
Kentucky over ........-..: :.......... 100000
Arizona and Washington each over 100000
Maine, Tennessee, West Vir-
ginia Nevada and Idaho
each over. ..........,.. 100000
Virginia ana Kansas each OVER 100000
Vermont North Carolina, Georgia
Minnesota: North Dakotaea each over 100000
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas,
South Dakota each oyer..,.......,.,'. 100000
New Hampshire Maryland, Flor
ida, Louisiana, New Jersey each
over 100000
necticut, Delaware, South Caro-
lima less 100, 900
Total value, S1l6, III ,270; averaged value,
81 So; total number, II, ,938, 1865.
There is no species of farming that paws
the farmer better than sheep and wool
growing under favoring conditions.
The annual value Of mutton and wool
is Sl00,0O0,000. Republicans claim that
free wool will destroy the industry. And
why
First-Five-sixths of the worlds supply
is produced in foreign countries. it is
rapidly increasing and can soon supply
the entire demand.
Pounds.
In 1870 Australia produced d.....179. .459. ESQ
In 1890 Australia produced. 400, ,S79,24O
Gain in twenty years.. 221 ,419, 400
In 1870 Argentine produced. Ice, ,9S7. 500
In 1880 Argentine produced ..... 295 ,425, 200
Gain in twenty years...............-I28,4 ,437. 700
In $40 Asia produced. 507 900
In 1890 Asia produced. ga, 100000
Gain in twenty years..-~.......-....14O,3 353, 900
Total gain in these countries. ....~49O,2 ,21O, ,16o
In 1870 the United States pro-
Quceu OOOOOO
In 1890 the United States pro-
duced in round number. ............ 800 100000
Gain in twenty years~................13S,o 100000
A careful study of these tables will
show how easily we can supply our de-
The record-union., 1892-10-19

cred free of duty.
American cheaper by 1O.15 than Eng
lish delivered duty paid.
Again we have the claims of protection
lists fully vindicated.
The Cologne Gazette recently protested
through its columns against the German
Government purchasing 10000 tons of
steel rails from England. That paper
figured up the loss to German workmen
as follows: The raw iron required, $1,000
tons; ore, 5000 tons; limestone, 1l,OOO
The record-union., 1892-10-19

A tariff for protection is so adjusted as
to secure the necessary revenue, but is
laid upon products the like of which we
produce at home. And it is so laid that
in no case shall the foreign product be
admitted on an equal footing of competi-
ton.
The protection Republican places
The record-union., 1892-10-19

The Gazette declared it to be the first
duty of statesmen to provide for the we'll
being of the people at home.
The record-union., 1892-10-19

5O6Ah.
I want to say a word about the import
ance Of our Republican Liquidation as to
sugar. In the ten years before the Me-
Kinley free sugar bill passed We lad i'm
ported sugar, omittine nolasses, of the
value of So57 ,599. .0S9; on this we paid duty
of 500, ,343; total of 81 359, ,909, ,432, be-
ing an annual average of about 9i86, ,000,-
900. In 1890 we consumed of sugar l l,309,-
86S tons: we made of cane sugar 1876. sos
tons; excess over production, 1,173, ,365
tons.
1t is hard to realize the significance of
these figures. We paid out moro money
for our imported sugar in 1890 than We
got for all our wheat exports that year,
and this had been going on for years and
years.
We had kept duty on sugar to protect
the Louisiana planters, but the industry
didn't grow because cane sugar wall not
grow generally throughout the Union,
and after century we found ourselves
producing only about one-tenth OF our
consumption.
Here was prize worth winning. m
stead of importing sugar III value more
than all the wheat we sold abroad, Re-
publican protectionists undertook to
build up the beet-sugar industry, and
give the people cheap sugar and save all
this money.
What did we do? Did we go headlcng
into an untried experiment, or did we act
advisedly?
We learned wisdom from France and
Germany.
Germany used to import sugar and pay
out her hard-earned money as we have
been doing.
She adopted the policy Of releasing all
exported sugar from tax and paying a
bounty upon it when exported. What
she wanted was to stimulate her export
trade; she had already reached the point
of making all she consumed. In 1871
Germany made 1885, ,442 tons; in 1881,
l ,200,00 tons. In 1877 she exported ST.
953 tons; in 1890, 1885 tons.
We found out all this-the Republicans
did; the Democrats scoffed and. anoered
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-16
cAREssEs TO BE AVOIDED.
A Visitor to the Lion Learns Some Very
Interesting Things.


Yes he's a friendly old chap"
said the lion keeper. He was born
in captivity at Barnum's headquarters
in Bridgeport Conn. and he'll let
even stranger scratch him behind
| the ears"
The stranger tried the experiment
cautiously and the lion seemed
pleased, says the New York Tribune.
Now he'll lick your hand for
thanks II you like" added the keeper.
Don't be afraid; his teeth are nearly
all gone, anyway"
The stranger put his hands through
the bars again and at the keepers
word OF command the well trained
lion gave it u gentle lick with his
tongue.
Wow! Great Scott! exclaimed
the owner OF the hand as he ierked it
out and looked at it ruefully. II
piece OF sandpaper had been applied
to it vigorously it would have looked
and felt like the same. Lost his
teeth, did you say? His tongue is
covered with them"
We'll" said the keeper, with a
good natured grin at the success of
his practical joke. you're just about
right. A lions tongue is covered
with strong horny little hooks
papille is the scientific name for them
and they all point backward When
he ticks hard he can scrape the meat
and cartilage off the bones of tough
horse quicker than you could with a
sharp knife"
ii suppose you have to feed lion
as old as this one on what the others
would regard as daintie5." said the
visitor
mo, answered the keeper; 'as a
general thing lion won't eat at all
or he'll eat anything in the frejh meat
line. The whole cat tribe has low
iense of taste. You have often seen
cat lick herself haven't you? She
gets handfulls OF hair in her mouth
without minding it at all Consider
what discomfort one hair produces in
the mouth Of human being, whose
sense OF taste is delicate"
This old follows claws are pretty
well worn down" said the visitor, II
suppo by con ,tant ue on the floor
and walls of his cage"
He has one claw not worn down at
all, answered the keeper" but I'll bet
you can't detect it,"
The visitor looked at all the paws
and could see nothing but well-worn
claws. where is it"' he asked.
AT the end Of the TAIL" said the
keeper.
''Oh. now" remarked the visitor
no more jokes on me to-day, thank
YOU"
The keeper put his hand between
the bars, caught the patient eS-mon-
arch OF the forest by the tail and
showed the visitor a sort of horny
hook concealed among the long hairs
at tho end of it, wv hat use it serves
there" he added. 'naturalists don't
know | believe. Some say he uses it
to lash himself into a rage. Next
time you look at any books on Nine
vch notice how the old Assyrians ex-
aggerated this hook on the tails OF
lions carved upon their funny old
marbles"