The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-01-08
STRAIGHT TALK.


An UnhoIy alliance Formed Hss,sesn Tam
many and Alliance Democrats
Grateful thanks are hereby rendered
TO those who have sent me 50 many
cheering letters Of encouragement. rcso-
Iutions of indors-ment and expressions
Of good will IL is pleasure and "a
inspiration 70 know that the peopts
have been quick TO realize the situation
here aud 20 express their views as 20
what was the proper conduct for a rep
reseutattve who was thinking Of the
cause and not OF himself The news
papers and politicians cannot SD easily
befuddle tho masses as they once could
Senator Wolcott Is attorney for the
Pacific railroads IL is said he gets s50,-
900 per year He has just been put on
the Interstate commerce committee
This committee Is the one which looks
after railroad traffic To send their at
torney to the senate and have him put
on the committee they most dread rs
one OF the ways Ia which railroads
shape legislation 20 suit thsmsclves-
The senate is crammed full Of fac
tory owners, mine owners, Standard
oi u.sgnstes, railroad kings. national
bankers etc. i is q millionaire CON
gress blocking the way TO any possible
reform measure Of the lower house.
Tammany is in full swing here 1t
divides out the spoi!s and calls for more
1t is reaching out SO as 10 control every
democratic state IN AAE next ElNAHAaG=
Our people have been told that Inr---
many is a democratic society, but in re-
ality they are ignorant OF its real
nature. 1t was fashioned into 8 po-
litical machine by that Ebcrtine and
traitor, Aaron Burr His idea was TO
gather into secret assembly a body of
voters who would move together first
with one party then with another, now
support one man and now another. and
thus act as balance OF qower- As
reward Tor their services Fut offices in
abundance should be tn iiFs. Martin
Van Bureu found IL the willing tool OF
all his tricizery. Boss Tweed rather
overdid the thing by stealing q million
dollars a year from the treasury OK
New York city aud under the
lesd of Tilden, Tammauy had its band
of thieves temporarily put down hut
/ they quickly rallied and under the
bossism of John Kelly fought the nom
instion OF Tilden for the presidency
Why? Because he had proven that
Tammany was mere nest Of robbCrs-
| To their shame be 10 said, there were
democrats in the south who sided with
Kelly in the fight Kelly died aud
Richard Croker is boss OF Tammnny
/ aud David B. Hill is his man for tbs
[ presidency
Last summer 7 stated the opillou
/ that Hill and Crisp, German aud Ger
/ tain Georg'a politicians had made q
trade. It was bitterly denied The
| Atlanta Constitution was especially
| virtuous in its able indiEn nation Who
| now doubts the trGdc3 Nobody. il is
even e matter of boast now among the
/ couspirators that they were so clever
/ and so successful Yet they ali denied
f. it last summer.
Political storytelling, when success-
I ful, seems TO be an evidence OF superior
mental endowment. Tammuny will
push HIl for the presidency and queer
/ things wilt be secu an Georgia. Let
the people remember these facts;
/ TammHny has no political principles
She is for the Offices She has NO law
/ to repeal and none To pass She Is for
/ the Offices She recognizes no suffer
I ing ia the country to be removed b.
I better legislation She is for the
offices She wants no purity OF ballot,
redress Of grievances, rstrcuchment OF
/ expenses or reform in the money sys-
/ tenn. She wants the Offices. To win
] votes she may adjust IA platform as "a
mariner would "a sau-just to catch the
I wind Like the mariner she will furI
/ the sail as soon as she reaches her bar
bor-aud that's the last of 81 till she
] wants 60 sail again There has never
been and never will be a more selfish,
corrupt uuprincipied and UuPatFiotic
set of men banded together ghau tho
shameless boodlsrs, 5ribers, SALARY
D
thugs known as THmmauJ hall! -,
This is the crowd th1 George poIiti-
clans have traded with This is the
crowd that the farmer aud laboTcr vote
is 10 be delivered TO. Never! In my poor
Judgment IL can never be done
The pudding-hcaiCd editors who SD
bitterly denounced my action on the
I speaizershiP are doubtless astouudCd 90
see how thoroughly the Tcform party
] in Georgia comprshe uds the situation
in spite OF the attempt OF said pud-
ding-heads = hide the fact.
The letters and resolutions which arc
I being sent 20 your paper aud 70 ms
show that the grand reform movement
I which we have sll worked so herd for
is not to be siie-traclred by the selfish
4 tricksters who aye thinking only of
their personal interests The people
know that if the movement EeEins ca
halt and compromise, ruin is newt
able
: A boozy old politician who edits thc
Atlanta Constitution wants me % re,
sign OF course am in his way. HG
feels that his little game is understood
and Is being blocked His career us
I solicitor general under Bullock gives
him peculiar ftacss as q Judge of my
I democracy Let him sober up an
stay so; then perhaps he may not as
sumo dictatOrial airs which are 81
asinine.
Ge0- Gordon opposed the sub treasury
and for that reason Col Living =
made war on nin- Correct Hr. Crisp
was also opposed to the sub-tre asury-
Yet Col Livingston was his ardent sup
porter Why this difference, colcnel7
The vote between Mills and Crisp was
very close Had the alliance me % bers
all stood out together they eould have
] secured the organization q the house
/ upon a basis which would have given
I the Ocala demands fair chance J
pointed this out in the Southern 4 '.-
ance Farmer last summer The Nl-
tional Economist indorsed the idea at d
/ republished Hny letter. But tho 9th r.
/ congressman saw 6t 20 act otherwise.
Events have justified my prediciio '-
] The tally sheet of the election shov s
I that even the Georgia alliance couures 70
men, BY standing together unplcdgsts
t could have decided the contest eithg r
way Had this been done our small
vote would have been the balance of
I power and would have been cast for
B that candidate viro would have t5u-
cefLcd most 90 the Ocala demands