The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-07-08

ney for the Missouri Pacific railroad
company. and OF course is exceedingly
bitter in his opposition to uhe peoples
party. lie made long and violent
harraugrrs denuaciatury of the peoples
party. full of false statements concern
1 ing tie principles auJ prominent men
/ of the party. His speech was - special
plea for plut0crIcy ils agtiust the
rights of tite people, lie denounced
all the legislation proposed for TIE re-
lief Of the people as revolutionary, AN
archicst, and fraudulent, AMI said the
democrats who fayorc; fusion swere
trying to embrace the Ieprous thing
| that seeks To draw them OH to defeat
! and disgrace.
/ Judge Shields, Of Wichita, then adj
/ dressed the convention i'm favor Of the
resolution. He said lie had been "a
democrat for thirty yeJrs-I Missouri
democrat-but he WAS in favor OF en-
dorsIug the peoples party ticket as a
! wur measure, ami in order to defeat
their ancient aud relentless enemy,
the republican party
John 3. Seroggs, Of Wyandott5
county, suid that the address of A. y.
Harris was nothing but a TRADE OF
abuse against the democratic party of
/ Kansas. liz declared that tile men
who were advocating the nomination
OF "a straight democratic ticket, were
doing it for the purpose Of eIectiug IL
republican ticket, that Harris came
into the convention as paid railroad
/ attorney to advocate Il policy desired
/ by the railroad companies. After
| several other speeches had been made,
at 1890 o'clock Judge Martin took tho
| platform to close the debate in behalf
| of the resolution. lie said that as lie
| stood i'll the corridor just before enter
| ing the hall that evening he Thought
he could distinguish the tones of "a
familiar voice ana he had only listened
for Il short time to the voice of the
| speaker, when lie began to believe that
Joe Hudson, of the Topeka Capital,
I had in some uuaccOuRtABIe manner OBJ
/ tanned the floor OF tbs convention to
| advise the democrats what course to
pursue. lie heard the same false
/ NAAtGAAAI1 tA4S esall4t Z "a 10 u
the same indummatOry denuucia lions,
that lac had been reading ia the edi-
toriais of the Topeka Capital for the
last two years, but when lie entered
the hall ne found that it was Col. a.
n. Harris that was addressing tho con-
ventiOu. lie said Col. Harris had
male a republican speech, and that
Harris seemed to be acting as the wet
nurse Of the republican party. Judge
Martin then matte an eloquent and
powerful argument in favor OF the res
OlutiCn. At l1:3O the roll was called
on the resolution making the tho can
didat-s Of the peoples party the nom
iuc0s of the democratic party, and the
resolution was carried by vote OF
227 to I76. Every county i'm which
the democrats have polied a respect
able fraction of the vote since the
formation of the peoples party went
solid for the resolution.
. AtchisOn, Bourbon, Cherokee, Craw-
ford, COw!ey, Douglass, Greenwood
j efEersou. Leyen worth, Marion, Reno
. SsdgewicS, Shawnee and Wyandotte
containing over three fOurths OF the
. democratic vote of the state, instructed
/ their delegates TO indOrse the Peoples
party ticket, and the delegations from
these counties voted solid for it. The
counties that voted against the resolu.
tiOn have cast a very small democratic
vote for two years, After the resolu-
|, ton was adopted many of the deIega.
D tes who had vOtsI against it expressed
their acquiescence in the result, and
Stated they would work for the tickle
1 Ehe few ultra democrats who wouil
S rather have the republicans win, than
p that the peoples party elect a candidate
will of course vote tile republican tick
ct, which many OF them intended to do
, anyhow, but that clement IS small in
C numbers and viii be more than offset
by the gains the peoples party is
constantly making from the republican
/ party.
d The convention was remarkable fol
C the number of powerful and eloquen
- speakers it contained, many of whom
: VIII assist in making the canpaizI
this fail in favor of the peoples ticket