The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-07-29

pathy with the wrongs and aspirations
of the toiling milliOns.-Denver News
| (Democratic Free Silver Organ).
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REPUBLICAN FUSION IN missouri.
The republican papers in this state
lhsys been full Of criticism and censure
of the action OF the democratic state
convention, in nominating she candi-
dates Of the peoples party as the dem
ocratic candidates for electors and
state officers, and have made desperate
efforts to convince the democrats who
were opposed to such action that it
was their duty to either vote the re-
publican ticket or to put up an indie
pendent democratic ticket, but we
have failed to find in any of the repub-
Iican papers any criticism OF censure of
the course of the republicans in
Kansas City, Missouri, in endorsing the
peoples party candidates for judges of
the district court of Jackson coun-
ty, and state senator and represent
alive for that county We ask the
democrats who have been inclined to
pay any attention to the republican
criticism, OF advice, to read the follow
ing editorial taken from the Kansas
City journal, the leading republican
daily of Kansas City, in which the en-
dorsement of the peoples party candi-
Gates is justified and fusion on all
/ the Offices advocated:
TO JACKSON COUNTY VOTERS.
1t is nearly q week since the Tepubli-
can convention placed a county ticket
in nomination. For ourselves we have
in times past been partial to citizens
movements and independent tickets in
times of needed reform aud in the face
of dangerous corruption in once. For,
as a rHle, in times of common danger
public defense should not be narrowed
to party lines.
But in this case such a course was
made impracticable by the so-called
Australian law that confines the voting
to regularly organized parties. The
people are now denied their original
right of independent action. Demo
Gratis must bear this fact in mind.
The republicans, however, have done
all the politicians statute allows them
to do in this case. They have joined
with the peoples party in the support
of many Of its selections for impor-
tant offices. 1t is to be hoped, and
We believe it viii be done, that the
two tickets be haFmOnized throughout,
and elected.
1t will be seen then, that all has
been done that could be done to make
a citizens ticket, independent OF party
obligations, and making the condition
of county affairs paramount. There
is enc thing about this ticket that is
rare in jackson county. There is not
a professional politician on it, from
top to bottom. There is no ''Gxer, -
no ''rustler, no combine" OfcOurse
they have all their political principles
in common with every intelligent
American, but they have made their
living by other means than politics.
This fact makes every man on it
perfectly Independent of obligation
to anybody but the people-the public
service. There is not a ring politician
in the whole list, and not a man
against whom political prejudice can
be invoked, OF that can prevent any
honest man of any party, no matter
how strong his party feeling, from
voting for the whole ticket from top
to bottom. It IS just the sort Of tick
ct the honest people have been asking
fOr.-Kansas City journal.
OF course in the eyes of the repub-
licans in Kansas republican combi-
nation with peoples party men to beat
democrats is perfectly proper, but for
democrats to combine with peoples
party men to defeat republicans is
horrible. The fact is, the republicans
have called the democrats, fools and
chumps SO long that they have at
last come to believe in the truth of
their own lying TRADES of abuse, and
/ accordingly imagine they can stuff
the democrats without limit. These
republican editors if they keep posted
on political matters know that the re-
| publicans throughout the south are
preparing 10 endorse and vote for the
peoples party candidates in order to
! prevent Cleveland from getting the
electoral votes of the south, and yet
they have not a word Of condemnation
for such a course. They therefore
must believe the democrats OF this
state are too ignorant TO know what is
going ON in other states, OF else that
they can be bamboozIed by the repub-
lfcan papers into following whatever
course the republicans choose to dictate
Ito them We call the attention of
democrats also to the letter from q
republican correspondent in Florida to
the New York Press. the leading re-
4 publican paper Of New York, in the
next column, which shows how the