People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-22
EX-GOVERNOR ANTHONY.

had with rational statements.
He gayea full history of Kansas from
its earliest settlement to the present
time, with its schools, churches, public
improvements andpOpulatiOn and then
gave all the credit to the republicans.
In point of population we are not pre-
pared to dispute but republicans have
had something to do with it, The
growth of a state is not the result of a
party, but is the accumulations on la
Dor. The Governor declared that
every good thing in Kansas came
from republicanism."
This is true in every state. This is a
republican government and every act
of the people is an act of republican
ism; but where the relation between
republicanism and the republican party
comes in, the governor very prudently
failed to explain. The republican
party may have no more connection
with republicanism than the demo-
cratic party with monarchy.
His remarks about the democrats
were very illy timed and did not bring
out the applause the governor no doubt
expected. Democrats! how do you
like to be told by your recent bedfellOw
that the Peoples party is the only
party in the state and it is like kite
with the democrats as the tail to it?
That your idol, Grover Cleveland, is
nothing but a bag filled with wind?
That he vetoed the bill to indemnify
Kansas for the eight or ten thOus-
and acres of school land lost; that to
find precedent he had to go back to
James Buchanan, who vetoed the orig
inal bill to appropriate these lands.
Democrats, will you remain silent un-
der such accusations, or will you hurl
back the insult by showing that those
bills were vetoed because they covered
republican steals.
1t was pitiful to hear the governor
tell what the republicans had exempted
from debt. After enumerating over
the list of things which the poor man
is supposed to possess. with a great
flourish, he demanded what the banker
was exempt from. 1t is needless to
say that the question was a clincher
for republicans and that it brought
forth perfect storm of applause, only
equaled by that which followed an
enumeration of the banker which are
not exempt and which he very trag-
ically ended by declaring that the bank
er had not even a three-legged stool
upon which to sit and balance his ac-
counts exempted.
What superlative ignorance! Oh, ye
fools and slow of heart, to believe all
the governor has said concerning the
banker. Bless your poor, ignorant
minds, the banker is exempt on every
thing the poor man is. But the poor
man IS taxed roundly on everything,
while the poOr( p banker is exempt on
his bonds and his own notes he can
turn into greenbackS about tax time,
and as the greenbackS are not taxable,
he can escape there. In fact, the bank
er is exempt on nearly everything but
that "three-leggad STOOL"
The Governor says that every country
passes through an epidemic of unrea-
son and we are passing through one.
Once more, let us agree with him, ex-
cepting as to time. If he had said this
era began with his administration as
governor and ended in 1890, we would
agree in every detail.
His abusive lang lage against Sena'
tor PETER is a stencil to decent people
When a political party is driven to
such an extremity that their only argu-
ment is abuse and SANDER to try and
make out case, it is about time peO-
! pie emerged from a state of unreasOn
and used their reason. Why did he
not try to answer the points in Senator
PETERS speech? After quoting the
Senator at length and repeatedly say
ing that he was going to get down t
business, he invariably wandered of
and INDUCED in a string of calumn!
and vituperatiOn. Why did he nOt
meet the plain declaration of Pefferi
that every child born in the United
States is entitled to home and that i
is the duty of the government to pro
vide one." The Governor knows tina
the principle laid down by PETER i
followed in every country by providing
homes for the homeless. And farther
the Governor says if the government
could build homes it could build rail
roads, ships, factories, ETC., etc. This
Just what the Peoples party declares
a proper function of government; an
why did he not answer it?
Then again he says the government
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