The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-08
SOME BLUNT TRUTHS.
MEDICINE LODGE, Dec, 4, 1892.

MEDICINE LODGE, Dec, A, 1892
| To the Editor OF the Eagle.
1t IS with pleasure we read in the daily
EAGLE how loyal you are to Governor
Lewelling. You feel just as | did at the
soldiers reunion in your city last fall.
! Many of the boys asked me what kind
of man Simpson was. | told them
| both were sharp, bright men, that they
were both our boys-Jerry and Chester,
| from Medicine Lodge. l voted for Jerry
ana all my men on the ranch did the
| same: for the reason that he Is a farmer
and owns a good farm here, and we have
! rounded I'D cattle with him ia days
gone by when he had no socks but we
socked him through to congress two
years ago, and on election night
he was with Us all night.
And when the returns all
| got in, we had a regular old round
up over it. We bid him goodbye for two
years more. 1t was a desperate fight,
but Chester does not whine over it as some
of the Republican press does.
Now, Marsh Murdoch, there would
have been another desperate fight for
governor, if on had not said two years
ago that the farmers needed a change of
base, which your true manhood and
honor ccompelled you to say. By saying
this and other things in the interest OF
farmers, your party did not nominate
you, If they had you would have been
governor, for you We're loyal to us and we
did not forget it; we knew your heart
was right.
In so we are going to elect an Alliance
president and send farmers to congress.
This farmers movement is in its infancy
vet. Kansas and Nebraska have
started tie ball rolling and it
will roll to every farmers heme In the
next four years, and by our votes loosen
the grip that these trusts and combines
have on our throars, by setting the
prices we are compelled 10 take for our
meats and grain, which are our all in
this great garden of the west.
They gamble with our hard earned
products. Let us farmers stop farming
two wears. What would this country
have left?
Are we farmers protected like the
manufacturers by a tariff? No! The
tariff holds up the east and the manu-
facturers. Let that stard alone awhile.
| hear some eastern writers say if he
tariff is taken off you close the factories
and the west will be flooded with
tramps. Let them food out here in
Kansas, us farmers can use these good
men they call sramps there. 1t Is hard
to get help here, we waste by not
having these who they call
tramps to harvest our crops
more than the east raises for the want OF
this help.
Again, hear another eastern writer
say we are going to frame suc'i
laws as to cheat or be the means of their
losing their investments IN Kansas.
This is all bosh The Kansas people
will pay every debt they owe, excepting
some capital which the eastern lOaner,
through bad management, was foolish
enough to send to some of the land
shark agents here and which was in
vested in wild, rough and worthless
lands, taking mortgage on the lands,
through these agents, for security for
their money: and at the time the loans
were made the lands were not worth
half the face of the mortgage. This
capital did Kansas no good, for the men
who got the loans took the money and
left the state.
Wheat looks lovely; stock doing nicely;
health GOOD.
Hastily. but respectfully.
ELI BENEDICT.