The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-18
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The South Is having history written
at thl3 time that may possibly bear
bitter fruit for many years TO come.
Under the stress of conditions that
are the effect of causes which have
b@en at work from the earliest times
Che people are now split into three
contending factions, and every posi-
BILE means is being used to inaame the
angry passions and pit one faction
against another so that the weaker
may be destroyed The ferceness OF
this contest is an element that should
not be overlooked. If there were not
vast number of people in all the
South in earnest revolt against the eX-
isting order Of things there would not
be such mighty commotion. The
great, quiet, thoughtful working
masses of the new South are in rebel
lion against the old time spirit OF
bourbonism, with its intolerance and
barbarism. 1t is battle against fear
full odds. All the machinery of the
state and the election is in the hands
of the masters who have gained and
held their position by the shotgun, the
tissue ballot and the false count
Have you expected the Solid South"
to fall to pieces without resistance?
nave you thought that the bourbon
ism of the South would become an.
gelic just as. soon as a woman would
appeal TO Southern chivalry in her de-
termined effort to destroy that bour-
bonism? If you Joined the Peoples
party thinking tina" Marching through
Georgia" would be holiday parade
your Judgment was hardly equal to
other peoples experience.
The fact is the bourbon democrats
did pretty much as such devilish
human nature does elsewhere under
similar conditions. Two years ago
our lamented Col. Polk received treat
ment identical to the experience OF
Gen. Weaver almost in his trip
through the Northwest. At that time
every republican paper was flooded
with articles attacking in the most
vindictive manner the war record OF
Col. Polk He was charged by the re-
publicans with inhumanity toward
federal soldiers. The charges were
Immediately denied and disproved, but
they were persistently repeated all
through the West. The republican
leaders and papers did just the very
same things toward Col, Polk that the
democratic leaders and papers OF
Georgia did toward Gen. Weaver. In
Kansas indignities were constantly
planned and threatened but never in
flicted upon Col. Polk. That they were
not is because there was a public sen
timent strong enough to prevent. The
intolerance and barbarism differs in
degree but not in kind.
If there is man or woman in any
part of this oppressed country who
will measure fealty to the Peoples
party by the spirit of bitterness en-
| gendered by the war they are doing
just what the republican and demo.
cratic managers, who have lived for
thirty years upon the fierce passions
of sectional hate, want them to do.
Plutocracy can ask for no greater boon
than for the people to begin fighting
the war over again. 1t is only here
and there that one will be found so
foolish and impetuous as to cast vote
for either Cleveland or Harrison on
that account. The people north and
south are tired of it. In the north
their blows must be to kill Harrison,
in the South TO kill Cleveland, The
only hope of our enemies both open
and secret is to set the sectional fire
ablaze again. Whoever aids or abets
this by speech or interview had better
be in the bottom of the sea. Stand
steady, men and women. You can be
defeated only by pulling hair while
the plutocrats laugh at the fight they
have planned. Non. Con.