People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-12-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Open the Strip.

The second 30" in the Monitors
heading is standing up for Kansas"
with its head down and heels up.
The Monitor has concluded that
the Alliance as a third party organic
-er "can very easily be spared" Ger
tainly. 1t has recruited" winning
party, and can now depend on that
party to carry out its wishes. We are
the people.
Press dispatches from Topeka re-
port the serious and dangerous illness
of TreaSurer-elect W. H. Biddle. He
has been unwell for some time and is
now suffering relapse. His many
friends all over the state hope for his
speedy recovery.
Whitelaw Reid said it was ''Oyer-
confidence" that defeated his party.
The red-headed rooster Of the Moni-
tor says it was the Stay-at-hOmeS.
1t is safe to predict that if the Repub-
licans were so diSgusted that they
would not 60 to the polls at the last
election to save their party they are
now rejoicing that it is dead, and will
straightway join the new, progressive,
vigorous Peoples party.
BY its falsehOOds the Monitor cauS-
ed many Republicans to lose their
money betting on the election, and it
seems that it has formed a habit for
falsifying that it can't shake off.
Last week it announced that the Re-
publicans have clear majority in the
lower house of the legislature and
will organize that body. If it really
thinks so, it will be worse deceived
than when its editor bet On the elec-
tiOn of SimOnS for state senator.
If the Republicans could import
one thousand illegal voters into Sum-
ner county and have their votes cast
and counted right under the noses Of
the Peoples party, then they are
smart enough to double the number
next time and make sure thing Of
electing their ticket.-MOnitOr.
oh, no, they amt. Next time we
wifi have the Australian ballot, and
you will be shut out just aSyOur party
has been in Indiana, Colorado, Cali
fernia and other states. With an hon
est vote and a fair count you will
stand no show of success in Sumner
county. Furthermore, it isnOt charg-
ed that you gained a thousand votes
by importing" them, but add togeth-
or the Oklahoma negroes, the flOaters
you actually bought, the dependents
you bull-dozed, the shifting of rail-
readers, etc, and the number will
come near the thousand mark, to say
nothing of the names Of persons that
were put on the poll books after they
had closed according to law, and the
;almond-eyed, pig-taited ,chinaman,
whose vote was sworn in. The days
of the g. o. p. are numbered, and you
may as well admit it as other papers
OF your party have.
The cause Ofliberty is moving. Even
in staid old England the common peO'
pie are coming to a realization OF
their thralldom. The National Agri-
cultural conference, called for the
purpose of directing public attention
in an emphatic manner to the present
grave condition Of agricultural affairs
and of ventilating the grievances un'
der which agriculture labOrs and con-
sidering suggestions for their remOv'
al, met in London last Wednesday
After much discussion Of other topics,
Robert Everett, a Liberal member OF
parliament (fOr the Woodbridge divis'
ion of SuffOlkl, moved a reSO
luton declaring that the fall
in prices so injurious tC
the agricultural interests wa:
largely due to the apprecia'
tion of gold and the fall in ex
changes between the gold and silver
countries, and that the best and most
.edectual remedy would be secured by
az agreement, on a broad interna
.tiOE2l basis, to reopen the mintS OF
the leading nations to the unlimited
coinage of silver and gold. The reSo
luton urged that the British govern
ment be earnestly requested to coop
crate with the other governments rep
resented in the monetary conference
now sitting in Brussels to secure sucf
international agreement. The resO
luton carried with a few dissenting
votes.
As far as this section Of the cOuntr!
is concerned there is practically ;
unanimous demand that the Cherokee,
Strip shall be opened up at the ear
lest practicable moment. There i
absolutely no good reason why tn
Strip should not be opened by earl
spring, so that those who wish t
Dnol-o hnmaS in that ppy POuntrV P1l