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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

to this talk. Representative McKin-
ney's words were still more interesting.
l tell you what it is, he said, if you
pass free silver bill it means a force
bill in the next congress as sure as
am living. We New England demo-
Gratis have stood by the south so
you have interrupted Representative
Bailey, OF Texas, and l take off my hat
to a New England democrat every
time. 1t takes courage to be a demo
crat in New England we have stood
by you,' continued Mr.. Mckinney,
and we will not desert you in the
future. You might as well make up
your minds to one thing, however. If
free bill is passed by this congress
1t means the loss of many demo-
Gratis in the north, New York especial
". The next congress will then be re-
publican, a republican president will
have been elected, and you will have a
force bill passed here that will put the
south back twenty years, if, indeed. it
does not cause revolution. Gentle
men, you have got to take your choice.
1t is either to be no silver, or YOU must
take the consequences, and the conse.
quences will be force bill as sure as
we are sitting here'n
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26
POLITICAL STRATEGY.
A Little Trick That Is Too Thin to Deceive
Any One.


Any One.
The two halves of the Wall street po-
ltlcal machine, known as the rep
demos, undertook to carry out very
clever piece of political strategy by
dividing the work between the north
and'south wings Of the party. The reps
threatened by menacing the south with
federal force bill scarecrow, and the
demos Of the south were to carry out
their part of the programme by using
the scarecrow to drive and whip the
demos of the therefore, solid south into
the old party lines But this thinly
disguised political ruse has not worked
as well as its authors expected. The
hand of the political trickster was too
plainly discernible to deceive any
one except those who were anxious
to be deceived, and therefore no one
has been misled by the little trick
especially in the south. This campaign
will forever end the solid south bust.
ness. Geographically the lines are
forming across the continent in a new
direction between the east and west
The struggle is between the non-pro-
ducing money sharks of Wall street,
the money loaners of the east, aided by
the bondholders of Europe, and the PEG.
pie Of the great producing sections Of
the south, west and northwest. This
struggle is now on, and will not down
until one side or the other gains the
victory 1t is for the people to say
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26
NEGRO SUPREMACY.

Some Interesting Facts About the Ala
bama Election-Who Voted the Negroe,
This Time?
The latest news from the Alabama
election is not very encouraging to the
collar democracy" Reformers in many
counties have carried the county ticket
and there is much uncertainty about
the final count of the state ticket The
latest democratic (P) reports claim only
1000 majority with thirty counties tc
hear from officially. Thirteen thousand
more white men in Alabama voted for
the reform ticket, than did for the "col.
lar" ticket The negro vote Of the stats
was forced into the collar line, whether
fairly ornot we are unable to say. In this
connection the Terre Haute Farmer has
this to say: "The democratic bosses have
control of the election returns and the
state machinery. This is all that is
necessary for them to carry an election,
but this year they saw such disaffec.
ton among the people that they had to
resort to another expedient in order to
save their bacon. They voted the ne.
groes. They actually took the voting
element Of the republican party and
voted it In other words, this demo
cratic party that has been shouting
negro supremacy for years, has had
to seek this same negro in order to save
itself from defeat "-Southern Mer.
curv.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26
The FORCE BILL.

The Democratic Party is Responsible For
Its Rehabilitation 10 the Present Cam
paign.
Our readers have of late heard much
said about "the force bill" Who is re-
sponsible for the scarecrow? That you
may see where it originated, who were
its originators and why it was origi-
mated, the Raleigh On. c. Progressive
Farmer gives the incident as related by
the Washington Post at the time.
"a group of congressman were
gathered on the floor of the house be-
fore the hour of assembling, and were
discussing the outlook. In the group
were Representatives Williams and
Hoar, of Massachusetts,, and Mckinney,
of New Hampshire, while the south
and west were represented by some
Texan members and Mansur, of Mis-
souri, The conversation between the
men was at times quite emphatic and
was always earnest. Representative
Williams began the talk by telling a
clever little story on Bland, the great
free silver champion, and then the dia-
logue naturally ran to silver. There
are fourteen democrats in this house,
said Mr.. Williams, from New En-
gland, but there will not be one in the
next house if free silver bill passes
this congress- excepting, possibly, Mr..
0Neill, of Massachusetts,. l never
heard such revolutionary sentiments as
were expressed by democrats, and men
of national prominence, too, while l
was at home in Massachusetts during
the past two weeks. They will break
with our party and vote for the repub-
lican candidate as quick as thought if
this house passes free silver bill
With such bill all hope of keeping
New England in the democratic column
will be lost The southern and west
ern men listened with ears wide open
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26
THE NEGRO DEMOCRACY.
The Bourbon Democracy is No Longer
Afraid of Negro Supremacy.

The Bourbon Democracy is No Longer
Afraid of Negro Supremacy.
kilograms from Washington state
that the managers near the admins
tration ordered republicans Of Alabama
to mass the negro vote on Jones, the
democratic candidate for governor, and
by all means defeat the peoples party
candidate, Farmer Kplh
And so the vote Of this bourbon CANA
from the negro counties, the white
men voting for the peoples candidate.
A change of baseis being made in the
south. In Mills district in Texas.
Anthony, the democratic candidate for
congress, was elected by less than 400
majority in district heretofore demo-
cratic by over $4,000, and had it not
been for the vote of two negro counties
Anthony would have been defeated nv
the peoples candidate by over i OoO
votes.
Is the democratic party of the south
to be the negro party after all? What
has become OF their cry of negro domin-
alton?
Both republicans and democrats
swore it would never do to let the peo-
pies party candidate carry Alabama, as
it would disorganize all the states from
Maine to California. Democrat and re
publican leaders are together and it i.
an open secret in Washington that they
are one against the peoples party. The
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26
This Is Plain Enough.

When he tells you the government
cannot get the money to buy the rail-
roads, ask him if he would refuse to
work or furnish supplies if the govern.
raent were to commence at once to
build a railroad from ocean to ocean,
and rendered government money
grecnbacks-in payment And If not,
would not the people own the railroad
free of debt when their money had
paid for it? Let US build new roads,
pay for them with greenbacks, operate
them at cost, and let the railroad kings
keep their roads They will be beg
ging very hard for the people to buy
them-and not, as now, saying the peo-
pie cannot run the roads. One of the
first things the peoples party will do
when it gets into power will be to build
great transcontinental line to give
idle workmen employment and get a
new volume of money in circulation,
and then the people will see more pros.
porous times than this country ever
knew. There's good time coming
Pueblo (col Coming Crisis
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26
FOOLISH TALK.


The Peoples Party is In the Field 10 Elect
James ID. Weaver, Not Grover Cleye-
land.
There is great deal of fool talk BY
republican politicians and journalists
just now about a vote for Weaver being
really vote for Cleveland; and we re-
greet to say that the fools are not all in
that party. We have men in our own
ranks who talk with great fuency
about our ability to carry states enough
to prevent an election by the people,
and thereby throw the election into the
house, in which case it is assumed that
Cleveland would be the next president
Any peoples party man who INDUCES
in this kind of speculation is an ass
The peoples party is in this fight to
win victory for itself and not for
democracy, and vote for the peoples
ticket is vote to make Gen. Weaver
president OF the United States. All
this talk that vote for Weaver in
Kansas is half vote for Cleveland Is
the most putrid rot Who were repub-
licans voting for in 1856 when they
cast their votes for John c. Fremont?
We're they voting for their political enc
mics, or were they voting to build up
party that should elect Abraham Lin
coin president in 1860? Such clap-trap
is sickening to every intelligent voter.
The Leavenworth Times quotes J. F.
Willis as saying that the election will
probably go into the house, and that
Cleveland will be president It also
says that Willis is national lecturer of
the peoples party. The peoples party
has no such officer as national lectur-
er, and If Mr.. Willis is indulging in
the kind of philosophy he is represented
as preaching through the Times TO
state the case mildly, he does not repre-
sent the sentiment of the party at all.
This movement is a revolution. 1t is
grand revolt against abuses that have
simply become intolerable to the people.
1t does not mean the carrying OF enough
states to throw the election into the
house. 1t means a landslide victory
such as the republican party won at the
beginning of its career, and all this
talk by peoples party men about te
election Of Cleveland comes from chick
en- hearted imbeciles, who have neither
the courage of their convictions nor
polital sense.
Suppose the election should 90 into
the house? Does it necessarily follow
that Cleveland would be president? In
an election in the house each state
would have one vote, and the vote OF a
state having thirty-six electors will
count no more than the vote of a state
having but three; and who can declare
at this time how many states will be
able to give that one vote TO Mr.. Cleve-
land? There will be several conflicting
elements in such an election, and you
can't Almost always sometimes tell Just
how it might go. 1t is time for peoples
party men to stop this internal non.
sense about electing Cleveland to the
presidency and get down to solid work
for Weaver and Field.-Topeka Kan
Advocate.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26
FALLS INTO LINE.

The President Of the North Carolina ALI
ance Comes Out For the Peoples Party.
The Economist extends its heartiest
congratulations TO President Marion
Butler, of North Carolina State ALI
ance, and welcomes him to a place in
the ranks of the peoples party.
President Butler is the editor Of the
Caucasian, the organ of the State ALI
ance Of North Carolina. In its issue Of
July 20, he says:
1--WE publish in full this week the
platform, preamble and resolutions
adopted by the Omaha convention. The
three great cardinal purposes are
finance, land and transportation. We
have advocated these principles in hun
dred speeches and challenged discussion.
We will continue to do so. A better
candidate could have been put on this
platform, but men are nothing. They
are here to-day and gone tomorrow.
Principles, measures, ideas, live for all
time. The fight has begun 1t will
never end as long as there is organized
wrong to Cypress the weak. The eau
casian is in the fight, and will live or
die by these principles"
In the same issue, in an adjoining
column, he has this TO say:
"a great deal is being said by many
OF the papers about some partisan and
sectional utterances made by Mr..
Weaver during and just after the war.
But we fail to see the point What
would we have thought Of southern
man during those years of bitter SEQ
tional feeling who would not have used
similar expressions about the north.
The leaders of thought and action on
both sides did the same thing, and were
applauded by their people, and if they
had done less would have lost the re-
spect of even the other side. In fact,
it was the most patriotic and high
spirited that were the strongest parti-
sans in those times; and the test OF true
manhood both north and south is now
to be able to bury all those feelings and
to join hands in a great fight for the
cause Of humanity, in great fight be-
tween the people and the enemies Of
justice and liberty.
"They say that Weaver is an enemy
of the south. In our opinion the south
has no greater enemy than the gold
bug, it has no greater friend than the
advocate Of an honest and just financial
system. Sectional animosity and the
bloody shirt cannot be used in this cam
paign to blind economic reform"
This is certainly the manly and intel
ligent way TO treat the contemplate
efforts to perpetuate sectional hatred.
1t is just as true Of the north as 1t is OF
the south, that 1T has no greater
friend than the advocate of an honest
and just financial system. National
Economist.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

peoples party within three weeks.
These are all daily papers.
The governor Of Tennessee has got
ten out Of the democratic ranks for the
reason, as he gives it, that the demo-
cratic leaders Of that state will chal-
lenge the vote of every member of the
party who belongs to, or afiliates with
labor organizations. Great West
Listen to the force bill" cry
amongst the democrats of the south,
and yet it is only little while since
eastern democrats were threatening
their southern brothers with force
bill if the free coinage of silver bill was
passed. Doyou forget?-Cincinnati Her.
aid.
Tell your republican neighbor who
has been saying that he would vote the
peoples party ticket when it was GER
tain that the alliance of the south sup
ported the peoples party, that they are
doing it, and that the republican papers
of the north are admitting it.-Dakota
Ruralist
The indecent manner in which the
democratic house treated the alliance
sub-treasury bill, in waiting until the
very last hours of the session, when de-
bate was impossible, to make an ad.
verse report upon the measure, is
another evidence of the unfairness with
which labor's demands generally have
been treated by the present congress,
and is another nail in the coffin in
which the putrid carcass of plutocracy
will be ensconced in the coming cleo.
tion.-National Economist
Force bills and negro domination
are simply scarecrows to brighten the
weakened and credulous. The tariff
no longer works. The BLOODY shirt
has lost its potency. The war is over
and most people know it So Wall
street racks its brain, and invents q
force bill, gets up a Homestead affair,
engineers race troubles In the south,
and does everything possible to save the
democratic party, which is the only one
of its two trusted servants that has any
hope this year.-Cincinnati Herald
While the farmers alliance and
every labor organization in this coun-
try, composed of white or colored peo-
pie, were fighting the fierce biIl'
solidly and heroically, Mr.. Cleveland
was as dumb as an oyster, but when
they were aiding the democrats with
all their power to secure the free coin.
age of silver and were on the eve of Sc.
curing it, Mr.. Cleveland wrote letters
and used all the influence at his com.
mand to defeat it, and succeeded
through the COW ardice of democrats in
congress Southern Mercury.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Land is not wealth, because labor
cannot produce it.
The land belongs to the Lord; the
people are tenants at will.
Blackstone has said that all land
titles are founded either in force or
fraud.
The landlord and the 'lendlord"
must 60 They are both blots upon civ
ilization.
Every infant born into the world
has an indefeasible inheritance in
enough land to live upon
The price of the labor in ton of
steel billets is s165. The profit re-
ceived by the Carnegie firm is SIG.
Spectators in land are bandits,
who at the point Of weapon called a
deed compel humanity to stand and de
liver.
What right has any man to monop-
OllZe duu uOlu lOI Sdlc Uut udluTdl OPP
portunities God gives to all men free OF
price?
Every dollar of increase in the value
of land is a note against society OBJ
tanned by fraud without due considera-
ton and is, in equity, void
Free land, free trade and money and
transportation at cost That will give
us a free country, free people and a
happy and prosperous nation.
The poor old republican party is all
broke up over the utter decentralization
of the poor old democratic party in
Alabama -Pittsburg Kansan.
The Detroit Evening News, the ST.
Louis Chronicle, the Cincinnati Post
and the Cleveland Press, combined cir.
culation 100000 copies, have joined the
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

The Louisiana state alliance has
been in session. Heretofore the body
has never broken loose from the demo
cratic party, and supported the demo
cratic ticket at the last election. But
they do not propose to be made sport Of
any longer. At the recent meeting one
hundred and fifty delegates were pres.
ent sent there by the county alliances
Of the state. The question was square.
ly and officially put to them, and it was
determined to support Weaver and the
peoples party by a vote of 100 to 20.
The alliance has $1,000 white and 1000
colored men in the state.-Mt Vernon
Qll Progressive Farmer.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

No, don't do it Don't throw your
vote away by voting for Harrison, for
he cannot possibly be elected, and il
is only vote for Cleveland Vote for
Weaver and thus prevent the election
from being thrown into the house and
thereby electing Cleveland Harrison's
candidacy is only dodge Of the demo
Gratis to beat Weaver. It's combina-
ton Of the two wings of the gold-bug
party to defeat Weaver. No, don't
throw your vote away by voting for
Harrison.-Coming Cxisia
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

voters, however, are not in it from this
on. Paste this in your hat Nothing
short of high and prominent influence
could persuadv, $4,000 colored voters to
indorse and work like beavers" for a
bourbon democrat for governor, who
had not colored man on the ticket
with him.-Searey Ark Economist
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

The Kansas alliancemen have Of.
fered to donate enough -four TO the
locked out men at Homestead to carry
them through their trouble. Those
much-maligned Kansas calamity cranks
are the best men on earth to-day. Where
are the Indiana farmers in such a con-
test against tyranny as this?-Marion
lind independent
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

Who has any authority 10 say the
great plain people shall not repossess
themselves of the government Who
can hinder the farmers and laboring
people from running things at their
own sweet will II they choose to do sol
Cotton Plant
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

force nEo the
dpapp
democratic fair
fd bourbon eder in HeSuthrps
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

whether money shall rule this country
or we are to have government by ant
for the people, -Shelbyville CIll) PEG
ple's Paper
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26
You next say:


Such joint ownership carries Joint response.
bilities as well as joint benefits. In other
words, as the laborers claim Q share in the
profits they must assume q share in whatever
losses may occur In less prosperous enter
prise or bankrupt enterprise they would still
be partners, liable for the debts Of the Arm.
The development Of this view In the division Of
profits shows 1t to be communism; in the diyis.
ion OF losses shows II 10 be absurd.
Your premise is well taken and yonr
conclusion sound; the paragraph as a
whole is logically correct, except, as
before, the last sentence. But do not
the laborers assume and have they not
always been compelled to assume "a
share in whatever losses may occurY'
Take the very case in issue. By reason
OF improved machinery and extra skill
OF his laborers, Mr.. Carnegie has been
able to greatly reduce the cost of ton
OF steel billets and at once reduced the
selling price in the market He claimed
that reduction as loss and asked his
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-17
An Idea for Seating Guests.

At pretty dinner given recently the
guests, numbering forty, were seated,
eight each, at five round tables. Each
table was decorated with one variety o.
flower, and on arriving each guest was
presented with small bouquet of the
flowers corresponding to those on the
table at which he was to find his place.
The table where the host and hostess
were seated was placed at such an angle
as to command view of the company
by one or the other of them.
This keeping in touch with the guests
is a difficulty encountered by all givers
of large dinners. In this regard New
York woman not long ago quite over
reached herself. So puzzled was she at
which table to sit herself that she finally
cut the Gordian knot by dining alone at
a small table placed in the center of her
guests. AS one of the guests said, at
was too deliCiously funny to resent, and
the smile which l could not repress
saw reflected from most of the other
faces of the company about me. Her
Point of View in New York Times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-17

Surprising it is that shells or little COW
erings for diamond earrings are not more
worn in this country. The safest place
to carry the precious gems is in the ears,
but during the day, particularly in the
morning, these little shells either in
black or subdued cOlors, look well. They
conceal the brilliancy of the diamonds,
that should really be shown only when
a lady is in full dress or very elegantly
attired. One could go shopping, ETC.,
and these modest shell earrings would
attract no attention whatever.-New
York journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-17
AS TO PARCELS.

Don't mail a parcel without previously
Ching it to ascertain proper amount of
postage.
Don't wrap a parcel in sIch manner tn II
the wrapper may become separated from the
contents,
Don't seal or wrap pare els in such manner
that their contents may not be easily exam:n-
ed.
Don't mail parcels to foreign countries with
out SPECIAL inq 1iry concerning the regulR-
tious covering foreign addressed m ail-matter.
Don't attempt to NlI disc to fore
ign countries, other than Canada and Mexico,
In execution of an order or as a gift, unless
tho postage is prepaid at five cents per
nalf-ounce.
Don't attempt to send merchandise to for
eigI countries by parcels Post" unless
your postmaster be consulted concerning the
couhtry addressed and the manner of mail
ing matter thereto.
Don't fail to put the address of the sender
on each par eel before mailing. This to facili-
tate return to the sender in the event of
uOn-devery.