People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-12-02
A TRAITORS ACT.
An Alliance Official Uses His Authority to
Basely Betray the Trust Bestowed In
Him.


Judas +. Tillman will find that the
reward obtained from the democratic
party will poorly compensate him for
the loss of the confidence and re-
spect of all honest men. While demo-
Gratis, with their lips, may give him the
need of praise, with their hearts they
will despise his treachery. So soon as
the democratic party has had an oppor-
tunity to prove the hollow insincerity of
its professions of reform, brethren fooled
by Mr.. Tillman into voting for Cleve'
land will become his bitterest enemies.
The following is the text of his treach-
cry:
NATIONAL FARMERS ALLIANCE AND INDUS
TRIAL UNION.
National Executive Board-C. W. Macune, J.
F. Tillman, A. Wardall
]. F. Tillman, General Manager and Director
National Bureau and Department
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct %, 1892
Personal
ny Dear Sir: We have enclosed documents
by tOdays mail which are selfexplanatory.
They are especially intended for circulation
among the straying democratic members OF the
Farmers Alliance and the laborlng classes
think our people should fully understand all
sides Of these questions inasmuch as il is getting
late. II is, therefore, thought advisable that
these documents should reach such voters OIL
cially from the national headquarters OF the
Farmers Alliance, Washington, Just on the eve
Of the election, together with my official ad-
dress. We are now mailing said literature 10
secretaries ana lecturers in the close and
doubtful states and congressional districts. We
are distributing them so as to reach the voter
some three or four days before the election.
We are also mailing same 10 you for circulation
under your own personal supervision. This i'm.
portant matter is not only intended to do eff
fectual work among voters whose feelings and
teachings have been democratic from childhood
up but also to accomplish good results in the
near future, as you know that hundreds change
their minds Immediately before and upon the
day of election Yours very respectfully,
J. +. TILLMAN
The documents referred to were 300
900 pamphlets and otherreading matter
urging wavering alliance democrats in
doubtful districts to vote the democratic
ticket, warning them that the success
of the republican party would be a
calamity to the south, with its force
bill programme of legislation.
The titles to six pamphlets which
were among the said literature" are
as follows:
|. 1.-THE Farmers Alliance and the
currency issue. Let us read and reflect,
and proceed on lines of moderation and
conservatism, that we may act wisely.
Prepared by the lecture bureau of the
National Farmers and Industrial union,
J. T. Tillman, general manager and di-
rector, Washington, D. c."
g "a protest and appeal"
8. "The force bill is alive. Recent
Republican declarations in favor of that
revolutionary measure"
t. IAN open letter from j. +. Till
man, secretary of the executive board
of the National Farmers Alliance and
Industrial union, to the truth-seeling
citizens of this great nation gives relia-
BILE statistics as to the financial legisla-
ton of the past two congresses, show
ing the effect of the same upon the
productive interests of the country"
5. "The force bill Sent out by the
lecture bureau of the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial union, J. P.
Tillman, general manager and director,
Washington, D. c."
6. "More money. A sound, effective
and constitutional plan for the immedi-
ate relief of the farming and laboring
people, and the just and good alike for
all classes. Sent out by ]. f. Tillman,
general manager and director of the
lecture bureau of the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial union"
These pamphlets, though written by
and issued under the direction of Mr..
Tillman, secretary of the executive
board of the national Farmers Alliance,
were straighOut democratic campaign
documents. They hewed close to the
line of the Chicago platform, and advo-
Gated the principles of the democratic
party in the strongest terms.
Taken singly and collectively, these
pamphlets were an open Reputation Of
Weaver and the peoples party plat
form, and an ingenious advocacy Of
Grover Cleveland and the democratic
principles, ostensibly coming with the
force Of direct issue from the literary
bureau attached to the Washington
headquarters of the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial union.
There is no doubt but that these
documents, coming as they did at such
a critical moment with all the appear
ance of authority vested in official docu-
ments, caused the loss to Weaver of
four or five southern states, which ten
days before the election seemed to be
solidly for the peoples party.
There is, however, one consolation.
Time, in its whirligig, gives to those
who wait many sweet revenges. As
the democratic party makes its record,
surely and irresistibly will the reaction
come. Two years hence the peoples
party will carry nearly every southern
state.
ELECTION NOTES.