The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-05
THE GEORGIA OUTRAGE.

For some unaccountable reason the
Populites in Kansas have been as dumb
as CLAIMS in regard to the gross outrage
put upon their candidate for president
in Georgia. Their papers say nothing
about it and their public speakers make
no allusion to it. OF course the Demo
cratic papers-there are no Democratic
speakers-make no mention of the occur
renee; it isn't to their interest to do so.
But the matter is too portentious Of
harm to tie peace of the country and the
liberties of the people for it to be per-
mitted to go by default, and for that
reason the EAGLE and other Republican
papers have endeavored to get the facts
and give them to the public and let each
individual citizen draw his own conclu-
sion.
Outside of Kansas, it is but fair to state,
the Peoples party organs are speaking
out in denunciation of the outrages per-
petrated upon their party leaders and are
boldly and fearlessly placing the respon-
sibility where it belongs, at the door of
the rule-or-ruin Bourbon Democracy of
that section. We give herewith the ed
itorial comment upon the Georgia affair
from the indianapolis Nonconformst,
one of the leading Populist organs of the
country:
General Weaver, the candidate of the
Peoples party for president of the
United States, has been driven out of
Georgia. The facts in the case are sutfi-
GENTLY set forth in the news columns,
and need not be repeated. The facts
stand forth that the right of free and re-
spectful discussion of living issues is de-
MED with a force sufficient to make The
denial effective.
1.-The cause or causes for this treat
ment will not be difficult to find. 1t is
worse than senseless folly for the Demo-
cratic papers to attempt to call this the
outburst of personal, apart from political
animosity. One year ago this same Cen
eral Weaver spoke in all these Georgia
towns and was listened to by thousands
with respect and oftimes unbounded en-
thusiasm. He has done nothing since
that time of personal nature to change
these conditions. The cause of all the
outbreaks is political. 1t has to do en-
tirely with the fact that the Democracy of
Georgia, which is tied to Grover Cieve-
land, was stung to deeds of diabolical
madness by the revolution of popular
sentiment against them. The Cleveland
managers in Georgia saw the futility
of attempting to hold the people
in line by fair and manly
argument so they proceeded to Stir up
the 'lewd fellows of the baser sort, and
by brute force prevent the people from
hearing the truth.
General Weaver has proven his
bravery and endurance on many well
tried field. He is no coward. He stood
his ground until the purpose of his adj
versaries was fully manifested. He
then withdrew leaving the disgrace of
the Cleveland Democracy naked before
the civilized world. In no case were
these disgraceful occurrences the spon-
taneous outbursts of the occasion. The
Cleveland leaders Of whom are the rene
gades Livingstone and Northen, pre-
pared the material and lighted the fires.
LET the Cleveland Democracy of the
south, and their northern sympathizers
be judged by the work they have done.
By these and other Infamous methods
at which they are adopts,
they may hold their grasp
on Georgia in the October election.
They may even hold it in November.
The reaction against the villainous
Cleveland gang, which fomenled the
outrages. will make converts by the
thousands to the Peoples party. In the
north it will cause self-respecting Demo-
Gratis to separate themselves from party
whose strongest argument is rotten
eggs"