People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14

town dudes. the lawyers and bankers,
trundle-bed trash, the ten thousand
dollar preachers street lOafing kids,
did the actual work, but the ones who
told them to do it are responsible.
For weeks before Weaver came. every
big daily and every little pOpgun
weakly, outside Of the reform press,
were teeming with lies about Gen.
Weaver and telling the people to give
the brute a warm reception, make
the third party's road through the
state a rough one, rotten eggs would
be in demand when Weaver GOT here.
Weaver is said to be fond of butter
milk, but he will need something
more than buttermilk to revive him
long before he gets through the state"
Thousands upon thousands of just
such rot as this was printed ali over
the state. Every orator, from "Se-
cret-caucus" Northern, Renegade
traitor Livingston and Aggregation
Of-brainS Turner repeated the yilest
lies and ISLANDERS about Weaver that a
Thad Horton could invent or an At
lanta Journal publish. Yes. the bows
did the work, It's true, but the moss
back hypOcriteS of Democracy cannot
escape the responsibility by laying
the cOwardly treatment of Weaver on
irresponsible boys a bit more than
the devil can escape therespOnSibility
Of Adams fall, because Eve was his
tool Oreyil. These heathenish meth
DDS of force and fraud may succeed
this year. We may be compelled in
order to avoid blOOdShed and civil war
to submit this year, but the hypocrit-
ical, cOwardly force methods of Cleye-
lands plutOcratS will react upon their
infamous heads and grind them to
powder two years from now. | know
it rs well as anything and they know
it too. They are dying hard and
these SpaSmOdic efforts are only the
death struggles of the old party in
Georgia. One thing they will not
dare do and that is count out our
Tom Watson. You may expect to
hear Of war in earnest if they attempt
that, for the farmers and laborers of
Georgia will not submit to it. At
WaycrOSS there would doubtless have
been blOOdShed had any indignities
been attempted when Weaver was
here. Menwere prepared for any emer-
gency who had never carried a weap-
on before in their lives and the bush
ell OF rotten eggs that had been gath
cred up at the inStigatiOn of a long
whiSkered Democrat remained in
their hiding places.
Now, in conclusion let me say a
word to the voters of the west. If
ever the people of the south needed
the moral support of a firm stand by
the Peoples party of the west. we
need it now. | saw the other day in
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat that
the treatment of Weaver in Georgia
had made some prominent Peoples
party men, even in Kansas, return to
the Republican party. OF course it is
simply a Republican lie and | told nv
friends here that it was on par with
Democratic lies. The Republicans of
the north are just as anxious for the
south to remain solid as are the Dem
ocratS. | hope no POpuliSt will wa.
yer in this fight. The shot and shell
of political trickery and rottenness
may be expected from any source and
II the plutOcratic Republicans can
make us believe that it is necessary
to stick to their party and vote for
Harrison, lCleveland's Wall street
twin one more time, they are going
to do it.
1t is no small job to break the bour-
bon ringSter's rule in the south. but
never fear, it will be done. The solid
south has had its day. 1t will be bro
ken this year and if the west will
Keep in the middle of the road. in
four years from now the bourbon
Democracy of the south will be ground
into powder and scattered to the four
winds, while pure Jeffersonian Dem
ocracy and Lincoln Republicanism
will unite our whole country into one
grand nation of fraternal love. CAM
tai will cease to rule and will become
submissive to labor and over all the
land, instead of poverty and discon-
tent, will be peace and happiness and
such prosperity as we have never
dreamed of. The victory is ours if
we only stand to our ballot guns and
vote right all along the line.
S. L. BISHOP.