Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-09
CLOSING THE COLUMNS.
The Populists Everywhere on the
Alert.
Preparations or the Eve of Battle-Great
Outpouring of the People over the
CouHtry to Hear Wholesome
Truths-On to Victory.
4 Great OntponrInr.

Exposition hall at Omaha, Neb., was
packed to overlooking at the late peo-
PIES party meeting in that city Ad-
dresses were made by Gen. c. H. Van
| Wyclz and C. d. Shrader, candidates for
governor and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and
Robert L. Wheeler, candidate for con-
gress in the Second district Mr..
Shrader spoke first and showed how
Nebraska farms were mortgaged, and
! then took up the transporta tion ques-
ton and handled the republican party
of Nebraska without gloves He said
that for fifteen or twenty years the re-
publican party has had plank
IN its platform declaring that Ne
| bras'1a rates were too high and
demanding a reduction, bat in all
his time all they have been able
to accomplish in the way of railroad
legislation was railroad commission
which costs the taxpayers of the state
$4,000 a year and which brings in
report declaring that the present rates
are low enough, but favoring slight
reduction on green apples, as that crop
had been partial failure Mr. Wheeler
next spoke and said that it was time
for the mechanic, the artisan and the
tarmer to band themselves together for
victory ut the ballot box, and that if
they did not get control of the govern
ment it was their own fault He closed
by calling on all good citizens to help
drive out the despoilers of the temple
of American liberty, and to displace the
shoddy aristocracy of wealth for the
true aristocracy of worth. When Gen.
NanWyck arose to speak he was greeted
with storm of applause. The general
said that this was not a time for
sentiment, it was a time for action.
He said that the Old parties told us
we were prosperous; granted, but who
had the prosperity. 1t had been cor
nercd by syndicates and trusts; the
only thing vouchsafed to Us now was
happiness: The Creator had made men
50 that tney could be happy even under
very adverse cir umstanccs. He had
given them Il key to their own hearts.
and that happiness was about the only
thing that wasn't controlled by some
syndicate. lie said the independents
we're charged with being calamity
hOwlers and discOrds; he said they
pleaded guilty, shat all human progress
had been accomplished 10y intelligent
,tiScOn eut; that discomfort was what
made us different from the Indians.
He said the men OF 1916 were discon-
tented, they were calamity howlers when
they dumped the tea into Boston har-
Dor and afterwards established this
grand republic. IL referred to the rise
Of the republican party thirty years
ago, OF its use against slavery and the
defeat of the two great parties of
hat time, and he said that the old
parties could net prevent the on
ward m rch of the reform party from
ocean to ocean. The mission of the
peoples party was to make the world
better. Gen. Van Wycl then reviewed
the decline in the price of farm prod
ucts to the farmer, and showed how the
prices We're fixed by the gamblers and
speculatOrs so that while the farmer
hardly realized the cost of production,
the workingman could not afford to
have beef three times a day under the
present condition. He closed with a
seathing review of the grand old party
that had fostercd trusts, monopolies
and combines and oppressed the honest
toilers of the country.