People's voice., 1893-04-28

GEORGE c. WARD
BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.
The Western Democracy Hates to lie
Swallowed Up. but Realizes That Cleve-
landism Is Not Pure Democracy
The following deadly parallel
clearly illustrates the perplexing and
varying states of mind experienced by
a western democrat who. while desir-
ing to espouse and champion the cause
of the people, hates to give up the
name democrat"
There viii be no fu- LATER
sion in kansas here We observe with a
after between the POP great deal of surnrise
uists and democrats that the Topeka A1vo.
They will be united In cate, recently made tho
the party OF the people Official state paper. Il
nshung Ior hans IS and counseling its readers
nome. No tar.n qres- against a continuation
tiOns or bloody shirt OF q friendly com5ina.
racket can divide Us tion with the demo-
either. Those who per- Gratis. Has the eIilOr
sist in keeping up a gone insane or Is he Sc.
democratic party will cretlyin sympathy with
do so at The expense of the republicans and
being called republican. "sta,warts" TO divide
aoetIors KepuDhcan- the opposition and hand
ISM as praclced by thet the state over 10 re-
machine in control Oi|publicanism again: The
that party, means des.. Press will be excused
potlsm, the overthrow II ii follows the cqustic
oil law and order. andadvice OF Judge Foster
corporations and all last fall and sits
must now take thedown if il has to fight
choice Of being on the|the Official state paper
SIDE ot rule by the peo as well as the republic
PIE or corporation rule. an press Of the state -
There is no m.ddle'Topeka Press
ground-Topeka Press.
The worthy editor of the Topeka Ad-
vocate, DR.. McLallin, is right, as indeed
he usually is. The peoples party has
no sympathies in common with modern.
or Cleveland, democracy, and after an
experience Of two years with the policy
of the administration headed by Gold
wump Cleveland and his cabinet of cor
poration attorneys and syndicate stock
holders, there will be no democratic
party in the west or south. The Kan
sas City Times is an average representa-
tive of The present goldolatrous corpor-
alton loving and Shylock worshiping
administration, and yet the st. Louis
Republic speaks thus unkindly of the
Times and its idol:
''The Kansas City Times is now
owned by syndicate of money lenders
with headquarters in New England,
and, naturally enough, it is displeased
with the distinctively western speech
made by Gov. Stone in New York the
other day. It's proprietors will find by
longer experience that the money they
invest in buying up newspapers to be
used in attacking the representatives of
the people is worse than wasted. 1t is
easy to see that the articles intended
for this purpose would not appear in
any newspaper not owned by money
lenders or subsidized by them. Instead
of convincing anyone they simply spend
their money to increase the prejudice
against their business and against the
methods they use to put their own
above the public interest.
I'm his New York speech Gov. Stone
represented the people of the Mississip-
pi valley. They are an honest and con.
servative people, but they do not pro
pose to submit forever to the dictation
of the few thousand people in New
England and New York who own or
hold mortgages on a great part of the
wealth Of the valley. The curse of a
nonresident nobility holding the land
on its own terms has kept ireland in
poverty and degradation, but the non
resident plutocracy that seeks perma-
nent control of the valley is more rapa-
cious than the landlords of Ireland.
Gov. Stone told these people that
the valley means to be self-governing,
and that it is capable of casting its
votes in congress and in the electoral
college to defend its own rights and
interests.
There seems to be nothing peculiar
ly alarming about this. but there are
people who regard it as little if any
better than the rant Of Johann Most.
Such people cry out crank and 'anar-
chist' when the people of the valley
show any disposition to interfere with
policies that are approved by Wall
street and Boston money lenders.
THE states of the valley will make
no distinctively sectional movement,
but they will have their rights, and il
issues are forced against them they will
meet the issues in the best and most
temperate spirit possible. But they
will not back an inch. They are going
forward. not backward
Attempts to check this movement by
buying up newspapers in the leading
cities of the valley and in New York
will simply result in producing greater
antagonism towards professional usur.
erS rs a class. Their open interference
in politics and their attempts to muzzle
the press will be hotly resented by
the masses of the people on whom they
are unwiSely thrusting issues that for
the welfare of the country were better
left to adjust themselves by natural
processes
Thus does the Republic throw down
the gauntlet to the plutocratic wing Of
the democracy, clearly recognizing that
the democratic party is split in twain
and the battle henceforth is between
the people and the plutocrats. The
Press and the Republic must give up
their party name or offer their princi,
Piles as a sacrifice upon the altar of Shy.
lock. Which will they do?
GEORGE c. WARD.
That Kicks Decision,