The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-11-24


about 10, 900 behind the vote for attor-
ney-general."
According to these figures the vote
Tor encouragement would stand thus:
Democratic Observation-Disclosures. :. go. i2o, 800
Prohibit ntsfs SAY 5,OO)
fopuust...-- oo'lo'
| If ten Thousand voters scratched the
democratic candidate for governor and
voted for the populist the vote for gos-
ernor would stand thus:
Democratic. lie $50
Prohibitfonists (say) ay)..............-..... 5000
Popui1sts. ......-... w. loz
In 1892 the straight vote for Weaver
was 12,a75-which shows an average
populist gain of 72, ss7 in one year. The
populists carried several counties and
elected several representatives, how
1 many cannot be known until the dem
ocratic count or the day of judgment
reveals all secrets. Many of the for
mer leaders of the democratic hosts
have joined the peoples party and have
burned the bridges behind them. With
1 a fair vote and honest count Virginia
is populist state. The result as now
claimed and published is colossal
fraud upon the sanctity of the ballot
and perversion of the will of a SOW.
ereign state. Such fraudulent prac-
tices, if persisted in, must destroy every
vestige of a republican form of govern
ment, and the American republic must
perish, or else be rescued by force OF
arms from the high-handed ballot box
suffers and perjured seoundrels.
Fraud and intimidation have sufficed to
keep the south solidly democratic so
hong as the opposing force was horde
of ignorant negroes and a handful of
white men. Now that the. masses of
the white democratic voters have be-
come populists there. viii have to be an
honest count in the southern states or
there will be a free fight The slogan
of the northwest is: Free silver or q
free fight"-in the south It will be:
''An honest count or blood" u y
Representatives Hainer and Meikle-
john, of Nebraska, were in Virginia on
election day:a'nd witnessed the mode of
conducting elections in that state, and
while there studied the state election
laws. Their verdict is summed up as
follows:
''There is no free election in Virgin a.
The state could as well save the;ex-
pense of an election by electing its Off
GERS in the democratic conventions in
stead of nominating them. There is no
necessity Of submitting the names of
the nominees to the popular voice of
the people when they are not allowed
to vote. The returns of the election
could be announced before as well as
after the votes are cast. / am no longer
surprised at the domination, of democ-
racy in the solid south, it's bitter oppo-
sition to the force bill, and it's earnest
and ardent efforts to secure the repeal
| of the federal election laws.
Colorado. q 4
In this state nothing but county Off
GERS were voted for, while in many
counties there were as many as five
and six tickets in the field. The dem
ocrats cut but sorry figure and the
fight was virtually between the repub-
licans and the populists, with the A. P.
A. an uncertain and perplexing factor.
With no state ticket in the field and so
many mixed tickets the vote by par
ties cannot be given. The Denver
Road claims an increase Of 10 per cent.
in the populist vote. The Rocky
Mountain News says: .-.-.-.
Colorado is all right. It gives G, 600
straight populist majority this year.
The county clerk campaign through
out the state was splendidly fought
and populists now control over two
thirds of the coun ties in Colorado:
One grand result, at least, was ac-
complished. Woman suffrage was in
dorsed by large majority and Colorado
steps into line with Wyoming in the
| advance Una rd Of civilizafiOn
/ Kentucky.
! Joseph A. Parker says, in the Non,
conformist: 1.-THE election is over and
the populists are still here. We have
made enormous gains in nearly every
Icounty in Kentucky where we had cau-
didates. A very light vote was polled,
nearly, if not quite, one-half the voters
remaining away from the polls. Just
what this silent majority is thinking
no one can tell, but the most plausible
reason is that they are disguised with
the democratic administration but
haven't screwed their courage up to the
4 point it requires to make populist.
| think that next year will find many Of
these voters in the ranks of the peoples
party. If the gain in populist votes
this year is to be repeated next year.
there is no doubt that we will safely
carry three or four congressional
districts. Already the work Of
organizing is beginning. Right here
! ina Louisville we are organ
! izing populist club and hope to secure
a good membership We are going at
, things better here than ever befora
Three members Of the legislature have
been. elected-Birkhead. from Daviess
county: Crenshaw, from Built, and
Spencer and Graham from Marshall
and Lyon. Gallant Billy Bridgeford,
populist candidate for representative in
Franklin county, at the state capital,
made one Of the best races in the state.
He cut a democratic majority of 1855
down to 100 and had a35 votes thrown
out because of an irregularity in the
race for. mayor of Frankfort That is
doing pretty well for an anarchist as
his opponent called him"
The peoples party is grandly NOV
ing onto triumphant conquest But to
achieve victory the party must be
frue 70 itself and its principles. 1t
must eschew all efforts at fusing and
amalgamating discordant and antago-
I plstic Elements. laundering forth the
answer, '.noner' to the apostolic query.
s.AVhat consort hath Christ with Be
\ hal? It must not attempt to put new
| wine INTO old bottles. Fusion leads to
confusion and will DESTROY any party
that practices it. Holding fast to our
4 profe4sion Of faith and standing as the
champsoa of human rights and the ex-