The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-24

ment TO pay our debts
Such utterances from the larger men
of your party at your political meetings
aud picnics have been reached in your
papers and by smaller leaders in yet
more reasonable terms behind the
locked doors in your oath bound organ
ization Cor three years past The low
est prejudices of the human heart have
been appealed to and every device of
language used 30 fire the hearts of farm
ers and laboring men against men of
other professions. Your party has been
built upon class prejudice, by eXagger-
atinC conditions and misfortunes, and
arousing intense and bitter hostil-
ity to the party that has been
in power in this state uninter-
ruptedly for thirty years. These
teachings eliminated in the effort
of the minority backed by you and your
power and that of the Senate. to control
the lower house. The disgraceful scenes
of the week ended February IS, in
which you undertook to use the mill
tary power to support the usurpation of
your party were but the logical couse-
quences of your teachings. Later on,
the long hours of discussion in caucus as
to whether or not the decision of the
supreme sourt should be respected, the
willingness of the populist majority of
the senate to join a rebellion against
the court and your own lack of patriot
ism and courage to express an opinion
without the consent of the caucus, were
most humiliating examples to Kansas
of the growth and influence of your an
archistic teachings.
And now, my dear governor, as we
look back over the past three years,
and more particularly as we examine
closely the past two months of history
here at the capital. and remember the
large promises in your platforms and
speeches. what is there in the record to
commend your party t. the confidence
of the people? What have the MEM
bers of congress done but to make
themselves ridiculous before the coun-
try by introducing bills that never
reached serious consideration even by
committee? Here in Kansas what
has the populist party done in three
years for the school districts, for the
counties for the state, or for the homes
of the people? In what way have you
given one man or woman more labor or
better pay; where have YOU lessened
taxes reduced expenses, created a new
enterprise or drawn single new home
seeker to the state? Have you reduced
the rate of interest or made it easier
for man to pay a mortgage? In what
h.,s l,A iaf ~ =ir
born added to the growth and prosperity
of the state or the happiness of the peO-
pie? What improvement in morals,
what assistance in education or benevo-
leuce has your party afforded? On the
other hand, you have brought with this
political craze. unrest dissatisfaction,
the hostility and rancor of embittered
prejudices between neighbOrs and
friends. You have raised false expecta-
tionS as to financial relief by iegisla-
tion. prevented hundreds of thousands
of dollars from coming to Kansas.
caused capitalists to demand the imme-
diate payment of immense sums of
money due and coming due in mort
cages, stopped the development of the
state and paralyzed business that
should be more prosperous than in any
state in the union because of our great
crops Your party has by its dismal
waits of calamity kept thousands of |
home-seelIers away from our state, but, |
more than all this, you have sown |
broadcast the seeds of disloyalty |
to the laws, contempt for
the courts and unsound ideas of citizen |
ship. Here in the record of your party |
in the Legislature it is shown that you |
have whitfield down the salaries of |
la boring men in the public institutions |
and have stood ready to cripple the |
public service while seeking to create |
many new offices with which to satisfy |
an army of place hunters. You have |
cried aloud against the corruption of |
the republican party that has admins
tered the affairs of the state with abili-
ty and fidelity to the peoples interests |
for 80 years. In an administration only |
60 days old you have brought more dis
grace upon the good name of the state,
and greater scandals regarding bood
ling corruption than the state has
known since it was born the first child |
of the first republican administration
in 1861.
My dear governor, look over the in
dictment and tell the world why your
party should live. Your party of iOO,-
600 voters came into power by the aid of
go, 900 democratic votes. Over $50, 900 |
voters placed their protest |
against your fiat principles and your
Misrepresentation of Kansas Without
democratic help, you. my dear sir, and
all the other populist state officers
would, in company with large major
ity OF the members your party elected
TO the senate and house, be still hold
ing secret meetings to denOunce the
white slavery OF the farmers of Kansas
and the awful corruption of the old par
ties. The record of your maladminis-
trat;on is before the world. The broken
pledges of your party to the people can
not be covered up. We go to the voters
Of Kansas for their verdict | believe
they will say to you. my dear governor,
in tones that will arouse even your self
that 64 is greater than 5S,
and that treason in Kansas is as danger
Gus in 1898 as it was in South Carolina
in 1861.
My dear Governor, did you hear the
great republican shout that went up
from the Representatives of the law and
order party all day and till nearly mid
night on Friday? Did these earnest,
patriotic speeches, representing the
fire and vigor and principles of repub-
licanism, reach the executive chamber?
The league delegates, fresh from the
people, came here to assure the gallant
of the senate and house
that their splendid fight for constitu-