People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-24
a. Kansas Brother Writes.

a. Kansas Brother Writes
/ thought some Of the brethren
down 10 Dixie would like to see
little breeze from the North, and feel
the pleasure of the touch Of shoulder
to shoulder, so hope they will en-
Joy the reading Of Northern letter
as well as we enjoy the letters from
the South.
Nothing heaps the dirt over the
dead past more rapidly and surely
than does the letters of the veterans
Of the Confederaoy. Nothing SO
heals a difference Of opinion SO
readily and easily as brotherly and
friendly Intercourse.
Though we Of Kansas had looked
and hoped for a larger vote in Geor-
gia and was sadly disappointed in
the returns of November from there,
we now begin TO see how our cause
was treated and what terrible odds
our people had to contend against,
and as the evidence in brave Tom
Watson's case develops, we now
wonder that you ever had the nerve
to go to the polls or, attempt to cast
ballot, yet we know the bravery
and valor Of the Southr0n as we
have met you on many a hotly con-
tested field. Well do we remember
Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson,
Champion Hill, Black River and
Vicksburg, whore we met the brave
"Southern rebel" whom we were go
ing TO clean out some morning for a
breakfast job. Yes, we'll do [ re-
member you, "Johnnie;" [ saw you
numerously, and ] have gentle
reminder Of your shot and shell, as
delivered at JACKSON, Mississippi.
My wife has a little keepsake of
about one ounce Of rebel lead that
was tossed to nue. in very careless
manner, and as I caught it on the fly
[ retained it, and 1t is still in the
family. But, boys, | hold no grudge,
and since I have been reading and
thinking for myself, how different
things look. Though born in the
South and raised to manhood's es-
state, as most Of you have been
raised, q Democrat, voted but once
Democratic in my life came out Of
the army a stalwart and always al
lowed them to do my thinking for
ne, until 1890, when sunny Kansans
began to think Cor themselves and
for Kansan to think is to act.
You know the rest. The $4,000
Republican majority went glimmer-
ing and is now back number. The
Peoples party now hold the State Of
Kansas by the grace of the People,
not by the grace of the Railroads.
Hence you may look for q good re-
port from here. Though we had
nearly as hard fight with the Rail-
road corporations here as you had
with the mossbacks down there.
The fight was on little different
plan. They fought US with money,
free passes and imported voters, and
if they had known just what our
strength was, think they could have
defeated us, because they had
enough imported votes from Missouri
and Tennessee to just cover the ma
iorities po1led, but our boys were
just a little too old for them and
they could not always tell exactly
how to poll man, and the conse-
quence was they made some errors;
and though we seemingly lost the
Legislature, you will see by the press
reports that the Peoples party is
doing business at Topeka.
The big Seventh district (Jerry's)
is where the great storm centered.
We had not only both the old parties
at home to fight, but the railroads Of
the entire State and the banks and
plutocrats of the East. All the
powers combined to defeat Jerry,
but ike the giant he Is, he vanqulshed
his foes and COMPOUNDED his enemies,
and to-day is more dreaded and
feared by plutocracy than any man
in the West, and probably with the
exception Of brave Tom Watson,
more than any man in the United
States.
Oh, for two hundred Toms and
Jerrys in Congress! Would not the
gold bugs and railroad plutes take
to the woods? Would there not be
rafting of dry bones about those
old congressional halls? Such
cleaning house! ,Sa7es Pinkertons,
sans national bankers, Sa2aS canal
schemers, sans bond-makers and
coupon clippers, sans rottenness and
jobbing of all kinds And a gov