People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-16
How We Killed the Bear.

Under the above heading, the Mon
itor-PreSs last week only wants to al
low few of the POpuliSt members
credit for having helped" the Repub-
licans pass the redemption law. The
Mp. says:
"The act was diStinctively a Re-
publican measure reported by a Re-
publican committee to Republican
house and passed by that body in re-
demptiOn of its pledges. The bill was
drafted on the lines of one introduced
by Hon. Geo. L. Douglas in the legiS-
lature two years ago.
If our neighbOr'S memory is good he
will recOllect that the law to which
he comedies so many merits was not
the one passed by the bogus, or Duns-
more house, that had to
be put out of sight before the people
could get the legislation they demand
ed"
What rot. The records of the Duns-
more house show that they passed
every reform, ,eXpedient and important
measure demanded by the people. 1t
was to prevent legislation that the
Dunsmore house was put out of
sight" Now what are the facts as to
the redemption law? We will let Rep-
resentatiye DOubleday's letter. pub
liShed in these columns April ans
wer. After showing that the Repub-
licans fought the Australian ballot
bill and Ed. Hoch tried to kill it by
moving to indefinitely postpone it, he
says:
blouse bill No. l43, providing an
eighteen months redemption for lands
sold under execution received the
same opposition from the REPUBLICAN
side that the Australian ballot bill
did and before it passed the house
was amended in several important par
ticulars against the united opposition
of the POpuliStS, one amendment be-
ing to reduce the time for the redemp-
tiOn of lands not occupied by the own
er from eighteen to six months. An
other was to allow the mOrtgagOr to
waive the right TO redeem, which
amendment virtually destroyed the
efficiency of the bill, as has the law
allowing the waiver of appraiSement
destroyed the appraisement law.
The bill was objected to by the SEN
ate and went to conference commit
tee, of which NJ. W. Sutton, formerly
of Wellington, but now a Republican
member from Ford county, acted as
chairman Of the house committee and
| desire to state that Mr.. Sutton
wanted a redemption law that would
benefit the people and worked to that
end. The committee struck out the
waiver of redemption and some other
Objectionable amendments and also
added some important features to the
bill, which was reported back to the
house by Mr.. Sutton and was passed
without the Republican house know
ing the changes that had been made
by the conference committee, and in
fact am confident that it would not
have passed had they known the
facts"
There you have it! ALL the oppO-
sitiOn came from the Republican side.
They tried to destroy its usefulness:
tried 70 kill it entirely, and finally
passed it without knowing that the
many merits" had been restored.
And yet such 'organs" as the Moni-
tOr-Press have the monumental gall
to 'stand up" and claim the credit of
passing the bill as a Republican meas
ure! Yes, 1--WE" killed the bear, in
deed. but the Republicans as party
were in a secure place in the loft
while the POpulists and a few honest
and independent Republicans were ex-
ecuting the job. Next we shall
expect to see such sheets as the
Monitor claiming that the Republi-
can party deserves the credit OF
having driven such men as
Humphry, BOtkin, Anthony, Higgins,
and Others from power in the state.