The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-04
THE MOST APPROVED STYLE OF RE-
PUBLICAN ARGUMENT,

readers in advance for publishing the
article which appears below. It is
taken from the Buffalo Express Of
September "a, and we reproduce il
simply that Kansas readers may see
the kind Of rot that is appearing in
eastern republican papers. II any
republican reader can read such stuff
and not be dlsgusted with it and with
the party that is reduced to the ex-
tremity of having to rely upon il for
campaign material, he is more to be
pitied than blamed. Do the writer's
OF this kind of rot place a just esti-
mate upon the intelligence of the
average republican reader when they
presume by its publication that any
body will credit it, We should be
sorry to believe that kansas could
produce a great many so hopelessly
benighted in any party. Read
thoughtfully:
THR KANSAS POPULIsT,
EDITOR BUFFALO ExPRMss:-GPeat three
COrnered avslsnOhes Of disgust rolled over
my soul as / read letter in yesterdays Ex-
press from poor, bleeding, gEasshoppSEy,
Populist Kansas, my native state, but my
home never again. Let US look at the Pop
ulist party in the eastern part Of the state,
whose natural flower gardens, fertile valleys
and winding streams looked 80 Like Paradise
to the early settlers of '68. The Kansas
POpulisb seems TO be species Of the genus
homo largely produced by crop failure and
hard times and the Vaccinations Of unprin-
Cipled' advenEurers whose politics arc
founded on the idea Of looking out for num-
Der one, and whoPe sliOk-tonRued oratoFy at
lonely country school houses has succeeded
in deceiving the people into the belief that
the hard times are caused by the mortgage
and money system and by republican and
democratic parties. We will not discuss
theee subjects, but let Us look at these poo-
pie themselves, and at their homes. Then
let as Judge Of their mental calibre. There
10 in this unfortunate state secret ring
which distributes tracts treating Of social
ism, and which plans every move before IL
is made. From this ring are sent out the
sharpers, who organize lodges all over the
country with blood -Ourdling swords, o.
crst signs, circus regalia, etc., in the towns.
The farmer thinks IL big thing 10 belong
to one Of these lodges, and 80 does bis wife,
who occasionally "Cooks up" and helps In a
big spread or banquet, while the ely orStoR
gets in his work among them, and they go
home certain that the country 10 on the
verge Of ruin and sure that the republicans
are to blame because the wheat doesn't turn
out more bushels to the acre, and that the
hens are ON strike and won't lay, etO. The
old greenbsckers, grangers, and the later
product, Fsrmers' Alliance men, have been
merged into this new wonder Of our present
century, whose borders blend so delicately
with those Of socialism and anarchy that
one can scarce tell where one begins and the
other leaves OF. Four distinct Glasses
compose this party in eastern Kansas. A
Woafully. small minority of good farmers,
intelligent, thrifty, with we'll
alled barns, well-dresssd families and COM
Portable carriages. A very small minority,
converted from the republican party. ola
settlers who fought through the border war,
md sorFy-looking objects they are at Pop
llist parade, as they 60 through the streets
With sheepiSh, downoast faces, for they are