People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-12-08
More flood for Thought. "

dllON LuO oPdSO III JOul NOluhho w
take issue with an editorial in last
weeks Standard?
Let me say at the OutStart that
since l have been old enough to vote
l have regularly walked to the polls
and deposited my ballot for the Dem
Ocratic standard bearers. l did so at
the last election, and nOtwithstand-
ing | was told by this latter-day seer
of the Standard that no self-respect-
ing Democrat could 60 further and
vote for Populist," l did so at the
risk Of losing my Self-respect. l find
that instead Of losing my self-respect
l have gained it, and that in future
| will vote my sentiments whether it
suits the Wellington ring or not, and
l find by talking with my neighbors
that | have so much Democratic
company in this resolve that the lit
tie county-Seat ring which is now
controlling the Standard and which
is trying to manipulate the Demo
cratic voters Of Sumner county as
whole, will find themselves states
men out Of job" at the close of an
other campaign. We have no doubt
the Standard Office has heard some
mutteringS Of the coming storm from
those who have recently called at its
Sanctum, and that it will continue to
hear them is as certain as its present
course is pursued.
Democrats cherish the memory of
Luke Herring and have great respect
for his worthy widow, but it is too
much to ask them to swallow every
dose that is prescribed for them by a
ring of half dozen political shystsrs
who have no deeper conception of pa
triOtic principles than is labeled
with a good name, or accompanied
with an office-a ring which, to &C
cOmpliSh its ends, stops not at elect
ing Republicans in preference to hon
est, capable, tried and true Demo
Ocrats.
When such a state of affairs exist
it is time for honest, intelligent Dem
ocratic voters to stop and think and
determine what is best to be done.
The editorial l refer to is one
which says:
"As there seems to be now nothing
more certain than that the Populist
party'S days are numbered, and that
it is but question OF a very short
time, when as now organized it must
60 to pieces, believing that a large
majority Of those who have hereto
fore affiliated and voted with that
party are honest and patriotic citi-
zens, we feel this to be a fitting time
to submit a few facts for the serious
consideration Of all such so-called
POpulistS, as nell as those Democrats,
If any such, who, feeling that they
have grievance at the present ad-
ministratiOn, may be tempted to
wander away from the safe and sure
fold OF Democracy, to follow new
teachers into untried ways, however
promising they may appear to un.
practiced eyes,"
And then this wOuld-be "bell
weather" proceeds to show up the
disSensiOns in the POpulist party and
quotes at length from a purpOrteC
interview with one G. c. Clemens
who says the party must adopt $50
cialistic" ideas or die, and concludes
by inviting all POpulistS into thu
| Democratic party-as a matter Of
course-giving as an inducement that
every principle of the party worth
preserving has been appropriated
from the Democratic party"
There never has been a time since
the Peoples party started when Re
publicans were not ready to say that
its life would be short, and true Dem
ocratS have always tried to keep theil
house in order to catch the drift from
the breakup, but we are forced al
this time to conclude that the Dem
Ocratic house does not present a very
inviting appearance to people whC
have been forced adrift from old DO
litical mooringS by the tendency Of
capitalistic favOritism.
These people have been driven out
of their old political homes because
they wanted ~ national 5ank pattern
alism to cease and large increase in
the circulating medium of the coun
try, either by coinage of silver or the
issue Of full legal tender money, Oh
both; ~ the government control OF
ownership of railways, whereby the
extOrtiOns of the railroad corpora
tions might be stopped; 49, legisla
ton for the masses instead of thu
classes; AZ reduction of the tariff and
taxes generally and a tax on incomes
C5l reform in corrupt political prac
practices.
OF course It may be said that The
movement has tendencies toward so
; cialism and anarchy, but there never
| has been a movement for tha hat+a,