People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-07-14

Out refused the P0puliStS, the answer
being 1--WE have not recognized the
DunsmOre house."
Fifth, the taking from the Peoples
party papers, their advertisements.
Sixth, Welch calling through the
telephone to G. r. Peck, the Santa
Fe attorney to ''send on your armed
men Immediately"
Sixth, the placing in the top story
or attic of the A. T. & S. f. railroad
building few men armed with Win
chesters on the day of the expected
trouble for the purpose of playing
sharpshOOterS and killing all the SOL
dier boys who should attempt to man.
age the cannons and gatling gun if 1t
became necessary. These men were
in the hands of the militia and under
the control of the governor. The
railroad men and Republican repre-.
SentatiyeS and senators were running
back and forth from the railroad
building to the capitol like bees.
This is certainly enough to show
and prove that the railroad corpora.
tiOn runs and controls the Republi.
can party. 1t certainly would be ap.
prOpriate to change the name of the
Republican party to railroad party
so the people would not be fooled
any longer. | don't believe they will
change their name if Higgins & Co.
did suggest it, for it would knock out
fifty per cent. of their voters. The
name is the guiding star. Principle
don't count. The object of the cor.
pOratiOnS was to accomplish some.
thing by which no legislation should
be enacted. Their assertion private
and public was, Everything is good
enough" Their entire object, hope,
intent and determination was to or.
gaDize the lower house and obstruct
all legislation. This action was based
on a selfish financial idea by the cor.
poratiOnS. If this arrangement is
consummated, then the Republican
politicians would say to the people,
what has the new administration
accomplished" for political effect.
So the railroads and other corpora
tions and the Republicans conspired
and worked together from beginning
to end until they accomplished their
designs by fraud, intimidation, shot
guns and a partisan supreme court.
For proof of the above assertion,
have in my possession photographs of
the Douglass sledge hammer, rail-
road outfit, which speaks for itself,
taken with their guns in their hands
and in representative hall. | hope to
be able to show you the photos of the
mob in the future. The cause of the
Legislative muddle" was the organ
ization of the house, both parties
claiming the right of organization.
By and prior to this we have had full
control of every branch of the state
capital, except two members on the
supreme bench. The natural conclu-
sion was that the supreme court
would have to settle the trouble.
Two years ago it was charged that
the Peoples party had elected the
state officials and were counted out.
The idea darted into the heads of
our leaders that we had full posses
sion OF secretary of states Office, and
now was the opportunity to appoint
a canvaSsing board to recount the
ballots and ascertain the truth or
talsity OF the charge. II the recount
OF the vote two years ago showed
that our men were counted out, as
charged, tby taking $1,000 votes pOlled
for Chas. Robinson and giving them
to the Republicans then Judge Hor-
ton was not elected and would be
compelled to step down; in that case,
it would give us two members in the
supreme court. 1t was a source of
qualification for awhile and promised
rich fruit, but when the vault was
reached containing the returns of the
1890 election, they could not be found
high or low. The information finally
leaked out that they were burned up,
an act which had never been commit
ted before.
This proved to me that there must
be some truth in the charge. From
that time and what l have seen and
experienced since, l firmly believe
the charges are true. If everything
was straight, why were the returns
burnt up? l think if the Republican
blowers and strikers keep after Bill
Higgins with sharp stick a little
longer, he will tell all about how it
was done last fall as well as two years
ago.
A few years ago there was a law
passed creating a canvassing board,
of the governor, attorney
general, secretary of state, auditor
and state treasurer, whose duty it is
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