People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-23
POLITICAL HASH.
Served Hot and Cold to Suit Our
Readers.

Served Hot and Cold to Suit Our
Readers.
one OF the metropolitan papers
mako che statement that it is gener-
ally believed, in Washington, that it
was mistake, putting Coxev in jail
We are somewhat of that opinion our.
selves. We have been laboring
assiduously for long time endeavor-
ing to impress upon the minds OF the
people that poor man in this coun-
try had no rights which the plutocrats
were bound to respect, and this illus
tration OF our idea has done more to
convince them than all the reform edit
tors could have done in a thousand
years. A few more object lessons and
the people will begin to arouse them
selves to a sense of the danger which
surrounds them.
The Miner County Democrat OF
South Dakota sizes up the situation
as follows:
THE recent strikes and the dozen
or more Coxey armies marching ON
to Washington have caused many an
intelligent person to set up terrible
thlnkin'.' But will the millions of
voters attribute their reverses and
misfortunes to the true causes? 1t is
not Mckinley tariff nor the proposed
changes in the schedules provided for
by the Wilson bill; it is not because
Cleveland and the democratic party
are in power; it is one or all OF these
things combined which have brought
the country into its present perilous
condition and filed the land with
ldlers and tramps. The toilers are re.
quired, like the children of Israel in
the time of Pharoah, to make brick
without straw
I'VE had hoped that democracy
would take the bull by the horns and
be true to themselves and TO the prin.
ciples and traditions OF the party, but
we confess that the prospect of arrest
ing the downward course OF the party
we love is very gloomy. The leaders
are jealous OF each other. Inordinate
personal ambition is leading some to
their ruin, and while they are digging
their own political graves, they are
dragging down with them to disgrace
and ruin those of their own household.
There is no truer axiom than that
a house divided against itself can not
stand
"The democratic party is now d.
vided into walring factions. They
are more hostile toward each other
than they are toward a common
enemy. There is manifest discomfort,
heart-burning and jealousies in the
republican party. Chronic hatred of
democracy and love of spoils are
the principal cement which holds the
leaders together. The leaders of both
parties are deserving of the condem-
nation of the masses of the people.
The times indicate a disintegration
and reformation of the political ele-
ments."
The only thing which the democrats
had left to make themselves safe on
all their promises made in last cam.
paign was the Wilson tariff bill.
Figuratively speaking it was their
tail-hold on further lease of power.
That is now so badly .mangled that all
hopes in that direction are gone glim.
mering. The thing is mangled SC
that its own father would not know
it, and, il it don't come to vote pretty
soon, some good democrat ought tc
move to adopt the Mckinley law in
the interest of tariff reform. Senator
Vest says: 1--WE might as we'll be can
did with ourselves. There's no GOOD
in trying to humbug the people for q
month or six weeks. and then have
admit tina. We are humbugging them
The Wilson bill now, as il stands, 10 q
Mckinley bill, with Q short reduction