People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-19

The VOICE has no desire to follow
upa controversy with the Caldwell
Ne1CS over the merits or dement's of
Lyman Naugle or R. T. Simons.
The people are thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with the circumstances whereby
one was elected to Office and the other
was not. The mass Of the people
care very little whether Naugle or
SimOns fill the Office, or whether they
are both scalawags or honorable cit
liens. In so far as our record is con-
cerned it is before the people and
we are content with it. We have no
apology to offer for the crime of hav-
ing been elected to office by the good
people of Sumner county. These things
cut very little figure on the deplor-
able condition of the country today,
With one breath the POpulist party's
influence on the affairs of state is
ridiculed and with the next all the
woes that atfliCt the country are
charged to it. The old parties are
responsible for everything that has
gone wrong and they know it, yet
they try to throw the whole reSpon-
sibility onto the shoulders of a party
which has only a dozen representa-
tiyeS in congress out of a body of over
800. where is there a loan agent
who is loaning money on real estate
as he was before the Populist agi-
tation?" shouts Mr.. SimonS. The
VOICE has repeatedly challenged him
to show US one in any other state
who is making loans as he was three
years ago. We have been trying to
get it prominently before the people
for some time that there was some
thing wrong with American states
manSGiD and occasionally our good
friend down on the border has con-
coded it and we had hopes that he
might volunteer some advice on the
''Way OUT" but like JobnJ. Ingalls,
he Shirks the task and sets up a how
about these miserable POpulists'
for driving capital out the country
With England holding our bonds
mortgages and other securities, and
with her great statesman Gladstone
telling the people that it would bt
folly for England, the creditor nation
of the earth, to favor anything but
the gold standard-anything that
would make payments less difficult
with our country in the thrOes o.
bankruptcy, millions of men out o.
employment and on the verge of star
walton, with a congress and a preSi
dent tied hand and foot to this inter.
national money oligarchy-then Il
stand Up and plead with the people
that the effort being made to assert
their 'SOvreignity will drive capita
out of the country, in the name O
God how silly. Is there a spark O.
that old time American spirit of thu
cOloniStS left in such men? Freemer
of America, will you continue tt
cover and lick the spittle of this tyr
annical power, or will you arise ant
strike it blow at the ballot box?
BY the way, NeighbOr Simons, whit
was the POpulist speaker that W,
challenged you to name who advo
Gated reputation? You seem to b,
silent on that point. So you admit
that you put that word into Populis
mouths, and lied to eastern creditor
about our people in order to damag,
their credit. You are a nice Estates
man" aren't you? Presume you ar,
standing up for Kansas" You ar,
a daisy, you are.
P. S. If we should get any Origina
ideas in this and other editorials, w
hope you will pardon us, as we arr
not reading the NoncOnformist now
When you have some leisure vol
might write a few lines on your sidt
of the silver question. We can fur
nish you with back numbers of the
VOICE if you want information.