Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-10-12


Ath contains an "Open Letter to the Veterans
Living in Kansas which is bit of as con-
temptible impudence as has been written during
the campaign. While the editor processes 10
have great respect for the old soldiers, this
'open letter. is gratuitous insult to every
self-respecting wearer of the blue. The editor
undertakes to tell the old soldiers residing III
Kansas who they should vote for for governor
naming the man, and that man, Z. NJ Morrih'
He talks to them as though they were an aggre-
CATION of chuinps who had not gone to the
pains to inform themselves on the antecedents
of the man who is asking them for their voteln
the pending election. A large part of the old
soldiers residing in Kansas are as fully INFORM
ed on the antecedents of E. N. Morrill, as IS the
editor of the National Tribune, and, upon that
knowledge, multiplied thousands OF them Will
not, upon any consideration, SO debase thelr
manhood as to vote for him. The "Depend-
emit, pension law is simply an insult to the
"sayiors of the country" and the threadDare
claim TINT the Republican party has had the Ill
terest of the old soldiers at heart is to beaccept
ed with great deal of doubt; else why were
the bond-holders and coupon-clppers- men
who wanted 80 per cent. for their money "hei
the old soldiers, then young, were Offering theiI
lives in defense of the nation-given all they
wanted within a year or two after the war;
while the men who made the bonds valuable
have been petitioning for years for justice, not
charity, as per Morril's bill, and who have
pittance now and another again doled out to
them through twenty five weary years line
Veterans living in Kansas" know that when
Morril's "Pauper' bill was urged through con-
eress, the Republicans had all overwhelming
majority in both brancher, and the president.
The old soldiers asked for service pension,
and E. N. Morrill, is responsible for the insult
ing pauper bill. We repeat the VETERANS
Living in Kansas have paid as much atten-
ton, and know more about E. N. Morrill, than
does the National Tribune, and will, therefore,
sit down on him on the 9th of November.
THERE is no room in this country for a man
who is too good to belong to partisan party
The word reforrner has singular significance
When a man advertises himself as too good to
associate with his fellow man, he is a rascal
John j. ingalls,.
The Statesman without job attemps to
connect those goody-goody fellows who are too
good Off such there be) to associate with their
fellowInen-with the reformers. He attempts
to make that thought Populist tenet. An
honest man can and does think himself too
good to associate with certain men, and, in do
ing so, is not a rascal. He cannot associate
with thieves he cannot associate with boodlers,
bribe- givers and bribe-takers; he cannot associ-
20 1,ox-a hatra xyad
trust, to have violated pledges, and who gamble
in the liberties of the people. Of these things
many of the leaders of the old parties are guilty,
and because these leaders, regardless of party
affiliations have conspired to rob the people,
honest men in the old parties have revolted and
demanded a reformation in politics. Their de-
mands have passed unheeded for years, the cor
ruption increasing all the time, and to the de-
gree that at last, as a deanier effort for whole
some laws and just government, they have been
compelled to break loose from old political as
sociations and bind themselves together i'll a
new party to make war on the rascals. John
has gotten his instruction from the Republican
state committee, and he knows why he is talk
ing so-for some Of the slush fund.
The old party hacks that told everybody pros
perity would blossom and bloom when the Sher-
man law was repealed, and later, as soon as the
tariff bill was settled, realize that they at
their wits end and have now undertaken the
gigantic task of making the people believe that
an era of prosperity has dawned upon the coun-
try. Some people are prosperous whether
the times are gooe or bad, and that is the man