The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-11-02
AID NOW ELECTION.

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shall have passed into history. Onthe
result of the election, on this day held,
hinges much that viii, in the future,
determine the boundaries Of American
liberty. Governors, congressman, leg
islators, state, county and township
officials shall be elected who shall so
shape the affairs Of the state that the
result will be either lighter burdens OF
heavier chains, an extension or con-
traction Of the limits of liberty.
The several parties have set forth in
their platforms the principles and pol
icy of their party, npon which. if elect
cd, their candidates are supposed to
stand. But these platforms are some
times used as a stepping stone to Office
only, and after election are carefully
laid away to he used in the next cam
paign. So i'll determining who, or what
political party is to be favored by your
vote, look into the past record of the
different political organizations and by
their deeds in the past judge them.
Both the Republican and Democrat
ic parties of the state of Kansas are
seeking election TO power on the claim
that they are friends of silver, while
their hands are yet wet with the blood
of the assassinated white metal. They
each promise to restore prosperity,
which lies stunned and bleeding from
the repeating" blows of the combined
Republican and Democratic forces in
the congress just adjourned. Look on
the vote of the free coinage bill and
determine how much friend of silver
either Of these two parties really are.
Each party promises to do certain
things, and they promise anything and
everything to get votes, which their
representatives in congress have only
yesterday undOne. How much conf
dence can be placed in these promises?
Judging from the past, the only an
swer can be "nOne." They each have
been weighed in the balance and found
wanting,
They have each left behind record
Of unredeemed pledges, the admins
trations Of each bear the finger marks
of fraud, corruption and special legis-
latiOn. all of which has been in direct
opposition to their platforms in the
past They have betrayed the people
on every hand and prevented justice
everywhere i'll favor of the money pow
er of the country, Can they be expect
ed to do otherwise in the future?
The corruption of the two once great
parties has led to the organization of
another party whose honor is yet I'M
smirched, whose garments are yet I'M
sulIied by the blasting touch of cor
ruption or tbs whitening hand of greed.
This party is the Peoples Party, the
party, as its name indicates, of the
people.
It's wonderful growth shows to what
extent the people have lost faith nthe
older parties and what confidence they
place in the new. The record of its
representatives in the last congress is
one of uutiring labor for right, justice
and equality to all, of fulfilled pledges
and promises redeemed. On all great
questions its representatives have voted
as unit upon the principles laid down
i'll its platform. These principles are
admitted by all great and liberal think
ers as the only ones that will serve to
restore the people that prosperity they
have known in times gone by.
This party is the labor party, the
poor mans party, the party of the
farmer, the party of the massee; the
millioDaires are arrayed on the other
side.
This election is vital one, one that
will determine much in the coming
years. The country is resting upon
the crater of volcano that is liable at
any time to beleh forth its destroying
flames. Only careful and considerate
legislation can save this great repub-
lie from horrors that would be unpar-
alelled on histOry's pages. The great
mass of the common people are in des-
parate straits, Over 100000 American
labOring are homeless, out of employ
ment, penniless and hungry. Those
superintendent upon them for bread
and the other necessaries of life ask
ing for that they cannot give. This is
the situation no other country ever
faced, a situation no other country
could face. Patient and suffering, the
American toiler has made no demon
stration. But this condition cannot
last always. The instinct of self-pre-
servatiOn in man, when aroused, is such
that stops at nothing, The spirit of
freedom that beats strongly in every
Americans heart will never submit to
serfdom, Only little more crowding
to the wall, only little more oppres-
sion and the spirit of revolution they
inherit from their forefathers will
break forth in fame no mortal hand
can quench.
This condition is a reality, not a the
CRY, and no one realizes it more than
the producers and the laboring men
themselves, Even the money power
feels unsafe as is indicated by their de-
sire to increase the standing army to
100000. The irrepresible conflict is at
hand and the only way it can be avert