The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-20


Democratic votes. Last year we poIled
235 votes in the county, but this year am
satisfied that the state ticket viii not re-
ceive 15o votes. We only have about
half dozen Democrats in the county who
believe in Cleveland. Any Democrat who
wants his vote to count must vote the
PopuIist ticket IN Kansas, and there are
few of US who do not understand this
fact.''
In a recent issue of the Atchison Cham
pion, free silver Republican paper, pub
lished by ex-Lieutenant Governor Felt,
there appears letter from Hon. David
Martin, one of the leading lawyers of the
state, and a Republican, in which he de-
manded that r. w. Blue, the Republican
candidate for congress at large, who is
making sshonest money! speeches; be
withdrawn from the ticket, because he is
misrepresenting the majority of the Re
pubiicans in the state. While MIR. Martin
does not say in so many words that he VIII
vote the Populist ticket, he cannot eonsls-
tentIy, in view of the assertion made by
him in his open letter, do otherwise, for
the candidate of the Republicans for gov
ernor has taken exactly the same position
DIS DUE Oh Tic ulOuOy QuCOtIOAs
The Atehison Champion, while noDli-
nally supporting the Republican ticket is
taking the Populist side in the discussion
of all vital issues and combating the ar
guments of the Republican candidates,
made from the stump, and the Champion
editor has for years been a recognized
leader in the party councils.
While the silver advocates are giving the
Republicans much concern, the Methodist
ministers and their followers are causing
them any amount of trouble, because of
their threatened revolt against the action
of the state convention in ignoring the pro-
hibition question. Word comes from Bald
win, where the Methodist college is loca-
ted, and the Methodist headquarters of the
state, that the people there, generally,
have decided to support the Prohibition
ticket. James Murray, president of the
Baldwin State bank, was nominated for
State treasurer by the ProhibitionistS and
his fellow townsmen, nearly all of whom
have religiously voted the Republican
ticket, will support him and the balance OF
the ticket as a rebuke to the Republicans
for cowardly abandoning their pet measure,
prohibition.
Just before the Republican state conYen-
ton the Methodist conference adopted re-
solutions declaring that they would con
slider themselves bound to no party that
failed to express itself squarely against
the saloon and for the strict enforcement
of the prohibitOry laws. The warning
thus given was not needed, and now the
Methodists insist that they meant exactly
what they said in their resolutions. The
Republican loss from this cause alone will
be enough to defeat the party at the polls.
There is still another element that has
always voted solidly for the Republicans
in Kansas that this year will be divided
between the Populists and the Republicans
and the indications are that the Populists
will get the lions share when the division
is made. This is the colOred vote, and
there are 20, 900 of them. Last year little
band of colored citizens met IN Topeka
and organized the Equality Political league.
There was mere handful of them and no
significance was attached to it. The seed
was sown then which now promises to
produce a bounteous harvest of POpulist
votes.
Local organizations have been effected
in many counties in the state and when
the state convention of the league met in
this city few days ago 80 delegates were
present. They came from every congress
sional district and from localities widely
distant The result of the education that
has been going on at the league meetings
during the year is told in the following
resolutions adopted at the state conven-
ton:
''Whereas. The interests of the Afro
Americans are identified with the tOiling
masses, and the greater part of the legisla-
ton of our country for the past 80 years
laboring classes, and
"Whereas, The present congress has so
outrageously pandered to the wants of
trusts and monOpolies and catered to the
wishes of shyIocks and sugar kings; there
fore be it
''Resolved, By the Equality league in
convention assembled that we commend
the Peoples party senators and represen-
tatives in congress for the heroic stand
they have taken in the interests of humani-
ty. We indorse the Peoples party plat
form adopted at Omaha, July 4, 1892; also
the Topeka platform, adopted June II,
1894, and the economical and busineSs-like
methods of the state administration"
Leaders in the league movement san
guinely predict that the Republicans will
not poll one-half of the colOred vote in
Kansas this year.