Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-09-14


. MD MORRILL, has waitten a letter setting
forth his pension record i'll congress. From 1t
we CLEAN that Morrill, introduced service pen
sion bill for all comrades over slXty-two years
of age Democrats in house moved per diem
substitute; Republicans voted the SUBSTITUTE
down; service pension bill passed the mouse;
serate refused to concur; conference committee
agreed upon the dependent pension Dill that
passed. Now, we have no fight to make OH
Mr.. Morrill, because of his pension record
Kansas congressman have been liberal enough,
generally speaking, for the old-soldier influence
commands respect; but there are other questions
;ust as vital to old soldiers as pensions-lnore
vital in their far-reaching effects; and, as Mr..
Morrill, has taken the side of Plutocracy, we are
hound to oppose his election. There are more
neople than old soldiers and their families
rreater interests than pension itererests, because
. for greater number of people are involved
Mr. Morrill, NAV work the pension racket out
no soldier will falter in performing his duty.
RrcAusr of what Rev. Vim. H. Carwardine
has said and written relative to the Pullman
strike. rumors have been rife, tor some time,
that he would be tried by his church and his
,r1r;+ taken from because of his anarchlstlc ut
terances (?). Owing to these reports, meet
mo of Methodist ministers was held, and they
proceeded to denounce the reports and endorse
Rev Carwardine. They passed the following
resolutions
WHEREAS, The Rev. w. H. Carwardine, pas
tor of the Pullman Methodist Episcopal church,
has been accused of anarchy i'll the Christian
s,mnathv which he has extended to the work
mo neople in their recent distresses; therefore,
Pesolyed That we, the members of the Meth
od;st nreachers' meeting of Chicago, express
orr utmost confidence in Rev. Carwardines 10y
altv TO Americanism, Methodism and Christian
;tv in the manly sympathy which he has mani
tested in word and deed for the law-abldlng
worlino people of Pullman, and believe that
the accusations of anarchy made against hlrn
have been unjust and untrue, II not malicious
A very interesting and unique little paper APP
nears in the September Arena. 1t is, IAN As
troooical Forecast of the Administration OF
President Cleveland" by Julius Erickson. 1t
u,as made at the moment of Mr.. Cleveland's i'll
aueuration, March a, 1898, and copy OF 1t
was deposited with the Librarian OF Congress at
the time as an historical record. III the light
of recent and current events this strange docu-
ment should be read with curiosity and interest
in Washington if nowhere else. 1t predicted
n had time for the Cleveland administration, ana
disappointment for Cleveland, and it begins to
look as if such things were not outof the range
of political possibilities.
Judge Walter Clark, the Associate Justice OF
the Supreme Court of North Carolina, writes III
the September Arean OH ''The Election OF Sen
ators and the President by Popular Vote, ana
the Veto" Judge Clark is in favor of the cleo
ton of senators by popular vote, but is opposed
70 the extension of the principle to presidential
elections as he believes it would imperil the re-
,ublic. But he considers the powers OF patron
ace and the veto vested in the president anomal-
. oSs and dangerous, and would have them cur
has grown wo,.de. ..ny in two-y = 49,