Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-20
BOLTS THE POPUuISTS
Ex-Oongressman Glover Goes Over to the
Republicans
Why He Has Left the Peoples Party
Some Charges Against His
Former Associates.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. .

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
TOPEKA, Kan, August IL. 1894.
The present campaign in Kansas differs
from all others ever fought in the state.
New allignments have been made. and men
who two years ago had each other by the
throat, in a political sense. are today oc-
cupying the same bed. This Is strikinsly IL
Illustrated In the recent conversion Of ex-
Congressman B. H. Clover from populism
to republicanism. Clover is the father Of
the Farmers Alliance movement in Kansas.
In 1890. when Congressman Livingston of
Georgia and Col Polk of North Carolina
came to Kansas to plant the seed for the
new party, they picked out Clover from
among the republican farmers to lead the
battle. He was ripe for the change. The
state Farmers Alliance was organized, and
Glover was made it's first president That
gave him the power and prestige which
sent him to Washington to represent the
third congressional district of Kansas. He
welded a mighty influence among the tillers
of the soil, and could have had the nomi-
nation for governor in 1890. but he pre-
ferred to go to Congress-
Bis failure to be present and vote on a
free coinage bill at one time was the be-
ginning of Clover's downfall with his party.
The telegraph flashed the news over Kansas
that when Clover's name was called he
was asleep in one Of the House committee
rooms. Clover denied the allegation, but
he was never able to satisfy his constit-
uents.
The result was that when he returned to
his district for an Endorsement his con-
stituents rebuked him, and gave the nomi-
nation to I. J. Hudson.
Now, the ex-pOpulist Congressman is
stumping the state for the republican party.
He declares the popuiist pretension Of re-
form Is a sham and fraud.
To the correspondent for The Evening
Star he said: The question presents itself
to the minds Of Kansas farmers, and /
have been a farmer all my life. what is the
best thing for US to do this year? In order
to determine this We must first consider
the conditions that surround US. and the
political parties as they now stand. and ex
anime into their methods and the methods
and policies of the men who are managing
them.
The democratic party is afflicted with its
same cid Inconsistencies. 1t is controlled by
has and never will become thu champion Of
reform.
What is the condition of the populist
party? The party to which we have adhered
since 1t first organized, and which helped
make. The party to which thousands of
honest farmers In this country have con-
tributed their money and talents to build
up has now become the prey Of political
freeboOters. A monthly stipend for cam
paign or personal purposes is enacted from
the gambling dens and liquor dives Of our
large cities. 1t has organized the metropoli-
tan police into revenue collectors who visit
these disreputable and loathsome places and
compel these dealers in vice to divide the
profits Of their unholy business. This il
done now by the leaders Of our reform gov
eminent In Kansas The governor Of the
OF and parties to these political and Official
crimes. Every public institution in the
state has been disgraced by scandals too
revolving to print"
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