People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-23
Topeka Letter.
TOPEKA, KAN, June p, '94

lOi lleultuduG SONeIHOT, anu give
more fully some Of the details Of the
shoddy business transactions Of f. B.
Dawes, candidate for attorney gen.
eral, but we will lay this matter over
for awhile to give space to more i'm
pOrtant news. We must tell our
readers what a harmonious and en-.
thuslastic convention the POpulists
had. The only question over which
there was any difference of opinion
was the propriety Of adopting resO-
luton in our platform favOring wo-
man suffrage, but this contest, while
animated and earnest, resulted in no
bad blood, and with splendid ticket
afterward nominated, both sides will
roll up their sleeves and 60 into the
fight to win glorious victory.
Probably the most exciting scenes
ever witnessed in any convention be-
fore in Kansas was enacted when the
minority report of the committee on
resolutions was adopted by the con-
yention, thereby placing a woman
suffrage plank in the POpulist state
platform. The contest waged for
nearly two days and nights. When
the final vote was taken enthusiastic
women waved their handkerchiefS
while standing on chairs, cheering,
shouting, laughing, while strong,
sturdy Oldtime politicians wept like
children with hearts OverfOwing with
good will to all men and wOmenkind.
1t was a scene Of lifetime, and one
which made even Opposers of the
plank feel happy while gazing upon
the uspeakable joy it brought to so
many earnest christian hearts who
have for years advocated equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none"
We have interviewed many who op-
posed the amendment solely upon the
ground Of political policy. all Of whom
admit that if it creates half as much
enthusiasm throughout the campaign
as it did in the convention, no COM
FbinatiOn could be put up to beat it.
The POpuliSt state convention was
composed Of the intelligent and en-.
lightened men of the state; men who
showed by their utterances that they
were posted on live issues of the day.
The convention was very much I'M
like the Republican convention in this
respect. While the Republican con-
ventiOn was composed of old political
heelers who knew nothing of the live
issues, the POpulist convention was
composed almost wholly of farmers
and labOring men, who showed thoy
were doing their own reading and
thinking. men who are abreast of the
times in regard to political questions
and they ruled the convention. Here
is the State Journal, Republican au.
thOrity, for it:
"The most enjoyable thing in the
POpuliSt convention just ended, Is
that the politicians of that party
were effectually SQuelched by tie in.
SertiOn Of the woman suffrage plank
We trust that the Journal will moi
forget itself before election and bC
swearing by the gods the Populist
ticket was put up by fxerS. Ir
marked contrast to the above quota
tion as to the true element OF the
Populist convention, we append here
an extract from the Topeka Mail
excellent Republican authority, a.
to the makeup of the Republican statt
convention:
"It was conceded by everybody tha'
the finest body Of the representative
men Of the state Of Kansas, Assem-
bled at the Republican state cOnven
tiOn held this week. OF 1913 delegate
composing the convention 48l wer,
ex-uniOn soldiers and unlike the con
vention Of two years ago, there wer,
no strange faces in the assemblage
all were well known wheel horses IL
the Republican ranks"
Now then what we conclude wheI
we look at the Republican platform
Of two years ago which delared 70
free silver, reduction in exorbitan
freight rates, and against high take
and usurious interest. This yea
nothing is said upon these questions
these ills which afflict and impOver
ish the common people. We mus
conclude that the Republican part.
has this year surrendered completed.
to the corporate and money power
1t had turned its back upon tn
farmer and labOrer by ignoring thei
interest in the platform, and spit il
their faces in not placing one Of thei
representatives upon the state ticket
Is il not about time that some IA
cetiOus Republican exchange was ris
ing TO remark that the 'Populis
party is going to pieces?'
The banking system is as much tn
peoples fault as the bankers fault