People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-14
NO. 4.
Give the poor man a chance.

holy.
The ballot box is the poor mal's
hope.
The Populist patty is the only ol e
that is growing.
The republicans are bctw .cn the
Germans and the Irish.
The stallel-warts are onl n.it Tor
the republican steal trap.
The old partie' Sowed the >cc | that
produced the PopuIiStS.
One man right is better than hun.
dred million men wrong.
Apaismi' not making many Irish
votes for the republicans.
Government by injunctions has a
railroad frog in its throat.
Conservatism" is cussed lazi-
ness, ignorance, egotlsm anA cowarl-
ice.
"POpulism" isn't such terrible
word. 1t means literally AMI simply
peOpleism.
The republican papers are publish
ing that democratic manifesto with.
out comment
The Abilene Dispatch, formerly a
republican paper, has come over to
the side of the common people.
The British Lion has made the
gold Eagle worth about thirty dollars
in American labor and produce.
The PopuliStS are conducting
of general education-the
republicans one of personal abuse.
All the money and property in the
world would not wipe out the stain
OF one honest mans blood upon the
hands of a nation.
The demand for an income tax was
not in the democratic platform, nor
in the republican platform-but it
was in the POpulist platform.
viii the republican candidates of
Sumner county meet the POpulist
candidates in Joint debate, upon their
respective platforms and records?
Republicans want "a dollar as good
as any other dollar" in their plat
form, but they didn't nay the soldiers
that kind Of dollar during the war,
and refuse now to make up the differ
ence.-Butler Union.
John Temple Graves, the southern
orator who lectured in Wellington
last winter, has written letter in
which he arraigns the democratic
party for unhOly methods. etc. The
letter has had cyclonic effect on the
democracy Of the south.
The Santa Fe railroad is the arst
great British-American corporation
to decorate its papers with the Brit
ish Lion. Some Of the boys Of We'll
llngton have gathered a few Santa Fe
folders and are saving them for
Thanksgiving day, when they will
use them as targets-hitting the
lions head being considered a bulls
eye shot.
The trusts have the present congress
but the people will have the next
one, and Tom Reed will be the speak
er.-SUn.
BY the great junketing jackass of
dismal swamp-Andy, take off your
hat. Don't you know that republi-
can parLyism built every trust in this
country? More likely that Jerry
Simpson will be speaker of the next
house than Tom Reed.
We are still inquiring the name Of
a single book upon national affairs
such as land, money and transporta-
tion-which the republicans are cir
culating as campaign document
Dirt and slush they have plenty in
the corporation dailies and country
parrot papers-but as for serious and
sensible discussion they have not
even pamphlet. The Peoples party
is the educational party-the g. o.p.
is hoot owl with green spectacles.
What is this sugar tax the republi-
cans are bowling about? Why: it is
nothing but protective tariff,
pure and simple. Such tax as
they want to put on all manufactured
articles. If it is not good for sugar
is it good for anything? They evade
this question, however, by referring
to the bounty paid the sugar trust
under the Mckinley law. All right.
if bounty is good for sugar produc-
ers, why not bounty on corn, wheat.
hogs, cattle-and tax on fools?
Don't you republican dOugh-head
editors and black-hearted politicians.
worry about the mass of the Populist
voters being honest. Don't come at
the clodhOppers that way n)w. Call
US thieves and liars and anarchists.
rioters and red-handed murderers and
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