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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
sepat. Tradition shattered,

It was probably with solemn shake of
the mead that nx-SenatOrS Thurman and
Edmunds read of Mr.. McLaurin making a
speech in the United States senate after
being but few weeks a member. 1t was
not so in their day. Then such an action
as that of McLaurin'S-a speech made so
soon after the senator had settled into his
seat-wouId have been received with
stony stare and the atmosphere would
have got so cold after his first word that
he would have shriveled up and frozen in a
corner. 1t would have been no palliation,
says the Washington Star, that it was not
much of a speech anyhow-only Il little
one; he would have been frowned down
and only years of silence, sackcloth and
ashes would have restored him o grace.
When the eloquent Blackburn of Kentucky,
after talking his way through the house
and drawing tears by lis OratiOns over the
graves of confederate dead, W as lifted up
into the senate, he for two years put a
bride upon his tongue and spoke not,
though he as much as any man on earth
then loved to talk. Older men than he,
and far more famous, each in his turn of
elevation to the senate, sat silent as nOvi-
tIates during the solemn months of their
probation. All of them, take the whole
list of them now revered-all of them have
been thus on probation, and then, in their
turn. have upheld the rigid custom.
Wolcott was the first to trample upon the
sacred etiquette of the senate. He came
into that body in 1889, with reverence for
nobody, and has not acquired any since. |
1t was he who first shocked Edmunds and |
gave him the warning OF the approaching |
change, which took from the senate all at
fractions to the Vermont sage. He broke !
into the ring at the first sign of fight, and
elbOwed his way about in a manner most
shocking to the senatorial notions of de-
cOrum. The cold atmosphere had no effect
upon him. When some of the old men had |
sufficiently got their breath they began to
ask what manner of man he was, and to
show some interest to know if any more of
that breezy sort were to be expected. Ever
since then there has been steady and
growing violation of senatorial etiquette, |
until not even look of protest passes over |
any face. Not only that, but such young
men as Dubois, on the Republican side, |
and Faulkner, Oh the Democratic side, are
recognized as able leaders, and such men !
of comparative youth or shortness of ser
vice, as Aldrich, Lodge, Dixon, WOlcOtt, |
Gray, HansborOugh and Smith are counted
as of commanding influence. AIdrich has
charge of the Republican end of the tariff
fight and Dubois is one of the Republican
steering committee whose advice is meyer
disregarded and is most often followed as
against that of older men of vastly longer
service. Faulkner occupies similar posi-
ton on the Democratic side of the chamber.
After this why may not the senate hope in
time to shake off some of its dignity and
deliberation and become progressive leg
islative body.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
The several counties are Ell
representation as follows:

County committees are requested to,
if possible, call county conventions for
the election of above delegates on same
day, as recommended by the state com
mittee.
Secretaries of county committees
please forward certified lists of dele
gates to secretary congressional COM
mittee, F. O. johnson, Phillipsburg,
Kansas.
''The Peoples party at the outset, to
secure permanent control of the party
organization, unaffected by the inter
ests of those in public service, does
hereby, in the national convention
assembled at Omaha, and this 4th day
of July, 1892, establish this ordinance
as fundamental laws of the party or
ganization, viz: No persons holding
any Office or position of profit, trust or
emolument under the federal or any
state or municipal government, includ-
ing senator's, congressman, and mem
bers of the legislature, state and local,
shall be eligible to sit or votes in any
convention of this party, and copy of
this ordinance shall be annexed to
every call for any future convention of
the party" F. @. JOHNSON,
Jos. DARLING, Secretary.
Chairman
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

tention on the floor of the house when
when making an address than any
other members, save Tom Reed of
Maine and Burk Cochran of New York.
We have lost between 80 and 20 days
this session by the fllibustering of the
Republicans. They viii not attend our
committee meetings and they say that
the responsibility of legislation rests
with the Democrats, and that they
must furnish the members on com
mittees and the quorum in the house
as we'll
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
About COxeyites.

This is a government of the people. A
revolution of force would turn the country
from a republic to a despotism. Here the
majority rules, If the majority does not
and shall not, who does md who will? 1t
is either the government we have, or one
that will have us-the people in the grip of
standing army. with a man ON horseback
and throne at its head.
No people understand this better than
the wage-earners of the land. 1t is for this
reason that the movement towards the
capital will and must be a peaceful one.
1t is not a movement of force, but one of
agitation, of emphasized protest, of ener-
getic appeal to the lawmaking section of
the government to turn from their slavish-
ness to the rich and powerful few, that
they may include the people in the laws
they can enact.
What if they fail in their mission, as
they probably Will so far as immediate re-
suits are concerned? Many thousands will
be there who will have no place where, of
right they can lay their heads. Will not
they riot? MOI They will be the chief
sufferers, but they will fare as well there
as elsewhere, for everywhere the door TO
employment and wages is shut. They will
suffer, but nerved with the conviction that
they are suffering for others and that they
are suffering for others and that they may
all in the near future rest under better for
tune, they will prove courageous and law
abiding to the end
The sum of results from the movement
will be good. If it does not move Wash
ington it will move the country at the polls.
Better, wiser and more humane laws in the
agitation-the greater and more constant
the better-that reforms are accomplished.
Stagnation is death. Better, far better,
that Coxey's armies should march on
Washington IL times a year, than that in
difference should settle upon the land
Rocky Mountain News.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
Hazard Circular.

Slavery is likely to be abolish
ed by the war power, and chattelI
slavery be destroyed. This l and
my European friends are in favor
of, for slavery is but the owning
of labor, and carries with 1t the
care of the laborer. While our
plan is for capital to control la
Dor by controlling the wages.
This can be done by controlling
the money. The great debt (that
capital viii see to It IS made out
of this war must be used as the
means TO control the volume Of
money. To accomplish this, the
the money must be bonded, and
the bonds must be used as the
banking basis. We are now
waiting for the secretary OF the
treasurv to make the recommen-
dationS to congress. 1t will not
do to allow the greenbabks to
circulate as money any length of
time, for we cannot control them,
but we can control the bonds and
through them the bank issue.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

The basis for said representation is
two delegates at large for each county
and one additional delegate for each
$50 votes, or major fraction thereof,
cast for r. S. Osborne for secretary of
state, determined by adding the vote
cast for him in 1890 and in 1892, and
dividing the result by two.
Delegates to the said convention will
be elected by regularly called county
convention of the party, and it is re-
commended that conventions for cleo
ton of delegates to this convention be
held in all counties in the state on the
oath day of May, 1894, and that the
primaries for electing delegates to said
county convention be held on Tuesday,
the 22d day of May, at such places as
may be designated by the call for
county conventions.
It is also recommended that, at the
county conventions held for the pur-
pose of electing delegates to this con
vention, the county central committee
for the campaign of 1894 be selected,
and that said committee meet immedi-
ately after the adjournment of said
convention for the purpose of organic
ing; that the selection of the county
committee be made the first order of
business in said convention after per
manent organization.
The secretary of said county conven-
ton will forward to the state chairman
a list of the delegates and alternates,
together with a list of the county cen
trail committee selected, Immediately
after the adjournment of said conven-
ton.
It is recommended that in the selec-
ton of delegates to said state conven-
ton the several committees refrain
from electing any state officer or state
employee.
1t is further recommended, that all
persons, irrespective of former party
affiliations, who believe in the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of Is to L; who believe in more money
and less taxes; who believe in strict
economy in government affairs; who
believe in graduated income tax; who
believe in government ownership of
railroads; who believe the promises
made by the government to the soldier
when he enlisted be strictly fulfilled;
who believe that freight and passenger
rates In Kansas should be based on the
actual cost on construction and Iegiti-
mateexpense Of operating the railroads
and that such rates should be reduced
to correspond with the reduced prices
of products of labor; who believe that
the wages due railroad employees should
be first lien on all property of the
road, payable before any other claim
whether the road IS operated by the
company or by receivers, and that no.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

The mine operators Of Cripple Creek
claim that they have the legal right to
hire and discharge men at viii and also
to fix the wages that they will pay their
employees. This is granted from q legal
standpoint, bat not from a moral one.
Should this rule be in force, workmen
would be forced to meet cut after cut
until in the end men would be found
eager and willing to work at coolie
wages rs cents per day. The Ameri-
can workmen realize this and a halt
must be called, for it would be better
that human lives and millions OF dol
lars worth of property be destroyed
than that the wage earners Of this
country go one step nearer the slavery
line.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01


IN letter dated March %, 1892, Col
onel Polk said: ''rhroughoUt the agri-
cultural states south, west and north
west, Where's, few years ago, were the
happiest, best-contented. most prosper
Gus and most independent people on
the habitabIe globe, possessed of the
most prineely heritage which God ever
vouchsafed to man, now detection, de-
preston, suffering and poverty hang
ike pail of night, and they are prac-
tically no more than a respectable class
of tenants whose earnings, under mi
quitous laws, are appropriated by the
money power of the country. They
would be less than human if they did
not complain; more than human if
they did nothing but complain"
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
nrawinc to . Coz.

The end of the tariff fight seems to be in
sight, and no one viii be surprised if day
for taking the final vote be agreed upon be-
fore the close of the present week. The
reason for the change may be found in the
test votes, which have shown that every
Democratic vote, with the possible excep-
ton Of that Of Hin, and every Popuhst
vote, with the possible exception Of
Stewart, viii be cast for the bill. unless
something now unexpected shall occur to
bring about a change. The developments
in the investigation may affect the sugar
schedule, which wiz be taken up this
week.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

officer or stakeholder of any railroad
should be appointed a receiver thereof;
and all who believe that the legislation
outlined herein viii restore prosperity
to the country, and enable thousands
who are now tramping the country in
enforced idleness to secure profitable
employment and enjoy the fruits
thereof, be invited to participate in the
primaries and conventions.
JOHN W. BREIDENTHAL., Chairman.
CHARLES S. DAVIS. Secretary.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01


IN times past wars have been gotten
up to kill off surplus labor and a CORE
spondent of the Washington Star goes
on record as being in favor of war
with any foreign nation in order to kill
off the unemployed! In times past too,
wars have been gotten UP by the plutes
(but they were careful 20 keep well in
the rear) in order to increase the in
debtedness Of nation and give them
q fat picking in bonds. For some time
after the opening of our civil war. Gen
erl Sherman refused to have anything
to do with it, declaring that tho rich
got the government into it and they
could get it out, and another party has
declared that it was a rich mans war
but poor mans fight That's about
the ''size'' of all wars
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

The close of the civil war;
when victory perch the banners the northern
along 7os when the
pie enjoying benefit of abundance of circulating medium
Bulletin issued in March, 1898, by the Bankers
all national banks. Farmers mechanics laborer
behold the
this your hat and show them the
your support party things possible
Help break the shackhat binds labor and industry the
treadmill of the money power.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
Bankers Circular.

It's advisable to do all in your
power TO sustain such prominent
daily and weekly newspapers.
especially the agricultural and
religious press, as will oppose
the issuing of greenback paper
money, and that you also with
hold patronage or favors from all
applicants who or not willing to
Oppose the government issue OF
money. Let the government is
sue the coin and the banks issue
the paper money of the country,
for then we can better protect
each other. To repeal the law
creating national bank notes, OF
to restore to circulation the gov
eminent issue of money, will be
TO provide the people with money
and will therefore seriously affect
your individual profit as bankers
and leaders. See your congress
man at once, and engage him to
support our interests, that we
may control legislation.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
Panic Bulletin.


The interests of national
bankers require immediate hnan-
cial legislation by congress. Sill
yer, silver certificates and treas
ury notes must be retired and ma
itianai bank notes upon a gold
basis made the only money. This
will require the authorization OF
from $500, 600, COO to 81, ooo, ooo, 900
Iof new bonds as basis of circu-
llation. You will at once retire
kone-third of your circulation and
lcall il one-half of your loans. Be
careful to make money stringen-
Icy felt among your patrons, es-
lpecially among influential BUSH
lness men. Advocate an extra
session of congress for the repeal
lof the purchase clause of the
sherman law, and act with the
lother banks of your city in secur-
ling a large petition to congress
for its unconditional repeal, per
accompanying form. Use per-
sonai influence with congress
men, and particularly let your
Interests be known to your sena-
tors. The future life of national
banks as fixed and safe invest
lments depends upon immediate
faction, as there is an increasing
sentiment in favor of government
legal-tender notes and free silver
lcoinage.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
Congressional Convention.

Adelegate convention OF the Peoples
party of the Sixth congressional dis
triet, is hereby called to meet at Colby,
June 6, at 11:3o o'clock a. M, for the
purpose of placing in nomination a
candidate for congress from said Sixth
district.
The basis of representation is one
delegate at large from each county,
and one delegate for every 800 votes
or major factions thereof cast for Hon.
L. D. Lewelling for governor in cleo
ton of 1892.
The several counties are entitled to
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

CARNAGIE, the protected iron-king,
the man who has for years donated so
literally to the Republican campaign
funds, in return for which he has Sc
cured government contracts which has
made him millions, has lately been
shown up as defrauding the govern
ment by furnishing thousands of tons
of armor plate that is worthless.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
state Convention.

A delegate convention of the Peoples
party of Kansas will be held in the city
of Topeka, on Tuesday, June u, 1894,
converting at 10 o'clock a. m, for the
purpose of placing in nomination can
didates for the following offices:
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,
Governor.
Lieutenant Governor.
Secretary of State.
Auditor of State.
Treasurer of State.
Attorney General
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Congressman-at-Large.
The several counties in the state will
be entitled to representation at said
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

PROF. HORsELEY has just discovered
''that in cases of gunshot wounds in
the brain, death ensues, not from heart
failure, but from arrested respiration"
The discovery of Prof. Horseley will be
hailed with genuine delight in every
well-regulaSed newspaper off1ce, for
''heart failure" had been a bit over
worked.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

A SIMPLE thing sufifces to sink a
ship. In making repairs on Florida
lighthouse the light was hung at an
elevation of SO feet instead of 165 feet
as before. In computing his reckoning
from this light the captain of a British
steamer found himself ashore when he
thought he was 20 miles at sea.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

CoxEY, Browne and Jones are doing
time for being pushed by the police
men upon the holy grass Of Washing
ton. The time may not be so far dis
tant when not only the grass, but the
whole capital may be walked over, and
without the aid of stills either.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
REPUBLICAN, PTTITBUsTER4Sss

Ia letter to THE REPUBLIc, Mr.
Baker of the Sixth Kansas district,
wrote: SHOULD our cause, throughout
the country, gain IN the next two years
as much as it has here in the last two
years. we viii sweep the country in
1856. Our members receive more at
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

The Santa Fe has cut down expenses
by letting cut their shop hands. The
dividends must show up large, whether
the lives of it's passengers arc imper-
lied or not, on account of the rolling
stock being out of repair.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

TIE stars and stripes, which had
been raised at St. Thomas, Ont, Thurs
day in honor OF the queen's birthday,
was torn down and trampled on by
drunken members OF the queens rifles.
That, of course, is nothing, when com
pared to the audacity OF Johnny Bull
setting his fighting lion onto Uncle's
tanned eagle and forcing the noble bird
to take refuge on the dome of the CAPT
tai, while the lion dictates below.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

AMERICAN labor and. capital have
drew the rusty blade Of Mars and are
fighting in nearly all sections OF the
country. The time has come when
there is no neutral ground. The coun-
try is on the verge of revolution
which may come at any time today or
tomorrow. Capital grants no mercy,
labor asks none. 1t is war to the knife,
and no quarter.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

THERE is no show for an oYerproduc-
ton of wheat III the west or east this
year, and yet men women and children,
are hungry and begging for work and
bread, and yet ali this time wheat is
selling for 50 cents per bushel in Chi
cago. Overproduction thou art
falfacu
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
Published Every Friday
sl.5oPER YEAR,

Entered at the Postofice at Good1and, Kan.
for transmission through the mails, as second
class mail matter. Office on cast side of Boule-
yard, first door north of Ennis Z Walkers
Implement store.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01
The THREE GREATEST INFAMIES.

The history Of the downfall of American wae eaners and pro-
primal of the alarming condition
industrial be plainly read the three fol
lowing conspaces which truhy be called the three greatest
civilized history and whose hearess otngs equal and
excel the cruelty of the fiddler of Rome:
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

TIE large business houses have been
trying for years to get one-cent rate
for letter postage. and IN order to OBJ
tain that rate are now trying to have
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-01

THERE is not an occupant in the
Wichita Jail The devil must have
surely gone to Chicago.
The evening world., 1894-10-13
TO DENOUNCE THE MACHINE.
brooklyn Independent Democrat.
VIII Knife the Candidnte.

Secretary j. ". Tumbridge, of tho
Young Mems Democratic Club. of Kings
County, to-day sent out circulars to all
the members of that organization, call
Ing for special meeting, to be held on
Monday night, when action will he
taken on the city and county tickets
OF the regular Democratic organization
put forward last night
Mr. Tumbrdge was seen at the St
George Hotel this morning. He had
this to say about the ticket:
AT the meeting Monday night reso.
lutions Will be introduced denouncing
the city and county regular Democratic
tickets as products of the old machine
We are all Democrats, and were the
first to suggest the rejuvenation OF the
party by reorganization. The resolu-
five days. and another meeting will be
called for the following Saturday night.
1T Is certain that the Club will de-
nouncc Cummings the nominee for
Register, and Glendenning. who is run
ming Tor County Clerk"
At the headquarters of the BROOKLYN
Democratic Club with which Edward
NJ. Shepard and A. Augustus Heaiy have
been Identified, II was said that a special
meeting would be called for Monday or
Tuesday night, to follow the action OF
the Young Mems Democratic Club.
The members are all in favor OF sup
porting the third ticket, and the Club
Is almost entirely made up of Shepard
ties.
Other Independent Democratic organi-
cations are expected to take similar
action.
The evening world., 1894-10-13
MRS. LOWELL'S FORCES.
Drawn Up in Committees to Fight
the Tnmmnny Tiger.

Mrs Josephine Shaw Lowell, the
leader of the Woman's Anti-Tammany
crusade, this afternoon announced the
committees that have SO far been chosen
to assist her in conducting the cam
paign. They are: on Ways and Means
Mrs. James A. Scrymser, Mrs r. j.
Cross, Treasurer. l07 East Twenty-first
street Mrs. Henry de Coppet, Mrs
William jaw Schieffelin; on Public Meet
lngs, Mrs j. II. Morse. Mrs. G. II. Mac
Lean Mrs. George Haven Putnam This
Committee has power to add TO it's num-
Der.
Finally there is the Committee on
Downtown Conferences, which is Gre
ated pursuant to Rev. DIR. Parkhurst's
suggest ton, and Is intended to reach par
tlcularly the women on the east side of
the city. This Committee Is composed
Of Mrs. Lowell, DR. Blackwell, Mrs
Parker, Mrs. MacLean, Mrs. Parkhurst,
Mrs. DusSin, Mrs. Scrymser Mrs. Cross
Mrs. Putnam, Miss Lowell, Miss Cald-
well and Mrs. Morse.
Mrs. Lowell says that a pledge will be
printed and circulated among the women
of this city for their signatures
The pledge requires each to use her
best endeavors to secure at least ten
voters against Tammany before Oct 27
the last day OF registration. Tracts
VIII also be gotten out In English, Ger
man, Russian and Italian showing rea-
sons why Tammany's rule should be
done away with.