The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-08-25
A DIsGUsTED POPULIsT.

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District of Kansas, in 1890 by the al
lied forces of the Peoples party, Demo
Gratis and the Farmers Alliance. At
49, that time Mr.. Glover who was a prom
inent and influential member of the
Farmers Alliance united his strenth
with thst of L. L. Polk, national or
ganizer and President of the National
Alliance, and the leaders of the Peo-
pies party movement, with the result
- that the Farmers Alliance was made
a political entity with Ben Glover the
leader of the organized Alliance of
Kansas. The Democrats realizing
y the futility of putting out a State tick
ct, threw its strength with the Peo
pies party and Alliance. 1t was this
peculiar combination that came so
near wrestling the State of Kansas from
as; Republican rule in 1890 and which
~ ~ s9eeted Ben Clover to Congress. The
rapid degeneration, and corrupt prac-
tees and total incompetency to deal
with the political issues of the day, to-
gether with the fact that he (Ben) was
compelled to train with such persons
as Mary Ann Elizabath Lease, Mary
L. Diggs, and few other Populists
of similar caliber, was more than Ben
1saa : could stand. He gives below a few
a s ofthe reasons for cutting loose from
~ Is, the .distastful combination mentioned
above. He says:
We declared in favor of economy in
:. the discharge ofpublic business, and
our State Senate at it's last regular
.r-s IS session had 1873 employees to wait on
and care for forty Senators, and with
in the last week the executive council
has APPROPRIATED $8, 900 to keep chol-
era out Of Kansas, when there is not
q single case of cholera on this CONT
nent, nor in any of the adjacent coun-
tries.
,<:eIndeed, so outrageous and prepos-
ferrous has been the course of the pre-
- sent .Populist State administration that
{, the Democratic party has revolted from
T. it; and will no longer give it support
There is not single idea that was
AQVOCdU6u Dy us III 1901 dlu 1OSU,
.xa..wAen we were laboring in cause of
q" feform, that is now adhered to by the
:ss., Populist party.
tsWhat, then, shall we dol AS for
me, publicly state that I can no
longer affiliate with the Populist party
I, rand maintain my self-respect I can
r never support the Democratic party,
eSbecause do not believe in its prin-
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my old party, the Republican party.
The Republican party has matchless
n y. history. It has given our nation it's
z=sgigreatest reforms and it's greatest states
-. men. The defeats which it has suf-
a Tered for the last four years in our
State has brought it to realization of
1.-the necessities of purity in it's methods,
and taught it that if it expects the
sfssupport of the masses it must be the
champion of purity and reform. While
I ! che Republican party is more conser-
vative than am on financial matters,
-. yet / believe that through it we can
secure financial reforms.
y 'The public utterances of it's ma
;.gtional leaders leads me to this belief.
AS. one of the old Republicans who
vent into the Populist party in 1890,
hoping for relief, believe we can Sc
s-eilre The needed reforms better in the
Republican party than any other. We
don't want anarchy; we don't want
socialism. We want simply just re-
cognition of the rights of the farming
and laboring masses. I have conf
dence that the Republican party is
now willing to grant us these rights,
and for this campaign shall give my
influence in it's behalf, believing that
if it is successful it will listen to the
voice of the people and give them the
justice and equity which they de-