Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-08-30
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1T would nave a tOuCH Vi III - ~
keep felons imprisoned in idleness, but when
convict labor comes in competition with the Ia
Dor of the law-abiding, there should be no hes
itancy as to which class should be favored
Idleness fosters crime. Enforced idleness and
Respondent family has made scores OF telons-
not from choice, but from untoward surround
ings. If there must be dleness, let it be the
uncarcerated law-breakers.
Two YEARS ago, when the Peoples party fail
ed to recognize the transcendent abilities OF
Ben. Clover by leaving him out of the congress
sional race, he went back to walowing in the
'epublican mire, but was so ashamed OF the
that it has taken him two years to get sui
tiently used to the inevitably huniliating feel
ing attendant upon the act to enable him to an
/nounce it to his former constituents With
them the announcement breeds wholesome dis
gust for the man.
We hear this morning from what is supposed
to be reliable source, that among the Popu-
lists there is talk of dropping Mr.. Lewelling and
endorsing Maj. Pickering. If this should be
done it would ruin all of the work done in the
interest of the &. o. p, and they would have to
commence anew.-Ottawa Bulletin.
The above is in line with the report that the
Populists of the Second congressional district
will withdraw Willard and endorse Moore. We
hope YOU fellows will lose no sleep over either
report. The Withdrawals will not take place.
THE question of governmental control OF rail-
roads, telegraphs, telephones and the express
business is becoming conviction with the peo-
pie. That which was looked upon as chimeri-
cal few years ago has, through an unprejuiced
examination of the question, assumed phase so
clearly practical that we are safe in saying that
the end of the century will see an adjustment of
governmental affairs to the new order of things
The postal system and public schools are the OBJ
iect lessons in this new school of political sci
ence.
THE ancient Republican party must have
,een a party of statesmen if we can place any
reliance in the word of Brady, of the World.
He says: "The men who have been leaving
the Republican party during the last two years
are statesmen out of jobs" If this is fact
(and Brady says SOY, there has been but one
other organization that has borne any RESENT
blance to the old party, and that was Orpheus
c. Kerr's Mackeral Brigade, which was brig
ade of brigadier- generals, during the late I'M
pleasantness.
WILL some one tell us what good the Popu-
list party has accomplished for Kansas?-The
News, Yates Center.
Well try to. II mas unloaded the infernalest
corps of political boodlers that ever cursed any
state. 1t has saved the taxpayers, in less than
two years, more than 81, 10000 1t has i'm
proved the credit of the state so much in fnan-
cal circles that bonds placed upon the market
by Republicans at per cent interest can now
be funded at per cent, and investors are anx-
ious to invest in them at that. 1t has exposed
the corruption which grew up i'll an almost I'M
broken rule of the Republican party for thirty
years. 1t has uncovered the damnable villainy
of the horde of conspirators who masqueraded
under the guise of patriots to steal more than
the net proceeds, annually, of the laborers of
the state. 1t has aroused the slumbering thou
sands to the cause of the hard times now OH us.
1t has attempted to pass some righteous laws,
but has been thwarted in its humane Efforts
once by hold-over senate, and again by SUI
preme-court-created house of representatives.
We might continue to tell what ''the Populist
party has accomplished for Kansas" but what
we have given is sufficient to open the eyes of
all who are honestly searching for facts. We
expect to hear the Yates Center News below,
"I.ie lie lie" 1t is the g. o. p. s only stock
in-tpsie arsdderfh-, as,