The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-12

believe that yOu werS un0rhy Influenced
by the very Democrats that are most
antagonstic and distasteful to them and
that your emissaries have been cajoled
and wheedled by improper influences.
II your appointment of Mr.. Drury was
for the delivery of Atchison county
Democratic delegation, you were cheat
ed. If it was made without the pre-
text of trade you showed poor politi-
cal judgment. Mr.. Drury is a very
forceful, determined man, and is easily
the dominant member Of the board and
is recognized as such by the people gen
orally. Instead of selecting weak
man or nonentity for the opposition
member. and two Populist members who
would work in harmony and who would
adopt some distinctivsly Populist pol
icy, you have reversed il. The two
Populists agree on nothing and the
Democrat works with first one and then
the other and thus secures his ends.
You have either been "worked" by the
Democrats, or your private secretary
has been approached" or you have de-
veloped a serious case of imbecility. /
am positive that the general good of
your party has been made subservient
TO YOUR desire that Atchison county send
a fusion delegation to the state conven-
ton. Not only did this develop through
your personal representatives sent here
but your private secretary was present
at Valley Falls and brought the strength
of the administration to bear to force
the nomination of Henry @. Solomon,
whom you and / know to be Demo-
crat. Your whole course has been DOM
mated by an ignoble desire for votes.
The question has nsver been. is it Just
and equitable, but is it expedient? In
this town you were at first very strict
with the joints. As soon as the election
was held and your measures were shown
to be unpopular you went the other
way and now the joints are running in
full blast down stairs without other re-
strictions than the monthly fines.
So what have we to show for the first
Peoples party government on earth?
Have we anything more substantial
than the glittering verbiage you know
SO well how to dispense? Can We show
bulwark against the Entertainments OF
monopoly and greed, that We led the
people to expect? Has there been any
stable line of state policy adopted by
which we as party can be judged on
other than partisan grounds? Are we
to accept your rhetorical pyrotechnics
this fall in lieu of duty that should
have been well performed?
You can't fool all the people all the
time, and the hard common sense Of the
American people will sooner or later de-
tect the false note and relegate you to
the obscurity of former years The ma
jority of our just plain people supposed
that the populist party stood for the cor
rection Of present abuses, and not to
perpetuate them and contract others;
for the repeal of hurtful and class legis-
lation, and for clean and economical
administration of public affairs. AS in
terpreted by you it is populism gone to
seed. You have catered to every vicious
bum that has infested the state, Won
have encouraged Clemens and his anar
chist club by public utterance and pri-
vate support, you have made a bid for
every ism that has been likely to afford
you dozen votes, you have made an,
archism, socialism and paternalism
synonyms for populism, you have
spurned organized and respectable labor
and took to your bosom the vagabonds
of the chief cities. and you have insulted
honest workingmen by bidding God
speed to the band OF Artz's hoodIums,
and implying that they were represent
alive Kansas workingmen. You have
been continually posing; employing
cheap, claptrap. theatrical methods to
advertise yourself and receive the
notoriety your insane freaks created.
No, governor, if yours is the true idea
Of populism must throw it to the dogs
and none Of it. L really believe the
Lewelling brand is spurious but for all
that if you are elected this fall the entire
party becomes responsible for your
vagaries. 80 now is the time to separate
the true from the false and you should
be defeated for the good of the party
for the self respect Of those who first
placed you in power, and finally for the
we'll being Of the State.
W. G. ADKINS