Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-15
KANSAS ALLIANCE.
From the Topeka Advocate

Almost from the beginning of the
present Populist administration. Re-
publican papers have charged that
Pete Kline and the other proprietors
of policy shops, gambling houses and
joints in Kansas City have been
paying money to state officers for
the privilege of conducting their
business unmolested. On
Saturday August 1, the oven
ing papers contained pri-
vate letter written by Justice
Allen to Lieutenant Governor Percy
Daniels, before the meeting of the
Populist state convention, which Re-
publican editors and leaders send
forth with a blast of trumpets as
conclusive evidence of the truth of
their charges; and as Justice Allen
is Populist. it may appear to the
unthinking portion Of the public. if
there is any unthinking portion in
these days, that the claim is not en-
tirely without foundation.
Does Justice Allen submit any evil
dence of the truth Of the charges in
question? Not an iota. Does he
pretend to do so? Certainly not.
Does he say that anybody else has
ever submitted any such evidence?
No. What does he say? He simply
expresses an opinion without even
stating upon what that opinion is
based. Because he is a Populist
does not establish the correctness of
that opinion, and il must stand or
fall just like the opinion of any
other man according as it may or
may not be supported by conclusive
evidence. The circumstances under
which the letter was written
must not be overlooked in
it's con sideration. Justice Allen
was among those who. before
the convention, felt that it would be
wiser to nominate a new ticket He
was aware of these charges, and he
knew very vel! the use that would
be made of them in a political cam
paign by an INSCRIPTIONS enemy. In
confidential letter to a supposed
friend and supposed Populist, he
gave his reasons for believing that a
new ticket was to be preferred to
denomination of the old one This is
nothing more than any man might
do under like circumstances without
anticipating that his supposed friend
would so far betray his confidence as
to give his private letter to the pub
lie. But it is not worth while to eX-
tend this subject Justice Aliens
letter does not affect the validity of
the charges either one way or the
other. inasmuch as 1t contains no
evidence whatever relating to them.
Finally, as we stated in
the beginning. since the first appear
ance of these Doodle charges. we
have repeatedly demanded of those
making them evidence of their
9TH. and always without obtaining
it. No one has ever pretended to
give any evidence upon the subject,
which is the very best proof ir the
world that there is none. We now
repeat our demand. Ifyou have any
evidence of the truth of your
charges, gentlemen, publish it. or
tune your bugle to a different key.
IN designating speakers for Re-
publican campaign rallies the Re-
publican state central committee
has included the Grand Army en-
campments to be held in the state
This is undoubtedly quite the thing
to do, as a Grand Army reunion
since 1890 has been nothing more or
less than Republican cam omeeting.
That is the chief reason why, out OF
more than 100, 600 old veterans in
the state, less than 20,010 are now
members of Grand Army posts; and
the number is getting beautifully
less every day, not on account of the
death roll, but because the organic
alton has been turned into an in
tensely partisan machine. in ALSO
lutte disregard of its constitution and
the purposes for which it was insti-
tuted. Republicanism, Of the mod
ern stripe, pollutes everything it
touches.
IT may be stated as matter of
fact, that there always has been u
very strong sentiment in the Popu-
list party in favor of single term
in office; and it may be stated as an
| other matter of TACT that the base
less charges made against the ad-
ministration, and the personal char
acter and the bitterness of the OPP
position to it, did more than any
thing else to overcome that santi-
ment and effect the denomination of
the present officials, as rebuke 20
that kind of political warfare. Many
delegates who would otherwise have
voted in the convention for new
ticket, did vote for these men as
vindication; and nothing is more
certain than that they will receive a
like vindication at the polls in No.
vember.
How about that cholera fund
Doodle business. which Republican
papers are talking so much about?
Nothing, only that there was s.. 900
remaining of the fund appropriated
to prevent the invasion of cholera;
the state board of health wanted
| permission to use it for that purpos Q
| this summer; the executive council
met and decided that the board cannot
there is immediate danger of cholera,
which is not the case at present.
! lT must be apparent to even the
most casual observer that the plan
of the Republican campaign is purely
personal one. 1t contemplates
personal attacks upon all Populist
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campaign OF this character, which is
simply duplicate of that of 1890,
the Republican leaders seek the re-
turn OF their party to power without
the discussion of a single principle
of public policy, and without the
proposal of single remedy on their
part for the conditions now prevail
ing throughout the country.
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