Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-09-28
CLOSE UP THE RANKS.

CLOSE UP THE RANKS.
Mrs. Lease has said some harsh things
about some of the state officials or, rather,
about some of the official acts of members of
the Populist administration. Saturday she was
one of the speakers at Hughes grove, i'll Shaw
nee county, and she treated her audience to one
of her old-time Populist speeches. She an
nounced her willingness to support the entire
ticket including those about whom she had Of
fered her most severe criticisms. During her
sheech she said
"There is but one political party the govern
ors of which, like the governor of this state,
would issue tramp circular and dare to take
tue side of the poor unemployed workingmen,
and says that they shall not be treated like
criminals. Our state officers have made mis-
takes, know but who has not ? The only
perfect man the world ever saw was crucihed
1900 years ago. We have got to close up our
ranks Applause. We will have to forget
our personal grievances i'll this great contest.
There was time when the Liberty bell rang
out with the glad tidings of independence. Oh,
what a crush there was Men cried that they
were being trampled to death, and the crowd
said what does the life amount to when the
fate of our nation is at stake ? And now | say,
what do personal grievances amount to when
the welfare of a nation is i'll danger The
Democratic party sprang into life at the very
foundation of our government to protest against
the encroachment of the aristocratic element
the arrogant English peerage and its adherents,
when they sought to curtail and restrict the
supremacy of the common people, i'll whose
judgment and fidelity they had no faith. Dem
ocracy was the product of the Jeffersonian
school of philosophy. They were the trainers of
that incompatible instrument-the Declaration
of American Independence-the founders and
fathers of this republic. For more than a quar-
ter of century the Republican party has
marched across the fields of progress, and at
every furlong it has erected monumental pillars
to mark new epoch in American civilization.
But as Democracy fell into the hands of the
slave power, so has the Republican party fallen
into the hands of the money power"
Mrs. Lease predicted the election of Popu-
list president i'll ISo6.-Olathe Tribune
WE are glad-very glad-to notice the lively
interest which is now taken by the Catholic
church in the war that is being waged against
the liquor power, the Siamesetwin of the money
power. A few days ago, large meeting was
held in Chicago to devise means to most effect
lively destroy the drink traffic, all of the speak
ers being Catholics, and the majority being
priests, or pastors. Father Bowling, of the
Holy Family church, was the principal speaker,
and most eloquent and forcible speaker he is.
w. J. Onahan, another speaker, wants all
creeds to unite in stamping out the curse. This
action of the Catholic church is bound to bear
a bountiful harvest of good fruit.
When Governor Waite, of Colorado, was re-
nominated by the Populist party, he was es-
corted to the platform by woman delegates, in
troduced to the convention by Miss Phoebe
Couzens, and after his response Mrs. Waite was
called for and made an address which was warn-
ly greeted. Evidently politics afford grand
social time where women vote.-Woman's
Tribune,