People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-04
ROASTS nORRILL..
The Goffs Advance, Republican, tells
why 1t Cannot Support E. N.
f1orriII for Governor OF
Kansas.

The Advance, a republican news
paper published at Goffs in Nemaha
county and which supports the repub-
lican ticket except the candidate for
governor, in its last issue tells whyit Can
not support E. N. Morrill, in the follow.
ing scorching language:
Never since the days of that supreme
ass in Kansas politics, John P. st.
John have honest, straight republi-
cans had such kick coming as they
have today over the nomination of Z.
N. Morrill,.
His nomination was bought.
He is simply the catspaw for the
worst gang Of treasury loOters in the
state.
He has held Office for q years out Of
81 years residence in the state.
There are other and better men,
who have done more for Kansas than
ne, and more for the party, who are
entitled to recognition.
While in congress he defeated a SER
vice pension bill because, as he said,
1.-The monied men Of the east were Bit
terly opposed to it,"
In Washington and other counties
by some kind of ''hocus pocus" they
call it robbery out vest he made con-
siderable money at the expense Of poor
settlers.
He is very ordinary man with lit
tie or no executive ability.
He has for years bolStered himself
up on his army record when the fact
is his admission to his colonel proved
him a coward.
He has pledged to de gang" the
offices in case of his election.
He neglected to investigate the
charges Of irregularities at the Ma
tional Soldiers home.
He isa prohibitiOnist in Hiawatha
and an anti-prohibitionist in other
places, and everything to all men for
Office.
After years in office he was offered
no place on the ticket, sulked in his
tent, and left the party which had SO
honored him without his valuable as
sistance.
He was ''Out Of politics" the mo-
ment he couldn't get his chair up to
the pie counter, and should now be
kept out of Office.
lie is not statesman: during all
| the years of his political career he
never did much but hold Office.
| He is mOnOpOlist and every act
and every vote he gave was in favor
of gold and the nabObs OF Wall street
His recent letter declaring for free
coinage of silver is simply a make
shift for votes. Why was he not an
advocate for free silver when he wa:
in a position to do something?
During his eight years in congress he
was first, last and all the time the
tool Of corporations.
He voted for the bill to extend the
bonded period Of distilled spirits.
He voted three times against the
bill providing for the forfeiture Of th'
Oregon Central railway land grants.
He voted against the bill to secure
to the government all the indebted
ness, long past due, on certain Pacific
| railways.
He voted against the bill to estab
| lish a uniform system Of bankruptcy
| He voted against the bill to regulate
pension attorney fees.
He voted for the bill to permit tn,
national banks to issue notes up to thC
par value Of stock held by them.
Three times he neglected or refused
to vote on bill to restrict the alier
ownership of land.
He voted NO on a bill for the FIRE,
coinage of silver.
He voted NO on a resolution o
inquiry relative TO the free coinage o
silver.
He Is mOnOmetalist.
He is a chronic office seeker.
He is out Of politics when there !
no office for 4. N. Morrill,.
He is simply a republican for pie.
He is to blame for the non-existenc
D of service pension bill.
His opposition to the service pei
sion bill paved the way for that sui
stitute known as the dependent
pension bill, which makes every 50
der a mendicant who applies for
e pension under it. Many Grand Arm
Z posts all over the country passed resi-
: lutions denouncing him for his actor
regarding those bills.
Ordinarily any one Of these reason
l. would be enough to defeat the non
ination of such man, to say nOthin
of electing such a Dincompoop state
man as he to the gOvernOrship Of tn
commonwealth. 1t shows which wa
e we are headed when Cy Leland an
his henchmen are allowed to buy {
trade influence or cut and dry II
nomination Of a man; and the ma
u who will accept a nomination at I'll
e hands Of that gang is no better tina
n they, be it E. N. Morrill, or any otht
= man.
VI For these reasons we proteste
a against his nomination; and as IL
!, reasons are not changed at all by Il
fact of his nomination, We will prOte
against his election. We can't {
otherwise and be honest with Oursel
g November will settle it. The ele
e tiOn of Morrill, will be an endorsemeT
e Of the old gang and will make futul
o republican victories more uncertat
than ever. Markitl
The Enid Wave saws that Il