Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-04-28

injustice of this attack lies, not in its
untruth, but in its t'invidious distinc-
ton" Why should Mrs. Lease be sim
gled out, instead of any of the other
Headers of the peoples party2 For they
all did it. 1t was understood all through
the campaign of 1890 that w. A. PETERS
regular charge for addressing meeting
was $40 and travelling expenses. And it
was reported to us through Popullst
sources that he asked $50 for speech in
Lincoln county after he was elected SEN
ator and refused to attend when the
money was not forthcoming. We
know also that when the Vim
cents were running the Non-Con-
formist down at Winfield they ran reg
ular speakers bureau with a schedule OF
prices for each one. And when one OF
the Vincents came back from Indiana
during the campaign of 1892 the Clay
Center Dispatch openly announced the
price he would charge for his speeches.
Even here in Allen county our little
local great men were paid for their cam
paign speeches, the thin disguise being
the pretext that they were employed as
LECTURERS" for the alliance. In one
campaign it was commonly reported
LnGS6 1CCS1NCo OnC OOA-
lar night; and during the campaign OF
1892 the understanding was that the
chief opposition orator received ten dol
lars night.
Not only did these Peoples party
speakers make charges for their cam
paign speeches, but put in bill for
their Fourth of July speeches too. 1t is
notorious, for example, that Jerry Simp-
son was paid 500 for speech he made
at Neosho Falls two or three years ago.
And all the others who had reputation
enough to draw crowd charged price
for their patriotism"
There may not be anything wrong
about this. The laborer is said to be
worthy Of his hire, and the worst the
cause, the better should be the pay we
presume. But the republican party has
not taken this view of it. The republic
can party of Kansas has always declared
very emphatically that it did not care for
the services of man who had to be hlr-
ed with money to advocate its principles.
And even the democratic party so far as
we know, has declined to employ men to
make its campaigns. 1t remained for the
peoples party, the party of particular
personal and political purity, to first set
the example of hiring men for money to
advocate its claims.
And it has had its reward. The brig
ands have flocked where the booty lay.
Jim Legate, Mrs. Lease, Jerry Simpson,
Noah Allen, Gen" Artz, Commissioner
Todd, Secretary Osborn-what party was
ever before cursed with such an aggre-
CATION of gall and greed all at one time!
No wonder that honest men who join
ed the party from honest motives are
turning their backs upon it IN dlsap-
pointment and disgust lola Register.
Gen. J. B. Weaver, of Iowa, and late
pop candidate for president, has just
closed a lecture tour northwest of Kan
sas. 1t is just now leaking out that
while he was preaching the populist Cos
pei of political salvation, at SO much a
"preach, he was also planning slick
scheme by which he hopes to again
break into congress. Weaver has not
been under pay of the sergeant-at-arms
of congress since he represented the rag
baby, greenback interests of his Iowa
district and his longing for another feed
out of the political flesh pots has grown
very strong He can see nothing in the
political horizon to give him any hope of
ever becoming president by the pop par
ty, and there is now no hope of his Sc
curing even so little as a seat in congress
from Iowa. These conditions have in
duced him to select the district in Kan
sas in which the pops will stand the best
show this fall, and settle there in time
to secure a legal residence before the
election. Thus it was arranged while
here that he should move to Kansas be-
fore May LIST, as that will give him six
months residence before November 9th.
1t is close secret among the pop lead
ers, but he will locate in Beloit in May,
and will be the pop nominee for the seat
now held by Old Man Baker. The pro-
posed candidacy of Secretary Osborn
has been nipped in the bud by the lead
ers of the sixth district, who declare that
he would be no improvement over Ba-
ker. This Weaver scheme also has a
luCu1C OOhOAASCAANy, hhlO1l AiASiuNASo LIS
possible succession to the seat now held
by John Martin. 1t is a shrewd move
on the part of Weaver, as he will have
little to lose and everything to gain.
The officers of the State Temperance
union have arranged for the celebration
in every church in the state of the an
niversary of prohibition on Sunday,
April 20, that being the nearest Sunday
to the LIST of May. 1t is suggested that
every loyal, order-loving, law-abiding
citizen of the state should lend encour-
agement to the service, as it commemo-
rates the adoption of constitutional
amendment which has brought more
sobrietv and has lessened crime and law
lessness to greater degree than any
other piece of law making now on our
state records. Hon. j. B. McAfee, of
Topeka, one of the oldest, most substan-
tial and highly respected citizens and