Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-10-26
Things in General and Particular.

IuIuBb IN OchCE
EDITOR AGIrAroR: | have for
number of weeks seen little or no
reference to Woman Suffrage in the
Kansas state press that | have had
access to, nor to the campaign the
ladies are making. On the one side,
it does not appear to be vigorously
agitated, nor on the other, opposed
"a kind of quiescent state. That
and the silver question are the nc
plus ultra questions to be decided in
Kansas this year, and | want them
to come to the front with rousing
majority. Under even adverse po-
litical conditions, otherwise, these
two questions should be Affirmative.
ly settled for all time 80 far as Kan
sas is concerned. Kansas should
follow in the wake of Colorado and
Wyoming on the enfranchisement
OF women, and very near the same
political conditions exist in Kansas
this year as those existing in Colo
RADIO two years ago that carried
woman suffrage to the front. 1t is
not strictly a party measure-it is
RIGHT, inherent in the very nature
of government, that should carry it
through, irrespective of party; yet,
am glad that the Peoples party had
manhood and sense of common
Justice sufficient to indorse it in
their platform. That the Republi-
can party did not do it is by no
means evidence that, as a party,
they will oppose it. That the Rep
Demo stalwart addendum sat down
on it is no evidence that self-re-
specting, independent Democrats in
the state intend to follow in their
miniature wake. In fact, this little
faction has made some noise-indul-
ged in few pyrotechnics--but they
went up like a rocket, and will come
down like q stick. Even the Re-
publican state committee that breath.
ed the breath of life into them, and
the corporations in the state which
furnished the money for the fire.
works, are heartily disguised and
very much ashamed. They not on
ly kill, politically, those who en-
gage in them, but they blight every.
thing that called them into being.
The object sought was as plain as
the sun at MONDAY in an unclouded
sky. 1t was a Republican annex,
and every Democratic vote cast for
Overmeyer and his state ticket is
vote for Republican supremacy in
the state again, with all the misera.
BILE record of 25 years behind it.
Therefore, let every self respecting
Democrat in Anderson county and
Kansas who has the well-being of
his state at heart, and don't want to
go back under the old Republican
machine regime, cast his vote for
the Peoples party. 1t is not
question of party, at all; it is ques-
ton of principle, involving right Or
wrong good government or bad,
for The people or for the corporations;
an equal distribution of the taxes;
honest and ncorruptble men in Of
flee, or be overrunning by a swarm
of hungry office-seeking politicians
who are con the make" and never
had grain of consciousness in
their makeup. These are few of
the things to be dreaded by return
lag the Republicans to office, and !
give the people of Kansas perspicas.
ity enough to see the outcome.
Therefore do not think that the
Republican annex Democratic side
show will draw very heavily from
that party in the state. There are
plenty of men in the Democratic
party to Tell "hawk from hern-
shaw" and | am inclined to think
this little annex will discover it al
ter the 9th day of November.
Anderson county turned out Dem.
ocrats to their convention that were
in the condition of Felix when Paul
exhorted him to be Christians: cal