People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11
REPUBLICAN YEARS.

1889. ................. 40, I3I w
1890 ....................53 $3.50
POPULIST YEARS.
1871. '.''...... 49,. 'StO,O-o'O-
1892. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS , 22l s.
| 1893. .$50. SOB 10
Now citizens and taxpayers, COM
pare the past three years which have
been dominated by POpulist control
and agitation, with the republican
years Immediately preceding.
Average expenditures 'SS, SO, 60.
..... $3.50. .S53, 1918
Average expenditures 81, '92, 81.
...................... ...... 81, 5000
Average saving to the people each
Anyone can take the clerks annual
reports and see these figures and YER
/ ify the statements herein made.
Some one may dispute that the
PopulistS should have the credit of
the scaling down Of expenditures, but
! 1t will not be seriously cOntended for.
The popular agitation for retrench-
ment and the presence of a firm, I'M
| yielding, ever attentive representa-
tive of the people on the board I'M
doubtedly had the effect of influence
| ing this reduction.
We now have the lowest tax levy in
both the county and state, that we
have ever had.
ONLY ONE WAY TO MEET THESE FACTS.
With this record before the people,
a million and a half dollars saved to
the people of the state and over
$1,000 per year to the people Of Sum-
ner county, by PCpulist administra-
ton, with the national issues admit
tedly against them, what is there left
for the republicans to do but to re-
sort to a campaign of yillifcation and
SANDER.
A gentleman whQ attended the
opening Of the last legislature was
sitting 10 the lobby of the Copeland
hotel reading. Gov. Humphrey came
in and joined himself to a party of
cO-patriOts. The absorbing topic was
the Inauguration and organization of
the legislature. He remarked that
the POpulists hid elected the legisla-
ture, but they would not be able to
organize it. After some further talk
he stated that the POpulistS in gain
ing the election had made great
many promises they would be unable
to fulfill. 1t should be the duty of
the republicans to prevent them from
fulfilling them. This was partially
done in the defeat of all railroad leg
iSlatiOn.) They should further make
this administration, in all its various
branches, appear as black and corrupt
as they possibly could.
Though the proclamation has not
been publicly issued, it has been
transmitted to the faithful and the
policy outlined by Gov. Humphrey is
pursued with a diligence that is only
excelled in intensity by the Satanic
spirit that inspires it. The frantic
zeal of republican newspaper ~ men
in this cause has led them into some
very serious blunders that are espec-
tally unfortunate for their party. In
their haste and extreme SOlicitude for
new sensations some of their inven-
tiOns prove to be boOmerangs. For
instance, says the Topeka Advocate.
a short time ago the Capital made
discovery of "POpulist barbarism"
at the OsawatOmie asylum. 1t dis
covered that a girl had died in that
institution in an unbecOming man.
Der, and that she had been put in a
rough box and buried only eighteen
deep; that the father Of the girl was
very indignant and was going to raise
hadeS about it, etc. The story was
properly embellished and hurled 10
true regulation style at the reform
administration" 1t took the dude
editor Of that nOndescript sheet two
or three days to remember that the
superintendent Of the OSawatomie
asylum is a republican and an ap-
pOintee Of the late republican admin
istratiOn, and then he fastened to in
form his readers that there was moth
ing in the story at all-that the girl
had observed the necessary proprie-
ties in dying and that she was prop
erly buried and that the father was
perfectly satisfied with the whole af-
fair. Would that story have ended
that way if the sup erintendent had
been Populist?
Now comes the State Journal of |
August % with the story of birth of |
baby at the ASYLUM in Topeka on
the Ord. The Journal closes its pa
thetic tale as follows:
The responsibility for the birth of |
this insane child born at the asylum
and doomed to be burden on soci-
ETY. all its days, lies on the manage
ment of the asylum, which carelesSly |
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