Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-04
KANSAS ALLIANCE.
From the Topeka Advocate


OF Wellington, New Zealand. in
which is published letter from To-
peka, signed by }. k. Hudson, OF the
Topeka Capital. James A. Troutman,
Republican candidate for lieutenant
governor, ex-Attorney General Brad
ford. Bernard Kelley, and number
OF other '.redeemers. The Ottawa
journal has obtained a copy OF this
letter and is mean enough to make
its contents public. In this letter
the redeemers state that: There is
no state in the union that is more
prosperous than Kansas to-day
Speaking of the prohibitory law
the letter says: The law is effectu-
ally enforced"
This letter is dated February %,
1894. OF course it was not written
for Kansas. When these ..redeemers''
talk to Kansas people they saw Kan
sas is gone to the dogs, and every
part of the state is cursed with
joints.
It's all right. gentlemen, go ahead
with the redemption business.
EDITOR ADVOCATE: AS am he-
sieged with letters from all parts of
the United States in regard to a dis
patch sent from Wichita as to my
treatment by the suffragists on nv
return home from the state conven-
tlon, please give me space to say in
justice to our suffragists that not ono
of them had anything whatever to
do with what little facts the dispatch
contained. Briefly stated, a half
dozen personal friends, all anti-suf-
fraglsts, met me a block from
the depot, armed with Mother
Hubbard. (since the convention
you can see l am up on feminine ap-
pareD. Said Hubbard was slipped
over my head, and in a spirit of fun,
coupled with contrIte and broken
spirits, wore the same half block
on side street. My suffrage friends
have not mistreated me in the least,
and while | am an unrepentant sim
ner as to the wisdom of the plank
am a red-hot Populist, bowling to the
VIII of the majority, ready and
anxious to do my part in helping to
wipe the so-called redeemers, with
their gold-bug fixtures, off the face
of the earth, politically speaking.
Kingman, Kan. w. l. Brown.
MAJOR MORRILL, in his Kansas CITY
speech said: Il believe as firmly as
| stand here, that if President Cleve-
land had, in March of last year,
issued proclamation stating that
there would be no change in the
tariff laws and that he would sell
bonds as long as he could get gold
for them to maintain the credit of
the nation, that there would have
been no panic at all" 1t is probably
true that if the bankers could have
secured an unlimited bond issue they
would not have conspired to bring
on panic; and the voters OF Kansas
will not fail to observe that the
would-b be governor puts himself
squarely on record, without solicita,
tiOn, for the issue of bonds-the IN
crease of the intere ST bearing debt
OF the country, to meet government
expenditures in time of profound
peace.
NE DCIIlOCI COuNClUlOn OF NIL
ami county on June % indorsed the
national Democratic platform of 1892
and 1.-The honest and patriotic admin
lstration of Grover Cleveland" OBJ
posed fusion, woman suffrage, prohi-
bition and paternalism, and favored
free coinage of silver and gold, and
the issue of sufficient paper currency
by the government directly to tho
people to do the business of the
country. With the record of Mr..
Cleveland and the Democratic con-
gress on the silver question so fresh
in the minds of the people there is
something very funny in a Demo
cratic convention indorsing Cleve-
lands administration and in the
same breath declaring in favor of
free coinage and government issue
of all abundant paper currency 1t
makes us smile.
CONGRESSMAN CHARLES CURTIS, of
Topeka and all Kansas. has made a
phenomenal record in his first term
in the house. He has got more bills
through Democratic house than all
gether. Capital, June -.
And why shouldn't he? His bills
are all Democratic bills. and there
is no reason why Democratic house
should reject them. The value of a
congressman cannot be measured by
the number of bills he gets through
the house in these days. The less
we have of the kind of bills that can
go through the present house the
better for tho people. By the way,
what is the prospect for Mr. Curtis
bills to justify homicide. and the one
to revise the English language and
supercede Webster?
SPEAKING of the lack of confidence,
will the Pops be held response BILE for
the left-handed confidence Repub-
licans place in their platform and
candidates, this year? We hope not.
ALMOST every candidate on the
Republican ticket, state and con-
gressional, is lawyer or banker.
The farmers and wage-workers are
not ''in it.
LIGHT daWnS upon dark subject.
The statements to be seen in Eastern
papers COR couple of years past re-
specting the disgrace of Kansas, said
to have been from prominent Kan
sas men who preferred that their
names should not be used" can now
be traced to their parentage. Major
MorrilPs remarks at Kansas CITY in
opening his campaign reveal the fact
that he is one of these prominent
men," He is one of the fakirs to
whom Mr.. Charles Gleed says Kan
sas is indebted for her bad reputa-
ton among unthinking and mis-
informed people
IL COnpreSsman Curtis can got