People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-21

Tea0 Une report before believing Mr..
ll0ch'S statement that it was used ia
prove that farming don't pay in Kan
SaS. His word isn't worth much.
He said the Peoples party was So
cialistic and anarachiStic and mad
and visionary and foolish. He said
there was not socialist in the cOun-
try, but who was a POpuliSt. and
thought Bellamy's Looking Back
ward had done more harm to Amer
lean institutions than anything of
the century-we presume he referred
principally to the shaking up it has
given the republican party.
He mentioned a number of leaders
OF the Peoples party in derisiOn-but
forgot to mention Jesus Christ who
said "DO unto Others as We would that
Others should do unto you" which is
the cardinal principle Of the Peoples
party.
When he started on the state
house war he was in his element. He
was one of the first men in the mob
who broke down the door of the state
house, and said that the first face he
saw through the broken panels was
Anarchist ClemenS"-but he forgot
that the breaking was done from the
other side of the door, and the real
anarchists were HOch. Douglass.
TrOutman and the rabble.
This matter has been cuSsed and
discussed for two years and the people
have formed their opinions. The re-
publicans turned down all their men
who were engaged in the disgraceful
affair, and as they do not endorse
themselves, nobody else will.
lie referred to slavery and painted a
blood curdling picture of negroes
being sold like cattle, etc.
a cOlOred man present used to know
Mr.. HOch when he lived at Perryville.
His own father was the man he saw
selling slaves like cattle, and the num-
Der of half-white slaves born under
care of the of the HOch family at that
time was enough to prove that HOch
ST., enSlaved some Of his own children.
The HOchs were all democrats before
they came to Marion, Kansas. Here
the majority was on the republican
side, and Mr.. HOch Topped. Ed has a
nephew still in Kentucky who is one of
the worst deSperadOes in that state.
He was in Kansas a few years ago
visiting and while in this state threat
ened to shoot a negro for speaking to
him. Slave driving is an instinct in
herited by Ed HOch, and now he is
trying to drive the negroes into the
republican pen. There were hall
dozen cOlOred POpulists present. and
they are very bitter against HOch.
since they learn that one mulattO wO-
man in Wellington was born a slave
in the HOch family, and she tells OF
the treatment slaves received at their
hands. Ed is not the kind of man tO
hold cOlOred voters. His people owned
too many slaves, and so many OF those
slaves now live in Kansas, that he
meets old acQuaintaces in places un.
expected.
He referred to the cOmmOnwealers
borrowing train-but forgot to men.
ti0n the corporations who have stolen
whole railroads and land enough for q
half dozen states as large as Kansas
He said that We needed in this cOun
try revival of respect for law, anC
noted the POpulist contempt fol
courts. He says lust notice theil
keep off the grass signs" etc. He
forgot to mention that keep off the
grass signs are of republican party anC
Grover Cleveland origin.
He illustrated the republican idef
of political economy by a dissertation
upon optimism and pessimism. The
J republicans he called optimistic. anC
drew a picture of two boys starting
out to hunt job, each with % cent
in his pocket. He said the optimistic
boy would spend l0centS for a shave anC
10 cents for a shine to improve his ap
pearance, and then strike an acquaint
ance for loan and get $500 to 90 on
while the pesSimistic boy wouldn't
have nerve enough to borrow cent.
This We thought pretty good illus
tration of republican party methods
} They blow in all they have, and Dor
row all they can on the appearance O
wealth they make while blowing il
} in.
He said he could tell Pop oratO
by hearing him repeat some dOlefu
tale about the ''rich growing richie
! and the poor growing poorer" II,
forgot that this was the saying O
John j. Ingalls,, the leading speake
of the Kansas republicans.
He said he could tell POpulist pa
per by the tone of it-but he had {,
confess that he couldn't always tell ;
republican paper by reading it.
lie said republicans were not pes
Simistic, that they like to get on tn,
I mountain tops where the purest zeph
yrs fan the face and write their name
g in the immortal snow.
: He said he sOlemnly believed tn
republican party was the party of tn
labOring man-he thought it rot t
say the rich are growing richer an,
the poor are growing poorer.
why, We all are poor men-workini
: men,"
He referred to George WashingtO
Q as having been the richest man il
T the United States when he was mad
+ president. We presume he was Try
ing to justify the present government
/ of milliOnaires- but he forgO
tomentiOn the fact that WashingtO
was worth less than half a million dol
g lars, and that he serve
y his country without salar
u and was patriot. He started with
" great flourish TO name some of the r,
n publican presidents who were pOC
u boys-but he got no further tina
l. Grant, and forgot to mention the fac
y that the vice president of the Unite
$ States under the last republican a,