The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-18


and falsehood
aThe Populists are urged to make an
4 aggressive campaign and TO abuse the
Republicans They must d, that or
nothing. They can't defend the admins
tration- It has been too impure Why
during the year and d half they have
4 been in power there has been d scandal
in every stale Institution from the capital
! even down to Winfield"
The speaker after turning his attention
to national issues, the history Of our free
dom and the tariff question said:
"Ihe POpulists have been mounting
about helping the laboring classes an1
damuing monopoly. What have they
done? Their recently helped pass senate
bill will increase the sugar that the la
boring man buys two cents a pound
This will cost each family an average Of
$3.50 year aud viii put forty million
dOilars into the pockets Of the sugar
trust. Aud YET every Pupulist in con-
gress CucI0ding Senator Martin) and sx-
coping Seua.Or PeHer, voted for that
bill 1t is bill that provided hand
somely for The sugar trust, n de WOOL
free and put tariff manufactured
goods. Aud yet all the POpulists in
congress voted for that bill II has al
ready reduced the wages of glass blowers
IN Pennsylvania 30 per cent These are
the friends Of The Ia boring people.
"DOwn in Harper county the POpulists
have elected district judge that never
WAS lawyer, Judge ckay. The re-
suit Is that YOU can't get mort
gage foreclosure suit tried ii that dis
IricL When the court comes TO the fore
closure suits it adjJura5 and they are
never tried. What is the result Of thisf
You Can't borrow dollar on real estate
in that district under any circumstances.
''What else could you expect ia state
the governor Of which will stand up on
platform and declare that he il an an
archist, that Abraham Lincoln was
anarchist, and that Christ was an an
archis;s Are people hOcking into "a an
sas to Invest their money under this state
Of affairsT Not much.
"A western Kansas man recently went
10 New York city, aud stopping at a zig
hOtel registered himself in big proud let
tiers as from Kansas a New Yorker
standing near looked at the reg lister aud
exclaimed to the clerk, "Why here's
- fool from Kansas" That's the kind
of reputation we've got away from
home, aud The Popullsts have gwen it TO
US d. we intend TO keep them in power?
(Cries Of No, n0.")
More Of the money Of the state is ly-
ing in the banks than ever before. Why?
Because the people are afraid 10 take it
out and invest il, and the banks are afraid
to loan ID under tile present POpuIist
state of affairs. It was never that way
when the Republicans were in power
This state is the OutgrOwth of RepuDIi-
can principles.
but things are changed now. The
Pops are il power. If ID ivid Overmyer
should be elected governor we would not
be 50 d.sgraced-
The PopuIists have never made a
proposition in their platforms that was
in the interest of the labOring man.
Look at the freight rate scheme D0n't
you railroad men know that The direct
result of that would be 10 either reduce
your wages or throw you out Of Work.
The railroads are not making money
enough 10 pay their employees now.
Many of them are in the hands of the
courts, and the courts are doing the best
they can for the employees. Uud-r a re-
ownership the employees of road must
be paid before anybody else is paid.
Even the Santa Fe road of which we
all proud Is in the hands of re-
ceive-s aud has made no money for years
It's treasurer, Edward Wilder, whom
AL know is an honest man and a man
with "A hear, told me nearly two years
ago that the rOad had a stOckhOlder IN
Massachusetts to whom he used TO send
as his dividend $4,000 a year, but to
whom for the tive years before that he
lie had not sent him cent.
There are widows and orphans in New
England said Mr. Wilder and tears ran
down his face as he said il, whom l in
duced to invest all their money in the
road when it paying who have not
drawn cent in the last i've years, and
don't know how they are living
"And yet the POpulists wan. TO make
the state Of affairs worse We viii never
surrender the state 10 them; they are
archists.s
This was the end Of Mr. Woods speech
and the meeting adjourned
MARLIN As PEAcEAIAKER.
The Topeka Senator Will Try to Ha1-
IN .nize the Local Democracy.
Senator John Martin will return to
Topeka from Washington IN about a
week, and his first labOrs IN the cam
paign will be devoted 10 harm izing the
various factions of the local Democracy.
The row which began over the pOstma5-
,ership has spread, and now one Demo
cratic club has declared war on The
other aud every Democrats hand is
against his brother, especially against
Eugene Hagan and Frank Thomas
Nearly every Democrat has grievance.
Senator Martin Is 10 a large degree the
idol Of the local Democracy. aud they
look TO him a. one who can pour oil on
lie troubled waves aud bring harmony
out of the present chaos in the county
Organization.
A leading Democrat said to a JOURNAL
reporter today: IN no other county IN
tile state are the Democrats SO com plete-
~ dis0rgan .zed aud disgruntled as they
are right here at home. Everywhere
else the Democrats are working harmon
lOu<ly but here there are more factions
than you could shake SLICK attn fac.
nenrly as many factions as there are
Democrats. Senator Martin has written
me d letter in which he expresses a great
deal Of regret at the condition of his
party in Topeka, and he says further
" hen he gets home To try to harmon ze
fae am at the can