People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-08


MOnitor-Standard retires.
Wonder if Chester will make the
same old speech in congress.
Ivan D. Rngers went down, gal
lantly fighting for the right.
We are not ashamed of Kansas
but we are a little sorry for her.
The highest expression of republi-
can joy is d yell and tin horn.
Tom Watson is elected to congress
from the 10th district of Georgia.
The crow of the republican rooster
is considerable of Cockney-doodle.
Two more years of Grover and Nc
KinIeyism, then Populism and pros
Ip Hty.
We don't propose to tell chow it all
happened" until the reps get through
Growing.
Our candidates are defeated, but
the papers are still here. And don't
you forget it.
If you want "a dollar that is good
in Europe" the greenback is the
proper caper.
Trim the lights and burnish the re.
Electors. There is to be two mere
years Of darkness.
The Wichita Eagle hired a flock of
roOsterS to do its Growing, while the
editor footed tin horn.
There is some consolation 10 the
fact that the democrats are worse
whipped than the Populists.
Farmers, the Kansas towns are
against you. Yet they were all built
on the proceeds of your labor.
All we have said about the charac-
ter of the republi an leaders in the
state campaign we still believe.
We expect the republican papers to
roast US this week. But roasting
don't prove that they are right.
Long stockings are all che rage
since Chester'S election. Chester is
dead stuck on that kind of socks.
Private dispatches from the devil
to Cy Leland say that old Safe i,
pleased with the result in Kansas.
If Long does what is right. we wish
him God speed. But when he begius
to wabOle, we shall prod him hard.
The "West Coast Alliance" of Hol-
lister, California, commenced last
week the publication Of a daily edi-
tiOn.
You may crow now but ifyou dOn'L
DO something wheG you take your
seas, your wings won't flop worth a
cent in 1896.
Rev j. D. BOtkin was defeated in
the Third district. But he is still
rlgat and the principles he advocates
Must and will prevail.
Praying to God and depending on
tue devil for an answer is useless.
That is where tie ladies made a
mistake on election day.
Won't the people If KausaS be par
aly2ld to see what the Seventh cou-
gles. iOnal district OF Kansas send, IT,
take The place of Simpson.
If the republicans follow TIC princi-
PIES Of Abraham Lincoln they should
be continued in power. Bat if the.
dOn'l, their title is pants"
The POpulists have gained more
votes III the nation since 1892 than lc-
publlcanS. That is the test of new
part, 6ui Oh National issues.
If there is anything 10 The VOICE
this week that you don't lik,, whip
Pickett. Mr.. Naugle is already
whipped-euough for the present.
The car of all the Russias has
kicked the bucket-and the Populist
party doubled its vote of 1872 in the
United States. We have no tears to
shed.
The good seed is the ''hayseed.
Get it threshed and famed a little
more and SOW it thick. 1t will soon
kill out the foreign sprouts and rot
ten StumpS.
Christianity is all right-yet the
majority of people are not christians.
Populism is all riyh -notwithstand.
ing the devil and republiCanism have
a bigger following.
The amountof eastern money that
was spent in Kansas to defeat the
Populists, ought to improve times for
little while at least. 1t increases |
the circulation somewhat.
The contest between Espy and Van
Horn was very close, Espy winning BY |
10 votes, according to the unofficial |
count. 1t is possible the official
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