The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-11-02

The Senator Would Like 10 See the Re
pEbliesns Beaten. He DeROaHcss the
Corrupt Practices Empioyed BY Re
pubiieans-
Within the past week the Democratic
vote Of the stats has be sn rapidly con-
centrating On the Populist state ticket,
and in addition to the already known
situation that fusion has been effected
in enough Legislative districts to carry
the legislature against the Republicans,
consolidation in 1--WE congressional dis
tricts is now practically settled. These
Startling facts have driven the Re-
publican state central committee wild
with CONSERVATION and despair. and
they are making frantic efforts to stem
the tide that has now set in against
the Republican state ticket.
a rumoF TO the effect that Senator
John Martin and Ex-Governor Click
would soon issue manifesto advising
all Democrats to vote the Populist
state ticket from top to bottom, gained
some circulation and the investigation
into its authenticity does not serve to
brighten the hopes Of Cy Leland and
his gang, They hoped that the rumor
would be fatty denied by the promi-
nent gentlemen but their hopes are
not grati6ed.
Senator Martin said last Saturday
to a Star reporter:
"ihere is no doubt that the ticket is
a good ons-it is DemOcra all the
way through, and it was intended TO
be such when il was nominated, The
convention which put it before the
people was composed of Democrats.
the men who made it we're sincere and
honest IN their intentions and the
party managers are enaeavoring to
carry out the viii Of the convention.
while all this be true, the question
arises in the mindsof soma Democrats
that perhaps the Democratic campaign
may, in effect, work more to the ad-
vantage Of the Republican party than
to that Of our own party. Do we. as
Democrats, want the Republican party
TO succeed in this campaign any more
than we did in the campaign of 1892?
These are material questions and hon
est Democrats have the right not only
70 raise them, but to discuss them in
their own minds. Now, am not pre-
pared to say that We ought to withhold
our support from that ticket. AS said
before, circumstances may arise later
j the campaign which may guide us
POSSIBLY TO withhold our support would
DO out party more injury than to go in
end make fight for the ticket on the
ines mapped out by the committee. I
I'M talking, not as a politician, but as
nan who has the interests of the whole
party, of the people, if you please, at
Sheart. The question is, do the Demo
: Gratis Of Kansas want the Republican
party to succeed in this fight?
"Do think the Republicans will
VIM To be frank with you, ten days
ago believed they would be success
Iul, fer all the signs pointed that way.
But a change has come over the situa-
ton since. The signs now point to the
success Of the Peoples party and the
speakers are themselves responsible
for it. Down in the breast of every
American citizen there beats the spirit
Of fair play and in this campaign that
spirit is in rebellion against the meth
dds pursued by the Republicans to
overcome their Populist opponents.
The people like fair, open, manly
light and, per contra, they abhor Will
fcation, SANDER and abuse.
SFor the last two months the Repub-
hcans have been pouring out upon the
people the statements Of such men as
Pete Kline and Nels Acres notorious
gamblers, pariahs and outcasts, whose
testimony would not be accepted by
any court Of justice where they are
knoWn. These men tell US that they
bought for money consideration the
Kansas state officers to dc their bid
ding-to nullify the law and close the
courts of justice that they might carry
on their unlawful practices and con-
tinue to rob and swindle honest peo-
pie. They make these statements, what
forf Why, for the purpose of turning
down these officers whom they say
they are able to corrupt aud mold to
their wishes, so that another set of
men, who they profess to believe will
destroy their business, viii be elected.
Now Is that plausible? Does any fair
minded man believe that Pete Kline
and Nels Acres have beeome so con-
science-stricken as all thatY Nobody
believes it. The Republicans who are
INDUCING in all this mud singing do
not believe it. Fair-minded men-and
let me tell you there are thousands of
them In kansas-can only believe that
Pete Kline, Nels Acres and their asso-
eIate gamblers, driven out Of business,
impoverished and at their wits ends
for their next days. bread, have hired
out as liars and assassins of character
TO the Republicans, and are making
these statements for the money that
they can get out of them. That is the
way the people of Kansas view the
methods of the Republican managers
and their hired assassins, aud looking
at it that way the honest masses are
withdrawing their support from the
Republican ticket.
I'VE are confronted with the anon
a!ous spectacle of an admittedly cor
rupt ana dishonest band of gamblers
and their associates, trying to elect
what they claim to be a perfectly hon
est man, which, IL successful would
certainly drive them out of business;
and they are engaged in a desperate
effort TO defeat the identical men they
claim TO have corrupted, and used for
sheir own base purposes. Nobody be-
heyes this story. An honest man al.
ways wants to support an honest man,
and a dishonest one win inyariably
support the man that be thinks be can