Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-09-28
LAND-SHARK MORRILL,.

Man-Ashamed-of- Kansas" was formerly laho
shard; or, to be more explicit he belonged 10 d
pano of land thieves From affdavits pubiisi1eo
in the Ottawa Journal and Topeka Advocate we
learn that Morrill, & James forced hoinesteaoels
in Washington county to pay sums ranging
from S16o to $24o for quit-claim deeds.
If seems that railroad company obtained
some kind of a claim OH land that was hoii'e
steaded and which belonged to the homestead,
ers if land ever did, and that Morrill, enforced
the railroads claim, and shared the pluhoer' II
also appears that the men were too poor 10 ihake
a legal fight; and some of the men are Ola SOL
ders.
Now, day by day, as the records are dug up
Morrill, is revealed a hypocrite and pun
derer of old comrades and poor men, who, for
home braved incredible hardships.
Comment must seem tame beside the pare
facts, and vet we cannot forbear, Ill this con-
nection to speak of the many outrageous acts
of railroad companies, wherein they ana the
government acted in concert Millions OF acres
of land have been decided away by the govern
ment to railroad companies, to which the COM
panies had no more right than Queen Victoria,
for, in not only Washington county, but Ill other
counties, homesteadersa have been dispossessed
after complying with The homestead law and
making improvements that drained to the last
farthing their meagre resources, and they were
either evicted or paid the railroad company, not
only for the land, but also for the improvements
These acts of robbery were perpetrated under
o,,I offs in
saving that, from Lincoln to Harrison, no hon
est man has filled the office of secretary OF the
interior. Men of the party that proclaimed
itself party of "homes for the homeless" have
been foremost in making tenants and paupers,
and among that number is Z. N. Morrill,, the
Republican candidate for governor of Kansas
No man, white or black, who knows any
thing about the struggles and privations of the
Kansas homesteader, can feel anything but
loathing and indignation for the cold-blooded
thieves who participated in the many acts of
and-stealing. If, as testified to, Morrill, forced
money from an old soldier, even though he were
general and won glorious victories, he sum
dered every tie that bound him to the veterans
of the war, and forfeited the esteem of every
honest man in all this broad land.
Hitherto, we have respected Mr.. Morrill, we
had been led to believe that he was clean but
now, as he stands in the new light, we have
nothing for him but adherence. We would
view his election as calamity, i'll that we
would take it as premium on robbery. Every
man who has toed under the Kansas sun,
fought chinch-bugs and grasshoppers, should
go to the polls and help vote such a man into
oblivion; and every man who wore the blue, or
honors it, should fight him till the last vote is
polled on election day.
THE Prohibitionists of Linn county will meet
in convention tomorrow i'll Mound City and
nominate good ticket The day is fast APP
preaching when the Populists must incorporate
prohibition in their national and state platforms.
Only cowardice prevented its adoption i'll the
Omaha declaration. 1t must come; if not, our
party will not accomplish its mission Every
body knows that the rum power is great curse,
and that it ought to be wiped out of existence.
-Pleasanton Herald
Now Rrother I,atimer Won are talking sense