People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-07
Challenge Discussion.

CONWAY SPRINGS, KAS., Sept. ,, '94.
ED. VOICE. hope you will allow
me space IN your paper for one or two
suggestions in regard TO this cam
paign. Namely, to have POpulists
every where, county, state and ma
tiOnal to challenge republican SpeaA-
eTs 10 joint discussion.
In that case, our candidates would
be able to defend themselves against
the infamous SANDER and inSinua-
tions their opponents make use of.
Chester l. Long spoke at Conway
Springs Yesterday and | take it for
granted that he is a fair sample of
the republican orators. His argu-
ment was an insult to the intelll-
gence of farmers and working men.
He had the gall to tell his small aud
fence that the republican party is
the representative of all that Abra
ham Lincoln ever stood for or adyO-
Gated, that the POpuliSt party wanted
to cOnfscate the farmers homes. as
well as railroads and all other kinds
of property, and that his party was
the only friend of silver. That it
was the party and the only one that
stands for bimetallism and when the
republican party shall be returned to
power silver will be restored. He
told the farmers of two evils staring
them in the face, as result Of the
tariff or tax which congress put upon
sugar. The first one was that the
farmers or consumers would have to
pay the tax. He explained how they
would do it thus: Under the Mckin-
ley law they could buy twenty pounds
for one dollar, while under the VIII
son law they could only get fifteen or
less. OF course that argument proves
that the farmer who cannot see the
beauty of protection iseither scOun-
drel or an idiot. Fifteen pounds of
sugar under protection is better of
course, for his teeth, than twenty
pounds of sugar under free trade.
But the other evil is nearly as bad
in the face of the fact that there are
millions of working people in our own
country whom. under the fostering
care of protection, have been made
pennileSs and consequently unable to
buy the farmers wheat.
Mr.. Long told US farmers that Cuba
and the Spanish government had
closed their markets against our
wheat. No market at home and
none abroad is not a pleasant condl-
ton to face.
Chester l. referred to the governors
of Kansas, Colorado and South Caro-
lima as men with too much military
charging that the POpuliSt
party is military party. Of course,
Mr.. Long never heard of Gov. Flower,
OF New York, or Russell, of MasSa-
Patterson, of Pennsylvania.
Of Ex-GOv, Pifer, of Illinois, not to
speak of the president of the United
States, who only recently made quite
a military display at Chicago.
And there is Prince Pinkerton's
standing army of $1,000 men. A man
whose aspirations are for congress.
iOnal hOnOrS ought to be as familiar
with his cOuntry'S history of the pres
ent as he is with that of 1875. 81 or
81 of which he talked 50 yesterday.
He informed his hearers that he was
to the national adminiStra-
ton because he was az American and
the state administration because he
was KanSan. That Governor Lew
elling was the greatest bOOdler in
chriStandOm. That the gambler of
Kansas City, Kansas carry money in
s., 800 blocks to the governors office
at the capital. He explained with
the simplicity Of a heather how the
money il brought to Topeka, how it
is smuggle into the governors Office
and how the Office boy finds it when
sweeping out the dust.
But as Mr.. Long is only a sample of
the average republican speaker it
would be for the best interest for the
people at large to hold joint discus
SiOnS instead of regular political
meetings. The Peoples party candi.
dates from cOngressmln-at-large
down to road OverSeer are able to
debate social and economic questions
Of the day with any Of the republican
candidates OF Kansas. They may
have more learning, they may be
grammarians and all that. 1t is
true their learning is what gives
them the ability to serve the money
power so well. On the other hand,
the Peoples party has common sense,
honesty, morality and patriotism on
their Side-the common cause of hui
manity. We may be called illiterate,
but our intellect has been sharpened
nv adyerSitV and hitter pYnerienra