The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-04
GALL FOR MASS MEETING.


or the Dissatisfied PopuIIsts at Topeka
June H.
The anti-machine Populists, headed by
W. F. Ri ghtmire, Noah Allen and others.
have rented the two wings of Trades
Assembly hall for caucussing purposes
during the time the POpulist state con-
vention will be in session in Topeka.
They now propose to avoid the neces-
s1ty of calling another state convention
by calling to Topeka enough middle of
the road, anti administration Populist
during the time the state convention is
IN session to compel by the power of
! Popuiist public opinion the convention
to nominate new ticket.
W. F. Rightmire has issued an appeal
to anti-fusion, INSTRUMENTATION, anti
machine POpulists, in which he says:
1.-The manner in which the county con-
vention of Shawnee county was con-
Quoted on Saturday destroys all my
hopes of any relief coming to the
oppressed toilers of this state from the
present all powerful machine entrenched
in the state offices and the state central
committee of the Kansas Peoples party
organization, and forces the above ques-
ton upon me, and l therefore ask per-
mission of you to give short history of
the rise of our party, and the present
condition of the same, at the present
time, in the embrace of the Unsuitable
devil-fsh of machine ring knowing no
principle, or guiding force beyond the
lust for office, and the spoils that official
corruption can procure.
1.-The success of the Democracy in al
lying itself with the POpulists at the
Wichita convention of 1892, has been
demonstrated by the election of Demo
cratic United States senator, the placing
of the control of the metropolitan police
of cities of the tirst-class, in the power
of the Democratic party under the con-
troll of Democratic or Demo-Pop police
com missioners, the non enforcement of
the prohibitory laws of the state and the
monthly receipt as a campaign and cor
ruption fund of 81 800 each month from
the Brewers association, and the same
monthly revenue from the Distillers as
ISOLATION, commonly known as the
''whisky trust" in addition to the i'm
mense sums collected by the agents of
the state administration, in the shape of
monthly fines from the gam bling houses,
joints, policy-shops, fake-lotteries, and
disorderly houses that are allowed to run
unmolested, in the metropolitan cities
long as they pay the monthly fines col
lected by the appointees of the governor
in. control of the cities.
From our proud and impregna-
BILE position of $780, with our rule
of the office seeking the men
to be nominated, we have de-
scended to the depths of degradation,
where the entire power of state admin
istration has been exerted for two years
to kill off all opposition, and secure re-
nomination for the present incumbents
of the state offices, and from party of
reformers banded together for the success
of principles, our Peoples party of Kan
sas has become a refuge for the office
seekers of both old parties; its reform
Press association, servile tool to hide
official misrule and to assassinate every
member of the party that does not bow
seryile knee that 'thriftEnay follow fawn-
ing The principles of the Omaha
platform have been abandoned in the
hunt for office, and the Peoples party of
Kansas has today become a moral cow
ard, like bastard hound cringing at the
knee of its master, the Democratic wing,
its fusion partner, refusing to stand for
justice and equity by championing the
cause of equal suffrage.
''For the prevention of the abandon
ment of the principles we have been adj
vocating for so many years. every old
Vidette, Anti knight of Labor,
and member of the Citizens National In
dustrial Alliance, and Farmers Alliance,
who can possibly attend, should attend
the coming state convention at
city on Monday, June 18th, and
assist in effecting an organi-
cation, to oppose the ring of Office hold
ers, and if their denomination cannot be
prevented in the convention. then to call
another state convention, under the law
of the Omaha platform, and hold its
primaries and conventions free from
the sdictation of office holders, and
put in nomination a straightout,
middle of the road Populist state ticket
whose every nominee shall stand I'M
eQuivocally pledged to the unqualified
support of the Omaha platform in all its
details, and the cause of equal suffrage.
But says the weak kneed brother, If
you do this you will surely elect the Re-
publican state ticket and give them the
control of the state again Well my
dear brother, can you in your reasoning
find any cause to prefer the ring rule of
Demo Pop-fusion railroad tools, TO that
of Republican railroad rule?
3Even if the Republicans should elect
their state ticket, we have control of the
state senate and can prevent any inju-
rious legislation, and how much worse
would the reelection of w. A Johnston
as associate justice of the supreme court
be than the election of w. c. Webb,
whose only reason for being in our party
is that he wants to be elected to q Judge
ship where he can draw a salary.
THE gain we shall make by this
course is that Kansas PopuIism shall no
longer be stencil in the nostrils of our
brothers in the other northern states, or
a club used to present the growth of our
party and the success of our principles
in the southern states, where the fusion
Of Kansas PopuIists with Democrats il
the only hope left for Democratic sue
cess.n