The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-14
CLOSE UP THE RANKS.
That is Mrs. Mary Leases Present
Advice.
SHE WON'T QUARREL ANY MORE
With Governor LeweIlfng and says
Other POpuIists Oughtn't TO-Othe1
Political News.

Other POpuIists Oughtn't TO-Other
Political News.
Mrs Lease made her first political
speech in the campaign at the POpulist
picnic at Hughes grove yesterday after
noon. She spoke by request of the Pop
ulst county central committee. There
were about 300 people there. Mrs. Lease
treated them to one of her old time Pop
ulist speeches All her vigor seems to
have returned and she came out hatly for
the Populist administration.
There il but one political party" said
she, "the governors of which, like the
governor of this state would issue
tramp circular and dare to take the side
of the poor unemployed working man
and say they shall not be treated like
criminals. Our state officers have made
mistakes, / know, but who has notl
The only perfect man the world ever
had was crucided 1900 years ago. We
have got to close up our ranks Zap
plausel We will have to forget our per-
sOnal grievances in this great contest
There was a time when the liberty
bell rang out the glad tidings of indie
pendence. oh. what crush there was.
Men cried that they we're being trampled
to death, and the crowd said what does
the life of man amount to when the
fate Of a nation is at stalker and now /
say what do personal grievances amount
to when the welfare of nation is IN
danger?
s'Do you know that there are thousands
of people leaving the westr Every day
we see the white covered wagon loaded
with a few household effects and the
farmer and his family sit disconsolate in
the wagon. These poor people are going
to Oklahoma, and many stop at various
places in Kansas. They are stopping
right here in Topeka, where they are
added to the already large number of
unemployed.
We have got to have the legislature,
who will aid these people and governor
with a heart full OF kindness and sym
patty. / believe that unless we elect
Governor Lewelling every measure of
relief will be vetoed
ave don't ask for the earth but we
want the legislature aud the governor
this year and we will have them"
In speaking Of Major Morrill,, the Re
publican candidate for governor, Mrs.
Lease said: LAS a soldiers daughter I
wish to give in some measure due need Of
praise to that heroic soldier, that courtly
gentleman and clean honorable man.
Major E. n. Morrill, But in doing this
1 must hold up to ridicule and censure
the platform upon which he hopes to be-
come governor of this great state"
In discussing the political parties Mrs
Lease said: ''The Democratic party
sprang into life at the very foundation
Of our government to protest against
ment-the arrogant English peerage aud
its adherents, when they sought to cur
tail and restrict the supremacy of the
common people in whose judgment aud
fidelity they had no faith Democracy
was the product of the Jeffefsonian
school of philosophy They were the
trainers of that Incompatible instrument
the Declaration of American Indepen-
dence-the founders and fathers of this
republic"
In speaking of the Republican party
she said: @For more than a quarter of a
of human progress, and At every furIong
it has erected monumental pillars to
mark q new epoch in American civiliza-
ton.
"But as Democracy fell into the hands
Of the slave power, 80 has the Republican
party fallen into the hands of the money
power" Mrs Lease predicted the cleo
ton of a Populist president in 1896.
She said about woman suffrage: I'VE
women may not bring any more harmony
or make things much better. but we Will
vote against the liquor traffic and human
oppression"
She talked about her visit to Pullman,
and said she found 1900 families on the
verge OF starvation. II talked with pale
faced, wild eyed women. and saw little
starving children on the Streets" said
she, sand all these people are dependent
upon charity"
Mrs. Lease WAS frequently interrupted
by cheers and applause, and when she
had finished the crowd cheered Tor sew
eral minutes