People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-08
WELLINGTON KANSAS. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8 1874
PopuIist Papers.

LuuCdIlOn 1dS Oeen the watchWOT
of the POpulist mOvement-and cour
try newspapers have been the beaco
lights.
A very few papers Of national reI
utation have espOused the cause, an,
most of these have grown up witt
the movement.
The Chicago Sentinel was here be
fore the Populists; the Nonconform
ist grew up in Kansas, little aheaC
OF the mOvement-Or rather befor,
the movement took name.
Kansas has one paper 1.-THE Advo
catel of national circulation: Texas
has the Mercury. Colorado has the
Denver News, which was converted
from democracy.
Within one year the Coming Ma.
tion" Of Greensburg, Indiana, grew
to a circulation of $4,000 copies
weekly.
One great review, the Arena. while
no. an avowed Popullst publication.
is doing good work in that line; and
reaching a class Of readers whose in.
iuence once enlisted In a cause gives
it power and respectAbility.
The National Watchman, of Wash
ingtOn, d. c., is on guard at the capl-
tai, and has a corps of contributors in.
cluding senator's, representatives and
other distinguished scholars and
tinanciers.
All these are great leaders greater
than any one man connected with
them.
They have a great influence, not
Only upon their subscri bers, but upon
readers OF the country publications
that derive their food largely from
these greater papers, and dish il I'D
to suit the fancy Of a local constitu-
ency.
The new party has about two thous.
and local papers, many OF them of
marked individuality and worthy of
wide circulation.
In many states the men who run
these papers are martyrs for pripci.
pie. 1t is well known that a country
paper cannot be operated on sub
sc"iptiOns alone-and yet many Of
these papers have no other support.
They are boycOtted by the local
merchants who are usually such
strong partisans that they would
rather advertise in their own party
paper with circulation of 500, than
In a POpulist paper with a circulation
OF 1900 at the same price. But the
true POpulist editor never gives up.
He may be discouraged, but he keeps
on hammering.
More than twenty POpulist papers
have been started last year for every
one that was forced to suspend.
If the growth Of papers is any indi-
cation the party has made more rapid
strides in the past year than at any
time in its history. There is a de-
mand in hundreds Of communities for
men to start POpulist papers. Lib
eral bonuses are usually paid, and
many new papers start in with sub
scripliOn lists larger than their old
rarty neighbors that have been pub
lished for years.
Wherever POpulism takes root there
is a demand for reading matter and
the movement grows in proportion as
the literature of the party is distrib-
uted. As soon as man is converted
he wants his neigabor to read what
opened bis ewes. 1t may be Stock
wells Bad B y, the Political Earth
quake, Ten Men of Money Island,
Seven Financial COnspiracies speech
Of Gen. Weaver, a single copy OF Nor
gan's Buzz-Saw, or hearing the Ser
mon on the Mount explained in the
hight OF common sense. Some friend
may have sent him POpulist paper
for six months. If he likes il. he
wants somebody else to read, and
sends him copy-the seed is sown
here and there, and wherever one
ndh Is scOnVerted soon there are dozen.
then hundred, and next a county or
sanlzatlon, a newspaper, a county
ticket, and aggressive campaign Of
Its growing like the flowers Of
but none the less
rapidly, wherever the sun of truth
warns the soil of intelligence.
AT last Mr.. SimOns has got offs. "
He has been chasing her a long time.
Well: SimOns is good, clean man.
and one of the best representatives