People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-10

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very thing that the east wants them
to do so long as they advise
you to vote either of the old
party tickets and thus keep up the di.
vision. IL is necessary for the west
and south to unite before the domino
ton of the east can be broken. Every
sensible man knows that this can not
be accomplished in either OF the two
old parties. The democrats Of the
south will not 60 into the republican
party, nor will the republicans of the
west and northwest go into the demo.
cratic party. Thousands of honest
voters in both of the old parties are
disguised and would leave their party
and go into a new party if they were
not afraid it would play into the
hands of the opposite party. This is
shown by the fact that the new party
has made its most rapid progress in
the states where the majority was so
large that the minority party stood
no show whatever OF success, as in
Kansas and Texas. Then the situa.
ton is just this: The union Of the
west and south can only be accom-
plished through a new party. The
domination Of the east can not be
broken until the union OF the west
and south is completed. The re.
publican or democrat who
still urges the people to
stick to their old party is assisting
Wall street to rivet the bonds Of slav.
cry on the people. The pay he gets
for it is the office he expects 10 be
elected to, and the salary and per-
quisites thereof. That is the case in
a nutshell. | don't care what kind OF
a platform man is running on, or
how much he denounces the corpora
lions, trusts and the other party, il
he advises the republicans to stay in
their party, or the democrats to stay
in theirs, while the money power OF
the east, the corporations and the
trusts hold the balance Of power and
dictate the policy Of both, he is an
enemy to the interests Of the people
and is doing more to keep the oppo.
sition party in existence than it cap
do for itself.
The democratic boss in the south,
pretedds to hate the republicans SO
much, is doing more to hold the re.
publicans in the north together than
the republican boss in the north can
do. We know whereof we speak. We
were born and reared in the north.
We have lived thirteen years in the
south. We are well acquainted with
the people Of both sections. We know
hundreds of republicans in the north
that are kept in the republican
party by the republican bosses
repeating in their speeches and papers
what the democratic bosses of the
south say of the republican party.
We know hundreds of democrats in
the south who are kept in the ranks
in the same way. The solid south
alone and the blunders OF the men
who control it are keeping the repub.
licans together. In spite OF this the
states OF Kansas, Colorado and Ne.
vada have gone out Of the line. When
the solid south breaks, as it is likely
to do this year, the whole northwest
and the Pacific states will leave the
repu blicaD columns and unite to pro-
tect their interests. Democratic sue
cess in Arkansas means republican
success in several states in the north.
II Alabama Icnounces her allegiance
to the so-called democratic party II
would throw Dalf dozen states out
Of the republican column in the north.
When the south breaks the doom of
the republican party is sealed. Every
democratic speaker in the south is an
aid to the republican party in the
north. Every man who votes the
democratic ticket in the south
votes for division OF the people
and the supremacy of Wall street
power He may not realize this but
in the light OF the facts he ought to.
His party, with over eighty majority in
the house, has been helpless in the
power of the eastern democratic con.
gressmen, who have made it demone.
tie silver incorporate the principle
Of protection in the tariff bill, refused
to repeal 10 per cent tax on state
banks, and to violate nearly every
pledge contained in the Chicago plat
form. A democrat vote in the south
means the same thing that republi-
can vote in the north does-a sur.
render to both the republican leaders
and to Wall street. If the south
wants union with the west, it must do
as Kansas and Colorado have dore
1t must disengage itself from the ma
chine politics that makes it a cats-paw
to Wall street 1t must meet the west
on middle and common grounds. All
it can expect to gain by remaining in
the democratic columns is to give a
few politicians Office, while it raises
6 cent cotton TO paw their salaries But