The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-12
POPULISM is ALIVE.
Says GOV. Lewelling Who Returned
% Town Today.
says He Makes 1Eore Money Ont or
His Business Than the Governors
Salary Pays.

says He Makes MOre Money Out or
His Business Than the Governors
Salary Pays
Governor LewelIing returned this morn
ing from Wichita where he has been
since the day before the election. He
seems in good spirits and said he felt ex-
tremely well except for a slight hoarse-
ness.
.'Of course have regrets said he in
speaking of the election. ''that it did not
go the other wav, but 1 am satisfied that
the result was not the fault of the party
OF administration. Personally. I am the
gamer BY the defeat, because no poor
man has any business in the office of
governor. l wish the party had won be-
cause I feel sure that it would hssten
the reforms that are bound 10 come
that must come.
The result of the election in Kansas
as we'll elsewhere in the country is
due to the general unrest The people
are dissatisfied with the existing cOndi-
tions which could not be made
worse and the people voted against
the party in power 1t was rebuke to
the Democratic party which had come
into power and which instead of redeem
ing its pledges continued the evils
which the Republican party had fasten-
ed on the country.
"If the Democratic party had stayed
Win the II puli5JS the OCk0l WOULD nave
been elected by about the same plurali-
ty as il 1892. / am satisfied that the
Populists nave made inrOads into the
ranks of the Republicans and if the labor
vote had supported the POpulist ticket
it would have been elected withstand-
ing the detection of the Democratic vote.
The POpulist party will still be in poll
tics in Kansas as elsewhere in the coun-
try. This is proved by the large gains
made outside of Kansas.
1T may be expected. now that the Pop
ulists have been defeated in Kansas. that
the party will lose some of its adherents,
but the fighting men Of the organization
Will remain and keep up IA warfare upon
monopoly and Wall street and Will ulti-
mately restore the party to its original
strength.
Thea YOU do not think that the Pop
ulist party will 90 TO pieces2"
1T is nonsense TO think that the Pop
ulist party will go TO pieces and its forces
drift back into the Republican and
Democratic parties as it has sprung from
the honest masses OF the country for the
purpose Of breaking up the rule of those
two parties forever"
The Silver party which has sprung up
in the mountain states cannot succeed on
the one issue and if it gets aid from the
Populists it must adopt some POpulist
princi pies.
The object of the Populist party is
not to put individuals into office, but to
emancipate the people and It is not par
ticular how it gets results SO long as it
gets them"
Speaking of himself the governor said
that it has been said that the result of the
election was rebuke to the administration.
He denies this and claims that an analy-
sis of the vote will show that though he
was the chief object Of the slanderous
attacks, that he ran about 5000 votes
ahead of the ticket.
Referring to his own future he said
that he will go back to his butter and egg
business at Wichita "For," said he, lit
will make me about $4,000 a year, and
that is better than the governors salary,
point OF view, though 1 was very anxious
for party success"