Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-19
FUSION.

FUSION.
The following dispatch appeared in last Sun
days Kansas City Star:
Emporia, Kas., July I3.-The Democratic
county convention this morning nominated ex.
Senator Martins son, John E. Martin, for reg
lister of deeds, and T. L. Ryan for sheriff. This
afternoon the Populists Endorsed the Demo.
cratic nominees and nominated candidates for
the other offices, which the Democratic COM
rnittee has Endorsed. The Democratic noni.
hees appeared before the Populist convention
and accepted the Endorsement, but they were
hot asked how they stood on the Omaha plat
FORM 1t was straight trade.
We always feel like taking the Associated
Press reports with grain of salt, and we do
hot know how much of the above to believe.
However, if the report be true, we have only
words of condemnation. We learn that SIM
liar trade was made in Sedgwick county
We miss our guess if these deals will be in
dorsed by the true-blue Omaha platform Popu-
lists of Lyon and Sedgwick counties.
Had the Democrats of those counties placed
themselves upon the Omaha platform, there
would have been an excuse for a coming to-
gether, but simple trade, with no principle in
view, is reprehensible, to say the least. 1t has
too much the appearance of simple scramble
for Office and the accompanying spoils.
The Peoples party was organized by men
and women who regard principle as greater and
dearer than spoils. Democrats and Republic
ans alike opposed the movement and snesred at
out efforts to inaugurate better conditions.
Shall we forsake our principles? Never!
THE following is condensed from the report
of the railway commissioners: The railroads
of the United States are capitalized at over ten
billion dollars, or nearly $4,000 per mile;
probable cost, about $4,000 pei mile; water,
$4,000 per mile. Legitimate freight levy, less
than half what is exacted. YET thefe are peo-
pie who believe that railroad corporations are
the soul of honor and uprightness. And we
may add that railroad water never stops ruff.
ming. The capitalization will be little higher
text year and the year following, and farm
products will be little lower, and farm inple-
inents will be little higher, and the railroad
tnagnates will be little fatter and little more
arrogant, and free passes for the bosses will be
little more numerous, and the amount of
Doodle to be used In legislatures will be little
larger and the masses will be whole lot
poorer and happier CD.
A PROMINENT reforiner writes, in personal
letter, that, in conversation with the editor of
the New York Voice, who is secretary of the
committee appointed at the Staten Island re-
form meeting to bring about union of reform
fottes, the latter says the outlook for union is
good. The writer continuesi "1f the reform
ers don't unite, the die will soon be cast and
the people chained down to everlasting drudg-
cry. There is very strong and growing re-
form sentiment in the East, if it can only be
erystalized. The great trouble is, the metropolis
tan press is subsidized by the Wall street crowd,
and there are SO rnany little whip-snappers all
thtotgh the country that are simply Jumping
jacks, who dance whenever the bosses tap the
springboard. Just see how the g. o. p. coun-
try press in Kansas has swung around OH the
silver question since receiving the tip from the
party manipulators.
TEN per cent, or "a, 900, railway men were
laid off last year. AS most Of these men failed
to find employment elsewhere, we conclude
that from this employment alone, one-third of
d million people have been, and are, without
the means of comfortable existence. One-
third of the operatives in our manufactures
have been laid off, any many of them are still
laid off; and still, according to the truthful or