The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
views of Two Senators.

NACW6 u VIZ SCAAOOHSe
talked an hour or so the other day
with Senators Kyle and Allen on the so
called "new departure of the Populist
party and in the course of it the for
mer said:
ST am very sure that the Brooklyn
matter is an accident and unpremeditat-
ed, for have but recently talked with
all the labor leaders. After the Chicago
affair ended they said to me: This is
our last strike We have gone through
enough in this line, and hereafter we
shall seek the desired end by votes.
And the last election shows that they
have kept their word. do not desire to
arrogate anything to myself, but was
the instrument in concluding the Chi
cago trouble. It was agreed that the
commission was to be appointed to ex-
anime the whole matter and other con-
cessions made, and thereupon the strike
was to be called off. AS soon as that
was done all the labor leaders went to
work for the election, and the enemy,
wary, as usual, prepared to deceive the
public as to our strength. There has
been a double reaction on that matter
which is really funny. Right after the
election the monopolist organs raised a
great cry that the Populist party was
wiped out and actually made US believe
our vote was light. Then we found that
it was nearly double that of 1892, and
that we were attracting recruits. Since
Senator Allen put forth his platform
there has been another reaction against
the old system, and l am now pretty
we'll satisfied that the liberal elements
in the west can unite in 1896"
''And what will congress do on the
fnances?'
''Ask me an easy one. This congress
will do nothing, for public men will
not face alternatives when they know
that either will defeat them. AS to the
next congress, they are making great
promises that it will fund the green
backs and Sherman silver notes, but
know It will do no such thing. It
will not do anything that Cleveland
wants it to do, to begin with, and will
not dare to take that action. I have
talked with too many senators to be-
lieve such a thing possible, and stall
wart Republicans have told me they
could stand on the Allen platform, but
as to that bill to retire the $498, 900,
600 could never be got through tho
house"
PopuIist Policy.
Senator Allen was not SO confident as
his colleague that the Brooklyn trouble
was to stand alone, but thought there
were too many factors in the national
labor situation for any man to master
them all. AS to party action he said:
1.-THE strike is no part of our policy, and
we just now regret such things even
more than usual. We are now confident
! of union of forces for more liberal
policy-that is, union in the campaign
of 1885,
"Why is there such distraction in the
present congress?"
'Wel1, it is as Senator Kyle said
men are face to face with alternatives
which they hate to admit. It must be
the gold basis and a contraction of the
currency one-ha1f, or the opposite, but
they dread the decision so much that
they are trying all sorts of quack medi-
cines to get away from it In fact, they
are trying to revive an obsolete system.
Banks of issue are obsolete The world
has outgrown them, or if it hasn't il
isn't for want of painful experience. "
never had realized how big Senator
Allen is till he stood over me and talked
thus earnestly. It is great episode il
the history of the senate that during the
fight over the Sherman silver law hs