Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-08-09

boiled to the surface in the seething cauldron c
politics. In Kansas, these self-constitute
leaders entered into wicked and most unpatr
otic contract with Democracy whereby job
Martin, lifelong Democrat, was sent to tn
United States senate in return for enough Dem
ocratic votes to give the fusionists the stat
offices. Their corrupt methods and practice
were severe blow to reform, for the Populisti
coin was so besmeared with Democratic fusiol
mud that the inscription was scarcely legible
but the rank and file of the people severely re
buked them at the polls, and, covered will
ignominious defeat and the opprobrium of the
party they stigmatized, they have been relegat
ed to oblivion.
An effort is being made at the present time
to lead the Populist party into the silver camp
and obtain the endorsement of more than one
million votes for Pennsylvania millionaire
who cast his vote in congress for the swindline
railroad bill of c. P. Huntington, the monopo'
lstic robber of the Pacific coast. But, aside
from this, the silverites avoid the land and
transportation planks agitated and advocated by
the Populists, and are silent on the vital ques-
ton of the substitution of treasury notes for
the national bank notes, and it begins to look
now as if Mr. Sibley would not get substantial
returns for his heavy cash contributions to the
Golfers of the national chairman of the Populist
party and the president of the Washington BIZ
metallic League. 1t is more than probable that
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, will be the stand
ard-bearer of those who remain loyal to the
Omaha demands of "Land! money and trans
portation!"
The Silver party will, however, prove the en-
tering wedge for the complete disintegration of
the two old parties, and drive the gold-standard
advocates into ONE party, regardless of their
past political affiliations. Thus we will have
two opposing forces-one contending that the
debts of the nation should be paid in the same
kind of money in which they were contracted;
the other aided and abetted by the money
power of the Old World, fnanciering in the in
terest of the bond-holders, seeking to fasten a
perpetual debt upon our people by making ap-
preciated and inadequate gold the money stand
ard. The members of the Populist party are
in line and harmony with the constitution Of
the United States. They seek to bring the
people back to the principles laid down by our
forefathers in their preamble to that blood
bought declaration of human rights. They in
sist that all power rests in the people, and that
the people shall take their rightful place in the
seat of sovereignty. They insist that Capital
and his elder brother, Labor, shall be given an
equal standing before the tribunal of brain and
Justice They declare that liberty and monop-
oily cannot live together; that monopoly and
the federel cliques that prey upon the public
must go that the fundamental principles of
equity upon which the republic was founded
shall be enforced-"equal justice to all; special
privileges to none"
History has taught us that the "Golden
Rule" is the first and last law of human asso-
citation; that it can be operated only through
laws, forms and organizations. The constitu-
ton of the United States is the Golden Rule
incarnated and made manifest in the affairs Of
men. The platform of the Peoples party is
determined plea, vigorous demand, for its en-
forcement There may be dissension in the
Populist ranks; there may be treachery among
the leaders, and political knavery, but "princi-
pies rather than individuals" patriotism
above party" are the watchwords of the hour.
The fundamental principles of Populism, the
practical operation Of which is Christianity ap-