People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-10

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nature in asking you to publish this,
| remain. Yours respectfully,
JOSEPH NIXON.
Grand Bay. Ala, Sept. %, 1895
Geo. Martins Estimate Of Gov. Morrill,.
Kansas City Gazette Rep
The amount of twO-faCednesS, and
deceit in Kansas today is something
appalling. The party is in the hands
Of snide gang who have no cOnCep-
tiOn Of affairs beyond getting a place.
The administration Of government in
the interests Of the people is ObScured
in peanut politics, The party prom
ise was to redeem the state. Wecon
fesS now that we do not know what
this means, for in six months time we
witness more bOtCh work, official and
political, than in any five years previ.
GUS, and a scramble and methods to
obtain little places fully to anything
the Pops were ever guilty of.
"WhO is Governor Morrill,, anyway?
He has been in public life for thirty
five years; he served several sessions
in the house and senate of the state,
and six years in congress; can anybody
| put their finger on single thing he
ever did in this time, a word he has
ever uttered, line he has ever writ
ten, movement which he has ever
led? His career is without question
the emptiest Of any man this state has
ever known in public life. He was an
original ProL ibitiOnist, and promised
the preachers during the campaign
that he would enforce the law. As
soon as he obtained office it was aScer-
tanned that he was not Prohibition
iSt and we see the same old shyStering.
stop and think Of a 10-year-Old
boy making that voucher against the
contingent fund for service rendered
before he came into Office and how
you would geJ strap and make that
boy tired for doing SUCH a thing. We
were assured that he was for silver
and yet his first speech was a single
standard gold speech. After a vigor.
Gus protest from David Martin, now
chief justice, and roar from Bill
Hackney and few Others, he changed
front and during the rest of the cam
paign he talked free silver 16 to |
Just recall how they got him tangled
up as liar in the appointment of Nc
Masters as election commissioner fOI
Topeka. In every appointment h,
has made he has satisfied eight mel
out of every ten that he was who'll,
unreliable. How the brine poured
over the old soldier before the COnven
tien and during the campaign nov
SmartS on the raw cracks. The eartl
was promised and the impossibility 0
: delivery shows degree of perady an,
} diShOnOr never before reached in tn
5 history Of Republican party polite
in this state.
ION the other hand, has there bee
: anything accomplished, or its consid
Grafton even started, looking to a.
improvement of the business interest
} OF the people throughout the nun
! icipality known as the state, o
county, or township? True, the stat
I accountant could not keep books, an,
! he rOasts the state university to
finish for trying to ape Harvard.
"We are aware that thousands @
dollars have been very questionabl
paid from contingent funds for farcia
: trials in getting a few Pops out 0
office, but this is small politics an
t not business, with one exception
r Aside from the political schemins
covering only place and plumber, wha
has been done, or is suggested? Moth
ing, OF course. 1t is not in the brai
: of E. n. Morrill, to lead in any i'm
provement Of public affairs. Their
t are men who devise and execute grea
things and make money for them
selves and their communities, bu
Morrill, never did anything but fgur
| interest and indulge in that brai
racking, laborious and exhausting 10
t OF collecting a rake-off In lendin
other peoples money.
] mo; our friends are mistaken i
u suppOsiug that We should keep on
+ mouth shut. We know several VIII
S talk much worse in private than W
S do, but say nothing editorially. Sue
' practice aids in fastening the coil
about them, while some vigorous tai
t in the columns Of their newspaper
e would free the party from the loa
which is breaking it down. 1t is
( wonder, with the foolishness, th
hum5uggery, the shystering, and th
e cheap demagoguery, that we have
party as big as the prohibition party.
Argonia Clipper Oct. 4: VIM. Jackso
I Of Milan, the Populist candidate fC
register of deeds, was in the city Tue.