The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-25

| theT were White Capped and Ostracize0
and turned ont of church and unIaw-
| fully Influenced by threats of arrest.
| Circulars and letters were distrib-
uted which seem incredible in spite Of
| all we know about the American voter.
| Out of a vast heap select the following,
which will be appreciated by readers
| who have kept up with the history Of
our legislation on silver.
Colonel II. C. L. Kittles to His Colored
Brethren:
TUESDAY, Nov. 6, is the day for you
| to cast your ballots for the interest of
the ring, Wall street, and the gold
sharks, or for the interest of the farmer
I and laborer. DR.. ". II. FELTON, is the
man for the farmers and 1aborers. When
silver was demonetized in 1878, he was
sent to congress in 1878, and by his
speech and vote restored it to the people
as legal money. You know after that
what prosperity we had. Though house
and senate were Republican, yet he ac-
complished this great end Judge Mad
dox was sent there, house and senate
were Democrats, yet he killed silver.
Cotton is cents, the 1aborer gets 25
cents per day, the country is wrecked.
The doctor by his speech and stand on
the financial issue will attract national
attention, while Judge Maddox cannot.
If you want cotton to go back to 10
cents, laborer to get 81 per day, coun-
try to be prosperous once more, send the
old man back to congress. Go that day
and cast your vote for your old friend. "
The testimony showed this Colonel
Kittles, as he calls himself, to be To-
cal boss so expert that he would have
shone in Tammany Hall in its best days.
In one county there was separate vote
taken on proposition to issue bonds,
and the interested capitalists furnished
a free barbecue to all who would vote
for bonds. The white manipulators
seized on this and persuaded the negroes
that they must vote for Maddox and
bonds to get in at the barbecue The
process, as described by one witness, ran
thus: A negro approaching the polls was
greeted with ELUSIVE warmth by some
white man to whom he was under obli-
! cations, and walked into a private room
near the polls, where he had all the
! whisky he felt like drinking. He was
! then instructed how to vote for Maddox
| and bonds and to return and receive
| therefor his free ticket to the barbecue.
Many of them were sharp enough, how
ever, to see that votes were in demand,
and the price was run up to three dol
lars and something before night.
| A Frank Contestee.
| Altogether there are 80 contests, the
testimony filling some 40 volumes and
making 1,627 closely printed pages, yet
in three cases no testimony was fled
| and in four others none has been printed.
| The frankest contestee I have talked
! with is Judge Abbott of the Sixth Texas,
! who bluntly says that if the election
were held today the Populists would
carry at least half the districts in that
state, and that if the Republicans had
understood their business in 1894 they
could as easily have got six members as
the one they did get. Another southern
contestee illustrates the feeling by re-
lating an anecdote of one of his constit-
uents who went to the theater for the
first time during the Atlanta fair, saw
Richard III played, and, to the as
! constituent of the audience, raised a
vigorous yell at the very start, shouting:
"Hit him again! That's the talkl''
| When asked the cause of his strange con-
duct, he replied, well, didn It know
nothin about the piece, but when that
humpbacked Teller come in and said he'd
| been made Disseminated all winter by
this son of New York, I knowed who he
! was a-hittin at and raised the yell. -
A luridly picturesque contest indeed,
if they do not throw it out on the
! ground that the testimony came in too
late, will be that of John Murray
| Mitchell against Hon. James J. Walsh
of the Eighth New York. Mr.. Walsh
would be Fatty Walsh if he were not
brother to the politician SO we'll known
by that name, for he physically fills the
bill, and Mr.. Mitchell is emphatical1y a
'Fbird.' - He is law partner of the we'll
known John r. Dos Passos and brother
of the former United States District At
torney Mitchell and has himself won
considerable distinction in admiralty
and maritime law.
War and Politics.
It is claimed that the election of Hon.
William Owens over Judge Denny in
the Kentucky district, made famous by
W. G. P. Breckenridge, was due to a
Prohibition ticket which had on it
phenix, somewhat resembling the Re-
publican emblem, the eagle, and that
about 800 Republicans voted it by mis-
bdk0. 4U6IS dI6 ICUT CONTESTS 1TOIu AID
bama, four from South Carolina and the
same from Virginia, three each from
Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas and
New York, two from Kentucky, one
each from Mississippi and Missouri and
only one from all the western states. It
looks like pity that Hon. Finis E.
Downing, the solitary Democrat from
Illinois, should be cast out, but those
( who have looked into it say that his op-
ponent, Hon. John I. Rinaker, will be
seated, and SO there will be but one
Democrat from all the northern states
west of Ohio-namely, Hon. James @.
Mcguire of San Francisco. He will have
for company, if company it may be call
ed, Populists John G. Bell of Colorado.