Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-04-05

STRANGE as it may seem, the Topeka Capital
takes Senator Rogers (Populist) part against
Cy Leland, chairman of the Republican state
central committee, who has made fight on
Senator Rogers, charging him with drunken
ness, etc., and has instituted an investigation
of the Senator. In winding up its defense Of
Senator Rogers, the Capital says: "The
charges are outrageous and uncaled for, and, in
view of the leniency extended in the past to
Republicans who were the same kind of prohi
bitionists that Senator Rogers is, the investlga
ton is neither consistent nor good politics. y
The Atchson Champion another leading Re.
publican paper, endorses what the Capital says
and adds to the roast in this manner: "We
heartily concur in the above. If every man II
public Office is to be investigated for drunken.
ness and loud talk why not apply the old adage
IF every man sweeps before his own doorstep
the pavement will be clean The men who
have the least license OH earth to make how
about drunkenness, lewdness, gambling, open
immortality and general cussedness, including
lying, slandering, whore-mongering and thiev-
ing, ought to move somewhat cautiously in the
-
not saint, and does not profess to be, but he
has shown a large measure of legislative capac-
ity and business sense that his prosecution must
challenge the scrutiny of those who will COM
pare his rough, bluff, profane honesty of pur-
pose with the weak, pulling, ever-sniling and
always-treacherous compound of native insin-
cerity and studied nendacity which has thrown
away the fruits of hard-earned victory by con-
spicuous cowardice and loathsone deception.
If Senator Rogers will, he and his fellow Pop
uiist senators might unmask the terms OF the
dastardly surrender of the executive Morrill,
in the appellate court matter, and he or they
might expose the hidden villainy by which a
Republican triumph in Kansas in November,
1894, was made to pay tribute to the chairman
of the Populist state central committee in 1895.
What was most needed at the state capitol the
past winter was unlimited integrity and common
sense. If the Investigation business is carried
far enough, it will be found that there was a
most conspicuous lack of either"
WHEN the boys went down Pennsylvania
avenue that beautiful May morning thirty years
ago, the nation was so grateful over the success
full ending of the great conflict that practically
ended on that day that those boys could not
have asked too much of the happy people.
But, the boys asked for nothing Their days
in the tented field and trenches were over.
They were anxious only about getting back to
their farms and shops and they went back
crowned with honors. They went home, but
went home ignorant of the fact that, while they
were storining forts, assaulting trenches, ford
ing rivers, climbing mountains and cheerfully
meeting and overcoming all other hardships in
cident to army life, band of brigands at home,
in the capital of the nation, had sold them and
theirs into financial slavery to as heartless a
band of task-masters as ever ruled negro plan
tation in the south in the palmy days of negro
slavery. They had been too busy for years at
the front to pay much attention to the schemes
of the money-changers in the rear. They trust
ed them-trusted as Washington did Benedict
Arnold, and were just as cruelty sold out, with
the added injury that, while Arnold could not
deliver his country into the hands of the Brit
ish, the brigands did, to degree, then, and, to
an intensified degree through all the years since
that grand march, deliver the country into the
hands of the spoilsmen, and to those spoilsmen
have we been paying tribute ever snce-tribute
growing in magnitude in excess of the growth
of the wealth of the nation; and the appalling
sequel to all this is that thousands of the boys
thus sold into bondage have gone with enthusi-
asm over the success of brigands.
BEFORE the nomination of city officers at
Topeka, the Republican papers of that city OPP
posed Mr.. Fellows, one of the candidates, on
the ground that he was the "bummer" candi-