Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-12-06
SOME COLD FACTS.


Lieutenant Governor Percy Daniels wrte
letter to the Topeka Daily Co-Operator
which is most excellent. We cannot publish
the whole letter, owing to its length but W.
give the first portion of it:
The election seems to be over and the resul
seems to be a repetition in Kansas of that o
previous 'of years. 1t is so i'll Crawfort
county. The Republicans have filled the "of
year, Offices as they did in 'oI and 80. The
Populists can take these Offices at any time
they can get the same per cent of their men to
vote as the Republicans do, but the Peoples
party is largely made up of men who abhoi
the methods and despise the practices of the
old parties, and it takes very little evidence that
the party is following into reprehensible prac-
tices of the organizations they have left, tc
make the reserves find more satisfaction in
shucking corn than in going to the polls.
Fusion, too, is something they do not ap-
prove and will not endorse. These, added to a
dismal day and rainy afternoon, permitted
the Republicans to retain the Offices they have
heretofore held, and local feeling gave them a
commission. So the vote in this county repre-
sents the old guard, and not the reserve. The
former always turn out. Rain or shine, fusion
or not, they are always on hand, glad of the
chance to try and down the foes of good gov
erninent and satisfied to discuss methods, or
how it was done, afterwards. The reserves do
not r>spond to the blast of the party bugle un-
less its chords sound full harmony to the
animating motive and principle in their own
breasts nor unless the sky is clear and the
way free from obstacles and frowning and
threatening employers
The efforts of the old guard are often lost for
lack of this support from the reserves, and this
was the case here i'll 1895 as it was i'll 1898.
With 900 plurality on a full vote, the Popu-
lists have permitted the G. o. p. to retain half
the county officers another two years, unless
one or two of the most closely contested ones
should be changed by recount, which Popu-
lists are demanding OIL account of Irregularities
at three or four precincts.
With larger voting population than ever
before, the average vote in the county was y
Alb less than in '92, and ,2S5 less than in "a,
while the average Republican vote was but
fourteen less than in S2.
IN SHAWNEE COUNTY,
The reserves seem to have turned out with
full ranks also part of the other fellows re-
serves decided to support the side of claw and
order" Now, if the Republicans should
count i'll tie in the next legislature, will the
civil officers of Shawnee county plot with the
buffers and harmonic with the sledge- hammer
crowd?
THE OUTLOOK FOR FATNERS.
The Daily Co-Operator had few days ago
startling scare-head about the "Dismal out
look" for the farmer, as though it was some
thing new and accidental and unexpected.
Are you doing, sick or going into your dot
age? Or is the apparent surprise only pre-
tense
Why, bless your innocent soul, this result is
part of the deliberately adopted plan of the ar
istocrats and monarchists-the class of anar-
chists whose intrigues and lawlessness are the
most serious menace of our institutions-who
now control every department and dictate every
action of the government. They know what
they are doing and how completely the farmers
are in their power. Nor do they intend to
abate their efforts or retract their decision un-
til what they have undertaken is accomplished;
but they are Marching Along more rapidly
than they expected when the following appear
ed in the New York World four years ago