People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-10-15
Should Wash Our Hands.


Press Association TO hoist the names
Of the "Middle.o the Road" electors
at the top of their editorial columns.
He signs it as president Kansas
Reform Press Association"
We are sorry to break amicable
relations with Abe, but We must say
that when he issues this sort of an
appeal officially he is usurping
privileges and making an unwar-
ranted show of authority. He is
placing the association in a false
light before the people. 1t is safe to
say that out Of the $50 Reform
papers in Kansas, not over a half
dozen of them are in sympathy with
the so called middle of-the. Road"
movement.
The Populists of Kansas met at
Abilene in state convention and de.
liberately took such action as they
thought to be best for the advance
ment Of the principles they represent
the principles we have all been
Increasingly advocating since 1890.
Their action has been almost unani-
mously endorsed by their constit-
uency.
A month after the close of said
convention, a stranded Populist
daily at Topeka was resurrected with
Republican money. 1t raises a cry
for "Watson" electors. 1t is echoed
by Cyrus Corning, VIZ. Rightmire
and other sore-heads who have done
service for Republicans in former
contests of the people with them.
A petition for new electoral ticket
is put out and in time is filed. 1t
purports to be signed by 900 people,
but all the signatures show only
seven different handwritings. IthaS
been shown that the petitions were
circulated by Republicans in many
parts OF the state, and that liberal
commission was given for signatures.
On such a narrow basis the presi-
dent of the Kansas Reform Press
Association officially appeals to
Populist editors to desert the cleo
toral ticket chosen overwhelmingly
by the Populists in regular conven-
ton, and support the rump ticket
begotten in Doodle and born in fraud.
Abe'S gall is supreme. This action
demands some action on the part of
the association. Let it be called to-
gether at once, by the executive
committee.
At a time when the people are
graphing with the money power in
death struggle, when the question of
popular government is rocking in
the throcs Of failure, when patriot
ism is being tried in the balance
with mammon, when all true hearts
are desiring and striving for a union
OF all elements against the destruct-
i've forces that are undermining and
guarlllarlzing our government,
comes this little agitation; comes
in such a strange and mysterious
way, putting up childish pout that
one Tom Watson, an individual, is
being slightedl In a few days he
will be riding over this state in a
special train, paid for beyond a
doubt out of Mark Hanna's twenty
million dollar campaign fund; paid
for by the trusts and combines, the
enemies of the people; paid for by
the banking capital OF foreign ma
tons, the enemies of our country.
He will be accompanied by Paul
Vandervoort, Of Omaha, The man
who charged the Populist party Of
Nebraska with having "sold out'
when they UNANIMOUSLY endorsed
Bryan, UNANIMOUSLY elected Bryan
delegates and UNANIMOUSLY repudi-
ated Vandervoort.-a boodler and a
blowhead.
If there were no suspicious cir,
cumstances about all this, the agita-
ton at this time could do no good
tits Mark Hanna scheme and the
Reform Press ought to wash it:
hands of the affair-and do it q,
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