Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01
GARNETT, KANSAS, MAY I, 1896.
WAY NECESSITY FUR CONsERvATIsn?

WHY NECESSITY Fur CONSERVATISM?
Kean ST. Charles, editor of Our Mineral
Wealth, of Kingman, Arizona, and a delegate
to the national convention, writes: "Three
Peoples party papers are now being published
in Arizona: at Phoenix, one at Bisbee and
Our Mineral Wealth. at Kingman. Three Of
the four delegates to the national convention
favor financial plank and the Initiative and
Referendum, if necessary, to bring the reform
forces together. For my part, the financial
plank is good enough until the administration
of government affairs is taken out of the hands
of the 'Shylocks.' Then reform can be carried
out along the whole line. All Americans who
no longer believe in the many working for the
few must join together"
On April I6, the Peoples party of Maryland
will hold their state convention to elect dele
gates to the national convention Letters re-
ceived from all the leaders in that state indicate
that Maryland will follow Virginia in sending
a strong conservative delegation to the national
convention.
The above items are taken from the circular
letter sent out by the "People's Party News
Bureau at Headquarters National Committee,
St. Louis" last week. Several other items in
this circular letter refer i'll an indirect manner
to the same subject-.rimming the Omaha
platform.
The "bureau" and "headquarters'' evidently
give satisfaction to the "one-pank" idea by
publishing the suggestion of the correspondent
who would be satisfied with financial plank
alone, and the same idea is evidently enlNsdcd
in the announcement that the Maryland and
Virginia delegations will send "strong conserv
ative" delegations to the national convention.
When did 'strong conservatism become
feature of Popuism? Is it not absurdly ridic-
ulous at this time to find it necessary to send
'strong conservatives" to Populist conven-
ton to combat the very principles that gave
the party its phenomenal growth?
Is that what the "People's Party News Blu
reau'' was established for-to manufacture
public sentiment in favor of platform trimming
and cultivate conservatism?
Has the Peoples party gone to seed? If
"strong conservatism is to come in at this
stage, the party will blast before 1t has time to
ripen.-Coxey's Sound Money.
FROM the Star and Kansan, Independence:
Every workingman who votes an old party
ticket votes food out of his mouth and clothing
off of his back.
An interesting bit of news for the fellows
who think we need nothing but the free coin
age Of silver to make us all happy and prosper
Gus is the statement that the Rothschilds have
Just bought the leading silver smelling works
in New South Wales With the capital they
command, how long do you imagine will it
take the gold monopolists to monopolize silver
as we'll? Indeed, it looks as if the money
barons were anticipating and getting ready for
the free coinage of silver. In ten years they
could corner both metals and control them as
perfectly as they now do gold Free silver
would only be an anodyne
Is it possible for a man to be a follower of
Christ and at the same time be striving to ac-
cumulate property in the means of production,
so as to live by the labor of others? | don't
think it is; but l am willing to hear all that can
be said on the other side; and my columns
open for the discussion of the question.
Platform-tr -trinners among the Populists who
want to cut the soul out of the party must be
given to understand that cutting down the
platform means cutting down the vote. The
real reformers are not in the party just to help