Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-01-03
GARNEIvr, KANSAS, JANUARY 3, 1896.


can put him down as an office-seeker or all ei
eny of the people The argument sometime
made, that the people should not be given til
Imperative Mandate because they might use
without sufficient cause, is foolish one.
can assure you of one thing: majority of til
people are not near as apt to abuse their off
cials as majority of officials are apt to abus
the people. Therefore, l say give the peopl
the benefit of the doubt if there be one an
let them have the Imperative Mandate and Di
rect Legislation. J. Eddy in Tacoma Sun
Those people who have been consigning TIN
Peoples party to the tomb for so long woult
learn wisdom by Aoting what Chairman Carter
of the Republican national comittee, enunciatet
at one of those big New York dinners recently
As reported by the Associated press, he sait
that he did not think it wise for the Repubi
cans to be too confident Although it was appar
ent that victory was in the air, he said there
were reasons why it was not well to be optimis
tic to degree of carlessness. He thought the
grave questions before the country might well
cause the Republicans to pause and reflect: The
president had placed himself squarely in favor
of retiring the credit money Of the country, !.
was possible that the financial centres of the
country agreed with him. There was no doubt
a course of that kind, if pursued, would make
Populistc votes. Mr.. Carter called attention to
what he STYLED as the remarkable growth of the
Populist vote He said that it had increased 24o
per cent during the past three years. This great
growth had not been developed in the national
legislature, as there were less Populists i'll the
house than in the sand congress, but the vote in
the diffrent election showed Populstic in
crease, which it was we'll for the Republicans to
take into consideration.-E
In a recent issue of the Hoxie Democrat the
editor said: "Last Saturday night at ten
O'Clock was another anniversary for us, as it
made ,oo5 days since we stepped out of the
back door of our office and broke, our beloved
whisky bottle, pledging never to use the vile
stuff again TO our certain knowledge we haVe
kept the faith" The editor of The World can
90 the Democrat several days better. 1t has
been exactly $500 days this morning since he
has tasted red liquor, wine, or anything that
would intoNcate-or, i'll other words, he has
been total abstainer since the 4th day of July,
1872 We can cheerfully add that never during
all those $500 days, has a doctor "felt' our
pulse, looked at our tongue, prescribed for us,
nor has any kind of medicine passed our lips,
and we have never been sick or ndispo3ed for
all hour. Can any one who looks upon the wine
when it is red say this uch?-Girard World.
THE Grander Age is openly and above board
for union of Reformers, aud does not propose
to wait one minute for the consent of any
"leadern before shouting this fact from the
llousetops The people have been ''leadered'
to death, until now, after years of fighting and
paving out tens of thousands of dollars for
expenses, they find they have simply
been netltralizing each others efforts and doing
lightly little good for themselves or the coui-
try Every time a union has been promised,
some '.leader' in each of the Reform parties
has hurriedly jumped to his feet and explained
why cit could't be done" This sort Of busin-
ess the people are getting thorughly tired of,
and there is going to be union, leaders or no
leaders If the leaders don't like it and it
CRATES too much on their glorious principles,
they can flock together and lead themselves
Grander Age.