Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-10-01

PrOL SWen6SOn, the oWeulSn OraCOr Oh
Lindsburg, is now in Chicago making
gold standard converts among the peo-
pie of his nationality He is using an
old Swedish copper dollar weighing
one pound 1116 ounces as an object les
son. Swenson is the man who tried to
get gold into the st. Louis Republican
platform without using the word gold.
He is also the man who wrote very
insulting letter to Governor Lewelling
for sending him populist paper.
The gold standard Democrats of this
state have nominated presidential cleo
tors, but will place no state ticket in
the ZELDA wise conclusion, truly.
The county ticket of Miami is com
posed of three Populists, three Demo-
Gratis and one silver Republican. Paul
Russell is the candidate for representa-
tive.
The Populists of Graham county
have nominated G. W. Jones, colored
man, for county attorney.
Neither Stephen A. Douglas nor
Richard Yates, both sons of their
noted Illinois fathers, is giving salts
faction to the Republicans as campaign
speakers in Kansas. The Wichita
Eagle very wisely Says, "Send us
fathers, not sons. This is no boys
campaign and we need heavy cannon,
not shot guns. :"
The State Normal students find y lit
tie time for politics and some of them
have formed Bryan club.
The Santa Fe is going to ship two
car loads of its employees to Canton so
that they may have an opportunity to
gaze upon Mckinley. The bill of lad
ing win be made out to Mark Hanna
The Whitewater Herald, CONSTANT
silver Republican paper, has placed the
national, state and local silver ticket
at the head of its columns There is
no consistency in paper advocating
a measure and supporting ticket that
is opposed to it.
The middle-of-the-road convention
called by Rightmire and a few others
at Topeka was failure. The call was
issued for delegates to meet and place
Bryan and Watson electors in the field
but no one responded
R. ]. Shive, an ambitious young
resident of Burton, Kan, has pub
lisheda challenge to any one within
80 miles of that town to debate the
free coinage question with him.
The Moran Plaindealer is now a
strong silver paper. If silver was adj
vocated by all who are its friends ut
heart there would be but few gold bug
organs in Kansas.
Coffey county is among the first to
give an expression of how the silver
people stand on the question of United
States senator. The Populists of that
county have instructed for PETER.
Conventions are about over in this
state. October 3, is the last day to file
nomination papers with the secretary
of state and October IA is the last day
to file with the county clerks. There
are several points regarding the filing
of nomination papers that ought to be
looked up about now.
The Bryan clubs of the various
counties are holding county conven-
tions this week for the purpose of
forming county organizations and to
elect delegates to the national conven-
ton of Bryan clubs to be held at St.
Louis, October 5th.
1t may be an injustice to the owners
of the Topeka Daily Co-Operator, but
some good Populist papers are charg-
ing that the Co-Operator is being
backed up by the Republican state
committee.
Mark Hanna said in an interview, II
will leave Kansas in the hands of Le-
land. II he can't carry it nobody
can" Hanna is glad to have Kansas
of his hands and to shift the blame of
an overwhelming Bryan majority on
20 some one else. Kansas has but few
voters for sale and there is but little
material for Hanna to work on.
A hot-headed young gold bug of OK
ford, KAN, convicted himself of an
archy the other day when in a politi-
cal discussion he made the statement
that some of the candidates on the
Populist ticket were anarchists and
ought to be shot and that he would
gladly join mob to hang them. Gut
he was just as consistent in saying
that as corporations are when they OPP
pose free silver for fear it would cut
down the wages of their employees.
An agent of Mark Hanna's, promi-
resident of Wellington, the editor of a
paper called the Mail, went out to one
OF the country districts to make some