People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-12-17
Another Ungrateful Traducer.

can citizenship and love of liberty
and truth are the hereditary accom-
plishments of every real man sprung
from the soil OF the ozark and bloody
ground" as well as the intellectual
aspiration of every real man who
claims the state as his own by
adoption.
A Kansas nObleman, power in the
nation, brainy, mighty, manly man,
brave American, and a true friend
to the interests Of his state and her
people the late Senator Preston B.
Plumb was strong and consistent
advocate of free coinage. Among
the latest acts of his career was the
introduction into the senate of a bill
providing for the free and independent
coinage of silver. The Kansas state
senate, representing" says the res
OlutiOn, 1.-THE Republicans of Kansas,
urged upon the national house of
representatives prompt concurrence
10 the Plumb silver bill, which had
been passed by the senate. The
leading Republican papers, boards of
tarde. political clubs and Republican
conventions all over the state passed
similar resolutions, insisting on the
passage of the bill and its approval by
the then Republican chief executive.
Senator Plumb's able speeches on the
measure passed by the Senate were
distributed far aud wide and it was
generally conceded among both the
Republican clergy and laity that free
coinage should be the cryand "silver"
the party shibbOleth until the gates
of the enemy were beaten down and
destroyed. This cry was repeated at
every county convention and this
ShibbOleth given the guards, as a
cOunterSign, up until the st. Louis
cuckoo convention.
Meantime, the Lord, in his wisdom,
had smitten the silver son of Mars,
and broken sod, in the cemetery Of
his beloved city, marked where the
mighty senator from the Sunfower
state lay encoffined.
By one of those strange and incom-
prehenSible mutations ofprOvidence-
or-pOliticS-was chosen to succeed
this gifted and loyal Westerner, this
intelligent and valiant American, one
who, like Marks in Uncle Toms Cabin,
had naught TO recommend him but
his uncOntirmed personal statement
that he was a lawyer. 1t is true that
he had law office, and had appeared
before the police justices as defender
of numerous jointkeepers charged
with violation Of the Kansas pro-
hi0itory law. 1t was also limited that
he had several times reached the
dignity of case before the probate
court and had once defended a man in
dicted for MURDER. No one had ever
been found, outside of himself,
who had even suspected, or at least
was willing to admit, that he was a
lawyer. Such a presumption could
not have arisen out of any real fact
Of his history. Such presumption
void have been too violent, as well
as entirely unjustifable. Even a
suspicion that he was a real lawyer
could only arise as an inference by
reason of his having been at one time
admitted to the bar.
During the recent campaign it be-
came apparent that the free coinage
seed. SOwn by its dead lover, had been
cast on good ground and that a
majority Of the people of the state
just over the border were in favor of
establishing an independent monetary
system for the United States. Like
a scurvy politician. seeming to see
and understand the things he did
not" the present junior senator from
KansaS-himself a former avOwed
free silverite-clected by a free silver
legislature-jumped into the breach
and with wild and whirling words of
abuse, "tOOls," ''liars," "knaves,"
"pOp0cratS." and "rascals," sought to
turn the people from conclusion
they had reached by intelligent and
conscientious study, to the worship
of the father-in-law of the present
Republican party-the doughty bass
catcher of Buzzard's Bdy-and his
Canton satellite.
Since the election the word culled
by this pretended lawyer" from his
choice vocabulary, as properly de-
scriptive of the people who drew him
from the boy OF Obscurity-in which
nature and his own talents had
properly placed hlm-is "whelps."
Not dogs Newfoundland, pointer,
setter, or other respectable sort, but
just plain, every day "whelps." A
braiuy pygmy might become the
intellectual mantle of JOve, look well,
and with some dignity temporarily