The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05

Uttered by Rod Galloway a
Promising Candidate
For the POpulist Nomination in
the Second
An Insight Into His Political Charac-
ter Given BY g Recent Letter to
the State Board ofEailroad
Commissioner

I Some time ago the Kansas City, Kan.
! board of trade sent out a circular let
ter to the chairman Of the POpulist
county central committees Of the state
ard TO ether prominent members, ask
ing for their signatures TO petitions to
the railroads of the state for reduc-
ton in the freight rates as they exist
today.
When these were all in, the board Of
trade sent the petitions accompanied
by a letter to the state railway com
mission. and they were received yes
terday Commissioner Howe was ask
ed what action the board would take on
the letter and petitions de repls4-
They viii be placed on file with al
similar papers that come into TINS Of
fee and ia due time viii be reached py
US and then disposed Of
The letter which was addressed to the
PouulisC chaIrnen- was FepllsQ 70 lay
orably by hundreds of them DuI II.
I'll Galloway Of Fort Scott, q candidate
for the fusion nomination for congress
AGAINST Jack Harris in the Second DIS
trict wrote back 10 the BOARD OF Lfaoe
of Kansas City as follows
your letter 10 ROSS " illians- chair
man 81 the Peoples party central com
r7fttee OF Bourbon county containing q
petition for farmers TO sign asking
railroads TO reduce freight rates two
cents per hundred. is handed me for
I'VE may as weu talk hat-footed
.-yVe have got down on our knees and
ratftfonad railroads. commissioners
and boards Of trade for twenty we
years to lower our rates, ana W nav
been taunling1y told we should stand
as much as the uariH would bear
We have patitiQned commercial CEN
ters boards OF trade. bank synaleales
and congress to glVa rs better prices -y
ren7aaetizinE silver and coming more
Green backs. bat our freight rates have
Steadily advanced and our prices have
and now. when distress is wide
spread when orr homes are ruined and
tears are daily Wrung from the hellleaS
YOU hand rs another petition TO sign
and expect US TO beg. with bated breath
and whispering humbleness, our rall-
roads to lower their rates two cents,
GOD save the mark
That's another batch of soft soap
for the farmers
we are not In a supplicating vein
eve are not talking that way now
tsFFe don't care whether you lower
Your freight rates or not.
AT our meetings we are talking IN
different strain
II YOU want cattle or hogs to ship.
raise them. If YOU want wheat or corn
to handle raise it, We won C.
..T0ur freight rates and. tariff are
founded on the laws of man. and are
infauous-Dut they are essential 70
z-o75r eternal welfare These are
some of the primary principles farmers
aretallzing about
tlt1Lr- pray LELL us NllEk4 Oh -N Ell LA-l-A
any interest I'M the farmers welraret
.-D15 you ever insist that we should
have s. so for our wheat. 81 for our
corn. 500 for our steer and $50 for
our horsa2 These We're the prices at
the close of the war
.1Y9u are aware chat prices depend
upon the volume of money and no1 the
kind.
~As the volume Of money increased
during the war prices got better; as il
has contracted since, prices have grown
worse. Prices were mighty good on
'ras babies. but they are mighty Dad
on sound money When the green
back was Withdrawn your boards Of
trade swarmed ABOUT W ashlngton de-
nanding their destruction, and bonds
ia their stead Corn went down to p
cents Was this in the interest of the
interest must be paid on the bonds
but the money with which to pay ii
was burned up
when the sherman silver purchase
law was repealed YOUR boards of
trade were on hand, and the farmer
was denied even a silver dollar. His
corn went down to Is cents. Was this
your interest in the farmer2
I'VE. the farmers. want change. but
we do not believe that prayer TO rail-
roads VIII bring IT,
1--WE have seen the constitution mutt
lated and our rights ana liberties de-
srroyed by corporate greed, under false
constitutional interpret ations by pro-
higate and Inconsistent courts which
have made that same constitution TO
uphold all manner of infamies and to
deny the people justice
That wonderful document. the con
stitution of the United States. has been
SO construed by federal courts as TO
enable railroads to tax at Wil- under
the construction which railroads have
placed upon it. American citizens are
held in Jail without the semblance of a
trial; debts and bonds have been piled
upon us at the behest of the dealers
fin money and the people Of sovereign
states have been robbed of even the
ught TO make laws to govern affairs
within their own borders The in
depreciation of this document by tie
supreme court has plunged this nation
into an iIlias malorum.
Farmers are about done praying to
corporate made courts. congresses ard
TO railroads. for a redress of their
grievances. They have tried petitions
and prayers. and they have failed, as
they have failed in generations past.
Farmers from now, hencefOrth, VIII
come with reprimands and commando
and woe unto the servant who fails tc
obey their mandates
we viii leave TO sherman. TaIma ge.
boards Of trade and their ilk All the
peltioning and praying to railroads.
The farmers are done with such non
sense Very truly yours,
n H. GALLOWAY"
SECOND DISTRICT POLITICS.