Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-08-28

MARK HANNA is scared about New York.
IDAHO Populists and Democrats endorse wo-
man suffrage.
PROF. Ross, of the Leland Stanford uni
versity, of California is ecturing in the interest
of free silver
The railroads refuse to issue passes to Pop
ulist or silver candidates. Good We're glad
OF it. They should be above asking for them
HANNA says he does not hope to reclaim the
silver Republicans who have bolted, but thinks
he can capture enough gold-bug Democrats to
offset the boiling Republicans.
w. A. DE FORD, of Ottawa, is perfecting
the details for organizing state Bryan League,
similar to the Republican League. call for
a state meeting will soon be made.
J. w. LEEDY spoke to several thousand peo-
pie at Arnourdale last Friday night. M S.
Peters and Judge Hindman were among the
speakers. There were twenty prominent Re-
publicans on the speakers stand. 1t was
most enthusiastic meeting.
HANNA loudly proclaims to the public that
New England is for Mckinley. This reminds
us of the simple fellow who got on his horse
and rode over miles of country to inform the
people that the Dutch had carried Holland.
HANNA says he didn't read Bourk Cockran's
speech in which he criticised Bryan, but it vas
Superb This reminds us of the Republican
who don't know what is in his party platform,
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right-because it has the Republican tag on it.
Under gold standard men can make money
by boarding it, for it continues to increace in
value though idle. As soon as free-coinage is
adopted, money will begin to decrease in value,
and it will soon crawl out of its hiding place
and seek investment. t.-Inter-Mountain Advo-
cate.
THE Mystic Brotherhood is busy trying to
find out how the nominees for governor stand
the question of prohibition. They say they
will put certain questions to Morrill, and Leedy,
and if answered satisfactorily, no other candi-
dates will be put in the field otherwise, new,
clean cut resllbmission ticket will be nominated
When you possess a dollar you simply hold
certificate that society owes you 100 cents.
That is all money is, all it should be- all it can
be. Whether stamped on paper, gold or silver
has no more effect upon the value of the dollar
than does the color Of the paper upon which
railroad tickets are printed. Inter Mountain
Advocate.
SENAToR KINGS friends express themselves
as disappointed that he was not nominated for
governor but say that they are now just as en-
thusiastic for Leedy as they would have been
for King. In this connection it might be stated
that Mr.. King and his friends made one of the
cleanest and fairest fights ever made by any
candidate for nomination.
MAYOR PINGREE, of Detroit, is for. free sill
YER but-he wants to get free silver within the
Republican party Mayor Pingree has done
much for the poor people of Detroit-s, in
fact, friend of the poor-but he exhibits
wonderful lack of Judgment in his advocacy of
modern Republicanism. He will not get free
silver through the Republican party, and he
ought to know it by this time.
BEN HEILBURN, of Usage City, offers to put
up forfeit in all Usage City bank on the fol-
lowing conditions: He will pay $3.50 in gold
for !, 900 American-coned silver dollars, after
the passage of a free-slver act, or forfeit the
$3.50 the party putting up like forfeit to lose
if he fails to deliver 900 of such silver dollars
at the time stated for $780, He says if this
5o-cent dollar means anything, here isa chance
for some of its advocates to make IS cents each
on I, 900 silver dollars.