People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-12-03
The Battle in Kansas.

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of its farmers. Tie smoke Of the
grelest lj;irH battle ever fought
10 Fana, ha~ cleared away. The re-
salt to the m j3rity is grand sight
10 -sp.. wcH Il, a remarkable
victor: tOth, enemy, the saddeSt and
NOS 2looau -,4ht since the state was
admitted to the union. The Repub,
liclns have lost all but two congress
men and weAo down in dismal Gefeat
AN unconditional surrender They
nut I'D the must desperate fight in
their history. The Importation OF
foreign Speakers, the champagne tour
0. the Scared" veterans, the high
apostles of the grandeur OF protection,
the great statesmen of national repute,
the hired emissaries, the polluted press,
the wholesale coercion coupled with
all kinds of frauds aud receptions,
have been rebuked by the allied forces
of the masses.
What does this mean? 1t is
nothing more nor less than a political
revolt, and not without a cause. 1t is
the spirit of John Brown of forty years
ago again marching through Kansas;
a national omen, break for freedom
a halt to the further encrOachment of
white slavery. In 1888 President
HErisOn carried Kansas by O,lj9
AHrity. This year the party is
12.000 behind-a change of $4,000
votes in eight years, which, in an
agricultural state, is a remarkable
occurrence especially in a state where
about 100000 votes were cast. Those
of US who have resided here for a
quarter of century, and have been
cOgDizant Of the workings of the Re-
publican party, with its state .egisla-
tion, with its neglect of the inter ests
of the labOring masses Of our people,
are not surprised at the result.
| firmly believe that if the Republi-
can party had managed the affairs of
the state in the interest Of the tax
payers and legislated in the interest
of the people instead Of the corpora
tiOnS, rings AMI political henchmen,
it would to-day have 100000 majority.
1t has proved by omission as well as
commission that it is lot the friend
of the common people, and at last
been OVertaken by just condemnation.
The people Of the state have by
their right of sovereignty placed the
three branches of government in the
hands of a new party. The eyes of
our fl lends as well as our foes of the
state and nation are upon US. What
is our duty?
FiTst-PrOye to the citizens of the
state that we are the friends of tire
people.
Second-ShOw that we are neither
regulators, anarchists nor cranks.
u Thikl-PrOye that we are big
enough, broad enough and possessed
with sufficient intelligence to repre-.
sent the various interests of the en-
tire state.
FOurth-Place at the head of all the
various penal and charitable institu.
ltiOnS honest and efficient men. Prac-
tice what we nave been preaching
economy and equality,
Fifth-LaSt but not least, enact
flaws based upon justice, carrying out
lone of the cardinal principals of gov
fernmenG. Protect the weak against
Sthe strong, the poor against the rich,
the individual against corporate
greed, and plant nope in the breast Of
labor.
4 We must redeem by legislation oul
pledges made in our platforms. We
must prove that redemption means
measures of relief"
The first thing in this line is the en-
actment of maximum freight bill
similar to the Iowa law.
Provide for Il constitutional cOnven
tiol.
Reduce the salaries of the stat,
officers to correspond with remunera
tion in other channels of trade ant
4 business consistent with a gold stan
dard.
Consolidate the boards of some o
the bubble institutions and abolish
Others which are unnecessary to tn
welfare of the state. Pay to the off
Gals of the state and to the member
and directors of the various board
their actual expenses, and no more
while travelling over the state in tn
performance of their duties, instea,
of s and 10 cents per mile as nov
allowed by law.
ReappOrtion the state into eigh
congressional districts, attach severa
representative districts which hav
been dissolved con|tit utionally to tn
districts on The east md create other
q where population demands, Til