Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-18
HALL THE TRAITOR.
EIGHT SENATORS ARE POLITI-
CAL COWARDS.
Between the Cowards and the Traitors
the Liberties of the People Are
Being CruciGied-Time to Call IL Loud
Halt.

Congressman L. S. Hall, of Missouri
who, like Livingston, of Georgia, and
others, owes his position in Congress to
the deception he practiced on the AL
lance, or Farmers and Laborers'
union of his state, has been creating
little sensation in Congress.
Hall is one of those shrewd fellows
who took advantage of a popular up
rising among the people against exist
ing evils to boost himself and few
friends that helped him into a salaried
positions. He never could have broke
into Congress any other way, and his
treachery to the organization that ele-
waited him to the position is fitting
evidence of the unscrupulousness of the
man. He went to Congress as a free
silver advocate. He assisted in con-
structing the ST. Louis demands at the
! joint meeting of the Alliance and
knights of Labor, in December, 1889,
and also the Ocala demands year
/ later. He was then a warm advocate
of free silver.
In 1892 he took a prominent part in
| the Missouri campaign, running against
Chas. II. Mansur and aided other
| leaders in deceiving the members of
his party into the belief that the ma
! tional platform adopted at Chicago
| meant free silver. Now he says the
| platform don't mean any such thing
I He was speaking on the free silver
/ senate amendment to the bond bill, and
said:
| Il observed a remark of my friend
| from Georgia this morning to the effect
! that in voting for this first section of
| the Senate amendment he was stand
| ing upon the democratic platform
adopted at Chicago in 1892. 1 know that
l am talking for body of men who
! know that platform by heart, and I
I defy any one of them to produce one
! section of that platform that warrants
( a vote by any democrat for the first
/ section of this Senate substitute. You
| can not find any such provision in the
| Chicago platform of 1892. You will find
! in that platform of the democratic ma
I tional convention a declaration that one
. dollar should be made as good as an
! other in the United States and the
/ world over. You will find in the plat
b
+ trine corresponding exactly with the
I first section of that senate resolution;
refer TO the national platform of the
( populist party. announced at Omaha,
July 4, 1892. That is the only political
platform in the United States that has
ever laid down such doctrine as that
embodied in this senate resolution
Mr.. Talbert. of South Carolina, asked
him if he did not vote for free silver
Mr.. Hall replied:
The gentleman from South Carolina
asks if did not vote for the free silver
coinage bill in the extra session in
1888. 1 answer, yes. But I will tell
the gentleman that l have progressed
since that time
Now progressed" is a very good
wcrd. Some one has called it sue
cumbed, but in our opinion pro
gressed" is much Ylore respectable. Be-
sides, there is no suggestion about it
OF any undue influence being used to
accomplish the desired result. Just
progressed"
/ Carlisle has progressed"
! Hoke Smith has progressed"
F., ]. Sterling Morton has progressed" !"
/ We know OF "oodles" of postmasters,
too. who have progressed
Benedict Arnold progressed"
Judas progressed"
The people have progressed" too,
but it is ba1 awards, and towards great
er destItution and poverty.
what Mr., Halls constituents ought