Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-23
WHATS WRONG WITH KANSAS


can state central committee is spread
ing circular broadcast over the state.
This Office has been favored (?) with
three copies during the past week The
article is credited to the Emporia Ga
zette of August Is, and for contemplate
misrepresentation, villification and
abuse, unaccompanIed by facts, beats
anything we have seen so far during the
present campaign.
In one respect 1t is truthful-and
only one, viz: The people of Kansas
are growing poorer every year and the
values of all forms of property are con-
stantly lessening. And here is the
reason for the states condition accord
ing to the sap-head who discovered"
the cause. Read it carefully; notice
the logic:
1--WE have an old moss-back Jacksonian, who
snorts and howls because there is a bath-tub
in the state-hOuse; we are running that old Jay
for governor. We have another shabby, Wild
eyed, rattle-brained fanatic who said openly in
a dozen speeches that the rights of the user
are paramount to the rights of the owner; we
al luhuluS uIul IOT CHleI we nave
raked the ash heap of human failure in the
state, and have found an old hoopskirt of
man who has failed as a business man, who
has failed as an editor, who has failed as a
preacher, and we are running him for con-
gresham -at-large."
Then this leech who has lived at the
public crib all his life and who has yet
to do his first days honest toll, gives
vent to his depraved feelings as follows:
"WhoOp 1t up for the ragged trousers! Put
the lazy, greasy fzzle, who can't pay his debts,
on an altar and bow down and worship him
Drive all the decent, self-respecting men
out of the state. Let's keep the old clod-hop-
pers who know it ALL
In such vile harangue the circular
consumes about two columns of a news
paper in decrying and derlding the
farmers and laborers of the state.
Shame! Every journalist in the state
who has any claim to honor and decen-
cy will feel discouraged and disguised
to know that in the city of Emporia
there IS one man who has surren-
dered his manhood, if he ever possess
ed any, for price, and thus brings dis
grace upon the profession.
Farmers, think of it! Here is a party
soliciting your votes which has raw
ing blatherskite employed to ridicule
you In your adversely and financial dis
tress. This pimple on the face of soci-
ETY. receives liberal bonus from the re-
publican committee for insulting the
men who have developed Kansas, who
have built her cities and who have
made it possible for such freaks as the
Gazette to live in her domains at all land
now because the farmers and laborers
have at last risen In their manhood and
exercised their God-giyen prerogative in
demanding an equitable portion of tire
fruits of their own labor they are revil-
ed by miserable old reprobate who
never contributed a copper to the
states wealth. Shades of the departed!
Has it come to this that farmer or la
borer cannot have voice IN a govern
ment of the people, for the people and
by the people, without being scorned
and vlllitied because, perchance, his
wearing apparel is not as fine as that
OF the high flying political acrobat, or
because he can't count his wealth by
the millions or half millions?
If Kansas is financially and socially
embarrassed, who is responsible? What
party has had control of the state ever
since it has been state? We defy
any republican to name a single year
when the greasy, ragged trousers old
clod- hoppers" had control of the law
making power of the state. All our
laws are republican laws; republican
legislation has brought Kansas and her
people into their present financial
straits. Morrill,, not Leedy, is governor
of the state, and the promised return
of capital and prosperity did not make
connections. Give us such men as
Leedy, Doster, Botkin and Boyle in.
stead of such employees of capital as
Morrill,, Blue, Horton and Dawes; give
us the laws that the Peoples party de-
mands, and we will have state and
nation that will be free from suffering,
and instead of the classes dominating
and ensIaving the masses, we Will have
a nation, a state and people united in
one common broth erhood, and there
will be happiness, industry, prosperity
and contentment in every nook and cor
ner of the state and nation.
But down with party or man that
for the sake of political supremacy and
selfish gains will discourage and treat
with outrageous indignity the men and
women who have made the state what
1T is and who are now trying to over
come the evils with which we are now
afflicted. The farmers and laborers are
the noblest and best men this country
has. They are the ones who in 1861
landed the country safely over the crisis
and they are the ones who today are ad-
ding to the nations resources. To be-
little them because they are asking for
voice in government is trespass up
on the sacred rights of American citi-
zenship and should not be tolerated by
a liberty loving people.
Rebuke the demon who will become
the tool of those y;ho stigmatiZe and