Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

upon the fusion revival in central Ne
braska, and especially in Buffalo coun-
ty, where the situation, he says, Is
to the conditions that pre-
vailed in the summer Of 1890.
Prior to 1890 Buffalo county was as
sclidly Republican as one can I'M
agine. During that memorable cam
paign the Republicans Of the county
at the idea that the alliance
you'd cut any figure in the campaign.
In Kearney, the Republican leaders
laughed gleefully at their bright pros
>ects and asserted that the alliance
movement consisted of one part voters
Ind ninety-nine parts wind. One day
1t was announced that in the latter
part Of August the alliance forces
would hold a grand rally on the banks
of the lake in the northwest part OF
the city, and that the rally would be
preceded by a parade. The Republican
leaders smiled and said that the par
ade would consist of a few battered
wagons and a dozen or two calamity
shriekers and disgruntled office seek
IS. The day before the rally reports
came to the city that there were
number Of people camping out in the
country north. Wild guesses were
made as to the cause Of this, but none
of them were right. The next day
showed that these camps had been
pitched by farmers, who had come 80,
80, rs and even 100 miles to partici-
pate in that alliance parade. The
streets Of Kearney were filled with Re-
publicans on the day of the rally.
About 1 o'clock in the morning the
head of the parade came down Central
avenue. The parade went south to
the court house, doubled back, and
FOUND its way to the lake. But over
the hill to the north still came wagons
and carts and carriages and buggies.
Reapers and mowers and cultivators
were in that parade. The farmers
kept coming until it seemed as II ev-
cry farm in Northwestern Nebraska
was represented. AS it kept winding
Its slow length through the city the
faces of the Republican leaders grew
longer and longer.
The New York World forgets itself
long enough to print the following
editorial paragraph:
Nearly all of the gold discoveries
In the Klondyke region have been
made on Canadian territory, but there
is every reason to believe that discov-
cries equally rich will be made on the
American side of the line. In either
case the land is public land and the
gold found on it belongs naturally to
the state which is the owner of the
land. But both in Canada and in
the United States this valuable asset
d the treasury, this common property
of the whole people, is allowed to be
appropriated by the first adventurer
who happens to be able to stake
claim. We do not even get a decent
.oyalty out Of it. AS result of our
absurd mining laws Klondyke will
produce a few hundred millionaires
made rich at the public expense, while
the representatives of the remaining
seventy-odd millions of people in this
country are struggling and scheming
to devise new methods of taxation to
meet the necessary expenses of the
government"
| AS an evidence that the cause of free
silver is not dying out by the passage
Of time and the Dingley bill (as was
hoped and expected by the monopolis-
&c gold bug press) attention is called
by the Grand Rapids Workman to
the monster bimetallic picnics being
advertised all through Michigan, to be
addressed by the brainiest and best
Informed men of the country. A series
Of these picnics has already been ar
ranged for in Ingham, Eaton, Jackson,
Branch, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Van
Buren,, and other counties are coming
will have at least six SO distributed as
10 offer an opportunity to every citizen
within its borders to hear the doctrine
Of bimetallism expounded by apostles
Of free silver having national repu-
lion as leaders and great orators as
we'll. One of these picslics at Sparta
the 18th was addressed by ex-Gov
John P. st. John of Kansas, and one
for the South End fair grounds the
18th was addressed by the Hon. Chas
A. Towne. An interview with T. F.
McGarry and L. X. Salisbury, presi-
Dent and secretary Of the Kent county
Bimetallic Picnic association, shows
that these men come at tho request
and at the expense Of the directors oil
the local organizations. The method
Of advertising in this county is by
small hand bills to be placed in every
house. Each contains paragraph
planning that this course is made
necessary from the fact that The bull
letin bill boards, posts and fences are
pre-empted with posters, advertising
mortgage. assignee and closing OH
sales.