People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-25
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1897.
THE FUTURE OUTLOOK
Senator Butler Discusses the
Outlook for POpulists.

Senator Butler Discusses the
Outlook for POpulists.
When Senator Butler returned to
Washington after the ending Of the
senatorial fight in North Carolina, he
was interviewed by reporter of the
Associated Press. He was asked three
questions, to each of which he
promptly gave short, clear, and fore
IDLE answer. On the following day
the said reporter notified Senator
Butler that the Associated Press re-
fused to send out the interview. The
interview, including questions and
answers which they refused to send
out, Is as follows:
Senator Butler, when asked by an
Associated Press correspondent in
what shape the senatorial fight in
North Carolina had left his party,
said:
"The Peoples party is in better
shape than it has ever been since it
was organized. This is especially so
just at this time in North Carolina.
The election of Pritchard by some
boiling POpulists means that we have
simply lost seventeen voters, for
whom we have the qualification Of be-
lievlng the opposition paid extremely
high.
mot a single one of these boilers
could have been elected as Populists if
they had said on the stump that they
would vote in the caucus for Pritch-
ard, much less if they had said that
they would bolt their party's caucus
to vote for him. If they were for
Pritchard during the campaign they
were elected under false pretenses.
At any rate they have sacrificed their
principles and betrayed their constit-
pe0tS' Mark HanOa and his agents
have gotten these seventeen individ-
uals, but they cannot get another
man unless they should be able to
find some one or two corrupt men in
some county who are willing to de-
sert their party and join the Republi-
can party for fat Federal office, and
! am sure that there are not to exceed
one hundred of that kind of cattle in
the state. Every time the Republi-
can machine finds a member of our
party to accept a Federal office, it
means that the Republicans have
bought one vote, and one only, with
the Office, and such a loss is not a loss
to (but publication and a strength.
ening of our party. This purging
and purifying of the Peoples party is
an Indication of health, and will
surely result in great growth to the
organization. As soon as the boilers
and traitors voted for Pritchard, the
Peoples party members of the
legislature at once held a caucus and
expelled and branded every bolteE so
as TO render it impossible for any of
them TO ever be in position to again
betray the trust of the people, and
also to make it impossible for any one
of them to ever find admittance and
gain membership in any respectable
party.
"The Peoples party by its action il
this respect has shown itself more re
liable and truer than any other politi
Cal party that exists. When Cleve
land corrupted the Democratic part!
by patronage, If not by other means il
addition, to repeal the last silver Law
on the statute books, the Democratic
party failed to denounce and expel it
traitors, who had betrayed their con
situeDcy and trampled upon tb
principles of their party. But, on tn
contrary, the traitors in that case ar
still men of high standing and posi-
tion in that party.
1.-THE Republican party 10 dozens O
instances has been guilty of the sam
crime in not branding and expellin
traitors from its ranks.
"Thus the Peoples party has demon
strated the necessity for its existence
and will henceforth draw rapid
under Its banner Of political integrit
every honest man and patriot still
left In the rank and file Of both of tn
old parties"
Referring to Representative Skin