The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-04
POLITICS IN KANSAS.
George NJ. Munger Says the
Candidates Next Year
Must Be in Touch With the
People.
Position of the Reform" Party Will
be aStrategeticaI" and Depends on
Position of the Other Party.

'"rhe issues of the next national cam
paign have not been outlined as yet,
but the contest will be the same as it
has been since the first government was
organized by man. It will be the same
old struggle between human greed and
the oppressed people"
George M Munger OF Eureka uttered
these rather grandiloquent words last
night in conversation with reporter
for the Journal
Mr. Munger is the noted irrigationist
of Greenwood county, to whom the
Populists of the Fourth congressional
district rendered the nomination for
congress last year, but named John
Madden of Emporia when Mr.. Munger
declined.
Mr. Munger does not pretend to dis
Germ the future policy of the Populist
party, but says:
Whatever may be the issue it will be
strategetical. Last year the great issue
was upon the question of money. Next
year it may be the railroad question,
the money question, government by in
junction, antitrust agitation or some
thing of which we at the present time
have no knowledge.
eff we have the opportunity to draw
the line next year as we did last, the
battle will likely be fought on the same
ideas that were prominent in the last
contest If on the other hand our OPP
ponents take the initiative, we will be
compelled to meet them wherever they
assume their position.
There are times when men with new
ideas become prominent. They happen
at some opportune time to utter some
thing which strikes a responsive chord
in the hearts of the people and at once
become the heroes of the hour.
This popularity is due to the fact
that these men are in touch with the
people. That must be the condition
next year. The men who are selected
to lead us must be in touch with the
common people. They must realize the
It rNff Ink
this be true, their career will be short
lived, But if we choose men who are
in sympathy with the demands being
made against the greed and oppression
The time has come when changes must
be wrought. Not that l believe in
harsh measures, or anything OF that
kind but 1 do believe that the people
of this country should avail themselves
of the privileges accorded them by the
ballot box and free themselves from
this yoke of oppression which constant
ly increases rather than d1m1n1shes.
Asked for an expression concerning
the present administration, Mr.. Mum
ger said:
istration of Gov. Leedy and his asso-
ciates is eminently satisfactory to the
people of Greenwood county nave
been among the Popuhsts there put
little recently and 1 have not been If
a position to acquire any great fund
of information concerning that point
but it is my opinion that the people are
wholly satisfied.
IT have heard no demand in that
county for a special session of the leg
islature. The people spent last year
attending to the public business. at
tending rallies, going to conventions
and hurrahing for their respective can
didates. When the smoke of that battle
cleared away the people of Greenwood
county settled down and have since
been making an earnest effort to at
tend to their private business, waiting
for another year to roll around when
they will resume operations with ref
erence to public affairs. This condl-
zion Ioen 7 say accounts for the fact
that but little is being done or said
with reference to politics in my sec
ton of the state