People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-04-22
Hot Stuff from Colonel Stacey.

not stun from Colonel Stacey.
Col. A. G. Stacey, who recently got
up the trade edition Of the Monitor.
Press in this city, penued a letter to
the Wichita Star from which we ex-
tract as follows:
Editor Star-Never before has Kan
Sas Republicanism within the state
been SOpurifed as at the present time,
the scum aud the dregs being in Wash.
ingtOn Ousily employed in watching
distribution OF pie and endeavOring
to secure portions, no matter how
small, Do we miss the LelandS, the
Dick Walkers, the Geo. Findlays, the
MurdOcks, the Simpsons, the Bris-
lows? The very air seems purer ana
the sun casts no rays of shame upon
the Kansas Republicans now that the
machine has transferred it operations
to the east.
When decent, Self-respecting men in
their devotion to Republican princi-
pies, gave $1,000 majority in this state
they did so in the belief that adher
enCe to the honest faith til t founded
the party would compel purity in pol
iticS and protect the people. The inn
menSitY of our majority made the ma
chine possible, and so such men as Cy
Leland, Lift Crum, jim Simpson,
Billy Buchan, Bent Murdoch, George
Findlay, Dick Walker, NJ. Kelly, Phil
Kelley and scores Of lesser but fully as
corrupt men seized the lines and guild
ed the craft to that port in which they
found personal profit.
Then it was the party went down,
disOwned by meu who could not stand
the stencil.
After aQuarter of a century in office,
kept there by party he did nothing
to maintain, Ryan receives an import
ant office in Washington.
After four years Of blood sucking,
having all the characteristics Of a
leeCh, Joe BristOw is rewarded and re-
ceiyes an office where, as the instru.
ment OF Cy Leland, he car make and
unmake officials and faSten upon US
the machine To our undOing.
After two months management Of
a populiSt legislature. where he die
tated all that was obnoxious to the
people Of Kansas and opposed all that
the people most desired, Cy Leland has
gone to Washington to dispense Of
fee, and to him all must look ior Of
fetal favor.
When Ed Little in his inaugural ad-
dress said the dogs of Egypt barked
at tue pyramids, he made a mistake.
They were barking at the sphinx, that
senseless mass of stone supposed at one
time to have been an oracle. Lit
Crum might we'll have been the OBJ
iect of the dogs dislike, for his as.
Sumed Importance in political circles
was the impotence of a mass of stone,
but he is after his reward, a United
States marShalship.
And George Fln1lay, Where is the
man who ever heard of clean political
deed done by this man who has Lee
lands endorsement for a collector
ship,
What is the futureOf Republicanism
in Kansas?
Burn the scum and the dregs; bury
the LelandS, the CrumS, the Findlays,
the MurdockS, the Walkers, and all
the riff-raff that has heretofore as
sumed to be the party and Republican
ism will once more predominant.
But II we must choose between evils,
how can we help but take that lesser
evil-arr0gant, ignorant pOpulism-
IN preference TO the men who have so
dishOnOred party that made Kansas
what it was until 1888.
1t is time to break away from the
gang, which even now is seeking to
make up state ticket for 1898.
The pOpulists last winter made a
record for errors, but their blind ad-
herence to these stupid mistakes has
saved the state much. The Republic
can machine would have done more
harm.
There is but one thing to do, and
that is to break the power Of the uu-
scrupulOus gang VINO would ruin the
state to furtaer their own selfish pnr-
poses.
1t is not a rebellion that is advised
but an exercise of power that will
bury the crowd that has dishonored
the party.
This is the day Of independent vut-
ing. Exercise this independence at
the primaries and don't again turn
over the conventions to as unscrupu-
lOus lot of men as ever disgraced a
party or state.
A. G. STACEY.
Newton, April 6.
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