Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-19
THAT STANLEY RICHTER CLUB
Railroad Employees and the Railroad
Which Is not i'm Politics.

Republican papers have been
making great deal of the Stanley
and Richter Railway Employees
Club of Emporia, which Is said to
show the great enthusiasm of the
railroad wage-workers for Stanley
for Governor. A member of the
club contributes the following to the
Emporia Times:
"Well, Mr.. Editor, it may inter
est the readers of your publica-
tion to hear from our Stanley Rich
ter railroad club. l am a member.
Joined it for good many reasons
which trust to make plain to every
one. We started out with all over
flow of enthusiasm. Weismey err
carried an enrolling blank to which
we attached our names. The boys
here think 80 much of John they
could not refuse. Your readers
will remember the sound money
club we organized here two years ago
and the large float We stretched
across the street calling attention
to our club room. We held numer-
Gus meetings and received loads and
loads of literature, all printed on
yellow paper telling us how to vote
for which we were all thank full. i.
One evening when the Mckinley
cavalcade was going to parade it
was heralded abroad that the rail.
road mems sound money club would
march through the streets and carr y
floats. With grow ing gladness and
unconcealed JOY l waited for that
happy day. Did you see US march
Let it be recorded to our shame but
we hired boy to carry our banner
and some of the men silently laugh
ell as he passed by. We are sur
prised now that the men appear to
be amused at the reports of the
well-attended and enthusiastic meet
ings we are holding this year.
| That it has been difficult so far tC
get quorum is true, but Weismey
er and Mr.. H. B. Morse are urging
the men to come out and think they
will. One of the daily papers few
days ago encouraged the mem ber.
of the club by giving glowing
description of the large and enthu
siastic meeting we had held On the
preceding evening. The truth is
Mr.. Editor, regretfully given, there
was not a dozen of us out that night
| attempted to drum up the boy
myself but met with little success
This Indifference is grating to m,
nerves, and, to express my senti
ments mildly, am disguised will
the men for not being more faithful
1t is true, as maintaied by some 0
the men, our daily wages are not a
high as formerly, but owing to th'
farmers big crops and the stocI
shippers interests we get to worI
longer hours which makes our tota
compensation as large as it was whe
the wages were better. For thi
kindly privileges to work shoul
we not be thankful? Do we nc
owe the republican party for it
Why, then, will the boys be car,
less about attending the meetings @
the Stanley-Richter club? Paus
and reflect few moments upon tn
vast amount of good Stanley has al
complished for us. Is he not an a
: torney for the Rock Island railroa
and has he not as a prominent co
poration lawyer always been th
tried and true friend of labor an
labor's interests? He rece 1tly issl
ed proclamation declaring his il
q tention to come down among th
O people,. Is there a man in our clu
, who does not rejoice because of h
great humility and self-abnegatio
in thus leaving his pedestal to com
down upon a level with commo
e workingmen and day laborers sue
. as we are? One of the members {
: the club said to me that he W.
II making more money now than |
did when Morrill, was Governo
, Very true, said, but the state b;
r. better crops now, is the cause {,
% hat. He then had the insultir
/. impudence to ask me if Stanley al
n Richter were responsible for Il
a. better crops and why they did Il,
q, make it possible for the farmers
d have better crops wien the iepu