People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-06-23
Stanley's Record.

W, Z. Stanley for governO. by the !
Republican party is considered a
grave party blunder by politicians |
here. This is city made up largely |
Of old soldiers and working men, and |
Stanley is neither. he is 81 years Of
age-sufficiently old In the COS to 60 |
to war, but he didn't.
He was never q workingman, and
has no sympathy with the principle |
Of maintaining high wages, princi.
pie dear to the hearts uf working
men.
The very first job he held in Kan
sas, according to his own statement
published few months ago with his
biography, was secured by offering to
work as school teacher for s. a
month less than the teacher then EN-.
ployed. And more than that, the
teacher was a woman. Workingmen
will hardly vote for a man who
started out in life by working at less
wages than a woman.
There is another reason why Stanley
is not regarded well in Topeka, and
that is that he is call things 10 all
men" on the prohibition question.
The pastor OF his church went to
Hutchinson to assure all prohibition
delegates that he was a prohibit
zionist, while his lieutenants ran the
biggest bar in Hutchinson IN his be.
half. Stanley himself lodges the
question in an interview in which he
says: "As to prohibition, / do not
think it an issue 10 the present cam
paign. Therefore, 1 do not care to
discuss 1t. The platform which this
convention has adopted does not re.
fer to the question, and l think it un-
necessary to thssh over this old straw
every year or two years, as the case
may be. l will make the campaign
strictly on the platform adopted by
the convention" This neither suits
prohibitionists nor resubmissionists,
Mr.. Stanley is still more afraid to
define his position relative to the
Metropolitan police system. He re-
fuses, absolutely, to be interviewed on
that subject. The Topeka people
think this is subject that no mau
should be afraid to declare himself
upon. Nine out Of every ten business
men say: Stanley is too much like
Morrill, to suit u.s."
There is but one old soldier on tn,
Republican ticket and that one II
Richter, who was nominated for tht
poorest ONCE on the state ticket
There were fourteen candidates be
} fore the convention who we're oil
soldiers, and they were oil turned
down but Mr.. Richter, and he wa
nominated probably because he Is tn,
) general agent In Kansas for an In
' surance company that Webb McNal
barred out Of the state. Although
: the company does no business In Kan
o sas, Mr.. Richter is still drawiuI
{ salary from 1t. He Is evidently OIL
their pay roll as political manager II
o stead OF a business manager.
The convention turned down fou
. old soldiers who were commissions
on the field Of battle for gallantry ye
1t had the audacity to insert resoll
tion In its platform stating that
was the sentiment Of the Republica
party to give the preference In offici;
life 70 old soldiers. This was not iI
serted because the convention mean
! to comply with or honor IL, but I
" break the force Of Governor Leedy
u successful fight with the nations
o administration, 10 which he con
V PEELED the secretary Of war to reysri
J. his ruling to the effect that no per
sioner Of the late war was eligible
official position In the volunteer Sc
Il vice Of the country.
= The Topeka old soldiers probab
ID voice the sentiment Of the old soldie
10 Of the state when they say the Repu
. lican convention was clearly guilty
? prejudice against the veterans. II
~ convention went so far as to public
III ignore petition sent through Colon
II. D. r. Anthony by the veterans Of +
at Soldiers Home to the convention a
81 presented by Captain P. Il. COney
Topeka. This petition prayed to
~ member Colonel R. W. Blue favOrat
C. when nominating a candidate for CO
ne gressman.at-large. No action "
V, taken on the petition, except tn
no instead Of nominating an old solid
\ like Colonel Blue, 1t nominated you
- = Mr.. Bailey, Of Baileyville, plutocr
IL who was born since the war.
g. Considerable comment Is made
the speech Of Senator Hessln in t
convention after he was defeated
the nomination for governor. Heve