The Advocate and news., 1898-06-08
What Of the Future ?
W. N. MOORE.

0AS AANAy OPuAAoNo WhO NAS AVN
going to bubble and quarrel in prlma
ries or conventions who will give the
party a surprise at the counting. AS
far as We can learn there is great salts
faction with the present administration
with the exception Of Governor, and it is
a very serious question If he can be re-
elected again, or anywhere near 1t,
should he be nominated, even If the
balance Of the ticket carries by large
majority. The same thing is going to
happen with the Representatives and
county officers. The nominees for Of
flee must average over six feet in moral
worth and law-enfOrcing character.
Mark the predlctiOn-the POpulist party
is going to be very uncertain quantity
from now on. 1t has too many real
earnest, honest, all-arOund refOrmers
who believe in the enforcement of all
laws not special ones, and this element
has been badly sickened and disappOint-
ed The conventions have the power to
cure this sickness will they do it?
We will quote from the Advocate and
News of February the words Of VIM.
Allen White: And God said, Let there
be light, and there was-Kansas." Now,
there are great many voters in this
beloved Kansas that are going to help
keep that light bright, and by far the
greatest number that are going to make
an earnest effort in that direction are
POpulists and independent prohibition
lists. We might as well come at the
subject matter square now-it Is the re-
tanning and enforcement Of the prOhibi-
tory law. The Populist party is In favor
Of the initiative and referendum, there
fore no true Populist can afford to vio-
late this law or wink at or encourage in
any way its violation, because it was
passed by direct vote Of the people of
Kansas by over 5000 majority.
What guarantee have we that they
will obey any other people-made law II
not this one? Let the light shine.
Some will say, What is the matter with
Governor Leedy? Hasn't he been good
Governor? In many respects, yes.
Then, why this opposition? Simply be-
cause he is acceptable to violators Of the
prOhibitOry law?
Now we do not believe the Governor
personally is in favor of drink or the
violation Of the law, but there Is some
thing that makes him satisfactory to the
viOlatOrs and that feeling has been
strengthened In this county by the par
don by him Of viOlators, convicted, fined
and imprisoned. 1t is claimed these viO-
latOrs are Populists; that 1t was spite
work, and that Republican viOlators
were allowed to go unmolested. He
should have refused to pardon them on
the ground that refOrmers should not
violate law and bring the party into dis
Tepute, no matter If Republicans went
scot free. Does the Governor realize the
burden he has placed on those Of us that
guaranteed to our temperance friends
that he would be true to this law as
well as others in both legal and moral
support? Can we defend him any more
to our friends? Never; the writer has
suffered too much himself to do So We
have had to condemn him openly, and
will vote against him to sustain our
own sincerity. Republicans have bur
dened us with jeers and chafflngs about
our solid reform Governor.
At the Abilene convention It was
hinted to us by man from the eastern
part Of State that we must put In nomi-
nation man that would be acceptable
to that element, because the Republi-
cans would (naming the mem. On the
strength Of this recommendation we Op-
posed the man recommended for the
Peoples party and worked and voted
for Mr. Leedy in the convention and
after his nomination during the cam
paign urged our temperance friends to
support him. Pray tell us what has
been our reward. We asked the Gov
ernOr when he was at Belleville IL there
was any danger Of resubmission, and
he said he thought not, but that 1t all
depended on how we'll the Mystic Broth
erhOOd got their work in.
From now on the tables are going to
be turned, and men must be chosen that
will satisfy those that are for happy