People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-10-27

ways full OF money to defeat legisla-
ton aud after distributing the pat
ronage and drawing its salary the
legislature adjourned and the stat
utes OF Kansas contained no remedial
legislation for existing wrongs and
the result was that the party was
Overwhelmingly defeated in 1896.
The Populists improved the oppor-
tunity, the stock yards was investi-
gated and the people OF the state will
profit greatly by reason of it. The
rates for yardage, hay and corn was
reduced one-half and instead of the
money going To swell the stock and
dividend OF the Philadelphia, stock
holders it remains with Kansas ship
pers and farmers.
The superintendent OF Insurance
went after the insurance companies
and rate makers. The valued policy
act was made an act in fact and
every insurance company in Kansas
obey it, and citizens who were so I'M
fortunate as to lose their homes by
fire, are no longer compelled to ac-
cept One-half of sum insured for. or
stand long drawn out law suits with
the usual delays in thesupreme court.
The companies must pay, show a
good reason why, or get out OF the
state. They then passed the fee and
salary bid, that saved the people
thousands of dollars. The county
treasurer was drawing $4,000 a year,
or thousand dollars more than the
governor OF the state, now the treas
urers office pays $1,000 and compe-
tent men are anxious for the Office at
the present salary.
The coal miners are no lOngercom-
PEELED TO take scrip to be paid at
"pluck me stores" in goods. The
people OF this state had suffered for
years from the school book mOnop-
ly that tlourished around the legis-
lature lobby, year after year defeat
ing legislation for state uniformity
and cheaper school books. Why
the Republicans left it to the Popu.
lists to grant relief is only explained
by the existence and CONTROL of the
party by that outfit that has made
Kansas POpulist by reason OF their
readiness to exchange the welfare OF
the people and party for cash in
hand,
1t was in the power OF the Repub.
lican party to have enacted this legis-
iation and to have been entitled to
the lasting gratitude Of the people,
but those whose interest in the par
ty consisted in what they could get
out of it, was in control, and the
same crowd is trying to maintain
their position in this campaign.
,, They are the "band wagon" patri.
OTIS, and not until the Republican
party OF Kansas gets rid OF them
can it hope to recover its proud
position as the party of the people
The Republicans cannot hope to
win by hanging on to the coat tai
of McKinley's administration. The
national administration has nothing
to do with Kansas domestic affairs
and state legislation and the records
Of the two parties on state legisla
ton is the al. absorbing question
The talk of upholding the hands o
the national administration /,
nothing but-thecry OF the demagogue
Mckinley conducted the war will
Kansas i'm the hands OF the POpu
lists, The war is over. Thenation
al administration can get along il
times Of peace without the assist
ance OF the, gang" and the hes
way to assist the Republican nation
al administration is to put the par
ty in shape to win two years henc
by cleaning house.-Republican Elk
change.