The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-09
Attitude of 6. C. Clemens and
Others Makes Trouble.
DIVISION IMMINENT.
Factions Seem to Be HOpelessIy
Divided.
Topeka POpuIist Expansion
lists Receiving Recruits.

G. c. Clemens is making all kinds of
trouble in the Populist camp by giving
expression to his 'heresies, because the
rank and file is beginning to flock
around him on some Of his propositions,
particularly in his opposition to Chair
man Riddles anti-expansion mani
festo.
AS fast as some POpuist or Democrat
has trOtted out a new issue on which to
make a campaign next year, Mr. Glenn
ems has ruthIeSsly declared that 1T Is no
issue, and he has taken pains to get on
the opposite side of nearly every propo-
sition that the POpulist leaders have
espoused.
TO begin with he declared that free
silver didn't amount to anything and
would never do any good anyway Then
he incidentally remarked, so that the
public could hear him, that the initia-
tive and referendum wasn't half the
panacea it has always been cracked up
to be. and that it wouldn't cure many
of the existing evils if we had it. Added
to this he openly expressed disbelief
in Mr. Bryan, and said that BOurke
Cochran mtde a better speech at the
Chicago trust conference than did Mr..
Bryan This in itself would constitute
rank treason in the POpuist camp.
About the same time Mr.. Clemens made
public his belief that the Democrats
and POpuliSts were away off in their
expressions on the trust question, and
he openly said that the trusts could not
be controlled.
All of these things caused the Popu-
list leaders to shake their heads and
look upon Mr.. Clemens with suspicion,
but they were hardly prepared for his
expansion speech at the reunion last
week and his subsequent interview in
which he took issue with Chairman
Riddles anti-expanSion manifesto.
The POpulist expansiOnists are now
beginning to line up with Mr.. Clemens
in a
what that uarty's position will be on
the war question by the time its con-
vention meets. Among the other POpu-
lists who spoke for expansion at the re-
union were John Madden, of Emporia,
and eX-Lieutenant Governor Harvey.
Mr.. Clemens has just received let
ter from r. H. CadWallader, of Miami
county. commencing his views Mr.
Cadwallader is chairman of the Populist
central committee of Miami county, and
is also editor of the Louisburg Herald
In his letter he says:
I read with pleasure your interview
in the Topeka State Journal on expan-
SION / shall print 1t and mail copy
to each of the members of our central
committee and other Populist leaders" !"
In speaking of the position taken by
Mr. Clemens, Major Harvey and others,
J. Z. Latimer, assistant state librarian,
who is one Of the POpulist workers of
the Second district, said today:
There is no use of talking, these fel-
lows who are making such a fuss over
Aguinaldo and passing resolutions de-
nOuncing the war in the Philippines
Will feel awful sick after the election.
The people won't uphold that sort OF
thing. 1 don't believe there is anybody
in the country who wants to see our
soldiers shot down over there, and they
won't vote for the fellows who are
standing up for Aguina1dO.
7 believe it was a mistake on the
part of our government to hang on to