The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-12
PARTISAN APPEAL
An Example Of Campaign Liter
allure Being Sent Out.
High Sounding Pamphlet Issued
by Republican Committee.
1T rs APPENDICITIS.
That is What Circular DenOmi-
mates Populism.
Voters Are Taken Up Into the
Clouds.

Political appendicitis after the veri-
form concomitant has been successfully
removed" is, in the opinion of the Re
publican state managers, what consti-
tutes the opposition to that party in
this campaign. In other words, this
IS the designation applied to the fusion
forces by the Republicans.
This opinion is an extract from
pamphlet being sent out by the state
committee to the voters of Kansas.
Tons of literature are being sent out
by the Republicans, including all sorts
of discussions OF the state and national
issues One which is now receiving spe-
cial attention is entitled kansas in
1900
This particular pamphlet announces
that the case is stated from a Repub
lican standpoint" Following this is the
following language, On the cover of the
document:
Facts and figures from the official
records showing how the state has re-
deemed itself from the verge of moral,
material and financial ruin
when Populism moves out, peace and
plenty move in
The Republican record is epitomized
as follows:
Honor and glory in the past; pros
perity and patriotism in the present;
and for the future, ripper hopes and
richer stanzas''
This pamphlet admits that the state
has redeemed itself, but the campaign
speakers claim that the Republican
party did it. Just what ''ripened hopes
viii be worth on the market. or what
values richer SJanzas'' will bring to the
people this pamphlet does not prove, but
the reader who studies the document
will be expected to admit of the truth
fulness and possibility of this predic-
ton.
Kansas in 1907 is dedicated to voters
and not to the politicians This is the
announcement which in
PRODUCTION:
ITO the man behind the ballot:
.'Arrayed against the Republican
party in Kansas this year are the tri-.
valvular forces of PopuIsm, Democracy
and free silver. The transfused combi-
nation met in convention at Fort Scott,
prOraJed the offices, and adopted a plat
form which invites a comparison of the
Populist and Republican administrations
in this state. From a Republican point
OF view such comparison is not only
invited but demanded.
III all that makes for good govern
nlent, a wise and prudent administration
of public affairs, and the prosperity and
welfare of the citizens of Kansas the
Republican party is willing to be meas
ured by it's achievements, and to rest
its claims in this campaign upon the
balance sheet of promise and perform
ance in the past.
TT may be counted a hopeful sign
when the opponents of the Republican
party, marshaled under a common ban
ner by the alchemy of reform, manifest
a belated desire to compare notes, to
contrast results, and to abide by the
record, instead of persevering in their
favorite parOXysm of calamity and re-
Stunning from year to year their char
acteristic attitude of looking through
sightless eyes up to a goddess heaven.
"Republicanism stands for an ex-
panding Kansas, for a greater and
grander commonwealth, for bigger crops
and better prices, for increased earnings
from fields and mines and factories, and
for the highest possible development of
the manifold resources of the state.
"Populism in the year 1900 is a case Of
political appendicitis after the Vermi-
from concomitant has been successfully
removed. It's platform is a sort of class
fled catalogue of signs, omenS and pre-
lictions, showing the shortest cut at a
one-fare rate to governmental collapse,
trans continental decay and worldwide
wreckage.
Are things going to smash? Is there
any foundation upon which a POpulist
can predicate his perennial clamor for a
changer In the face of existing condi-
tions where win the despairing reformer
find his ammunition this year2"
Among other things this pamphlet
contains the following:
LAS a matter of fact, Populism is
about the only thing that has not thriv-
ed lately. In 1895 the Republicans were
confronted with the hippant inquiry:
Have you met the general? Now that
the distinguished military benefactOr
has arrived, the Populists absolutely re-
fuse to serve on the reception commit
tee. Not only are they prejudiced
against the general, but they seem to
cherish a. grudge against the colonel, as
less than a corporafs guard turned out
to welcome him on the occasion of his
Kansas tour of notification.
'Populism is a fading crescent. 1t has
had it's period of fullnesS, and is wan
ing. dwellings was the first Peoples
party government on EARTH I.eedy's
was the second. There was nothing of
either that seems to justify a third.
1T may be claimed by the opposition
that the remarkable growth of the state
in population, business and wealth has
been steadily and gradual, and that no
particular party or policy is entitled to
a preponderance Of credit for the grand
results to be observed in the year 1900
How appears the record on this point7
The population of Kansas In 1890 was l.
423, 583 During the period between 1890
and 1885, when Populism was getting in
its hardest ticks, the population de-
creased to 1886, $50, or 1924 less than
if was in 1890