The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-08-30


land would win Not single demo-
cratic state, not solitary southern
state. gave its electoral vote to Neav-
err This was reserved for republican
states alone.
Gen Weaver and Mrs Lease went
south to campaign together They
were mobbed- Mrs Lease was treat
ed with such outrageous indignIty as
the most abandoned hoodlum of II
northern city could scarce be COM
PEELED by threats to lnfiict upon
woman BY whom? BY southern
democrats, who constitute the .scilival-
rys, of the south She was excusabIy
Indignant, and filled the newspapers
with invectives against the southern
democrats Now observe Although
the Kansas democrats had ticket
in the field, they opened headquarters
in the office block in Topeka and car
ried regular campaign billing
out speakers. etc For what? For
the Weaver ticket and the state ticket
put up by the peoples party There
--close fusion between Jones, the
democratic state chairman, and Bried-
cnthal, the PoPulist state chairman On
the quiet. when the populists We're not
looking, they worked together This
is capable of proof if it is wanted, but
we shall see if it is denied. Well
Weaver and Mrs. Lease, in their re-
turning tour from the south, were due
to visit Topeka Jones' the democrat tic
chairman, protested that Mrs Lease
must not be allowed to speak, because
she would be offensive to the demo-
Gratis and would drive away votes.
Drive votes away from what2 From
the peoples party which had, in its
platform, bitterly arraigned the DEM
ocratic party with Cleveland at its
head Jones won. Prudential was
determined that Mrs Lease should not
speak Her name was left off the
bills to please the democrats de-
nounced by the Omaha Tla tform. Only
the republican party was to be de-
nounced by the populist speakers, I'M
der pain of being silenced, to please the
democrats. Thousands gathered at
the meeting at the fair grounds. Gen.
Weaver finished his speech Brieden-
thai and others had been 1aboring
with Mrs Lease, but they succeeded
only in making her furious When
Weaver had finished the chairman was
about to end the meeting, but immeoi-
ately there were loud cries for Mrs.
Lease and the cries swe1led into a
mighty and irresista BILE demand which
the chairman did not dare ignore.
Mrs. Lease came forward, an enraged
HOness- A mighty cheer went up and
lasted for some minutes. When she
could be heard she peeled every inch
of cuticle off Briedentha1 and Jones
and then gave the democratic party
such a drubbing it had never had
over with Mrs Lease as a regular pop
ulist speaker in Kansas campaigns,
and Briedentha1 did all in his power
to keep her still. At one. time affda-
Wits were collected to prove that Gen.
Weaver and Mrs. Lease had not been
good, but of course these were not
for publication, but only for private
exhibition to popu1iSts who still in
sisted upon believing in Mrs Lease
The populiSt state chairman carried
his official ostracism to such an extent
that, in 1894, Ed Snow, then state
printer, opened his headquarters and
billed out Mrs Lease under his own
direction. And he had all the dates
she could fill. The demonstration of
the Crawford and Cherokee county
miners when she spoke at Pittsburg in
1894 was spontaneous and immense.
But Prudential would have none Of
her. Gov Waite, of Colorado, spoke
at the city park in Topeka in 1894 and
Mrs Lease threatened to be present.
Briedenthal did all in his power to
keep her from speaking, but when 49,
900 people yelled for her, what could
he do? She was finally disposed of by
the insinuation that she had ''sold out
to the republicans and even the
amount received was stated-in pri-
vate, of course; libel suits are ineon-
venient things sometimes
When ssthe first peoples party gov
eminent on earth began business in
January, 1898, it soon became apparent
that the democrats had been promised
good places to the exclusion of the
tried and true. And from that time
to this the peoples party has had no
independent existence 1t has been
used by its leaders a mere feeder
for the democratic party The voters
in its ranks have been deluded by one
cry another, but the politicians
have schemed and schemed. This year
thew have grown bold and have dis
closed the plan they have worked on
from the day the Omaha convention
adjourned. We have already witnessed
the spectacle of a single convention
held by the populists and the demo-
Gratis, and Mr. Briednetha1 schemed to
have the two cOnven tionS unite at
Fort Scott. The Sioux Falls conven-
ton a mere debating society It
passed some resolutions which it
called n platform, and then nominated
no popuist to carry out what it had
resolved. The convention was nothing
more or less than formal general as