The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-04
FLOOD OF TALK.
Republicans Will Import a Few
Stars to Help.
The Gates Will Be Removed on
September / +.
MAKING UP THE ISSUES
Governor Stanley and John
Breidenthal Discuss Things.
Explain What the Speakers Will
Talk About.
MAKING UP THE ISSUES

election day the procession of speakers
will be long and the work arduous
The disposition of the Republican
committee is to depend largely on the
Kansas oratorical talent, but requisition
VIII be made for some outside help.
The men who have already been re-
served for a part of the Kansas cam
paign are the venerable Galusha a.
Grow, of Pennsylvania; Senator A J.
Beverage, of Indiana, formerly of Kan
sas; Congressman Theodore Burton, of t
Ohio, and Congressman J. B. Dol /
liver, of Iowa /
Mr.. Grow was member of congress (
in 1854 ana in that and the succeeding !
years had much to do with the iegisla- /
ton concerning the west particularly /
the admission of this state into the |
union.
The main issue in the Kansas cam |
/ paign. according to Governor Stanley, !
/ will be expansion. In statement as !
! to his views on this subject Governor
! Stanley says:
THE issues of the campaign in Kan
1 sas will be pretty much the issues all
/ over the country. The Democratic party
/ will abandon their free silver conten-
ton of 1896. 1t may be mentioned in
| their national platform by a general
/ Endorsement of the Chicago platform of
four years ago. and in addition to that
it may be CLOSED over with some form
of meaningless phraseOlogy, but they
! Will not go before the country again
on the issue of free coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to l. That issue is de-
stroyed by the results that have fol-
| lowed the continuation OF the gold
/ standard
Democracy will howl a good deal
| about trusts but the people will not
take them to be sincere. They have
had ample opportunity. After the Re
publicans had resolved in favor of an
ia 1~rfz Low Iad q
1 known as the Sherman antitrust bill
in 1890, and reaffirmed their position on
that question four years later the Dem
ocrats came floundering along, as they
usually do. and resolved upon this Re
publican doctrine. When, however, the
supreme court had declared the law in
effective, and attention had been called
to this fact by Attorney General Har-
nlon Democracy, in full control of both
branches of congress, made no effort
to strengthen the law or to make needed
amendments. At that time they had
ample opportunity, and II IS idle now
for them to make the plea that they
would do what they declined to do
/ wheE this opportunity was presented
Mr.. Bryan was in the house at the
time and was SO reticent upon this sub
ject that the Congressional Record con-
tains no statement of his position upon
the question. Resolutions may be
passed by the Democratic convention
| relating to the Boer war, but this will
be such cheap clap-trap that it will
deceive nobody
.seFhe real issue of the next campaign
will be the foreign policy of the adj
minfstratiOn, and the fight will be made
along that lire. The Republican party
will stand for a Greater America, an
enlarged commerce, maintaining the
doctrine that where the flag has been
planted in victory it shall be main
tained in honor Democracy will be
opposed to this. They will try to mis-
lead the people with the cry of 'impe-
] ria 1icr h11T PXnTRSSiOn
conceal their real purpose of OppOsi-
ton to the government The Repub-
leans will ask Endorsement of the ad-
/ miniStrat ton along the lines OF a broad
and progressive AmericaniSm, and
1 Democracy will be against the govern
j ment. against it's pOlcy-and, IN tact,
will pursue their traditional policy of
/ being against everything. On this issue
the fight will be made, and on this issue
1 the Republicans will win"
/ Mr. Breidenthal says on this subject:
/ THE Peoples party was organized for
] the purpose Of securing certain leglsla-
/ ton of a national, rather than local
/ character, and on that account it has
/ usually been more successful in pres1-
1 Dental years when national issues are
/ discussed, to the exclusion of local and
] state issues. The coming campaign, so
far as the Peoples party is concerned,
/ will not be an exception in this respect,
| and the ISSUES that have been kept
/ prominently before the public by our
/ party since its organization, to-Wit, the
| money question. the transportation
| question anti-monopoly and public
ownership will continue to be the prin-
/ cipal issues discussed by POpuliSts.
4 The prominent feature of the money
/ question from a Populist standpoint is
4 opposition to banks of issue. The recent
/ enactment by a Republican congress in
/ dicates clearly that it is the settled pol
icy of that party to perpetuate the ma
tional banks as banks of issue, and to
/ transfer to banking corporations com
plete control of the money of our coun-
try To this policy the Populist party Is
/ unalterably opposed. Our position OF
the transportation question has always
been that government ownership is thu
only solution of this great problem; thai
the government is the only party tina
can and will establish and maintain
] just and equitable rates. and, while We
1 have been disposed to try the expedien
of regulation, many of us have insisted
/ that any attempt to regulate railroads
would fail, and it is now apparent il
view of recent decisions of state anI
| federal courts and the absolute failure
of our interstate commerce commission
to accomplish the purposes for which /
| / was created, that government owner
ship is the remedy. This applies witt
| equal force to the telegraph, Telephone
| and express business.
'Anti-monopoly includes the so-callet
| trust question, for a trust is PRACTICAL,
a monopoly, and all monopolies SHOULD
| be wiped out entirely. They are al
/ creatures of law and the creator has tn
/ power TO destroy that which it has ere
I ated. POpuHstS hold that it is the RICH
and the duty of the state or nation
/ whenever any corporation in the condue
1 of its business fails to serve the peOpl
fairly and honestly, TO deprive it of it
existence and TO substitute the mum
cipality. the state or the nation in it
stead.
imperialism and militarism are look
ed upon by Populists as the legitimat
/ outgrowth of commercialism represent
ed by the corporations. hence opposi