The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-08-17
APPEAL TO POPULIsTs.
Chairman Ridgley, Of tho State Commit
\ tee, Calls for Urgent Action During
the Present Campaign.

AoPOho, Ndu., aug. Io.--E- H. mug
ley, chairman of the peoples party
state committee, has issued the fol-
ing appeal to the voters in Kansas:
To the voters of Kansas:
Two elements have always entered into
legislation in Kansas-man and money.
In this contest the peoples party stands
for the man. From the time the peoples
party became political factor in Kansas
up to the present hour, it has led every
movement for the benefit and protection
Of the common people.
1t put upon the statute books, the school
book law, which drove the book monop-
olies from the state and brought a direct
annual saving to every family in Kansas
In which there were children of school
age.
1t enforced the valued policy law and
compelled insurance companies to pay
their just debts the same as the individ-
ual debtors.
1t broke up the Clarkson rate bureau,
restored competition. and thus reduced
insurance rates, which made large an
nual saving to the property holders of
the state
1t passed a tax law which has COM
PEELED foreign insurance companies to
contribute more than $1,000 year in
state taxes.
1t gave Kansas the best banking law
of any state in the union, under which
tiSe over the national system for safety
and security.
1t gave the miners of Kansas protection
and relief by the passage of the script
and screen law.
1t created a bureau of labor, removed
from political influences, and controlled
by the men who toll.
1t reduced and equalized salaries of
county officers, bringing needed relief
to the taxpayers.
1t made blacklisting a crime
1t drove out the Pinkerton detectives.
1t took the inspection of the farmers
grain out of the hands of spectators and
vested it in the state where it belonged.
1t passed laws enabling our cities to
own public utilities.
1t made an honest effort to bring re-
lief to the stockmen of Kansas by a stock
yards law, and had the fight practically
won when the present state administra-
ton came into power and nullified it's
efforts.
1t put down the statutes and antitrust
law, but Notwithstanding the alarming
growth Of the trusts during the last two
years, the present administration has
made no effort to enforce it's provisions.
1t provided for a reduction of telegraph
charges, but an obliging republican court
came to the relief of the corporations.
1t passed a railroad law calculated to
bring relief to the Kansas farmer, stock
publican court nullified it's efforts.
1t gave to Kansas a United States SEN
ator whose able and aggressive fight pre-
vented the lOOting of the public treasury,
by the Pacific railroad companies, and
saved to the people of the nation nearly
$50, 600 900.
In accomplishing this work it has had
the loyal and hearty cooperation of the
democratic and silver republican parties,
with whom our national and state con-
ventiOnS have again mutually agreed to
cooperate. We go into this campaign
pledging the people that, if successful at
the polls, we will continue the good work
in every department of the state govern
ment. Our record is before the people and
we invite a comparison with the one made
by the present state administration, feel
ing confident that the more searching and
complete it is made, the more friends
will be made for our cause.
We proudly present to the voters of
Kansas our nominees, whose qualifica-
lions for their respective duties and per-
Sonal record of worthy citizenship can
not be excelled.
To the old guard which sowed the seed
which brought forth the populist meas
ureS 1 have enumerated, 1 would empha-
size the fact that there has never been a
greater opportunity or more urgent
need for action than the present cam
paign affords. We are not eHtering new
fields, but are fighting the same old enc
my under a new guise.
We are still battling against the same
forces of corporate greed and monied
monopolieS, the spirit of which has car
ried us farther than we prophesied, and
we find ourselves face to face with the
problem of Imperialism and all that it
entails with increased taxation to support
a standing army destined to grow, and
to be used to subjugate and Cypress our
own citizens as well as those of weaker
nations.
This new and alarming phase of danger.
which threatens our liberty and the over
throw of the republic, is but the natural
development of the methods and power of
the great centrali>ing monied monopoly,
which is determined to control the ma
chinery of our government in every de-
partment, and use its power to compel the
people to pay tribute to capital, in every
act and necessity of life. All means of
production and distribution are rapidly
passing to the control of trusts. The
small manufacturers. millers, grain deal
ers and merchants are the doomed VIC
TINS of the mighty trust. The farmers
of Kansas, while enjoying the result of
bountiful harvests and abnormal foreign
markets, ought to realize that they, too,
are doomed to pay a steadily increasing
tribute to trust monopolies, in unjust
freight tariffs and Determinations which.
in the end, is to reduce the purchasers
of farm products to one great monopoly.
Our party stands as the peoples or
ganization, to rescue the government from
an imperialistic policy. a policy fed by
centralized wealth and used to plumber
and Cypress the people on every hand
1 appeal to all members of our party,
and especially to those who for years