Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
CHESTER 1. LONG SHOULD BE BEATEN

Kansas Commoner, Wichita.
BY the action of the Hutchinson con,
vention the opposition to Chester l
Long have an opportunity to c0ncen
trate upon one candidate. The farm
ers and producers of this congressional
district can not afford to be misrepre
sented by Chester L. Long in the hall.
Of congress for another two years
Chester l. Long when accurately anal
yZed will be found to represent moth
ing in common with the great body OF
the people of Kansas. His true consti t.
uency consists of postmasters, federal
Office holders, national bankers and
those who expect and hope to see this
American republic continue in Its pres
ent departure from the traditions of
those who founded it and framed its
constitution. Longs course in the
late session of the fifty sixth congress
marks him as a time server, a self
seeker and fawner upon official favor.
Out of all the membership of that body
it would be impossible to find an indi-
vidual who would stretch farther or
bend lower to catch the approving
smile of the official head of this nation.
In order TO gain the approval of the
president he would fOrswear all the
convictions he ever was known to have.
He is without reverence for the consti-
tuition. He would have this govern
ment pursue policy that would rob
the flag of its significance, and nullify
the Declaration of independence. His
speech upon the Porto Rican tariff
measure was plea for the trusts IN
disguise. In him the trusts have a
champion and the monopolists have a
plant tool. A professed friend of lib
erty, he has conspired against the in.
dustrlal freedom of his fellow citizens
at home, and the political liberty of
the men of Porto Rico and the Philip
pines abroad. He voted for the perpet
uation of the gold standard and the le-
galizatiOn of the national bank trust.
which is one of the most Internal and
far reaching conspiracies on record.
Consider for momentl Every spe.
cies OF property to be measured by the
insufficient and varying quantity of
gold in the world; the entire quantity
and volume of paper money to be turn
ed over to the associated national
banks of the country: the time honor
ed greenback and treasury note based
upon the credit of all the people doom.
ed TO extinction and the notes of pri.
vate corporation usurers substituted
in their stead: great and valuable priv
ileges and powers conferred upon the
notional banks by which they collect
their revenues from the peoples COY
eminent and from the people them
selves; the government surrendering Its
supreme franchise to issue money tc
men like Pierpont Morgan and the
Standard OIL Company's people.
These are few of the infamies thai
are chargeable to Chester L. Long. He
has taken special pains to oppose ev
cry measure and principle for which
Populists have fought and contendeC
for years. He has attempted to give
them the lie upon every issue of theil
party platform. Now with monuments
cheek he asks for their votes to save hin
from the political fate which be richly
deserves. lie and The postoffice organ,
ask for Populist votes by an appeal t.
supposed party prejudices. The popu
lists have coptended for great and vi
tai principles OF government and al
ways rally to the support OF those wht
stand for them. They are not to b,
| turned aside by an appeal TO childish