The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-23
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M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
THE ANSWER OF THE PoPULlsTs.

THE ANSWER or THE PoPULIsTs.
The Populst state central committee has issued curl
Gus address to he rank and Gle the Populia party
The address is in Of appeal to all Popuiss
to send to the state committees secretary to sew
eraI questions propounded This appeal is considered e
sentia because fusion is now prohibited Kansas and
Populism being without national organization must seek
shelter somewhere The committees address goes to
say that there is distinct that Popusts into
the Democratic party but it doesn't want that,
bless its soul until it hears from Popusts themselves
So all the questions have relevancy the most import
ant one towit: Are you in favor Of going into the Demo
cratic party?"
How VIII the Popuiss answer that? It is easily told
The man who has used Popusm coldbloodedly for pot
cal preerment whose desire has been the manipulation of
large number of people by love Of certain prnc
pies for which principles ne cares nothing, viii
yes that he favors going into the Democratic party where
he viii hope as leader Of the formerly Popust forces
to have weight and reward
The man who was in love with the principles of Popu
Hsn and there were thousands SUCH who believed that
those principles we're eternal that they satisfied certain
mental need ne felt to oppose the slow progression Of the
two old parties and to demand rapid advancement to
tain ideal conditions albeit socastic that has de
termned to die in the last ditch and he viii answer No,
that he does not favor going into the Democratic party
The man who once attached himself to Populism who
believed that in the industrial development the agcutur-
list was not getting his share that negotiable burden
was lifted to shoulders and that industrial injustice
was being him through both old parties viii
not answer at all He will return to the Republican party
unheraded and unapologizing. He made mistake and
he knows it. He understands that hard times had given
him malicious of the world and the worlds affairs He
understands that all sad and done the hearts blood Of
commerce is harmony poison dlscord that the great
railroad which by his farm not prosper he
and his negbbor not prosper that the normal
cia condition which brings commercial usce is
cia peace and that his only enemy the threat
ems it He doesn't blame himself and he is blamed Of
his fellows Heaven only knows the mental agony that
the hard times put upon Kansas people with the despond
ency following abnormaly times the weight of the
mortgage the collapse Of values the decrease in livestock
and cereal product prices ana succession Of hearush
ing crop failures added to this misery the constant
accusation the that the who cried in
his misery crank In his despair this went
quaokz the who promised most. Long he found
they performed least that they not honest with him.
that they were selfseeking and selfprohting.
For good times came again. and good cheer and the old
beliefs that the local bank cramped itse with the hard
times seeking to drive its customers to serdom that
the local newspaper was edited Wall Street that the
railroad seeking to grind the people to the point where
they would nothing ship and nothing would be
shipped to them that Hanna was daily debating
the fluctuations Of wheat became ridiculous not
of them and neither is Kansas They were hard
times nightmares and responsibility should not and does
NOT attach