Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-01-08
A P0PULIST CONFERENCE.
To Be Held at Topeka, Kansas, Febru.
AIRY 2lst, 1902.

The PEOPLES Party State central
committee has issued call fol- con.
ference to be held ut the Auditorium IN
Topeka February 2lst. The purpose of
the conference is TO discuss plans for
the future and To devise plan where
by the reform elements OF the state and
the voters opposed TO repnblicanism,
and the present manner in which pub
lie affairs are being conducted, may
unite and thus defeat the aims of the
new election law. Every county in the
state Is appealed to for delegate repre-
sentatlon and the doors will be open to
all populists who will attend.
The call follows:
the Peoples Party Of the State of
Kansas:
Your committee realizes that ques-
tions have arisen involving The rights
and liberties Of the people composing
our party, and their power to make
their will effective through the ordl
nary methods and forms uf law. and
that the election machinery. whose OBJ
Jet should be To aid the people in the
expression of free choice among men
aud measures. has been perverted to
thwart such expression.
Believing that in all times of doubt
and danger, as vel! as when questions
involving the rights and interests of
the people are pending. they onght to
be CONSULTED. and having i'm view that
fundamental principle Of Populism
which demands that they, the entire
party membership, shall lave voice
III deciding party policies and party
policies and party expressions, we have
decided to call a delegate conference i'm
whlca the whole party in the state NAV
be represented and counsel together as
to future course
tremendously united in our devotion
to the principles for which our party
has stood through all It's history as we'll
as in our attachment to the orgsniza-
ton in which We have stood shoulder
to shoulder for a decade; with no
thought OF abandoning ur warfare on
economic evil nor of lowering in the
slightest degree the standard of civic
we have set up. vet we
cannot ignore the fact that conditions
us which render new political
methods indispensable 10 success.
Possessing tie power to harass and
Cypress opposing parties, our Republi-
can opponents III the last legislature
used it to enact 4 ballot law which de.
prives those paities and the people
" no compose them Of the right to nom
mate and vote for such candidates as
commend themselves to their iudg-
nents and cOnsciences, AID at the
same time render the ballot Juggling
puzzle to every voter who is not party
slave. BY such legislative oppression
and infamy they evidently purposed to
insure for the Republican party a per-
oetual lease OF power and they have
succeeded In practically DISTINGUISHING
)ne fourth OF the voters who partci
oated i'll the last election held since the
enactment Of that partisan, unjust and
Unfair ballot law
10 take measures and decide upon a
lne OF policy to circumvent these plots
md vaccinations of our Republican |
opponents, we have deemed confer [
nee representing the entire member |
hip OF our party both prudent and nee |
ssaTy. We must decide whether we
will go into a triangular contest. thus |
moving The common enemy to divide !
nd conquer us IN detail aud rendering |
uccess impossible next year OF for
ears to come, or whether We will plan |
o continue co-operatior with those |
Who have been our allies during the /
asst two national contests, in working
or the overthrow of Republican demi-
lation and the restoration and preser-
alton of the rights and liberties Of
which that party has plotted to deprive
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Various plans have been suggested |
y which we can circumyent our a6ver
aries and the delegate. conference
Which we have agreed 10 cali will un-
he able 10 decide whetht r i
my OF them are advisable, and IN what |
way We can make our II fluence more |
Elective for the promotion OF those |
principles of government to which we |
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