Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-01-22
state Convention.

2[&t% A1UsSHEkoEs
To the Peoples Party of the State Of s
Kansas.
Your committee realizes that ques-
lions have arisen involving the rights
and liberties of the people composing
our party. their power to make their
will effective through the ordinary
methods and forms of law and that
the election machinery, whose object
should be to aid the people in the ex-
preston of d free choice among men
and measures, has been perverted SO
as to thwart such expression.
Believing that in all times of doubt
and danger, as we'll as when questions
involving the rights and interests of
the people are pending, and having in
view the fundamental principals of
populism which demand that they, the
entire party membership, shall have
voice in deciding party policies and
party expressions, we have decided to
call a delegate conference in which
the whole party in the state may be
represented and council together as
future course.
tremendously united in our deyo-
tion, to the principles for which our
party has stood through all its history
as well as our attachment to the or
ganization in which we have stood
shoulder to shoulder for a decade;
with no thought of abandoning our
warfare on economic evil nor of low
ering in the slightest degree the stan
dardS of civic righteouSn esS we have
set up, yet we cannot ignore the fact
that conditions confront US which rem
der new political methods indiSpenSa-
bic to success.
Possessing the power to harass and
Cypress opposing parties, our republic
can opponents in the last legislature
used it to enact a ballot law which
deprives those parties and the people
who compose them of the right to-
nominate and vote for such candidates
as commend themselves to their judg-
ment and to their consciences; and at
the same time render the ballot Jug
CLING puzzle to every voter who is not
party slave. By such legislative OPP
preston and infamy they evidently
proposed to insure for the republican
party perpetual lease of power, and
they have succeeded in practically dis
francbiSing nearly one-fOurth of the
voters who participated in the last
election since the enactment of that
partisan, unjust and unfair ballot law.
To take measures and decide upon
line Of policy to circumvent these
plots and Vaccinations of our fepubli-
can opponents, we have deemed con-
ference representing the entire mem |
bership of cur party both prudent and |
necessary. We must decide whether |
we will go into triangular contest, |
thus allowing the common enemy to
deYide and conquer us in detail and
rendering success impossible next
year or for years to come, or whether
we will plan to continue cooperation
with those who have been our allies
during the last two national contests,
in working for the overthrow Of the
republican denomination and the res
tOration and preservation of those
rights and privileges of which that
party has plotted to deprive US.
Various plans have been suggested
by which we can circumvent our ad-
versaries and the delegate conference
which we have agreed to call will IN
doubtedly be able to decide whether
any of them are advisable, and in that
way we can make our influence most
effective for the promotion of those
principles of government to which we
are devoted. 1t is earnestly requested
and desired that in each county the
to select delegates to the
coming conference be as largely at
tended as possible and that the fullest
and freest expression as to our future
course be encouraged, to the end that
the conference may be able to crystal
ize the thought and wishes of our en-
tire membership.
E. r. RIDGELY, Chairman.
J. II. CURRAN, Secretary.