The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-02-12
WHAT SHALL pOpULlSTS Do?
By HARTEY EC,KERT

In the meantime those influences |
which dominate the national republic |
can party in favor of the corporate |
interests. the trusts and combines, |
and the multitudinous other interests |
which require legislative enactment to |
'1egalize'' the oppression of the
worker who creates and the farmer |
who produces : those influences, or
ganizatious and machines which IA
thered the last Kansas legislature and
state administration and made The
fair name of the state by-woFd and
the lot of taxpayers unbearable.-l
these influences are getting more firm
ly entrenched in power every day.
This, in brief, is the condition which
the peoples party has to face at the
commencement of the campaign of
1904. 1t is squarely up to the party
in Pawnee county as we'll as in the
state of Kansas to map out a new
route and line of conduct.
A peoples party state convention
has been called to meet in Topeka on
April 18th. What it is hoped to ac
ccomplish has not yet been revealed
by those who favored and were in
strumental in calling the convention
so early. But under this call it is
plainly the duty of the peoples party
central committee of Pawnee county to
call county convention and send
delegates to the state convention.
Under the existing conditions the
I; local party should unhesitatingly Sc
lect a delegation which will favor such
line of action as will result IN the
perma uent union of the peoples and
the democratic parties of the state of
Kansas under the dem ocratic name.
In the national democratic conven-
tion to be held in St. Louis on July
9Th the contest for control of the party
/ between the western wing led by Bryan
and his followers, and the eastern
gold-bug wing led by Cleveland, Cor
man, ct al, will be the issue. If
: Bryan wins there isn't true populist
! in Pawnee county or the state Of Kan
sas who will not support the platform
and nominee in the campaign and at
the polls. Therefore it is the plain
duty of the party to see that a demo-
/ cratic delegation is sent from Kansas
to the natl onal convention which will
support the western wing. If the pee
pies party does not go into the demo-
cratic party and See that this is done,
the delegati on from Kansas will I'M
doubleday favor the Cleveland wing,
as what democratic party there is in
Kansas will probabl be again dom
mated by the small ''pie-counter"
crowd. Should Cleveland and the
Ocratic convention and the platform
is made to accord with the nominee,
there is no doubt but the western wing
will refuse to support the ticket, as
the eastern bunch did with Bryan in
his campaigns, and in that event there
will undoubtedly be another national
party organized, and as populists we
will lose nothing either in principal
or as individuals By being il on the
ground floor in such an organization.
Now, brother populist, you had bet
ter get your ghtiry clothes on and
get where there is something doing.
See to it that you take the only prac
tical course open under the present
conditions to further the principles
which you have fought for SO long.
Do something, if you only fight
among yourselves. Anything is bet
ter than saving away on the wood
pile and watching the opposition get
so thoroughly entrenched in power
secure chance for change.