The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-15

of meeting in state convention and
nominating a state ticket next year"
This statement coming from the
man who has been quite as prominent
in fusion circles as any one in the
state and who has presided over more
state Popuhst and fusion conventions
than any man in Kansas is significant.
1t probably means that the old align
ment will again be in effect in Kansas
next year.
Major Harvey does not stop at this
He says: 1.-The Republicans have
adopted much of our doctrine. Every
where we see prominent Republicans
advocating more stringent control of
the railroads by the state and more
equitable freight rates, and the last
Republican legislature adopted a 'law
which is designed to prevent discrimi5
nation by the railroads besides for the
first time giving the people a tribunal
complaints. On the railroad question
the Republicans have practically come
around to our way of thinking and we
ought to be satisfied.
Then the Republicans have taken
a decided stand, both in state and ma
tiOnal affairs, against the great COM
binatiOns of capital known as trusts.
The Kansas Republican legislature
even went so far as to provide for a
state oil refinery to punish the Stand
people of Kansas as we'll as a law TO
regulate the transportation charges.
What more could an old time PopUlist
like myself ask?
President Roosevelt has taken a
stand for reform, in favor of the people
and against class legislation and dis
tinctiOns which is exactly in line with
the doctrine for which Kansas Popu-
lists have contended. His activity
against combinations of capital and his
disposition to recognize the rights of
the people at large would make it seem
exceedingly strange if he did NOT re-
ceive the support of every old time
PoDulist
THE Populist party has never favor
ed reputation or confiscation as its en-
emies have often tried to make it aD-
pear. We have never contended for
anything but equal rights for all the
people We have stood for square
deal from the first and for nothing
more. We advocated reforms and / for
one am entirely satisfied with the course
of events and that the things for which
we have contended will or have come to
pass.
Recognizing all this as I do I do not
see the necessity for continuing the
PopuTist organization. It has done its
work; its course has been run aud am
ptrfectly content to permit it to be
merely a pleasant memory"
VIII Stand With Republicans.
Major Harvey then passed on to a
discussion of the future Affiliations of
himself and other Populists. That is
a question" said he, that every indi-
viduaI must decide for himself. AS for
myself I shall go to the party which
most nearly represents my ideas on
public questions and as may be guessed
from what I have said, that party Is
not the Democratic
II have no harsh words for the Dem
ocratic party That organization has
done heroic reform work in Kansas but
if it has fallen behind the procession
and has failed to grasp the situation
with as much alacrity as some of its
members have hoped the rank and file
are not to be blamed
Major Harvey is reluctant to discuss
anything that might in any way reflect
upon his old party associates. He sim
ply says that the questions that called
the PopuIist party into existence have
in the main been settled and the in
dividual members should take what