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Yo All Men Who Live by the Sweat of Their Brow, To the Editor of Thb Abvoctb. If there la one thing more than another that la preposterously cheeky In the g. o. It ! their trying to make ub vote just as they da They do not seem to under stind that we are living in a free country and can vote as we please, but their whole howl is, come back, and stand up for Kansas. We are standing right up for Kansas and will redeem It from the slavery of the republican party. There are a lot of republican voters that I am sorry for because they have not read anything but g. o. p. literature, and, In consequence, are not posted on the real Issues of the day. They are republicans simply because their fathers were. The g. o. p. papers avoid all the living Issues and arguments now before the American people, and all "that so nearly concerns our temporal salvation," and put In their time slandering our nominees, getting up all the lies they possibly can, but they can not hoodwink the laboring classes any longer. We are fully awake to the situation and are in the majority, and If we vote together, can scoop everything. Let us not be led around by a lot of ras cals working for corporations, and be voted by them and for them, but let us use that dearest right of an American citizen, the ballot, in an intelligent man ner. There Is literature encugh that we can get hold of that will give us reliable Information about the situation of na tional affairs, and the actual rottenness of the republican party. Their papers are full of censure of the People's party for taking on our ticket men who had been in the confederate army, when It waa the republican party that relieved the political disability of all confederate leaders and opened the doors of congress to them, until at onetime there were slxty-flve rebel brigadier generals in that body. They have appointed to some of the highest places of honor, trust and dignity some of the worst offenders or rebels. They let old Jeff Davis, the ring leader, run at large, but was patriotic enough to hang Mrs.Surratt, a probably Innocent person. "Oh consistency, thou art a jewel!" The republicans did all this at a time when the nation was aroused and the people would have up held them in hanging all the leaders, but now through the farmers' alliance, sec tional strife and differences have been wept away, old issues are dead; now they howl, but it's for the sake of work ing on the old soldiers to mislead them, but thsy cannot do it. Our party is full of brave old soldiers, who are not afraid to oome boldly out and show how they stand. Republicans have been making a specialty of eoldler's re-unions with the direct understanding that political speeches were not to be allowed, but scarcely ever fail to break the rules, much to their detriment, for they have been worsted every time. At Superior, Nebraska, state-line reunion they were cried down with ' rats, rats," and lost rotes for their party by the wholesale by their maliciousness. Old soldiers, farmers and all working classes, let us vote the People's party ticket straight and together. Lit us turn the tables and ee If we can not have some laws made that will benefit us as well as the mil lionaire. Let us not permit any wily flatterer to kep us from doing our duty at the polls November next. God Is urely with us In this . people's great movement. Hoping that the dawn of the poor down-trodden laborer wlll.break in No vember next, I am yours for th People's party. A Fabmir. Persons traveling from the southern part of Kansas to St. Louis and eastern points should take the 'Frisco road. It f urninhes the beat of accommodation, makes quick time and takes passengers through without change of cars. ' It is Ominous. To the Editor of Ths Advocat. It may not be generally known In this part of the country, but is a fact, never theless, that In California there is an or ganization of capitalists known as the " Manufacturers' and Employers' Associ ation of California." At a meeting of the board of directors In Ban Francisco In August of this year, the president, Henry L. Davis, delivered an address from which the following quotations are taken: We are today Just one year old. Within the brief period of our existence the attitude of the community towards the trades unions has been almost, If not entirely, reversed. One year ago the boycott waa more dreaded than the most destructive competition from without, and neany every industry was virtually doing business by permission of the council of federated trades To-day It Is perbaps not too much to say that not a "business man In San Francisco has the least fear of the boycott, and that capital, at one time in a panle from the power of the onions, has now wholly lost Its fears. Since employers have learned to combine, the unions have lost the planing mill strike, the great Iron strike, the shoe strike.the box-makers1 boycott, the brewers' struggle, the lon shoremen's, the AbenaPoat. the Peter Lynch and the urtln & Maze boycotts; the sailors' union has ben excluded from many vessels, and the coopers' union Is now engaged In a strike which It Is practically certain to lose. This unbroken record of disaster has tamed the arrogance of the federated trades, and business has at the present moment, to some extent, at least, a certain feeling ef security and peace. This organization should be extended to the widest possible limit. Every employer, every business man, and every tax-payer saould, If possible, be brought within Its folds It Is hopd to extend the organization to all parts of the state. But It should not even stop at that There Is no reason why an organlzitlon of employers should not exteDd over the whole of the United 8 ates. What Is to be the outcome of the present Industrial unrest, I do not know; but this I do know, our proper course Is organization. The very fact of employers meet ing and discussing these questions will one day bring forth an understanding of them. When we become so strongly organized as to be able to take the whole matter entirely Into our own hands, a solution of the vexed question may be reached. Comment on the above is unnecessary. It certainly must be becoming clearer every day to union men, as well as all who depend upon their dally toll for the support of themselves and their loved ones, from evidence similar to the above, which la fast accumulating, that the place to strike, and to strike without de lay, is at the ballot-box. Strike both the old capitalistic, oppressive employers' parties. Strike for Justice, for home, for j humanity. T. J. Maxwell. Topeka, Km., September 23, 1892. The Sew Republican Convert. A MePherson correspondent sends a com munication concerning the maiden republican speech of Mrs. T. J. Sml'h. from which we make the following extracts.- Editoh. To the Editor of The Advocate. I with others went to hear Mrs. T. J. Smith, the new convert (T) to the repub lican faith. I understand she la to re ceive $100 for forty lectures. She first notified her hearers that she had left the People's party; that the wise man changes his mind, but a fool never. The Demo crat said that It was purely mercenary on her part, leaving her party and going over to the republican party, but ac cording to her theory the Democrat edi tor should always remain a fool. The lady tells her republican friends that silver never was demonetized, ac cording to Webster's dictionary. She said that to suspend was demonetizing. If that Is the case, will it not apply to gold? If so, we had both silver and gold demonetized, from 1862 to 1879. We, the People's party, have more faith In what we read. The lady told her republican friends that the currency had never been con tracted; the 1330,000,000 . Issued of 7 30's never went Into circulation; that we now have (27 per capita In circulation. No w does she think her friends are fools, and cannot read? How about that law that w&i passed calling in so many dollars per month to be destroyed, and a gold reserve j held In the treasury to redeem the green backs, and $100,000,000 still laying there Idle? The lady alluded to some farmer who had a cornfield with the weeds so high and thick that in plowing it the farmer had to trust to his horse, as he could not see the rows. Now that must have been Farmer Smith in his sunflowers. The lady told her hearers that this gov ernment could not make money; and, like old Mother Hubbard's clock, stopped short never to go again on this point. She swung into the People's party plat form as If she was going to demolish it, but got no. further than the preamble, and flipped from that to the sub-treasury. Now these wise-acres pretend to know so much about commerce and the money of the world; supply and demand; and that we have an over-production of al most everything. They have even got down on their knees, , begging foreign powers to come and help them out on the money question. I doubt very much whether they would know a ducatoon from a ducking stool if they should see one. The speaker made a plea for the old soldier vote. When I am through with this part of her plea I will close. She said, "Shame on you old soldiers of the People's party, who say the war Is over." I am an old soldier; served three years, did my duty, and never was reprimanded ; was promoted to first duty sergeant; and by the eternal, it Is too late now for me to receive a reprimand from any political party. This is a free country, and the old soldier made it so. The republican party is no friend to the soldier any longer than to get his vote. I would ask who murdered those old soldiers out In Stevens county ? The old soldiers are as loyal to-day as they were twenty-seven years ago. I say the war Is over; we are a united nation. I have lived in this county and township for fourteen years. I belong to the same G. A. R. post with A. W. Smith, and have a right to stand up for my town, county, state, and the United States (the southern not excepted), and if I live until November 8, will cast a vote for Jerry Simpson and Lswelllng, and the balance of the People's party ticket without a scratch. John B. Ricketts. MePherson, Kas., September 23. BLOSSOM HOUSE. Opposite Union Depot, Kansas City, Mo. The B1088om House la convenient to all parts of the city. Cable cars run in every direction. It is Just across the street from the union depot, Just the place to meet your friends. Members of the Alliance make the Blossom House their headquarters when In the city, and their general place of meeting when at tending conventions abroad. The Sixth Avenue Hotel. When in the city of Topeka, stop at the Sixth Avsnue hotel, 107 East Sixth avenue. W. M. Speok, the proprietor, is an accom modating gentleman, and will make your stay a pleasant one. Meals first-class, nice rooms and good beds. 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