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THS3 AJDVOOillta A PLAIN, UNADOEBED LIE. The Capital of September 27 has the unblushing audacity to insult the intelligence of its readers by the state ment that the Omaha platform "fa vors an amendment to the federal constitution restricting the suffrage of all government employes." Suoh malicious mendacity is absolutely in excusable. The Omaha platform has been kept as standing matter in the Advocate ever since the adjournment of the convention. It has been pub lished by nearly every paper of every party in the United States. There is not a reading man or woman in the country who has not read it, and who will not therefore know that this statement of the Capital is an un mitigated lie manufactured out of whole cloth. Not a word is said in the Omaha platform that by implication can be construed into any intimation of the desire or purpose to disfran chise anybody or in any manner abridge the suffrage. This is well known to the editors of the Capital The opening sentence of this men dacious article of the Capital under the caption, " A Plan to Disfranchise a Million Voters," is as follows: One of the moBt indefensible things in the Omaha platform on any ground is the demand for government ownership of rail roads. Now, turn to the republican state platform of Kansas in this year, 1892, and read: We endorse the reoommendation of the postmaster general for the government con trol of the telegraph and telephone servioe. The recommendation of the post master general is that the government shall own and operate the telegraph and telephone service in the interest of the people, connecting it with the postal service of the United States in order to facilitate and cheapen the means of communication. Will the Capital tell how its party proposes to obtain this control of the tele graph and telephone service, and why it is more defensible on any ground than like control of the means of transportation1 Speak out and let the people be enlightened. ANOTHER LIE. Lincoln, Kas., September 28, 1892. To the Editor of The advocate. Our republican friends in this county are spreading the report that if Weaver should succeed in carrying this state in November, he will fail of election, as the People's party have no electoral ticket in the south. Please state in your next issue the facts in this case, that we may have a definite answer to this question, and oblige a number of friends. Tours Truly, J so. Mkdcbaft. The People's party has an electoral ticket in the south, and will elect it, too, in a majority of the southern states, republican and democratic buncombe to the contrary notwith standing. v The republican policy is one of deception, and this is only one of the schemes to deceive. They say here a.vote for Weaver is only a vote for Cleveland, while the democrats of the south tell their people a vote for Weaver is only a vote for Harri son. In both cases the object of the deception' is to frighten timid repub licans in the north and timid demo crats in the south to vote for the old parties as they have been doing these many years. A vote for Weaver is a vote for free silver, more money and better times. It is a vote to increase the wages of the laborer, and the price of farm products. It is a vote for fewer mortgages, more American homes, and increased prosperity everywhere. Let no man be de ceived. INDIANA REPUBLICAN METHODS. As has been before intimated, the Indiana "blocks of five" of 1888 are beiDg multiplied by four and utilized in Kansas in 1892. The scheme was first suggested by the immaculate Geo. T. Anthony at a meeting of the republican committee at the Cope- land in this city early in the cam paign. The details of the scheme are set forth in the following secret circu lar to the faithful from the republi' can state central committee: First The oounty organizer will select his precinct organizer at once. Second The precinct organizer will sub divide his precinct into subdivisions of not more than twenty voters, and place a good reliable republican in charge to look after said voters from now until after the polls close. Third This appointee and his "instruc tions" must be kept an absolute secret. This is imperative. Fourth In case no "suitable" republi can can be found in the precinct, select one from outside to aot. Fifth These instructions are for your eyes only, and you are not to show them to any one, or leave them in a place where they are liable to be seen by others. The blocks of twenty are thus to be placed " in charge " of a "good re liable republican," and if a suitable one cannot be found in the precinct, one is to be imported from the out side. It is not stated in the circular that where the twenty republican voters cannot be found in the pre cinct, they shall be imported frem the outside, but he "reliable repub licans' to whom such important trusts are committed are supposed to understand the necessities of the sit uation, and exercise all needed dis cretionary powera A great many good people dislike to have their name attached to a newspaper article. Such is the case with the man who signs as "An Old Soldier" in this issue. If Governor Felt does not wish to answer publicly the questions asked by "An Old Sol dier," he can have the gentleman's name by applying to the Advocate, and then if he can answer satisfac torily he may save some votes for Anthony. We need lo converts to elect the People's party ticket in Kansas. We had the votes when the nominations were made and we have them yet But we must keep our forces awake to the importance of voting in order to elect. In addition to that we should remember that the larger the majority the better the effect will be. This year we shall hear the last of "down with calamitiy," "redeem Kan sas," eta, as campaign slogans. When the opponents of reform see that the people are not to be scared or driven by such foolishness, they will con clude there is something in this ca lamity cry that will have to be an swered by argument Uotblna: But Loss in Oat tin Rahing. To the Editor of Th advocate. From the best Information to be obtained, we have 3, 000,000 cattle; that includes evrjthlni?,nd means a net Increase of naif a million this jear. More cattl will be fed for market tnli year than usual I estimate that the average value of all cattle la the state will be about $12, or SM, 000,000 altOKet her. We have no epidemic of any kmi. and winter will find oar cattle In excellent condition. I clip the above from a statement re cently put out by the chairman of the state live Btock commission. Ofcourse the Intent of the long article, from which this item is taken, is to show a great prosperity In the cattle Interest of the state, and that the farmers are growing rich from this industry. It perhaps would be sufficient to make the broad statement that the mass of Kansas farmers engaged in the cattle In dustry are losing money largely this year, and lost money last year. The In telligent cattleman needs no other praof of the truth of this statement than a mere reference to the Kansas City cattle market reports as they appear In the dally papers. Having watched the sales of a large number of shipments from this county, and made a careful inquiry Into the price paid for the cattle, and amounts ex pended for keeping, I find the loss rang ing from $5 to $10 per head, and have been unable, in the great run of ship ments by farmers, to find an instance of profit. The same must be true all over the state. Cattlemen who have been down to the city with their cattle tell me this is the case. I have talked with a large number of Intelligent men who have dealt in cattle for years in this and other counties, and all have the same story, that the cattle business is a losing one to the farmers, and to those who are feeding and preparing them for market The moat of the cattle are brought Into the state from Texas, Colorado and other localities, by syndicates, and sold out to the farmers on six month's and a year's time, on notes and chattel mortgages at 8 and 10 per cent interest. In February a neighbor ranchman bought 100 head at $25 per head. He re cently put one-half on the market, at a loss of $5 per head, aside from keeping. Another neighbor bought 100 head last fall, and sold them on the 21st in Kansas City at $2.50 per hundred, and is out the keeping, lntereat on money, and expense of marketing. Another neighbor ranch man bought 150 head last Februery; hat sold some 100 of them at a loss of $10 per head. One of the heaviest ranch men in the county recently sold the top of his herd at a ruinous loss. So I might go on until I filled your pa per, and continue to tell the same story. If the chairman of the live stock com mission will go to Kansas City, run over the dally sales, lnterv ew the farmers as they get the results from the commis sion men, ha will have no disposition to question these statements. If the Kansas City Journal would de vote one month to this work, It would give its readers more truth of Kansas farmers than it has given for the last year, we cnaiienge me people ana ue men who are so loudly proclaiming that Kansas farmers are growing rich under republican sway to go Into the cattle sales with us, and give the results. A Farmir. P. 8. More cattle are' probably ship ped to and from this place than from any other station in the state, except Kansas City (Kas.) stock yards. Hamilton, Greenwood county, Kai., September 6, 1592. The firms of Christopher & Smith and J.P.Campbell & Co. have consolidated under the firm name oi unrunopner, Smith & Campbell, Kansas City, Ho., and do on exclusive consignment busi ness In grain. We solicit your corres pondence and consignments, and guar antee best market prices and prompt returns. An Ex-Soldier to Governor Felt, lo the Editor of Thx Advocate. Encloeed find subscription price of the Advocate. I was not a subscriber to your paper, but through the kindness of a friend I got the copy that contained the article from the Atchison Champion in which the lieutenant governor opens his phials of wrath on the Aovocats and a large majority of the good men and women of Kansas. Brother Felt tries to hold up Anthony In comparison with good old Lincoln, and the comparison la about like comparing the devil with the Savior. I was a union soldier In the Fifty-sixth Illinois Infantry, Company E. I cast my vote for Harrison, but will vote for W. A. Harris. I would rather vote for a man with a clean record for thirty years after being In the rebel army than for a man who was in the union army and has a record blacker than hades. Now if Brother Felt will answer the following In a way that will clearly dispute the Ad vocate's charges, I will vote for Geo. T. Anthony: Is there not a judgment In the state of New York against Anthony for the amount he was defaulter to the school fundt Were not the charges concerning the above and Anthony's war record made by republicans at the Leavenworth conven tion? Are not the Advocate's statements concerning his actions as governor dur ing the Santa Fe strike true? Did not most of the delegates to the Hutchinson convention travel on railroad passes furnished for the purpose of nom inating Anthony? Brother Felt, in the name of Lincoln republicans, In the name of Kansas, and in the name of God, answer these ques tions for one who voted for you. An Old Soldier. Glrard, Kas., September 23. Good Men Unconsciously Wrong. To the Editor of Thx Advocate : In the ranks of the republican party there are to-day many thousands of sin cere, honest men who worship a tradi tion, who walk in the shadows of settled issues, unmindful of the unsolved vital economic problems now demanding tW attention of the American people men who cannot divest themselves of the blinding influence of partisan ties. There are men who are under the delusion that the republican party of to day Is the party of Lincoln, Sumner and Chase. These men are under an Influence akin to that which blinds a parent to the faults of a child which are obvious to every one else. These people are men of pure motives, sincere attachments, un s splclous natures, and devoted loyalty to their party long after the party has ceased to merit their suppr rt Such men are a bulwark of strength to a decaying party, and become its most zealous op- mtVi An jwMilnu1 I la rwnff such conviction as will come to all men now In the republican party. Prejudice, blinding fidelity, and misconceptions of principles involved may, perchtnce, re tard the triumph of principles for a time, but -the ultimate triumph of right is as sure as that men are not dead to all f right Instincts. A people's party will: tint nnlv rdAm Kansas, but this natlen v also, and It will not be the republican party that will do it Geo. Stark mills. Wichita, Kas., September 23, 1802.