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AID VOCATja' ' I. R. P. Published Every Wednesday by tlis ADVOCATE PUBLISHING CO. 0. McLallik. President. ) oi J. P. LiMEBOENxa, Bui. Manager, W. T. Bbo wn, Bec'y Treasurer, J Proprietor! MBS. Annis L Dxaos, J. a IlXBBAKD, I Associate Editors. Advertising Rates. Display Matter, 20 cents per line, Agate meas- cremeni u unes w me incu) Heading Notices, 40 cents per line, ddress all communications to the ADVOCATE PUBLISHED CO. Topeka Kansas. TOPEKA, KAN., NOVEMBER 4, 1891. (Entered as second class matter in the Post Offloe at Topeka, Kansas.) SPECIAL CLUB LIST. Ths Asvocats & Chicago Express.. 1.7S " " Dexter Free Press 1.75 " Nonconformist ...1.75 " 2 Kansas Commoner.... 1.75 " " Toiler L85 , " , " Kansas Farmer. 1.75 " " Weekly Nationalist.. ..1.50 " " Our Own Opinion 1.50 " " National Reformer.... 1.05 . " Paoiflo Rural Press.... 3.00 " " Missouri World 1.25 THE QUENEMO GLEE CLUB. Among the attractions at the State Alliance at Salina, was the Qaenemo Glee Club; and its services were se cured for the rally in this city on the 30th of October. This dub is a host in itself. It consists of five members, and all of the campaign songs ren dered by them are original, being composed by Mrs. Shinn, one of their number, and'of course are adapted to the times and occasions where they are sang. These songs are of a su perior order in their peculiar line, and steps will be taken to secure the publication of a campaign song book of Mrs. Shinn's composition, specially designed for the campaign of 1892. As soon as it can be secured steps should be taken for the organization of local glee clubs in all parts of the country. They will be found to be powerful auxiliaries in the approach ing contest Ltf 18G2 our legal tender greenback dollar was worth only 80 cents In coin; in 1803,76 cents; In 18C4, 38 cents: In 1870 It was worth only 8 cents, notwithstanding Its legal tender quality, and the fact that the war had been over for more than ten years. 1 Dorado Republican. The editor of the Iiepublican ought to know, if he does not, that the only government notes issued during the war that were full legal tender were the sixty millions of demand notes, and that they were at a premium from the day of their issue to the day of their retirement He ought also to know, if he does not, that the green backs were purposely depreciated, in order to make a market for the in terest bearing bonds and to enrich a few speculators in gold. Such acts of perfidy on the part of the chosen representatives (?) of the people, and such persistent lying and misrepre sentation as the above on the part of thd Iiepublican press, is what is the matter of the Republican party at the present time. A REVIEW OF TWO CAMPAIGNS. Now that the second campaign of the People's party in Kansas is at an end $ may be well to review the lead ing features of these contests, in or der that the lessons they afford may not be lost ' Tee Advocate goes to press too early to give any of the re suits of the present election, but not withstanding this fact we shall speak with perf ect assurance upon thissub ject,because of our perfect confidence in the enlightened and educated in telligence and understanding of the people. There can be but one re sult The People's party was born of the necessities of the hour. Conspiracy in high places has resulted in legislative abuses, by which a few have grown immensely rich, while the masses have been growing poorer day by day. A discovery of the causes of these con ditions has led to a great uprising of the people; and from the first this up rising has been based upon well grounded principles. The declara tions set forth in the St Louis plat form of 1889 met such a response in the hearts of the people as no other platform has etir received in the his tory of our government. It is prac tically that platform upon which the People's party first planted itself and upon which it firmly stands to-day. Chief among the provisions of that document is the demand for the abo lition of national banks and the sub stitution of legal tender treasury notes, in lieu of national bank notes, in sufficient volume to meet the busi ness necessities of the people Upon this rock of eternal justice have we builded, and all the powers of plu tocracy cannot prevail against us. We have conducted campaigns of ar gument and of education. We have adhered to truth and based our claims upon principle. How have we been met? Iiepublican politicians and the Re publican press, instead of attempting to meet our arguments and show the fallacy of our claims, have conducted campaigns of personal villification, of misrepresentation, of vile falsehood and slander, and have not stopped short of actual forgery and perjury. Space will not permit of a full list of the forgeries, perjuries, falsehoods and misrepresentations of which the Republican party has been guilty,but it may not be unprofitable to notice a few among the most outrageous of these impositions upon the intelli gence of the people. Chief among the objects sought to be accomplished by the opposition has been to keep alive the sectional hatred which has so long separated the two great divisions of our country lying north) and south of Mason and Dixon's line.- Seeing that the Farm ers' Alliance was fast obliterating that spirit of malice, an attack upon the eadersof that organization was de cided upon between the Democratic politicians of the south and Republi can politicians of the north, and an interchange of material adapted to the condition of the two sections was agreed upon. The organization of the Grand Ar my of the Republic, which, inKaa- sas, has been converted into a Repub lican machine, was called into requisi tiontoaid in this dastardly work and the active machinery of the Re publican party has been converted in to a slander mill from which has em anated filth and slime and everything that is vile during the entire two years since the danger to that party has become apparent We desire at this time to enumer ate in succession a few of the forger ies, falsehoods and misrepresentations which have been ground out from this mill, and with which it has been at tempted to deceive the people. Pass ing over the disreputable attack upon J. F. Willits, which was designed to affect his candidacy more particularly than the general purpose constantly kept in view, we will enumerate a few only of those falsehoods and forger ies calculated to keep alive sectional prejudices and deceive the people rel ative to the real principles and pur poses of the Alliance and of the Peo ple's party. Let the people consider the merits of the following products of the Demo-Republican mill. First-The charge that L. L. Polk, claimed to have been a brigadier-gen cral, captured a company of federal troops at Gettysburg, and being too closely pressed to get away with them, with an oath, ordered them shot Second Since the absolute false hood of the above, which was pub lished on the authority of a Grand Army tool of the Republican party, has been so conclusively demonstrat ed as to render its further publica tion futile; the charge has been va ried, and he is now said to have been commander at Salisbury prison, where he was guilty of untold cru elties to Union prisoners. It is not our purpose to deny the cruelties to Union soldiers in that prison, but that L. L. Polk never had anything to do with it has been conclusively shown. Third Without specifio enumera tion we simply allude to the other personal assaults upon Colonel Polk, both north and south, in each case of a character adapted to the locality, and designed to serve the desired purpose of keeping alive sectional hatred. Fourth We place the Livingston forgery, in which L. F. Livingston, of Georgia, is represented as saying that if the Alliance shall get control, as it is hoped it will, it will abrogate all pension legislation. Fifth The Fletcher Meredith for gery of the famous soldier resolution said to have been adopted by the Re form Press Association at Hutchinson. Sixth The forged resolutions in which the Cloud county Alliance was claimed to have repudiated the Cin cinnati convention and its platform. Seventh The persistent reports that the Alliance is disbanding both north and south, and that the People's party voters are returning to their old parties. Eighth The misrepresentations of reporters concerning the transactions of the State Alliance at Salina, by whom all the papers were supplied with accounts of rows that had no ex istence, and with interviews that never took place, winding up just on the eve of the election with the falsa statements attributed to ex-President McGrath, relating to the decrease of the membership in Kansas. Ninth The persistent misrepre sentation of facts respecting the Ar gentine money system, and the claim that the People's party demands money of like character. Tenth False statements relative to the money in ciculation now and dur ing former years since the war, the high office of the secretary of the treas ury being basely prostituted to give official sanction, to these Republican falsehoods for party purposes, not withstanding former official reports give them the lie most emphatically. These aro but few of the almost numberless efforts to achieve party success by methods of deception and fraud. It is a question now whether the losses of the past two years will be sufficient to insure a change in the campaign of 1892, or whether we may expect the same base methods to be still pursued. HOME INTERESTING DOCUMENTS. Republican journals all over the country have delighted in quoting from John Livinsgton, of New York, for some time past. It will be re membered that he visited Kansas at the time the late Legislature was en gaged in the duty of electing a suc cessor to John J. Ingalls. He spoke in the Grand opera house hereon, that occasion; and, among the docu-T ments presented to the audience was. a letter . purporting to have been written by L. F. Livingston, of Georgia, declaring that if the Alli ance should succeed, as it was hoped it would, it would abrogate all pen sion legislation. The design of this was to encourage sectional prejudice and create sentiment in favor of In galls. We at once denounced the . letter as a forgery and subsequently proved it. John Livingston now says it was a forgery and he submits eome interesting correspondence in The Advocate of this week tending to show how United States Senators are made by the old parties. Mr. Ingalls' original letters to Livingston are now in our possession. Mr. Liv ingston also promises some further revelations in the future. It will be observed that Democratic methods in Georgia are not unlike Republican methods in Kansas; and we suggest that Republican editors who have had so much confidence in Mr. Livingston and have, quoted so iberally from him in the past, will not fail to copy his contribution to The Advocate this week. The elec tion is now past and it cannot be said that we publish this matter simply to influence votes. We publish it now because the influence of our work is not designed for a day, but for the great future, and it is proper that the people shall know the methods of the party bosses as rapidly as they are brought to light The Topeka Capi tal and the Atlanta Journal please copy Mr. Livingston's contributions. They are not copyrighted.