The advocate and Topeka tribune. [volume], October 19, 1892, Page 8, Image 8

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TEST AES BATTLED, BUT STILL
UP TO THEIR OLD TBIOKS.
The following from the People's
Voice, of Wellington, will serve as a
reminder to the people of some of the
tricks that maj be expected on the
eve of election. Suckers are not as
plenty as they used to be, however,
and few will be caught by such strat
egic methods. Intelligence and an
educated judgment will govern the
electors of Kansas this year, and they
will not be influenced by tricks of this
character. We have the name both
of the man who disclosed this scheme
and the one to whom it was disclosed:
A few days ago a certain prominent re
publican speaker, who ia stumping Kansas
for the old party, in speaking to a gentle
man whom he supposed to be a republican,
in replying to what he thought of the pros
pect in this state, said: "We have got the
poll of the state, and by our own showing
Lewelling has about 20,000 majority. It
looks bad. We have got to do something to
oounteraot this if we can. Our plan is to
claim everything. About two or three weeks
before election we expect to ihave men in
various parts of the state td deqlare their
disgust with some particular parts of the
speeches made by the Populist fellows and
declare their intention to leave the party
and go back to their old party. Interviews
have been arranged with republican papers
in various parts of the state who will pub
lish this list of names who have left the alli
ance, and in this way try and make a break
in their ranks all over the state." .When
asked if they were sure they could get their
men, he replied: "Oh, yes; we have them
"already selected; we arranged for them to
go into that party last spring, and they can
now leave it as being dissatisfied." The ex
pediency of this policy being questioned, he
replied: " Why, it is the only thing we have
got left. We are beaten and have got to do
something to try and save ourselves. In the
congressional districts, Humphrey, Long
and Funston will be beaten; Broderiok will
pull through, so will Charlie Curtis in the
Topeka district, too, I think, and Baker in
the Sixth district may be beaten, as the
democrats do not like him." Sumner
County Standard.
We do not know from what source the
Standard got its information on this point,
but we do know that we dropped on to the
same soheme a few days ago. It came from
a reliable source, and there is no doubt of the
intention of republican managers trying to
cause a stampede in this way. People should
be prepared and expect to hear all sorts of
" oanards " from now on.
ENDORSING THE WEAVER OUIBAGE.
Not many people were surprised when
Gen. Weaver was received with curses and
rotten eggs in Georgia, but the almost
unanimous approval of the outrage by the
press of the south, will cause general sur
prise. The throwing of eggs at a man who
had committed no offense whatever, was
bad enough, but the endorsement of it by
the papers is infinitely worse. A great
many people have fondly believed that the
rowdies and hoodlums were responsible for
the attack, and that it would be oondemned
by the better elements, but the comments
of the press discredit this charitable view of
the case. Emporia Republican.
Not many people were surprised
when Congressman Otis was received
with rotten eggs at Princeton, Kas.,
nor do we think many people are sur
prised at the silence of the republi
can press of the state upon the
subject The suppression of news
unfavorable to the party is a part of
its policy.
A great many people have believed
that rowdies and hoodlums were re
sponsible for the outrage upon Mr.
Otis, but the failure of the republi
can press to condemn it or even to
mention it leads every one to suspect
that the republican managers were
behind the whole affair and that it is
one of the regulation methods of
standing up for Kansas.
Votxbs in the cities should not for
get the registration law which re
quires all voters to appear at the city
clerk's office once a year in order to
qualify themselves for voting. This
must be done at least ten days before
the election. Theso who registered
last spring need not repeat it unless
they have moved out of the precinct
in which they then lived.
THE OLIMAX APPROACHING.
Probably the most infamous de
cision ever rendered by any court in
the United States since the foundation
of the government is that of the su
preme court of Pennsylvania in the
case of the Homestead workmen, in
which their resistance of the Pinker
I ton thugs is held to be treason against
the state. The Advocate will treat
the subject fully and as it deserves
next week.
PUT HIS FOOT IN IT.
Speaking of the one-sided reports
of Mr. Lewelling's meeting at Law
rence, the Record says:
The most ridioulous blunder was made by
the Journal. It declared that Marshall Van
Voorhis wore an anarchist sash. The local
editor of the Journal, who presumably wrote
that squib, is a son of Gen. H. S. Hall, and
Mr. Van Voorhis borrowed Gen. Hall's soarf
for the occasion.
Thus endeth the first ohapter.
In a speech at Wichita the other
evening, Colonel Hallowell told the
people that they were not obliged to
vote for Lewelling simply because he
was a citizen of the place. He re
minded them of the fact that they
did not vote for him very solidly as
against Jerry Simpson, "and I was
a citizen of Wichita," he added.
Bless your depraved soul, Hallowel.
you would have got more votes
from the people of Wichita if you
had lived somewhere else and they
had not known you so well. And the
result of that eleotion should have
taught you that you are not a fit man
to offer your people advice. A man
may be competent to rob saloon
keepers and still not be a statesman
you know.
The sensational stories about the
friends of the almost extinot Dalton
gang getting ready to avenge their
(the Daltons') death savors of the
yellow-back style of news. Men of
that clans only fight for what is in
sight, and if there are any of the Dal
ton gang left, they will pursue the
even tenor of their ways robbing
banks and express trains just as soon
as they think it safe to do so. But
they would no more think of facing
danger to avenge the death ef their
late comrades than they would to
avenge the death of Gen. Custer, who
was killed by the Indians. They
know no such thing as fraternity, ex
cept when it pays to be fraternal.
They are a good deal like our rich
politicians in that respect
In the silver states republican pa
pers and orators are assuring the
public that President Harrison will
sign the first free silver bill that con
gress may pass; that he is just aching
for a chance to sign such a bill. In
his late Philadelphia speech John
Sherman assured his audience that
the president would not think for a
moment of signing such a bill Inas
much as Sherman is Harrison's confi
dential adviser, it is easy to decide
which of the two authorities is cor
rect Sherman may be a heartless
and plutocratic statesman, but he and
the president talk through the same
hat.
Grasping at straws, sure enough.
Long editorials have appeared in the
official and other republican papers,
commenting on the change in politics
of the Plainville Times. It seems to
be very important to them, and yet
different commentators locate this
great paper in different counties. The
paper was probably never heard of
outside of its county before its refor
mation, but it is now famous. Fail
ing to find the name of the town on
our map, we referred to the postoffice
directory and found that Plainville
is a postoffice in Books county., Prob
ably that is where the Times is printed.
Mr. Breckenridqe declined the
honor of delivering the opening ad
dress at the World's fair because, he
said, it was offered him on condition
that his state, Kentucky, should fa
vor certain appropriations which the
managers wanted of congress. Henry
Watterson then accepted an invita
tion to "do the honors," and the ques
tion now is, did he accept under the
same conditions that were required of
Mr. Breckenridge, and if so, where
was his star-eyed goddess of reform
when he accepted?
It is no wonder that Kansas should
breed criminals of the Dalton and
Brennan stripe so long as the repub
lican party wrapped the judicial er
mine around such criminal monstrosi
ties as Botkin. Senators who voted
for his acquittal may have overlooked
this point when the governor went
mto the senate chamber and requested
members to vote that way.
The Pullman palace car company
has just declared another quarterly
dividend of $2 per share from the
net earnings, which, assuming that
the shares are $50 each, is 16 per
cent per annum on the investment
And yet this poor company refused
to pay its taxes to the state of Kansas
until this year, when it was com
pelled to do so.
Failino to get many people to
come and hear him talk, Geo. T. An
thony has interviewed himself and
unloaded the result .into the Kansas
City Journal. It is a paper on the
railroad question that would have
been considered an able paper twenty
years ago.
Don't you republicans laugh too
convulsively about the election, re
sults in Georgia and Alabama. There
is a great deal of difference between
a state and a national election and
there is plenty of room to expect that
Weaver will carry both of those states.
Fats seems to "have it in" for
Leavenworth. Following Alger comes
McKinley, and then perhaps Ingalls.
By that time there will be no repub
licans there to talk to and the con
gressional voto will be left to Close
and Carroll
Thx Capital declares officially that
in Kansas this year every vote over
300,000 will be a republics vote. This
is paving the way to rush in a few
thousand extra republican votes from
the back counties if opportunity
offers.
Who are the worst slanderers of
Kansas, the republican stump orators
who claim that depression was brought
about by drouth, hot winds, chintz
bugs, etc., or the Populists who say
plainly that it was bad legislation?
Everybody will want the Advocate
in order to keep posted in the pro
ceedings of the next session of con
gress and the state legislature. It is
cheaper to pay for it by the year.
We hereby extend thanks to our
esteemed republican contemporaries
for the information that the People's
party has lost its grip. It never had
a very bad case of grip.
Thank, you, Mr. Simpson, for per
mitting Ingalls to make speeches in
the state. Of course you instructed
him to not say anything offensive to
the democrats.
Cowley County.
The cradle of the People's party was,
on the 12th, the scene of one of the larg
est Populist gatherings that has been
held In the state this year. It was held
at Wlnfleld and the following items are
gathered from different letters:
Although the weather was cloudy and
threatened rain all day no less than
10,000 people turned oat and showed
their colors. They came in floats, wagons,
carriages, on horse back, loads of grain,
and any way to get there. There were
about twenty loads of grain.
Many of the cartoons and mottoes
carried were new and original. One was
a representation of Bill Hackney taking
the scalp from Perkins and exclaiming,
"I've got it." Another was the more
ancient though still popular picture of
Humphrey and Hanback trying to in
duce the drunken Judge Botkla to
"stand up for Kansas."
Jerry Simpson was at his best, and the
enthusiasm manifested during his speech
showed that he had the full sympathy of
his audience. A man from-Elk county
presented him with six tickets which had
been sent from the railroad commission
ers office to induce some Elk county men
to go to the bolter's convention. '
A premium flag ' had been offered for
the township that turned out the largest
percentage of its Populist voters in the
procession. The flag was taken by Tis
dale, Dick Chase's township, which pro
duced 100 per cent here were more
vehicles In this one township delegation
than the republicans had In their whole
county parade two weeks before.
There had been no reduced railroad
rates to this rally, therefore it was al
most strictly a Cowley county affair,
while there was a reunion at Arkansas
City (same county) that day. Cowley is
safe.
A farmer In Chautauqua county has on
exhibition several whisky and beer bot
tles which he picked up where Hum
phrey and Hanback had camped a few
minutes before. He is willing to testify
that he saw Hanback pulling the corks
while Humphrey repeated the prohibi
tion speech he was to deliver at the next
school house. O, our rubber stamp gov
ernor Is a corker. Just imagine him de
livering a temperance speech with Law
Hanback and a row of empty bottles for
an audience. Is not this picture enough
to move the stoutest heart?