The advocate and Topeka tribune. [volume], October 26, 1892, Page 9, Image 9

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A STAND-UP SENATOR.
( Cimtinutd from paq$ l.)
him report the bill that he was an in
famous scoundrel and was holding my
bills back, because there waa no opposi
tion to -them, in order to put his steal
through along with my bills, which were
respectable, and that his name was so
familiar with congressmen and lobbyists
and every one else with whom I talked as
a boodler and a thief, as the name of any
harlot in Topeka is familiar aa such to
thedudee of this town. He afterwards
secured the passage of that $3,000,000
steal, and the act coming out has caused
this administration to refuse to pay out
the appropriation and the money has not
been paid to this day.
"I am going to move back to Cowley
county, and if this appointment Is made
I will take the stump next year and pro
mulgate these facts and denounce him
from one end of this state to the other as
a thief and a boodler.
"Your administration has been clean
and able. I am your friend, and there is
nothing in your gift or that of the party
In this state or elsewhere that I would
have, and I would be false to you as such
a friend did I fail to make these facts
known to you at this time.
"In addition to this, you know, and I
know, if reputable men's words are at all
to be relied on, that he has denounced
you as a wishy-washy, namby-pamby Ig
noramus, a disgrace to the state and the
party, and that through your Imbecility
a republican majority of 82,000 has melted
to nothing. My experience and others
in his district as well have demonstrated
that he Is a political ingrate and Iahmscl
ite. His promises are worthless. His
sense of obligation is dead and I would
not believe him on oath.
"I remained In Washington twenty
one days, and then went to Senator
Plumb and told him that I was an ass in
capital letters, that I had learned through
Mr. Perkins that a man could not do
enough for him to procure his assistance
in the passage of two meritorious bills
that nobody had objected to, and that I
was going home.
"Plumb told me to hold on and he
would see what he could do. He had
previously told me that he would pass
the bills in one hour through the senate
after Judge Perkins had passed them
through the house. Plumb said he would
go to Senator Dawes, chairman of the
Indian committee of the senate, and we
went to Perkins, and Plumb insisted on
Perkins reporting the bills.
"Perkins acted angry, and said he had
told me to go home and he would do it
when he got ready. Plumb insisted, and
demanded that he should report the
bills then, so I could go home. An angry
colloquy ensued between them; the hour
for the assembling of congress was at
hand and Plumb literally drove him Into
the house, where he reported the bills
and they passed. They were sent to the
senate and paesed that branch, and at 2
o'clock that day I was on my way home,
and but for him- (Perkins) all that could
have been done the first day after my
arrival in Washington. ,
Perkins conduct during the time f
waa there was of a character that con
vinced me that he waa all that was
charged, namely a boodler and a thief. I
came home against him, and have been
against him ever since. His sole back
ing Is found In the Third district, whereas
, the balance of the state is against him.
He Is a non- resident, and every candi
date in the field and their friends pro
test against his appointment. There are
hundrt di of republicans In this state his
superior in point of Intellect and aDllity
whose appointment would be accepted aa
satisfactory. You are cot representing
the Third district, and should be the ex
ecutive of the great state of Kansas.
"We are on the eve of the greatest
campaign ever fought by the republican
party In this state, and neither you nor
the party can afford to enter the cam
paign upon the defensive, and this will be
the case If you appoint Perkins, and it
will be the field against him for re
election and the fate of John J. Ingalls
will follow him, and the great republican
state of Kansas will be represented by
another of Its defamers in the senate of
the United States, and this act will go
down in history as an unparalleled politi
cal blunder on your part, inexcusable,
unnecessary and Idiotio In the extreme,
and we, as your friends, cannot do other
wise than sound this warning and enter
our protest against this Infamy.
"The other members of the delegation
spoke In the same vein and the governor
said in reply that he had not yet made
any appointment"
Southern Populists.
Writing to the Advocate from Nankl
poo, Tenn., R. C. Bradford says In refer
ence to the late political outrage:
"The People's party In the south la
composed of as good men and as intelli
gent as there are here. We have the ma
chine politicians to fight, and they
generally hold the towns and employ the
roughs of humanity to do their dirt.
This, it seems, we are at present power
less to prevent. The party north knows
nothing of our surroundings, and can
form a very poor Idea of things as they
exist There is one thing I will assure
them of, that we are going to make the
d. o. p. hustle to carry a single southern
state. We are going to have a fair eleo
tion or something else. As regards the
treatment of Oen. Weaver in Georgia, no
brave man and true of any party con
dones it They treated Jno. P. Buchanan,
our candidate for governor, to the same
dose the othec day. Why? Not because
he was in the federal army, for he was In
the confederate, and made a good record;
not because of anything wrong with him
personally, because two years ago he waa
elected by the largest majority any can
didate had received in twenty years to
his present position as governor. The
only reason Is that he thinks, like Oen.
Weaver, more of the people than of cor
porations and machine politicians, and
they are willing to stoop to anything that
is groveling to run him off the stump.
That they will not do, and if they persist
in egg-throwing, they will get something
worse.
"We have a great fight to make, and are
making It Had three grand rallies in
the county last week. Great enthusiasm
prevailed. Rice A, Pierce, our candidate
for congress, enthused the people. He is
an Independent, but his record is clean.
"Men of the north, stand firm. We will
meet you on November 8, and show you
we mean business In breaking away from
the iron hand and slimy grasp of mo
nopoly." It Isn't Worth While.
Susan B. Anthony Is quoted, in an in
terview by the Topeka correspondent of
the Kansas City Time$, as follows:
"No, I don't say anything about the.
candidates, not even to republican candi
date for congressman-at-large. One man,
even if he isn't just what he might be,
can't hurt the party, ne must be carried
ahead by the people who are behind him,
and the people are all right. I might say
some things I know about him which are
not very complimentary, but It is hardly
worth while."
The Advocats xkd Tbibtob and the
Kaniat Farmer can itlll be had at $1.75
for a year. Every farmer needs them
both.
Seotional Hatred Fostered by the Be-
publican Party.
To the Editor of Thk Advocate:
On seeing .so much in republican pa
pers of late concerning the lawless ac
tions in the south against Gen. Weaver
and free speech, In which they think
they have gained a great deal of cam
paign thunder, leada us to make some
Inquiries as to the reasons for those con
ditions, either north or south; and when
we look back over the past history of
this country for twenty-five years and
see who have been our rulers and law
makers, we can very easily traoe the
cause home to where it belongs. If those
conditions cf the suppression of free
speech exist in the south to day, the re
publican party la responsible for the
condition. Every presidential campaign,
and many of the local campaigns for the
past twenty and twenty five years has
been conducted on the "bloody shirt"
issue, In which they have proclaimed
long and loud the doctrine of hate and
malice, thus kindling the spirit of re
taliation in the hearts of our brothers In
the south which had fed the selfish na
tu.e and filled their minds with a preju
dice hard to overcome. The leaders and
politicians of the republican party are re
sponsible for this condition to-day; it Is
to them mainly that the doctrine of hate
is attributed, and they have proclaimed
It from the stump and preached It from
some pulpits all over this nation, and
men's minds have been poisoned with a
personal prejudice to such an extent that
violence is often the result
No wonder that Senator Ingalls said
that the "Decalogue and golden rule had
no plaoe In American politics," for It has
not under this system been adopted.
The new dispensation la not considered
by this much boasted party of progress.
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth" Is the motto taught and practiced
by the leaders of this party. If this
g. o. p. wants to see a better condition in
the south, let them cease their abuse,
banish from their minds this sectional
hate, and try to have a little regenerative
forgiveness for mankind; and if their
brothers in the south err In manifesting
any sectional hatred, the g. o. p. being so
much more enlightened, should try W
teach them a better way, at least by ex
ample. If this had been the rule adopted
since the war has been over, this feeling
of sectional hate and malice caused by
the war would have been overcome years
ago. But no; this was a scheme con
cocted by designing politicians to keep
the people divided in order to rob them
with high taxes and high Interest, and
had the decalogue and golden rule been
adopted all these years, the present sys
tem could never have been fastened on
the American people. Under this rule
no one would seek to rob another through
the so-called legitimate business rules.
Men who are engaged to teach right
eousness and try to regenerate mankind
so that they may adopt business rules
and methods In harmony with the prin
ciples as taught In the "Sermon on the
Mount," and then vote and use their
time and Influence to help perpetuate a
party that read the decalogue aad golden
rule out of their platforms, are sowing
seeds of damnation over their own heads,
and many of this class of men to-day
have become as a sounding brass and a
tinkling cymbal. But they must re
member that what they sow they must
reap; and our nation to-day Is reaping in
tares from the seeds sown by this great
enemy of the 'people (republican party).
If there is one conscientious republican
unbiased by prejudice in this great state
of Kansas who doubts the above state
ments, we would be glad if he would
compare our present system of greed
and avarice with the New Testament
teaching the Christ dispensation, and
see if they will harmonize. One or the
other Is wrong. Which will we as Ameri
can freemen reject? We certainly have
this question to decide. Let us decide
for humanity. Old Settler,
Lane, Kansas, October 13, 1S92.
Success vs. Fizzla.
To the Editor ot Thi Advocate.
A short time since the republicans held
a meeting at Oorham, In this county.
Our county attorney was the speaker.
For an audience he had two People's
party men, three democrats, and seven
others, some of whom are an uncertain
commodity as to what they will be. Grand
suooess number one.
About one week later another meeting
was held at the same place. Had about
the same audience. Judge Sutton and
some lesser lights were the speakers. En
thusiastic gathering number two.
On the evening of the 15th inst. the
People's party had a meeting. Place
the same. Speaker, Hon, Noah Allen.
Every seat in the house was oacupled,
fifty-three by actual count being present;
all but three or four were voters. The
speaker held his entire audience for two
and a half hours, and many, some of
them republicans, expressed themselves
as willing to listen an hour longer. Great
fizzle! Mr. Allen Is an excellent speaker,
and his speech was replete with facts and
arguments and free from misrepresenta
tion and abuse. This la what the people
want The time has gone by" when ridi
cule and abuse passes for argument with
the majority.
At five g. o. p. meetings that the writer
has attended, addressed by such men as
"Farmer" Smith, Senator Parkins, Welch,
of Topeka, and others of prominence,
not a single plank in any platform has
been taken up and discussed upon Ha
merits. They seem to be afraid to dis
cuss principles, even their own. Each
and all have taken . and discussed at
length the clause In the People's plat
form where it reads, "We are on the
verge of moral, material and political
ruin," etc. This seems to have a great
attraction for them as a subject on which
to pour forth their eloquence. Mis
representation, falsehood and abuse Is
their stock In trade. Every speech so
far has made votes for the People's party.
They are getting rattled, even In Russell
county. A. Wilson.
Russell, Kas., October 18, '92.
Eawlins Oouaty.
To the Editor of The Advoctb.
Senator Pcffer and Congreatman Otis
spoke here Saturday to the largest crowd
which has assembled In this county dur
ing the campaign. The attendance was
double that of any republican meeting
so far held. The senator spoke at length
In the afternoon and Mr. Otis entertained
the boys In the evening. Men who lived
twenty to thirty mllea away remained
until after the night meeting and felt
well satisfied with the speeches heard. If
attendance and attention Indicate any
thing, much good was done. We want
to make no rash predictions, but believe
that our party will surely carry this
county by a fair majority this year. Con
sidering the fact that we never have
carried It, this will be much of a victory.
Yours In the work, J. W. Morpht, ;
Atwood, October 17.
The ninth annual sale of Clydeedalea at
alexia, ILL, on Norember 2, 1892, promises
to be aa suooeasful as were those of former
years. Those contemplating the purchase
of a stallion for the oomiog season should
remember the date, and- go and visit the
largest stud of Clyde horses owned by one
man in the world. Stallions and mares old
and young at reasonable prioes and terms.