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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28. 1894.
One gcod feature of the dirty cam
p aign dow on in Kansas City, Mis
souri, is that it keeps the papers of
that town from lying so much about
Kanea3 and the Populists in general.
Coxex's "peace" army was not very
large when it started from Massillon,
but it has plenty of space in which
to grow. "Gentlemen may cry
peace, peace, but there is no peace."
A young and energetio newspaper
man would invest some money to
start a Populist paper provided the
people of some good Kansas town will
give him the proper encouragement
Address this office.
The Coming Nation suggests the
only single plank platform that is
both sensible and comprehensive. It
is a demand for the initiative and
referendum. Give the masses of the
people this, and thereby withdraw
the legislative power from Wall
street and from the corporations, and
other questions will soon be disposed
of. We can take passage on that
plank without any serious misgiv
ings. After the publication of the ad
dress of the National Committee,
issued from St. Louis, we discovered
a fatal error in it Where the ad
dress spoke of paper mcney "redeem
able in debts and taxes," a change
was made by somebody, making it
read, "redeemable in metal." We
have endeavored to learn who was
responsible for this change, but as
yet have not succeeded. Some of
our reform papers had the correct
reading. The Advocate was among
those that were bit by a spurious
copy. We have said nothing about
it before because vie desired first if
possible to learn who made the
change. It must have been wilfully
done by somebody, and who ever he
is, he ought to be hunted out if possible.
WIIY THI3 AGITATION 7
A great deal is being said just now
about the proposed march of Coxsy's
army, as it is called, to Washington.
The great daily papers have ridiculed
the movement and governors of states
have given vague hints of what might
be done in case such a' demonstration
should be seriously undertaken. The
governor of Pennsylvania is reported
as having said that the army could
not pass through that state, and now
comes another discouraging an
nouncement from Washington that
public gatherings are not permitted
upon the steps, of "the capitol or in
the capitol'grounds without permis
sion congress; and that this army
of the unemployed would not be ac
corded that glorious privilege. The
thought of denying representatives
of banks, corporations and trusts the
privilege of assembling in Washing
ton and making known their wants
has never occurred to the "servants
of the people" assembled at the na
tional capital, nor has the press ever
become very much excited over these
things; but the idea that working
men, and they out of employment,
too, should think of asking a hear
ing of congress seems utterly pre
posterous. What right have they to
go to Washington?
All reports agree that the men are
unarmed and that they are peaceable
in their intentions. They claim that
they simply desire an opportunity to
lay their claims before the national
congress and make a demonstration
of such magnitude as to impress that
body with the importance of giving
those claims reasonable consideration.
We are not prepared to say what the
prospect may be of making such a
demonstration successful, but we will
make this suggestion: If these men
undertake to go to Washington
unarmed, and for the purpose which
they have indicated, it may be well
for governors of states and for gov
ernment officials to let them go, and
to encourage them to keep good na
I tared. If they meet with unreason
able opposition while unarmed, they
may take it into their heads to arm,
and that would seriously complicate
the situation.
WHY THIS MISREPRESENTATION T
In the treatment of differences of
opinion in our own judgment it is
as well to be fair as to be unfair, and
it occurs to us that the Ottawa Jour
nal in its issue of March 22 goes a
long distance out of its way to criti
cise opinions of the Advocate which
the Advocate never expressed. It
say 8 of certain sentiments that they
are "more worthy a place in the
Topeka Capital than in the columns
of the Advocate," and those senti
ments were never expressed by the
Advocate. We have had many con
troversies with the Topeka Capital,
and it has on many occasions misrep
resented our ideas; but it has never
yet, to our knowledge, in quoting any
thing we have said divided a
sentence in the middle in order to
give it a different meaning from that
which we intended; and that is pre
cisely what the Journal does in its
pretended criticism.
It further labors hard to convey
the impression that we have cast un
worthy reflections upon the Duns
more house. We do not believe any
reader so understood us who desired
to understand what we really had to
say. We yield to no one in loyalty
to the Dunsmore house. We en
couraged its organization and have
always defended its action; and no
paper in the state has published one
half the matter designed to show the
right and the wrong side of the leg
islative controversy that the Advo
cate has dona
When we spoke of another legisla
ture like the last one, we meant a
legislature that is not controlled by
Populists, and we think our readers
so understood us, and will continue
to so understand us notwithstanding
the efforts ol the Journal to misin
terpret our language. If the Capi
tal can excel the Journal in misrep
resentation it's a good one. It is not
worth the time and space to enter
into any controversy with a journal
which shows itself so incompetent to
correctly state the views of a con
temporary. The frequent changes of
the Journal upon the subject of
fusion cause it to be classed among
the "very unreliable." Less than
two years ago it took the position the
Advocate now occupies and always
has occupied. What influence has
led to the change?
POSTOmCE CLERKS.
Among the measures pending
before congress is one relating to the
classification, duties and pay of post
office clerks. In the railway postal
service and in the delivery service
there is now such a classifica
tion, regulation of salary and of the
hours of labor; and it is no more
than just that such regulation should
extend to the clerks whose duties are
confined to the routine work inside
the office. There is probably no
material objection to the bill now
pending (H. R. 56) and it only needs
to be brought before congress and
the justice of its provisions be prop
erly presented in order to be
promptly adopted. It has the in
dorsement of the postal authorities,
and we believe has the approval of
the postal clerks themselves who are
the parties most interested. The
publio is chiefly interested in effi
ciency of service; and this can only
be secured by the employment of
competent people to do the work.
The best guarantee of efficiency in
this, as in any other branch of the
publio service, is in doing full jus
tice to every employe, thereby insur
ing a more than selfish interest in the
work to be performed. We trust
that this measure may not be lost
sight of in the partisan shuffle for
political buncomb for the coming
campaigns.
STRANGE NOTIONS OF ABUSE.
The'.Toceka Hurrykain has succumbed to
the ineTitable from a. lack of patronage at
the hands of the administration. It imi
tated the Advocate by filling its columns
with abuse of the Capital, but as it did not
bare the state printing it gave up the
ghost. Capital, March 24.
The Capital has strange notions of
what -constitutes abuse. The Advo
cate has exploded a great many of
the false theories and doctrines of
the Capital, exposed its unblushing
falsehoods, and presented arguments
that it coald not answer. If this is
abuse we plead guilty to the charge.
Wo were able to do these things,
too, while the Capital was receiving
the fees for the state printing, just as
effectually as now. The Capital is
especially sore just now m conse
quence of the recent drubbing it has
received on the over-production the
ory, and its hypocritical pretense
that the tariff affords protection to
the American workingman against
the "miserable pauper labor of Eu
rope." We sympathise with it in its
pitiably defenseless position, but we
cannot permit our sympathies to pre
vent the publication of the truth.
It will be a sad sight to see Con
gressmen Broderick, Funston and
Curtis trying to be re-elscted on an
anti-silver platform after voting with
the Populists on the silver question.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
United States Senator A. H. Colquitt
died in Washington on Monday. He
was a Georgian by birth, and has repre
sented that state in the senate since
1883.
Governor Matthews, of Indiana, an
other pious statesman, declares that he
will call out the militia if necessary, to
prevent any of the Coxey army from
marching in that state.
Louis Kossuth, the eminent Hun
garian patriot, died at Turin, March 23,
aged 92 years. He had for many years
maintained a high position in the esti
mation of his countrymen.
The People's party of Pennsylvania,
will hold a state convention at Harris
burg, May 1, to nominate a state ticket.
The committee's call reads very much
like a Kansas calamity document.
Very severe cold weather is reported
from the middle western states, and as
far south as Tennessee the beginning of
this week. la many parts of the Ohio
Valley the fruit is frozen and the wheat
injured.
The silver convention at Dea Moinea
last week was very much like the ordi
nary silver meetings, the principle fea
tures Deing the Karsas contingent and,
Ignatius Donnelly. Several southern
states were represented.
In response to an inquiry from Super
intendent Snider, President Sweetsterof
the Boylston Insurance company, Boa
ton, writes: "We have to confirm the
report that this company has reinsured
its outstanding ruka and retired from
business. The German American In
surance company, of New York, assumed
all liability under our policies from the
16th mat"
About twenty-five of the leading New
York bankers met a few days ago and
adopted the following: "Resolved, that,
in the opinion of the representatives of
the finanoial institutions of New York
who subscribed to the 150,000,000 5 per
tent loan and made it a success, the
coinage cf the silver seigniorage would
endanger the financial stability of the
government and would inflict upon a
suffering people pernicious and unneces
sary legislation which would be far
reaching in its disastrous consequence."
Of course this was sent direct to the
president, and of course the backers
confidently believed that it would have
more weight than a petition from a
thousand times as many working people.
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