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TJiSl ADVOCATE.
CONCERNING KANSAS.
NOTES.
The K 02323 Christian Endeavor so
cietiea will hold their seventh annual
convention in Topeka, beginning May 24.
Lynching is the fad of the week.
George Rosa was handed by a mob at
Cottonwood Falla for killing Carl Kuhn,
and two men, father and eon, met a sim
ilar fate at Sharon Sp rings.
Since March 1 the names of about
2,500 Kansas people who were never be
fore regular readers of the Advocate
have been added to the subscription list.
This does not look like "progressing
backward."
It looks bad to have our state insti-
fcutions investigated. The republicans
never used to investigate anything.
When any mismanagement was reported
they used to shut their eyes and say,
"don't mention it," and that settled it.
Mrs. Plumb, widow of the lata sena
tor, has sued Calvin Hood and Ebon
Smith of Emporia, to recover $30,000
which she claims is due her husband's
estate from a mining transaction in
which he and the defendants were in
terested. The long expected haa come. Afcrank
who writes from Eenyon, Minn., haa
threatened to kill Mrs. Lease, and as an
earnest of his good faith, he sent her
$10 to buy flowers for her funeral. The
strangeness of it is that he does not
know that Mrs. Lease usually buys her
own flowers.
The "Capital" block, owned by J. K
-Hudson, the building in which the To
peka Capital is printed, was sold at
sheriff's sale May 6 for $25,000 to the
National Life Insurance company. The
mortgages on it aggregated about $45,
COO, and, of course, some of them are
likely to remain unpaid.
There is s?me candor and honesty in
the Cowley county republican platform.
It la innocent simplicity in a short drees,
that platform is: "Resolved, That we
demand a change." Volumea might be
written without expressing the senti
ment of a republican convention half as
clear as that does. Everybody, even T.
W. Eckert, of Arkansas City, can under
etsnd that. If their state convention
should adopt it without any adornments,
Populists might as well make up their
ninds to get up and hustle, or get beat.
Coming from a republican source this
Etory is a .very ungrateful dig at Chair
man Simpoon, of the republican state
committee, but it is good enough to re
sist: They say that by a prearrange
inert of Chairman Breidenthal, about
30,000 Populists in different parts of the
ct&te had themselves listed in 1892 by
Simpson's poll takers as republicans,
thus giving them a large majority on
thair poll books, whioh majority of
- course vanished on election day. If
trua, thia was a wicked piece of business
ca Brcidenthal'a part, but it had the
merit cf making Simpson's fellows feel
goal for a while.
Notable Decisions.
Two decisions by Justice Allen, con
curred in by the other two members of
iba supreme court, the syllabi of which
7cre published last week, are of great
inprtance. One ia in a case brought
ca error from Cloud county, involving
t!is question as to whither the debts cf
tzri. stockholders could bejdaducted in
pving in the stock for assessment. J us
' ;ii a Allen decided: "The word credit as
.'.rnd in paragraph C847, of the general
. ; : : j of 1889, and used in the chapter
tJji fc::;:33:t csd cell:;-
tion of taxes , does not include shares of
stock in a national bank, and the owners
of euoh shares have no right to deduct
from their Assessed value the amount of
their debts."
The other case was the state against
the Dodge City, Montezuma & Trinidad
Railway company. The decision is that
a charter holds an original corporation
or a purchaser of property built under
ita charter to certain obligations which
cannot be removed, except by the state
through its legislature.
Forrest Skins a Republican.
Editoh Advocate: The joint debate
between Frank B. Forrest, Populist, of
Topeka, and Joseph Teggart, republi
can, cf SaUna, held at Brookville, Satur
day night, May 5, was another victory
for the Populists. The debate was on
the question of whioh party was best
qualified to solve the political problems
of the day.
The attendance was large, aa every
seat in the city hall was occupied and
many more were compelled to stand.
Mr. Forrest opened the debate with
an hour's speech, in which he started in
to prove that the republican party was
wholly responsible for the present finan
cial panic Aa he advanced in his argu
ment step by step, proving every asser
tion by republican authority, he built
up such a wall of argument that every
man present knew that hia opponent
could not tear it down. At the expira
tion of his hour he took his seat and
was given a hearty round of applause by
nearly all of his listeners.
Mr. Teggart, the republican orator,
was then introduced and for an hour
and a half he gave the boys a fearful and
wonderful exhibition of a lawyer's ca
pacity for abuse, misrepresentation pyro
tachnical display and brazen, open faced
lying. For instance, he said in one
breath that the democratic and Popu
list parties were to blame for the pres
ent panio and yet admitted in the next
that not a single law had been changed
on the statute books since the republi
cans went out of power (excepting the
repeal of the Sherman law, whioh action
he upheld.) He claimed that there was
more money in circulation now than ever
before, that more money would not in
crease prices; he talked of Jerry's socks,
Peffer'a whiskers and Mrs. Lease's
mouth, and finally wound up by daring
Forrest to refute his statements.
Mr. Forrest dosed the debate in a half
hour's speech, the equal of which we
have never heard. He went right back
after the republican lawyer, and how
that lawyer did yell was a caution.
Every one of his statements were proven
false or absurd. Mr. Forrest simply
skinned him and then threw stones at
the hide. The audience certainly en
joyed the meeting, as they paid very
close attention to both ipeaksrs.
At the close of Forrest's speech he
was given a great ovation. Men and
women sent up cheer after cheer for
the victor, then crowded around him to
shake hands. Mr. Forrest's style of
getting after a republican attorney in. a
political debate, was to their mind, about
the only proper way and they said that
votes were made that night for the
Populists..
By the way, Saline county ia on the in
crease in the Pop. column. Watch the
election returns this fall and see.
Salina, Kansas. F. H.
The Salina Union gave a good report
of the meeting, in whioh it said: MMr.
Forrest took up Mr. Taggart on every
ens of hia propositions and showed their
ctssrdiijr cr h$ty Tfcsafcj earoS
his opponent on the free wool question,
showing that by their votes for the Wil
son bill the Populists had carried the
income tax bill through the house, and
that every republican had voted against
the measure. For half an hour the peo
ple listened to his masterly refutation of
every point made by his opponent, and
repeatedly cheered him at every step.
The Populists of Brookville feel good
over the debate and wish they could
have another."
Shawnee County Conventloa.
A delegate convention of the People's
party of shawnee county ia hereby called
to meet at the court house, in Topeka,
on Saturday, June 2, at 10 o'clock a. m.,
for the purpose of electing ten delegates
and ten alternates to the state convention
to be held in lopeka on June 10, and
also to elect twenty-one delegates and
twenty-one alternates to the congres
sional convention to be held in Em
poria on June 20.
The basis of representation is one
delegate for every 20 votes, or major
fraction thereof, cast for Hugh Lawler
for register of deeds in 1893. Provided
that no precinct be without a delegate.
It is recommended' that the primaries
be held on Saturday, May 26, in the city
from 7 to 9 p. m. and in the country
from 4 to 7 p. m., and that each pre
cinct hold ita own primaries under its
own committeeman, known Populists
only to participate. A new county cen
tral committee is also to be elected at
these primaries for the coming campaign
one from each preoinot.
By unanimous vote the following ia
attached: "No person holding any office
or position of profit, trust, or emolu
ment, under th federal or any state or
municipal government, including sena
tors, congressmen and members of the
legislature, state and local, shall be eli
gible to sit or vote in any convention of
this party, and a copy of this ordinance
shall be annexed to every call for any
future conventions of the party."
F. W. Lmch,
Chairman County Central Committee.
D. L Furbecx,
Chairman District Committee.
Please send results of primaries to
A. B. Smith, Secretary, Box 180.
Woman's Progressive Political League.
Oar constitution provides that the an
nual meeting of the;league shall be held
the second Tuesday in June of each
year. The place of holding the coming
m eoe ting was left with the exeoutive
committee to determine. Topeka haa
been selected as the most convenient
place. The executive committee has
called a special meeting June 11, at 3
p.m., in Representative halL An in
formal reception will be held at 8 p. ra,:
same place. A cordial invitation ia ex
tended to all men and women of the
People's party to be present
People's party papers please copy.
Bina A. Otis, President.
SPECIAL MEETING.
We, the undersigned members of the
eiecutire committee of the Woman's Pro
gressive Political league, unite in calling a
meeting of the league at Topeka, Jane 11,
5 p. m., in RepresentatiTe hall.
Biva A. Otis, President.
S. L. Rugous, Sec W. P. P. L.
E. W. Cbumb, Chairman.
O. E. Pixuy, See. Ex. Com. W. P. P. L.
Mabt H. Eiilis.
May 9. 1804.
Notice.
There will be a caucus of the People's
party of Menoken township at the town
ship hall at 3 o'clock p. m., Tuesday,
May 22, for the purpose of chosing dele
gates to the county convention which
nests in Topeka, May 21.
Evolutions Butler Coanty Alliance.
Whxbias, We believe that the trend and
tendency of legislation for years past has
been such as haa resulted in the absorption
of products of labor by those who "toil not.
neither do they spin," and has been such as
to reduce thousands of laborers to a condi
tion of forced idleness and dependence;
and
WmrsiAB, The constitution of the United
States guarantees the right of assemblage
and petition without prescribing where suoh
assemblage shall take place, or whether
suoh petition shall be in writing or by per
sonal appeal; and
Whxsias, Certain of our fellow citizens
have gone in person to Washington, and
claimed the right to assemble on public
grounds in the national capital, and the
right to personally appeal to oonjrress. as
provided by the national constitution; and
Whbbias, Suoh rights have been denied
them, an they have been wrongfully and
personally maltreated by the police authori
ties of Washington, and have been arrested
while in the preamble exercises of a consti
tutional right; and
Whbbias, The widespread sympathy from
all parts of our land with the Coxey move
ment betokens a sad condition of want and
unrest among the laboring olass of our peo
ple, and betokens conditions of distress
among our people, relief for whioh we be
lieve is in the line of congressional legisla
tion; therefore, be it
Besolvtd, Thai we demand of congress a
respectful hearing of all petitions either
writtsn or by personal appeal from the
citizens assembled anywhere, and we da
mand that speedy and elective measures be
adopted by congress providing for the em
ployment of idle laborers so that starvation
and poverty shall not occur in a land of
plenty ma land needing the employment
of laborers in all departments of industry, in
aland in whioh no famine has ooourred to
the end that hunger and idleness shall not
be found among us, that we demand this as
the birthright of American oitizecs and not
as supplicants, and that we hold the law
making department of our country respon
sible for the direful condition now cursing
this land and will not cease our efforts until
the same is removed by whatever means
may be found necessary thereto, and that a
copy of these resolutions be forwarded to
Senator Peffer for introduction ia the
Unltsd States senate, and to Congressmen
W. A. Harris for introduction into the house
of representatives, and that the same be
published in the newspapers of our land;
and we call on all freedom loving American
citizens to give expression to their mem
bers of congress and the United States
senators on this momentous question.
Douglass County.
Whibxas, The time has oome in the his
tory of oar country that .demands men in
office who have been tried and found true
to the interest of the common people who
are not in the pay of trusts and combines,
that have been fostered by unjust olass leg
islation; and
Whibias, Governor Levelling and our
present state officers are in sympathy with
the common people, and are working to se
oure legislation that will be beneficial to
all, and are not seeking a nomination; and
Whbbias, One of the principles of the
People's party is, the offioe should seek the
man, and not the man seek the offioe; there
fore, be it
Resolved, By the People's Party olub, of
Vinland, Eas., that we are in favor of the
renomination of Governor Levelling and
the rest of the present state offloers; and
should they be nominated, we, as a olub,
hereby pledge our hearty and ntire sup
port. Resolred, That a oopy of this resolution
be sent to the Tepeka Advocatb for publi
cation. Amsos Abdbiws,
J. C. Rixcb, President.
Seoretary pro tern.
Vinland, Kas.
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