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PEOPLE'S RALLIES.
BARBECUES, P1CMCS, POLE BAIS.
LMJS-FAMOUS QUESEMO
GLEE CLUB.
Hon. H. N. Gaines, People's Candidate
for state Superintendent, and Oth
er Orators will. Speak.
People's rallies will be held at the
places and dates given below. These
meetings will be addressed by Hon.
II. N. Gaines, the People's party candi
date for Superintendent of Public In
struction besides other good and
interesting speakers.
The famous Quenemo Glee Club
will be present at each meeting and
furnish the music. If you have not
heard this glee club it will be worth
your time to go quite a distance to
hear it. The meetings will be held as
follows:
Mulvane, Saturday, Sept. 17 Pole
raising. Also meeting in the even
ing. Cole's grove, four miles northwest
of Wellington, Monday, September
19 Old time basket picnic.
Wellington City, 8 p. m., same ev
ening. Meeting at Liberty Hall.
Kinkade's Grove, 2 miles southeast
of Portland, Tuesday, Sept. 20-Old
fashioned barbecue.
Geuda Springs, 8 p. m., same even
ing. Oxford, Wednesday, September 21
Basket Picnic in Morrill's Grove; in
door meeting in the evening.
Argonia, Thursday, September 22.
Basket Ticnic and evening meeting.
Gi fiord's grove, Sumner township,
Friday, September 23 Old fashion
ed Barbecue.
Conway Springs same evening, in
door meeting.
These meetings will all be well at
tended and you will miss a treat if
you fail to be present at one of the
meetings, at least. The speeches will
be instructive and will interest peo
ple of all political shades. Tell your
neighbor and get ready to attend
yourself.
By Order of Committee.
OfJlER MEETINGS.
The candidates on the People's
ticket and perhaps other speakers
will meet the people at the following
times and places.
Terth, Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Corbin, Wednesday, Sept. 14.
Logan school house, Caldwell town
ship, Thursday, Sept. 15.
Also same date at Malaby school
house, Springdale township.
Seventy-Six, Seventy-Six Center,
Friday, Sept. 30.
Oxford township, Beuna Vista
school house, Monday, Oct. 3.
Avon, Avon Center, Tuesday.Oct. 4.
Val Verde, Jenkins school house,
Wednesday, Oct. 5.
Green, Concord school house, Thurs
day, Oct. 0.
Jackson, Jackson Center school
house, Friday, Oct. 7.
Let the people turn out and get ac
quainted and hear what is to be said.
Don't forget the date and see that all
your neighbors arc made aware of the
meeting and urged to be present. All
meetings at 8:30 p. m.unless otherwise
noted.
Appointments for County Candidates
and Local Speakers.
Hon. A. G. Forney, People's party
nominee for state senator, Hon. G. E.
Meeker, nominee for representative
in 70th district, Lyman Naugle, nom
inee for probate judge and others of
the People's party candidates will
meet and address the people at the
following times and places:
Palestine township. Earner's school
house, Monday, Sept. 26.
Harmon township, Redmond school
house, Tuesday, Sept,. 27.
London, Argyle school house, Wed
nesday, Sept. 28.
Sumner, Mystic Valley school house,
Thursday, Sept. 29.
Notice Gore Township.
The central committeeman of the
People's party of second Gore will ad
dress the people at Antelope school
house on Saturday night, September
23. 181)2. W. M. Taylor..
All of our farmers needing money
1f should call on Black & Murrell. They
are loaning at the lowest rates and
will charge you no commission. 35tf
Peoples
VOL. III.
EDITORIHL NOTES.
Stand up for principle.
Stand up with the people.
The "hayseeds" are still in it and
don't you forget it. Get out of the
road, plutocrats.
Don't forget to read the People's
party and Alliance pages on the in
side of the Voice. They are "stun
ners." We know of a man in distress.
Who amount!) to near nothing, or less;
He fumes and he fusses.
He paws and he cusses,
And pretends to edit the Monitor-Press.
The free coinage Republicans at
Denver, Colorado, were downed in
their county convention last week by
gold-bug hirelings. Colorado is now
reasonably sure for Weaver.
Ignatius Donnelly claims that the
People's party will have a plurality in
Minnesota of about 30, 000. Theclaim
is based on reports from all parts of
the state.
The Clark county Clipper is nine
years old and a bright, lusty youth it
is. The Clipper is decidedly "in it"
in more ways than one, and is doing
good work for Weaver and reform.
Jerry's majority will be several
thousand more than it was two years
ago. Over in the Third district the
people are going to pile it up on Hum
phrey. He will be absolutely lost in
the shuffle.
The people of Guelph, Walton,
Jackson and Downs township are
away up in enthusiasm for the Peo
ple's party. Particularizing, however,
may prove invidious. The whole
county is up in arms.
Jim Legate claims that Humphrey
was elected by taking 15,200 of the
votes cast for Robinson away from
that candidate and adding them to
Humphrey's column. People have
suspicioned this. We hope Mr. Leg
ate may furnish the proof.
The Republicans of Colorado have
made their state ticket, declared for
free coinage and then eulogized Pres
ident Harrison, "the worst enemy
silver ever had in th White House."
The Colorado Republicans will be
beaten out of their boots as they
richly deserve to be.
"Don't it beat hell?" was the re
mark of a prominent Republican as
he beheld the Wichita-Simpson pa
rade. The people may infer from
this what they have got to beat. But
they are equal to the emergency, and
the gates of hell will not prevail
against a righteous cause.
The rank and file of what is left of
the Republican party in this state is ! patches," but they were like the let
really in sympathy with the People's ' ter that never came. We learn from
movement, and only need a little the Kansas'City Times, however, that
more education and enlightment to j the Repubi.can loss in that state is
bring them over. Invite them to
hear our speakers and read our pa
pers.. You will be doing them a fa
vor. L. W. Johnson, the auctioneer, has
a just grievance with the Voice. Be
fore the cyclone his advertisement
read that he would cry sales amount
ing to more than $500 for one per cent:
under $500 for $5.00 In straightening
out the cycloce the intelligent com
positor made it read "under $500 Ave
percent." He only lost two sales by
it and we trust this correcton will
not lose him anv more.
It is surprising that the Republi
can papers can see no good in a Re
publican or Democrat after he joins
the People's ranks. They claim that
the good crops will cause former Re
publicans to return to their old party,
yet they go right on with their abuse
and slander of those who were for
merly good Republicans. Is it possi
ble that they think such treatment
will bring them back quicker than
reason and common svnse? If they
really do, and their course would in
dicate as much, they are doomed to
disappointment.
The only attention Jerry Simpson
pays to letters from his old soldier
constituents in regard to their pen
sion claims is to turn them over to a
firm of pension attorneys. Mun It or
Press. The writer of the above knew when
he panned it that it was a barefaced
falsehood, but such rot seems to suit
him much better than reason and
honesty. But he is probably uncon
scious of the fact that he is doing the
People's party more good than his
own by publishing such lies. The vo
ters of this district know fully as
much about Jerry Simpson's work in
congress as the forlorn editor of the
Monitor.
WELLINGTON, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1892.
It would All the g. o. p. heart with
joy if they could muster one such
rally as was witnessed at Wichita
Tuesday. Such enthusiasm comes
from the hearts of the people. It
cannot be bought, hired or forced
with money, bands or bluster. Ear
nestness, hope and desire is what
brings genuine enthusiasm. We are
the people. Stand up with us.
There were thirty wagon loads of
wheat, two of corn and ote of oats in
the procession at Wichita Tuesday,
all of which was hauled to the eleva
tor, cashed and placed to the credit of
the campaign committee. The mot
toes on the wagons were very suggest
ive. The farmer's wheat vs. the
banker's coupons.
Mr. Scott, the People's candidate
for county attorney in Cowley county
was in the city Monday and gave us a
call. He sets at rest all the stories to
the effect that the People's party will
not carry that county. He says the
result this year will be overwhelm
ingly in favor of the People's party.
Not a particle of doubt about it.
Sumner county was represented at
Wichita Tuesday by a crowd of about
fifty people. Ex-Sheriff Tom Adams
headed the procession on the Rock Is
land from Wellington, but alleges that
he did not know there was anything
going on. He was not long in discov
ering that there was something tran
scendently great transpiring in the
"Peerless Princess" after he got
there.
Being unable to induce the people
to come out and hear their harangues
the Republicans at Stafford induced a
patent medicine man to allow a local
speaker to address the crowd that
had gathered to hear the negro min
strels accompanying him. The Peo
ple's Paper reports that the said local
speaker disgusted the crowd and the
medicine man apologized for allowing
the imposition. The "stand-ups" are
in a bad way this year.
General Fields served under Major
General Longstreet. Longstreet was
appointed by General Grant as sur
veyor of the port of New Orleans a
high and responsible position. Of
course it is wrong to expect people
to support General Fields (?). He has
not been converted to the Republican
party yet. If he could be induced to
go into the Republican . party he
would be a true patriot. Verily, they
strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
Today Vermont will testify its con
tinued faith in Republican principles.
There is- no better Republicanism
than the Vermont brand. Watch
the dispatches for the results of the
election. Wichita Eagle.
Well, we "watched for the dis-
about 24 per cent. This is probably
why the returns have not been re
ported by the Republican Associated
press.
THE FIRST POLL.
Topeka, Kan., Sept. 10. It will
surprise the Republicans when the
Populist leaders m;ike public their
first poll of the state. It will place
the majority for the fusion electoral
ticket at 50.0000, and for the state
ticket at from 35.000 to 40,000. In
the increased vote for a presidential
year the Republicans are conceded a
gain of 5,000 over the vote of two years
ago. and the Populists claim 8,000.
It is impossible to get any kind of
statement from the Republican cen
tral committee. "It will take hard
work, but we will carry the state," is
as much as either Chairman Simpson
or Secretary Brown will ever vouch
safe. The schoolhouse meetings now be
ing held throughout the county by the
candidates are quite successful. Mr.
Forney has so far devoted his time to
the northern and western portion of
the county, but will be billed for the
southern part later on. Lyman Nau
gle. in company with W. S. Pile, held
successful meetings in Val Verde,
Geuda Springs and Portland last
week, but were rained out Saturday
night at South Haven. South Haven
is one of the liveliest towns in the
county and would have turned out a
good crowd, but for the rain. All
hands report gains from Republican
ranks in every precinct. Before the
campaign is ended the prospect is
that the country districts will be
practically solid for the People' ticket
and the towns will show considerable
gains in that direction also. Verily,
there is a wondrous awakening of the
people
Voice
AS UFORTUATE RESEMBLANCE.
Two Brothers who "Look Alike bnt do
not See Alike."-"Don't It Beat
II-L"
Unfortunately for the "grand old
Republican party" there is a close re
semblance between the Senator For
ney that now is and the one that is
to be. The latter went to Wichita
Tuesday and was familiarly approach
ed by a Republican politician from an
adjoining county, who said:
"Hello, Forneyl Aren't you out of
your district?"
"Yes, a little," replied Forney, "but
I thought I would come up here and
see what these fellows are doing."
"Well, don't It beat h-1! We're
snowed under sure as fate," replied
the politician.
Mr. Forney blandly replied, "In
deed it does look that way."
4 'CLAIM TOIR BAGGAGE."
wnosK PUP IS THIS?
J. J. Ingalls In a speech, January, 1(01.
There is a deep seated conviction
among the people, which I fully
share, that the demonetization of sil
ver in 1873 was one element of a great
conspiracy to deliver the fiscal system
of this country over to those by whom
it has, In my opinion, finally been
captured.
K. C. Times, Democratic.
Burrows, of Michigan, will speak In
Humphrey's district September 16.
Kansas is not particular about en
couraging home industries in oratory
this year. She adopts free trade un
der the head of reciprocity. Her
doors are wide open to Republican
speakers from any quarter. Smith's
case is desperate.
"sew bbaska" is all bight.''
Denver News.
Information from Western Nebras
ka is to the effect that the Independ
ents are carrying everything before
them, and that all of the counties
along the western border of the state
will roll up immense majorities for
Weaver for president and Van Wyck
for governor. Nebraska is certain for
the Populists.
A REPUBLICAN VIEW.
Senator Pettlgrew.
"Any other Democrat, no matter
how little known, would be stronger
than Cleveland, just as any other Re
publican, no matter how little known,
would be stronger than Harrison."
"With both of them in the field, I am
of the opinion the third party will
carry several states. If it does not
carry South Dakota the vote will be
very close."
WILL TnEY DENOUNCE THIS MAS?
Lyman Abbott.
"So long as there are women, in the
cities who are forced to buy their bread
only by selling their womanhood, so
long as there are men in the rich coal
fields of Illinois, that must stand
without, shivering at the door, with
pick in hand and muscles ready for
work, while wealth locks the coal
field up againtt them and a shivering
population; so long my hand and my
heart are enlisted in any and every
movement that gives fair promise for
the emancipation of iwlustry."
STRONGER THAN IX 1890.
A special from Topeka to the Kan
sas City Star lasC Thursday says:
Col. A. A. Harris, of Fort Scott,
one of the few Democratic leaders of
the state, is in town today and in
speaking of.the campaign said:
"In my district the Democrats are
feeling somewhat better over Moore's
chances for election, but many of
them are yet very sore. The Repub
licans seems to be conducting the
campaign with a view to reclaiming
People's party men. The Democrats
held the key to the situation and the
work should be done among them.
It is true in my own country, and so
far as I can judge, it holds good
throughout the state, that the Peo
ple's party is as strong as it was two
years ago."
IT WAS A CAMPAIGN LIE.
Medicine Lodpe Index. .
When we know of the numbers, in
cluding many Republicans, for whom
Simpson has procured pensions in
short order, the story in the Kansas
City Journal about Jerry's refusal to
look after the pensions for it, sounds
very much like the ones told all over
this district some time past, like the
70.oi)0 Jones' election story of Ala
bama, like the Frick assassi nation
story, like the Coffeyville boomerang,
like the house stealing story on Judge
McKay, like the Clover interviews,
and like the Sedan lies, but the senses
stagger at this camuign of eduwtion,
and decency and space forbid. It is
Ananias or Mulhattan that runs the
K. C. Journal.
THEY LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES.
Cincinnati Herald
Tne Republicans in Kansas have
made the mistake in a critical time
for them, of putting up the very,
worst machine politicians for office
With their cause championed by Lew
Hanback, whom Ohio people remem
bers was put in jail at Columbus last
year for drunkenness: a J. R. Burton,
a former keeper of a house of ill rep
ute; a Gov. Humphrey, who got on a
big drunk at Ienver; a Judge liotkin,
that seventeen Republican senators
voted guilty of drunkenness, theft,
etc.; a Ireo. T. Anthony, whose own
cousin says he is guilty of embezzle
ment, it seems that the Populist of
that state must have a walk-away,
with their splendid set of cand.id.at.es,
NO. 4.
Jerry's Opponent.
Editor Voice: Chester I. Long,
who enjoys the distinction of being
the man that is running for congress
against Jerry SimpsoD, entertained
the citizens of Hutchinson for an
hour at the recent great Republican
blowout, (fizzle, for not two hundred
people outside the city were in at
tendance) on September 1, and for the
benefit of the Voice readers, we made
a few notes that those who were de
nied the privilege of hearing him can
Judge what kind of a congressman he
would make.
The probable reason of his being
such a despairing failure to people
was the fact that he bent the
greater part of his energies posing as
an orator; but his posing was that of
a school boy taking his first lesson In
elocution. It is safe to say that he
will be remembered, only as the man
that ran for congress against Jerry
Simpson.
He started out by saying that he
proposed to make this canvass on
Jerry Simpson's record, and that If
thepeopie endorsed that record, it
was their duty to send Jerry back.
He charged Jerry with "never having
passed a bill." It seems that Chester
considers Jerry, congress. He is a big
part of it, but not quite big enough
to pass a bill by himself.
In a tirade against the sub-treasury
bill, Long never once attempted to
refute the scheme by argument, but
tried to cast contumely on it by of
fering some cheap wit, emlnating
from the brain of a Texan, about gov
ernment stables, pigpens, etc. But,
Chester, before you ridicule the sub-
treasury scheme too much, don't you
think you had better have the sub-
treasury law expunged from the stat
ute books of Kansas? Weren't you,
as a senator, derelict in your duty to
the people in not having that mon
strous, unreasonable, rediculous, un-
constitutional law repealed? This is
Republican consistency. You pass a
sub-treasury law for Kansas, and then.
shout "treason, unconstitutional, re
diculous, absurd, wild scheme," when
the people ask for a national sub-
treasury. Has the Republican party
a copyright on the sub-treasury scheme
that you want no infringements?
Either call your sub-treasury law of
Kansas a foolish, rediculous, wild
and unconstitutional piece of Repub
lican legislation, or quit your howl
ing against it.
He tried to make it appear that
Jerry and the old soldiers were at
outs, because Jerry referred a letter
of inquiry about pensions to a pension
attorney, we Deiieve that was en
tirely proper and the only old soldiers
that are out with "our Jerry" are
those that believe "the doctrine of
forgiveness is the doctrine of trea
son." See what Chester would have done,
if he had been in Jerry's place. "If
the people elect me to congress, I will
let Blaine, Reed and others run na
tional politics and all I will have to
do will be to sit around and answer
the letters of the old soldiers."
It would be well for Mr. Long to re
member that the people of the big
Seventh do not elect a representative
to "sit around," for we are not a race
of sitters. We want a man to make
himself heard and make a name that
is familiar to every soul in this na
tion and that Jerry Simpson has done.
Farther, he sa3s, "I would hesitate a
long time before making an issue be
tween myself and the old soldier."
Why? "Because there are eighteen
to twenty thousand old soldiers in
this district and each one has a vote."
In his eagerness to catch the "soldier
vote" he bids to "sit around and do
nothing but answer the letters of the
old soldiers," just as if there were no
one else in this district. If the old
soldiers want that kind of a represen
tative, surely the rest of the voters
do not. Evidently he will be "damn
ed if he does and damned if he
don't."
Chester says, "In my judgment, he,
Jerry, has injured the credit of the
state." How? "When asked if it
was not a fact that more mortgages
were being released than recorded, he
said there was 'with the aid of the
sheriff.'" What would the moral,
courageous C I. Long have done had
he been in Jerry's place? "If I had
been in congress and been asked that
I would have" denied it? No, "kept
still and not let the people know it."
Now, mark you, he does not deny
but Jerry told the truth, but. he
would sell his honor as a man, as a
congressman, by deceit, by keeping
still and thus concealing the true
state of affairs here in Kansas.
He objected to the land loan bill
introduced by Jerry, because it limits
Uk amount of money which any Indi
IT IS PAID FUR.
Pertonn rrrrtring the PEOPLE'S VOICE
trho hare not thrmmrlrea enbmeribrd, Hrrd
feel no ttnrttnhir a'xmt taking It from the
office. It haw bern mi hi for hy eume friend
and at expiration of time trill be foxrp
mad no bill trill follow.
vidual oould obtain. He says, "I
want a bill to loan money to myself
and others and everyone." There it
is. He would have a loan bill that
would allow the wealthy to borrow
all the money at two percent, and re
loan it to the poor at a high rate of
interest. If he did quit sitting
around answering letters and engage
in framing laws, it would only be to
see that there was a loophole left for
the capitalist.
But to "sit around and pass a bill
to loan money to myself" is tame com
pared to this utterance: "I do not
believe the government lias power to
make money; and if it has it should
not be allowed to exercise such pow
er." Trunk or It, ye voters of the
big Seventh, that this man who as
pires to represent your Interests in
congress- believes that the govern
ment has not the power to make
money and if it has should not be al
lowed to use the power. These are
his exact words, uttered at the open
ing of the campaign, in the auditor
ium, at Hutchinson, September 1,
1892.
Now, In the name of humanity, If
the government has not the right to
make-money, who has? If the Indi
vidual tries, it he Is pursued by the
bloodhounds of the law and cast into
prison, a felon. No one ever saw a
dollar made by God, then, if God does
not make dollars money, and indi
viduals are not allowed to, stand up,
Chester I. Long, and tell the poor ig
norant people who has. You, Ches
ter I. Long, and Geo. T. Anthony
have repeated time and again that
"the government has not the power
to make money." I call on you, then,
In the name of the people of Kansas,
to stop your abuse and conceal your
nirus long enough to tell who, or
what does make our money. You
howl and bray about money, but you
cannot even tell the people what
constitutes money. You say It is a
measure of value. If that is the case,
will you condescend to tell us poor
deluded haysecders what measures
the value in the money.
The facts arc, Chester, you and Re
publicans in general, have no more
idea of what money is than you have
of what constitutes tire or water. You
know money when you see it, fire when
you fed and water when you taste it,
if you ever do but know not what
constitutes cither.
If, as you say, "the government
should not be allowed to exercise the
power to make money," then who
should?
Isn't il a fact, Chester, that you
want to go to congress in order to
have a hand in naming those favored
ones who shall have this power? No
doubt but that there would be big
money in it, and you might get in as
a partner. But. Mr. Long, the peo
ple of this country are not yet ready
to farm out to Long, Anthony & Co.,
their prerogative of making money.
To sum it up, your case stands thus:
"If the people elect me to congress'
first, I will do nothing but sit around
and answer the letters of the old sol
diers. Second, I will quit doing
nothing long enough to pass & bill to
loan money to myself and others in
unlimited quantities. Third, when
asked for Information about the con
dition of things in Kansas," I will
keep still and say nothing. (Ought
to haTe done that the other day.)
Fourth, I will Introduce a bill provid
ing government cow stables and pig
pens. Fifth, whether right or wrong,
I will hesitate a long time before
making an issue betweeu myself and
the old soldier, for each one has a
vote: (this is the waj, old soldiers, he
promises to buy your franchise) and I
was not a soldier, nor neither was my
father, for I was too young and he
was too old." A bad case of discrep
ancy, eh? "Sixth, I do not believe
that the government should be allow
ed to exercise the power of making
money, therefore I will see that the
government quits usurping the rights
of individuals and delegate the power
to Long, Anthony & Co."
Now, ye voters of the big Seventh,
this is the exact standing of Chester
I. Long and what he has pledged
himself to do if elected to congress.
A more abject, crawling, cringing,
cowardly tool of the money power
does not exist than this same school
boy orator, C. I. Long.
Are you ready to sign away your
last right by electing such a man to
represent you? We believe that on
the 8th day of November the good
judgment of the people, expressed by
their ballots, will say in overwhelm
ing numbers. NO. R. E. Bray.
THEY COME IX DROVES.
Anthony Bulletin.
Forty-tlve newspapers in the United
States changing from the old parties
to the People's party in one week, and
eleven of them dailies, is a pretty
good record, thank you. It "kinder''
shows which direction the cyclone is
blowing, don't you think?
Don't fail to post your neighbors on
,He school-house meetings.