The Kansas Headlight from Wichita, Kansas • 1

7r.JL the Kansas Headlight. A FEARLESS ADVOCATE OF THE RIGHTS OF A WORTHY PEOPLE. WICHITA, KANSA-, FRIDAY. AUGUST 24. L894 NO.

VOL. 1. NEGROES AND LABOR UNIONS, People's Party State Ticket. The Farmers Exchange -SELLS A LL KINDS OF aided by a class of Negro editors that publish in their paper such lies as the colored man is always satisfied with bis wages no matter ho small." Is there a colored man in the United States who knows anythingat all, but will say that inch a statement i not only a false, but an unwarranted invitation to corporation to treat the Negro as they like as "he is always satisfied, and will never murmur." If that statement was true, who could blame the labor organizations for drawing th" line against colored It may have described his condition during slavery, but not now. The blac'i man, like tbe white laborer, is awakening to the find that if they don't unite and protect their own interests, they will soon be subject to a worse system of slavery than ever before disgraced this country.

For Associate GEO. W. CLARK. For Governor, Li D. LEWELLING.

For Lieutenant Governor, I). I FUR RECK. For Secretary of State, J. W. AMIS.

For State Treasurer, W. H. BIDDLE. For Attorney General J. T.

LITTLE. For State Auditor, VAN. B. PR ATH ER. For superintendent of publie.

InstMC' tion, H. ST. GAINES. For Congressman at-Large. W.

A. HARRIS, For Congress, "th Cong. DiHtrict, JER1 SIMPSON. Boots Shoes Groceries -AND wheel to a wagon. This is only one example out of many.

Formerly the fees of this office have been retained by the secretary of state but, besides the above, Secretary Os born has turned into the treasury all the fees received by him, which are as follows; For January, 1893, $198.70 For February, 1893, $239.10. For March, 1893. $235.50. For April, 181)3 1168.36. For May, 1893, $176.40, For June, 1893, $135.30.

For Julv, 1893, $115.45. For August, 1893, $133.50. ForfieptembOT, 1893, $99.85. For October, 1893, $115.60. For November, 1893, For December, 1893, $143.75.

otal $1,894.40. It should be remembered that the fees of the secretary Of state's office, for charters, have been reduced more than 50 in order to conform with the requirements of the statutes. The following table will show a few items saved by the populist administration. E. II.

Snow, the present state printer, for the two years ending June 30, 1893 over Cliff Raker for his last two years, ending June 30, 1881, (which I take as a basis for what will be saved in the next two years) $80,447.01. The state malum, as reorganized, saves the state over $0,000 per annum, making in two years, $12,000. Fees of secretary of state for two years, now being turned into the state treasury bv virtue of a populist law of 1891', $3,788.80. Also lees for auditor, which have averaged $38. 83 per month, and which in two years will amount to $943.92.

Also the bank commissioner's office has made a FARM IMPLEMENTS "We alsolseep tresis. Country Butter. Eggs and CKORGIA NEGRO POPULISTS. WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD. Can you not afford to giv us your trade with such inducements Remembei he place, Quit a number 0( colored republican editors are trying to pull the wool over the colored voters' eyes by lying if the populists get control of this country and we get government ownership of railroads, that it will cause all white union men to he employed and no colored men will be found in the rail road service any where in the country.

These paid hireling! Of the republican party will make any assertion thai the republican bosses command them to make. They care nothing for the truth, and as to common sense or reason they have no use for either. The simplest half grown boy in the laud knows und our pin head editors of republican persuasion should know that should the government control the rail roads, there would he neither strikes or rail road unions; whoever heard of government employes sii ik ing or resisting the government? The facts simply arc that government ownership of rail reads means a chance for the negro. It means that to fill any rail road position the ap pi leant must passaclvli service examination, and no stipulations will ever be made requiring him to he a "white union man" either. We have colored postal cleiks, colored mail carriers, colored deputy United States marsh alls and in fact colored men in nearly every branch of government service, he is excluded from none, all that is required is ability.

So it will be with rail roads the parly that advocates government ownership of rail roads, has for its motto "Equal rights to all and special privileges to none" and their members in Congress and our state officials have shown manhood enough to stand by their declaration of principles and the rights of humanity and this cannot be said of either of the old parties now. There are a crowd of colored camp followers who always bellow about organized labor antagonizing the colored man, and not permitting him to officiate with the order this condition of riflaivs only exists among some rail road unions or kindred organizations. The president of the strongest railway labor organization in die country made a Reports from Atlanta, Georgia, to the etl'ect that Negroes in South Georgia are being organized into tin; Populist ranks. The reports further state thai the I'eople's Party has agreed to see to it, if elccti 1, that the Jim Crow Cars shall go and the lynching of innocent negroes, and the outraging of respectable color ed la lies shall Colored men of old Georgia your course is a wise one, stick to it and organize leagues throughout your state. UNDER GARFIELD HALL, C'OltlVKli FIRST AN1) WATER TREFTS People's Party County Ticket.

For County Attorney, A.E. HELM. For Probate Judge, IRY1N STRATTON For Clerk of District Court, V. L. ARNETT.

For Supt. Public Instruction, J. V. COLViLLE. For lommissioner, WHITNEY TUCKER.

For Representative, HTtli District, H. W. RUBLE. For Representative, 68th District, CEO. LITZENBEKG.

For Representative, 89th District, N. NEISWONGER. TAPP BROS. HANSHAW, -DEALERS IN- Gov. Hogg of Texas, in addressing the Democratic Convention at Dallas, said: If we are to preserve our liberties, we must have free speech.

So lav the Governor is right, but he should have gone further, the right to cast a free ballot and it counted fairlv. GROCERIES AND- PROVISIONS. saving; Johnson turned into the treasury in fees monthly, $273.14, while Bieideulhal has averaged $408.10 per mouth. Difference in favor of tin; populist administration of $135.02 per month saved, or, for the two vears, $3, 240.48. Ren C.

Rich, chief clerk of the populist house of representatives of 1891, and his assistant, cost the state $722.50, while Frank L. Drown, chief clerk of the Republican house of representatives ot 1893, and his assistant, cost $1,891.10, making a difference in favor of the populists of $1,118. 00. A. G.

Staccy, secretary of the republican senate or 1891, and Ids assistant, cost the state $1,221, while AV. L. Brown, secretary of the populist senate of 1893 and his assistant, cost $750, making a difference in favor of the populists of Amount of taxes saved to the masses of the people by increase of railroad assessment in two years, $722, 8" 1.42. Amount of taxes saved by reduction of slate lax low by populist board, $71,324.30. Amount of total appropriations less by legislature of 1893 (nop.) than legislature of 1891 $15,093 47.

Amount saved in expenses of secretary of state's office in two years, $1,052.15. Amount saved by special hills reducing salaries of county officials in two vears, $244,050.00. Total, $1, 156,984.81. The above figures are taken from the records, and arc authentic. They show Tv hundred and eleven million acres of th; public domain have been given to the railroads of this country and Unci'1 Sam has failed yet to come up to the lyomiseof the G.

O. P. party, the forty acres and a mule to the negro. Yet they say vote the Republican ticket. Have you not sufficient grounds to defeat it? Republican or People's Party? Which Costs the More-Facts and Figures Not Mere Assertions.

$1,156,984.81 Saved to the State by the People's Party. foi'i: J.i;vrs CAN BUN thk statk cov EBNMBNT ON if ANNUALLY, WHICH has COST OVBB $1,500,000 ANNUALLY UNDKR REPUBLICAN RULE. The republican papers of the state are continually howling about the extiava-gant "nop" administration, they know however, that their assertions are false, and they only make them to deceive the Farm xod.vLce Go to TAPP BROS HANSH For cheap Groceries and Shoes. 240 NORTH MAIN STREET. strenuous effort for the black man's recognition in bis order, but his attempt was defeated by a close vote and this very union has since, seen 01 per cent of the people own only 9 percent of the wealth of the Nation, live on rented farms or in rented houses, this is the result of unjust legislation in the last 30 years, can we hopefully expect better things without a change? H.

E. LA WRY. its mistake, and were it to be reconsidered by that body, their gates would he thrown open to our people. Wc need not expect to wipe out in 30 years the prejudice against our race that has been accumulating for centuries. There is a certain class of decidedly which party costs the state the more.

If such facts do not stop the loud mouthed republican editors and henchmen from crying ext ravagance on the part of the populists, we can furnish more evidence. -DEALERS IN- The Standard Oil Company can purchase and refine oil for one cent a gal COLORKD TAKE -AND- REPUBLICANS IIEHI). our people who know nothing about trades or trade unions or scarcely anything else, instead of encouraging our young men to learn these trades and push themselves forward, they sit idly by, proclaiming that the unions are all against the black man. lon, and still in some localities they sell it for 15 cents. They have never sold oil cheap only where outside refiners have a trade, and then when they are trying to crush out competition.

AVheu that is done up goes oil. PROVISIONS. -ma xia The republicans of this county repeatedly make the assertions that (he colored man has no political grounds class of voters that read only republican papers and literature issued by republican state central committee. One paper last week accused the people's party of paying out one hundred thousand dollars for printing that could be obtained for half the money. Let us examine the reo rds and see what the state printing cost under republican and populist administrations and compare.

The records show that the state printing has cost as follows: For the two years under republican ride ending June 30, 1887, $212,555.01. For the two years under republican rule ending June $213,879.02. For the tiro years under republican rule ending June 30, 1891, For the two years under populist rule ending June 30, 189B, $142,007.25. The state printing for Kansas ought not to cct over $50,000 per annum 'the reader should recollect that a reduction of over $80,000 was made for the two years ending June 30, 1893, over the previous two years, by virtue of a populist law and a populist state printer. There will be a further reduction for the two vears ending June 30, 1805.

Carry a tine line of Fancy Groceries, Fresh Country ''utter, Eggs and Lard. Will not be undersold. Cheapest and best. Give me your trade. Satisfai tion guaranteed t3V iNTortli.

DEaAn. Street. niton which to stand except what is found within the republican ranks, that the colored men who have identified themselves with the peoples party are doing so for monetary gain etc. Now if such is the case and the colored pops are a set of "ignorant calamity as the republican boosters assert they all are, why is it, that among the seven hundred colored republicans of this county there is not one of them The Governor of the Centennial State strongly opposes fusion with the Democrats, lie says when the state was under Republican rule they defrauded the school children of the state of nearly Colored citizens of Colorado you who are tax payers, should remember that some of this vast amount came out of your pockets and deposit your ballot against the enemy. rney condemn the central labor union of this city and claim that a colored man cannot join any of the unions that belong to it and to show them how little they know about it we call their attention to the fact that their present secretary is a colored man.

They also claim that the only union a colored man can join is the barber's union Like all other republican lies this can be refuted by the fact that for several years a colored man was a member of the typographical union of this city and a delegate to the central labor union. We do not claim that there is not individual prejudice to a greater or less degree among some of H. I. ADDINGTON, Successor to the Enterprise Feed Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN The repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, destroys silver as money of ultimate redemption and reduces that metal to credit money, to float only by redemption in gold.

This as you can readily sec, is a step to a single gold standard, meaning ruin and oppression to every toiler. Every work that will meet a colored populist in joint discussion and discuss the political problems as they effect our people. If the republican party is the party for us, why will the colored leaders of Wichita refuse to discuss the question, and show cause why the negro should not be a populist. Wc have men on our side that are willing, not only to meet any colored man in this county and discuss the question, but any color the men who compose the the only way to eradicate it is by our actions. We must show that we know enough to protect our interests and not the bond holders alone, The notwithstanding only about one-half of the state offices are now held by populists, who order and use state printing extensively, the following departments and institutions still being in the hands of the republicans, Court, State agricultural Department, State Library, Academy of Science, State University, State Normal School, State Agricultural College, and some others.

Republicans should also have their attention cilled to the contingent expenses of the of Secretary of Stile. Compare the cost of a republican Secretary of State with a populist Secretary. The expenses of that office for the past three years have been as fol FIouf, Feed, Hav, Grain, Seeds, Etc. GENERA COMMISSION ERCHANT. Telephone 150.

322 North Main Street ing man knows that the P2ople's Party is the only political party that is in line of its duty toward the laborer. butcher's union of South Omaha, has several colored men on its executive board, who are doing splendid work in directing the course of the strikers in their struggle for their rights. ed republican in tho state may pick up the gauntlet. If any of the republican our race would like to have a chance at this discussion, we will see that a hall is procured, also plenty of The miner's unions of Kansas, Mis lows: For postage, 1891, (Rep.) $410.00 music, allow them the privilege ot souri, Illinois ana otuer states are greatly composed of colored men, in fact we are rapidly becoming potent hirc 1891(Re PO W-55 opening and closing Tolal, For postage, 1892(Rep) A7n on fw iimV they insist on it. In the argument if fact we will make E.E.

Dawson, a Great Bend, Kansas, miller, says that the mills of Kansas are going to try to grind all the wheat produced in the state this year and sell it as a finished product. The mills of Kansas, he said, have a total capacity of 27,000,000 bushels. Republican Ex. CHAMPION CARRIAGE WORKS. Carriages and Wagons Built to Order, REPAIRED AND REPAIRED.

REPAINTING AND RETRIMMING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 630 3. lylaia St. 33. Pro.

factors in all branches of labor and it will ouly be a short time uutil the barriers which have been erected by numerous railway organizations will be entirely removed from our way Every labor orgauization in the country is beginning to realize that the colored man is a strong spoke in the great labor wheel of this country, any concession in order to have an opportunity to skin a republican, Wc do not bar AV. H. Jones or Jacob McAfee or even Sammie Jones (the great John J. Ingallaof his race?) If they all refuse to discuss the question with us, let them keep quiet and acknowledge that their party's record will not stand ven iiii' lUIj (Rep.) $465.60. Total, $1,035.60.

For postage, 1893, (Pop.) $397.00. For extra clerk birc, 1893, (Pop.) (none) Total, $397.00. From this comparison on two items of contingent expenses only, yon will sec that the populists have saved over the republicans in 1891, and $638.60 in 1892. The reader will also observe that not one dollar has been paid out for extra clerk hire in the Sec Yes the "millers" have already succeeded iu "grinding" the farmers of Kansas, and sold them also as "finished product." Next to the heartless railroad and national bank combine, that of the millers just about comes next. AVheat now sells at 35 cents per bushel, but the price of flour remains the same.

Virtually the wheat is stolen from the farmer and sold at extortionate prices to the consumer, and this same tilation. Let them either toe the mark or step back. and that bis assistance is necessary in getting over rough places. But the cause of tbe colored labor can retary of state's office since it has been under the populist rule, notwithstanding the business of the state is constantly increasing. There is no more use of never be aided by antagonizing labor The New York Ledger, which a organizations that otter their huM to GROCERIES AND FEED.

638 N. WATER STREET, COR. PINE. million readers, has taken a staui for extra clerk hire in the secretary of the black man Neither era 1 combine is responsible for it. state's office than there is of a fifth the People's party..