The True Democrat from Topeka, Kansas • 1

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Ladies' Hall, mm No. 11. TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, NOV. 10. 1898.

Vol. 1, Shall we educate or emigrate? was loaded." The True Democrat saw, what was also pointed out by Before the election the Republican spellbinders were talking of upholding "McKinley's policy." A part of that whipped! The daily papers say that McKin ley's private coach is decorated with his coat of arms. We never knew he bad such a thing before. If it is a true representation of Mac's ante cedents it will run about like this: Marc Ilanna, rampant on a black field; Alger couchant on a yellow field. In the foreground is Steve Elkins passing the hat, and in the background 3.

Pierpont Morgan Co. are lugging off backloads of bonds; across it all, one way, is the telegram sent Ilanna when he bought his seat in the senate, "Thank God for the triumph of pure politics," and running the other way is the motto, The Lord loveth a cheerful giver," followed by a beckoning index finger extended toward the sugar trust. Ft. Scott Lantern. OVERMYER" HIT.

Overmyer, in his Topeka speech, made the hit of the cam paign when he said "The Etheo- pcan can change his skin, for I have seen him do it- The Leopard can change his spots, for I have seen him do it, "and applied it to the republican party in its "ex pansion" theory, as explained by Postmaster General Smith, in his speech at Topeka. Smith said that "commercial expansion was what the Republicans were wanting" The Republican party, under its various names, has contended for, and against tho Democratic party for over a hundred years for commercial contraction. Bill McKinley was its greatest prophet and apostle, and made tho race for and was elected president on the theory of contraction, known as "protective tariff." If they aro now convicted of their sins, and are really repenting the best thing they can do is to come over to tho Demo cratic party, for they can get no issue out of commercial expansion, that is what Democracy has been tightiug for the past hundred years. lsut hiving been sinners from their birth, they must bo taken on probation, and given time to prove their sincerity before the hand of full fellowship is given them." However we remind Mr. Overmyer that this is not tho first time the "Leopard has changed his spots" James A.

Garfield was opposed to the gold standard, so was Blaine. Tho party was always opposed to a standing army until now. Lincoln was opposed to slavery, but now the party claims the negro as their political slaves. The fact is, McKinley is the best representative they ever had, as he is so vacillating that no one knows to day where he will be tomorrow. All wo know is, that he, like a chameleon, will emit the color of the limb ho happet to be on.

"We must remember that we are attempting to maintain a democratic form of government at a time when the conditions favorable to democracy have long gone by. We can, therefore, only expect class rale in every direction, throagh demooratio re forms." "I should infinitely prefer to see oar Professors dominated by the trustees of oar American colleges to having them pander in any way to the ignorance and passion of 'ye multitude' or of their chosen repie-entatives." Prof. Plehn, UniTersity of Cal. Rep. soldiers on camp and field, and told it well.

But every plumage should have been taken from the cap of the cowardly hypocrites who ran over the state yelping "patriotism," and an exposure of the vacillating conduct of leaders who were overcome, not by 'patriotism" but by the heroic push of the boys iu bine. What will now become of Costigan's weekly? Let the banks give security or receive no deposits. If gold stands on its own merit why back it up by law? "To the victor belongs the spoils." But who wants the spoiled politicians. It is the men who loan money that desire to control its volume. As long as laboring men are di vided they must remain the slaves of capital.

The only remedy thus far found efectual for injunction is thai of Tannerization. Peaceful revolution comes by education. Push the subscription of The True Democrat. Capital is the child of labor, but capital has taken posession of the roost and has kicked the old folks out of door. Many a victor is now feeling Don't hurt the feeling of fellow by asking him what boistrous.

the other ails him. The election has taken away one column of editorial from the daily papers. They can no longer guess on the results of the election. It would be interesting to kaow just how many ad how much of tb Philippine bonds are in the poest tion of "brother Abner," and Mark II inn a. Now that elec" ion is over McKinley will, no doubt, order Bryan and his regiment mustered out, without ask tig the governor of Nebraska to recommend it.

The best "banking system the world ever saw'' appears lo be suffering from a complication of diseases, of which the gold cure does not seem to be an antidote. If the corporations of Kansas contiuuo to defy tho law it will not be long bef- re they will have to bo Tannerized. A few gathng would bring them to time. The Chicago platform may be amended but not abolished. Not a single principle will be dropped, but events may add new ones to it, among which will be the initiative aud referendum.

is now a name of the past. Hereafter one army, with one battle cry and one leader will only be known. Democracy the name, reform the motto, and W. J. Bryan the leader.

Let the forces begin to organize a i once. With the close of the campaign of 1808, begins the campaign of 1000. In this state local interests were mainly at stake, but now the destiny of our nation is at stake. Let every loyal man buckle on his armor anew. its friends, that Democrats would not support fusion unless it was to sustain and vindicate the Chicago platform, but tho leaders ignored it, and tho speeches went to prove to them that all there was to gain was to indorse tho able administration of tho populist party, and thus, instead of voting stayed away from the polls.

What little offort was made to overcome this by this and other like papers, and their friends, received vrv little encour- agement. But nothing is left us but the experience, and dull is he who will not lcnrn in 6uch a school. We aro beaten but not conquered. Ours is the cause of humanity a-gainst glut and greed the cause of tho pcop'e against trusts and corporations the cause of tho toiler against impei ialism and monarchy backed by tho money power of the world. We have met anoth er Bull Run, but let us rally our shattered forces and up and at it.

Thfl fate of tho nation hngs the ballance, nd the conflict from now until 1900 will decide the question of whether our Republic shall live or perish. NOTICE TO REFORM DEMOCRATS. Be'iovina that the cause was just we have, at our own expense, and nt a loss of a out nuhlixhvri weekly during the campaign lrom one to live thou-anil copies of this paper. We are ready toco llnuethe light "till WOO, if you will help us. But we must have an expression at once.

If you want it to continue drop us a card pleiliu to become a subscriber, and to pay 5(1 cu Jan. 1- next, and 50 cts May 1st. We shall also call upon reform merchants and heir refusal to patronize a reform paper will lie taken as evidence that Topeka is closed to any reform We leave the matter wholy in your hands to decide whether you door not want this paper to continue. Many have said; "If 1 was sure it would live 1 would patronise it Now an honest pledge und a one cent card will be tho test of your loylty Prove yourself. PRESERVE THAT SPEECH.

Dave Overmyers speech at Newton should be preserved as campaigi iterature for 1900. His review of the events leading up to the war in Cuba, is the first time the facts have been uttered on the stump or appear ed in print. The people must not be permitted to forget that the president and majority of congress are ttepublioans, and yet McKinley message was barren of advice; that an Alabama Democrat was the first to offer resolution to recognize Cuba's beliger ant rights, and Republicans voted against it, and a Republican speaker refused to appoint a committee to which it was referred. When the Maine was blown uj McKinley appointed a commission which made a barren report, and still McKinley hesitated and rattled about like a shot in a tin pail. Nor was it until a Democratic minority in the house punched him as with hot irons, did lie do a single thing to maintain the honor of our flag.

Then when the aged imbecile, whom he had at the head of affair resigned, he placed the army under the control of Alger, a roan who, for deserting bis post of duty in the midst of battle, was recommended to be di. honorably discharged, by Gen. Sherl den. Through that man's ignoi ante, suffering, disease and death came to more soldiers than by battle, aud now we only wait for a commission to make a report covering up the cause of the wholesale disaster. While Overmyer did not tell the whole story, to our mind, it was the only speech made during the campaign that came riant to the point, Other We must conquor plutocracy or be conquored by plutocracy.

In Michigan the Republicans are trying to induce Gov. Fmgree to take the head off from Mayor Pingree, but the Governor and Mayor seem to be such close friends that municipal ownership is liable to fare pretty well at their hands. The efforts of the women suffera- gists of south Dakota will be as anxiously looked for as any movement in the present campaign. Politicians are no longer opposing them but what results their silei.ee has had upon the election can only be told by the returns. One of the largest rooms in the State Hjuse should be Bet apart for the storage of that rubber hose.

I room can not be found, several tons of it might be worked np into boots for the negroes who voted the Republican ticket. It would be all they ever will get The authorities of Topeka having no means of filtering the water consumed by the people have concluded to run it through a sausage grinder. Should the city vote to put in a water plant of its own, to save total loss. we advise the old company to turn their concern into a packiDg house. Interest has caused more human suffering and misery than war, pestilence and fam ne, yet by banks having money loan and the people forced to borrow the Republicans say "prosperity is here." Failing to persuade their da pes to "wort to the horn-blowing soheroe of 1896, the -publican bosses iu KatiBHP, daring the past campaign resorted to the n.ost wilful lying Hud slander as methods that bus ever naracttrr any campaign in the history of any slate in the union.

The two forces now at work, and which threatens a revolution in the ranks of plutocracy are Hannaism on the one hand and Tanneritm on the other. If Tanner's gatlings hold out hi may yet reform tho g. o- p. Ho should put some of Dewey's mt behind tho guns. Let the od work go on.

The term "Brother Johnathan" as applied to the U. S. came from Washington thus calling Johnathan Trum-ble, second speaker of the house. When any vexed question came up. Washington would say, "i will see what Brother Johnathan thinks about it." 1 rumble served on Washington's staff, and afterward served as Sena or, and later was elected lieutenant governor of Conneticut.

Maj. Louis Seaman, surgeon of the First United States volunteers, who has returned from Porto Rico and Sautiago, says the soldier boys dawn there died of Algerian fever He says: "Ninety pel cent of the men who died of disease down there were murdered killed by maladministra tion and incompetency. I have dis covered a new disease, which I mean to tell the college of medicine about before long I call it Algerian fever with the accent on the Alger. There is no proper food or medicine where with to nurse him back to health, aud bodies of Algerian fever." Major Seamen blames the suffering of the soldiers upon the imbecility and incompetency of "sons of generals, rich men's sons, sons of politicians, aud God knows what." policy was to keep Bryan out of the campaign, and in camp to die of fever. Now that Bryan still lives, and to maintain the McKiuley policy, why not order Bryan shot? MISSED HIS CALLING.

Geo. E. Lerrigo, who, through some evident mistake, secured tne position as Sec. of the Y. M.

C. A. has, evidently missed his calling. He should have been elevated to the parole as boss "ward heeler" by the Re-corporationist. Possibly he did not know the difference between that position and the office he now disgraces, or he would have never disgraced the society of young people by his attempt to use his influence to procure false statements from em- ploy ees at the Oswatomie asylum for the use of the political detainers on the Republican committee, as he is charged with doing, after having held up Leedv for $25 aud other state officials for various sums, under the plea of helping the cause.

If the Y. M. C. A. society does not dismiss this young upstart pre enitorially, it is safe to predict that not another cent of money will be donated by members of the reform party to that society.

ALGER IIIS'lVRY. While the McKinley commission is at work it might be interesting to the public, if not to the administration. to dig up a little back history. For fear they may not think of it, we put iu a reminder that when Alger was appointed many republicans protested, and charged that he was unfit, that he was dishonorably dischaiged from the civil war. The facts were hunted up and it was found that he was major iu the 2nd cavalry, Sheridan's old regiment, was promoted to lieuten ant colonel ot the bun Mien, was transfered to the 5th, aud made colon el, Sept.

lHlit he was in the Shenan doah valley with Sheridan, fighting Ju'jal harly, applied for a ten days leave of absence, which being refused, he ran away, went to Washington and procured a detail on conrtmartial duty. This act of cowardice so en raged Sheridan that he brought the matter to the attention of the war department and recommended his dis honorable discharge. The recommend was softened down to a mere dis charge, where his military career terminated. By some unknown hook or crook he secured the title of "general" after the war, which fitted his cowardly career about as well as a horse collar would fit a sucking pup. However the opposition in his party was smothered down aud he was appointed Secretary of war, aud tbe foundation of all the suffering and scandal that has come to the grandest army and navy in the world, was laid.

All the facts of his cowardice, desertion and dishonorable discharge were well known by McKinley. If, with these facts before him, and over the protest of honorable and loyal men iu his own party, he persisted in placing the lives of our soldiers aud the destiny of the nation in such hands, he should be made to bear the blame. What will the Republicans now do with those old rubber hose with whioh the negro inmate ot the asylum was said to have been killed The first piece famished by the renegade 1111 wss only about two feet long, bat at tbe conclusion of the campaign it had grew into several hundred feet. Some fifteen or twenty negro strikers were famish el with that "identical piece." BY 01 FK1SIDS. BUT THE PLUTS GET THE ULOKY.

We 1 Lave Net The Enemy And-We Are Theirs. His Name Is Not" Dennis" Hut Stanley. While the Plutos are rejoicing over the victory obtained the defection in our ranks, we have left only the poor consolation of rubbing our sores, pulling oursel ves together, aud "telling ho it it was done." Yes sir, we aro whipped, badh whipped, bat uot The whee's of progress have turned backward, in wh ch direc tion they will continue to revolve for the next two years. However, toe tacts in the case prove beyond a ubt, that it is not a republican victory, but that whatever disaster may come of it recalcitrant Pops and Democrats will have to sutL ihe remorse und shame. From the very first it was evident to us that a serious disafec-tion existed in both the reform camps.

In reading our exchanges from nearly every county in the state, from the tone they carried and what they were saying, or rather, what they failed to pay, it was apparent to us that the great masses or farm rs were blinded f.o their own interest, but it was hoped that enough Democrats would rally to prevent, the state from falling into the hands of the corporations. The fact that the fusionists made great gains in the cities and republican btrongholds is evidence that it was not a republican victory. Winn the day of their calamity comes the Pupa of the rural districts will bo compelled to hide their faces in shame, and exclaim; "We have sown to the wind and must now reap the whirl ind." If the pluto slaves keep their promises, made a im plied, there will be such a fraction in 190U tnat it will require but a littlo effort to wrest the btate from the hands of the corporations and place it in line with Ainetican ideas. This is the only bright spot in the dark destructive cloud that is now Kansas. The plutocratic press ihiough out the country will claim it fur a victory on national issues, but it will bo false.

Everybody knows that the Tkue Democrat was and is the on'y piper tho state that confined itself to, and insisted on making the tight on nati nal issues and Overmyer was the only spt-ak cr who confined himself to nation ill issues as leading thoughts. Wt do not make these statements as criticism, but to show that the cause of natinal reform nas recei ved no wounds, save at tho hands of its friends, and that through an speakers told the heroism of the oversight. "They did not know it;.