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THE KANSAS STATE REGISTER Political Gossip. STANLEY IS ROUTED Nationally the most important po-1 vain. The party leaders have con- if a nvont rt tho nnct a a tho r.lmla1 (lint la tnn jMnn event of the past week was the eluded that he is too much of a drag 1 on the ticket and they will not make litical unanimous endorsement by the Populist national committee at Chicago of Adlai E. Stevenson as the Populist Republican Gubernatorial Candidate much of an effort to carry him fur ther. They will abandon him to the candidate for vice-president.

This Meets His Waterloo. tender mercies of the voters who will go to the polls next November with was by all odds the most satisfactory solution of a perplexing question. Any I other course would have created end the intention of turning him down very hard and will trade votes for Stanley for votes for the electoral less confusion and might perhaps have endangered several close states, ticket. Now, however, the Democrats and Populists, both nationally and in Kan' I. The Republican leaders in Kansas have contended for the past year that EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS ASKED Relating to Both State and National Campaigns.

Stanley's Record Questioned. sas, are united in a harmonious fusion against the common enemy. The old rule, "In union there is strength," ap they were making enormous gains in the rural districts of Kansas, and that such gains were more than offsetting plies in politics as well as other affairs of life. No Populist can raise a valid ob the gains of the fusionists, which, i if I. V7i they claim, are from the ranks of the voters in the cities and mining dis jection to Mr.

Stevenson. He is a tried and true Democrat of the old school, not the Cleveland type, but HE ATTEMPTS TO ANSWER tricts. The Republican committee has the Jefferson type of Democracy. Al though officially associated with declared that the voters of the country districts were coming to them in such numbers as to make it almost impossible to count them and keep a FINEST IN KANSAS FOR LINCOLN COUNTY COURT-HOUSE THE But Hakes An Ignominious Failure, Finally Aban ITS COST. Cleveland for a time, he never shared the President's views, but remained true to the fundamental principles of Democracy.

His political course has been consistent. He has ever been a record of the changes. This declaration is proven false by the condition doning the Attempt. Republican Constituents Dissatisfied. in the only county where an investiga TOWNE REPLIES true friend of the common people.

He represents and always has represented tion of it has yet been made. The county of Wabaunsee, which is de those principles which gave the Pop- her royal personage by becoming her After hi a experience with a Repub ulist party its birth and which the TO ROOSEVELT chief counselor. It will be particular lican audience in Jewell County Tues Populists hold most dear. He is pendent entirely upon agricultural pursuits is one of the counties which the Republican committee has boasted for some time would give the Republican state and national tickets a ly gratifying to the good people of day Eugene Stanley has silver man, an enemy of Imperialism and, above all, an ardent and loyal 'Kansas to learn of this late prefer slunk into his office in the capitol building and will probably stay there ment of their chief executive and his big majority by reason of the changes from the fusion ranks to those of the willingnes to accept the extended fa until he informs himself more thor defender of the republic. John W.

Breidenthal and Chairman Rldgley have returned from Chicago, vor. We would sugest, henceforth, Minnesota Populist Leader Made a Strong Anti-Imperialism Speech at Dulutb. oughly on the isuea of the campaign. Republicans. The claim of the Re The Republicans of Jewell County where they attended the meeting of when the governor is invited to ad dress a Young Men's Christian Asso publican committee in this instance, has been found that instead of chang were primed for his Royal Nibs when elation or a Sunday school convention he spoke at Mankato, and their spokesman, O.

L. Rice, until recently a mem that the conventional panegyric con ing to the Republican party, the farmers of Wabaunsee County are really leaving that party and going over to tain an allusion to the governor'8 new ber of the Republican committee, who INEXPLICABLE ROUGH RIDER honor. had been elected for the ocaslon, made the Democrats in large numbers. The The following questions pertaining a number of pertinent inquiries which residents of Wabaunsee County are largely Germans who left their to the issues of the national campaign were also asked and evaded in the the Populist national committee. They are both very much pleased over the action of the committee.

They both believe the endorsement of Mr. Stevenson will cement the Populists and Democrats in a closer and, if possible, a more friendly union. They are also firmly convinced that It insures Kansas for the fusion state and national tickets. In another column in this Issue is printed an interview from W. J.

Bryan, in which he expresses himself as highly pleased over the outcome. same manner: mother country because it was a military empire, and they do not care to Inconsist, Illogical and Erratic in All Things, Says Towne, There is no Explanation of Teddy or of His Sayings. see a change of the system of this First Do you believe In old war taxes to prevent trade with Europe and in the new war taxes to force country from a republic to an empire and they have changed their political trade with Asia? Second Do you believe In exclud ing the uneducated Europeans at Cas beliefs on that account. They have made up their minds on the subject tie Garden who wish to enter our territory, but in including millions of Asiatics who are now fighting to keep before the execution of the treaty. The treaty was not yet ratified.

It had not, indeed, been approved by the senate, and might easily never have been approved, since the final acti6n of that body is said to have been taken by a bare majority of one vote. This assumption of power admittedly before the treaty conferred it on him, and where the exercise of it was certain to involve the nation In war, as it soon did, was most prodigious." Reviewed Roosevelt's Speech. Taking up Governor Roosevelt's speech, Mr, Towne declared it to be "enormously disappointing. Neither in matter nor in manner is it worthy of its occasion. In respect of argument, the speech is, with rare exceptions, an alternation of evasion and assertion.

In spirit it is a compound of scold and scullion. As to its facts, it abounds in inaccuracies which, it accidental, are inexplicable as coming from a man who has performed creditably in history and biography. "But the world is accustomed to inconsistencies from Mr. Roosevelt. It has long looked upon him as a predestined and in corrigible eccentric.

It has given up attempting to explain him or to reconcile him with himself. It is quite impossible, whether it would be worth while otherwise or not, to make an entirely satisfactory diagnosis of a civil service reformer in partnership with Thomas C. Piatt; a citizen scldier who ridicules the volunteer; a leader in battle who finds glory in being rescued from ambush; a hero who boasts of shooting a fleeing foe in che back; a candidate who plays and poses to delegates and galleries to obtain a nomination that he does not want; a gentleman who charges six and one-half millions of his countrymen with lawlessness, dishonor and cowardice; a statesman who, mounted on a hobby, rides roughly at grave questions in economics and politics, swinging his partisan lariat and yelling like an intellectual Comanche." Mr. Towne then read quotations from the St. Paul speech of Governor Roosevelt, which, he said, showed the truth of what he had said of that speech as a whole.

He argued at considerable length against any pos and declare that no amount of talking or persuading which the Republican committee can do will bring them back into line for McKinley. They realize that a strenuous effort will be made by the McKinley mana out? Third Do you believe in Home Rule for Ireland, but in alien rule for Dulutht, Aug. 27. The largest gathering to listen to a political speech that ever assembled in Du-luth occurred this evening at the Armory, when Charles A. Towne opened the campaign in a lengthy address in which he replied to the recent speech of Governor Roosevelt, delivered at St.

Paul on the occasion of the meeting of the National League of Republican Clubs, and arraigned the administration's policy in the Philippines. The audience, which comprised persons of all shades of political belief and many scores of women, listened the Spanish islands? gers of the state to line them if their the governor failed to answer. Notwithstanding the fact that his audience was composed of well-known Republicans and that they asked the questions in all sincerity the governor attempted to ridicule and embarrass the spokesman and by that means evade the questions. He answered the first question and evaded the next three. He then made weak attempts to laugh the questioners out of the house.

The questions asked follow: First When last here did you not say that if elected you would devote your time to the duties of your office and not run over the state making political speeches? Second Did you at said time promise George H. Case, T. S. Kirkpatrick, and J. II.

Woollen that you would give W. S. Hancock, a section foreman of the Rock Island railroad, and appointment worth not les than per annum? Third Did you not appoint Hancock ns superintendent of the state reform school in compliance with that pledge, and did not the men to whom you made that pledge repeatedly round you up and force you to keep it? Fourth Will you make any such promises this trip? names are made public and only Perhaps the most interesting event in Kansas politics during the past week was the reception given V. Eugene Stanley Tuesday night by his former political acsociates at Man-kato. The questionb -sked him were staggering and unanswerable.

The governor attempted to answer them but, after floundering about helplessly for a time, finally abandoned the attempt and retreated in confusion. An account of the Incident, together with the questions asked, will be found in another column of this issue of the State Register. about one-fourth of them were willing Fourth Do you believe that the whites and blacks of this country have a right to govern themselves, but that the whites and blacks and browns of to have their names published. They the Philippines have no such right? do not want to be bothere by the Republican bosses. In the two townships of Garfield and Rock Creek, Fifth Do you believe In a- Monroe Doctrine which forbids Europe to in attentively to the orator's remarks for more than sixty voters have changed more than two hours, and frequently their political affiliations from the Re terfere with self-government in America, but which permits America to interfere with self-government in Asia? throughout the discourse the applause publican to the Democratic party within the past month.

Four years Sixth Do you believe that govern was deafening. The speech, which will be used as a campaign document, is considered go they voted for McKinley. They ments get their Just powers from the consent of the governed in America, as Mr. Towne's greatest political ef but from the contempt for the gov fort. At its conclusion he was tender will this year support Bryan and Stevenson.

Those who have changed their political beliefs and were willing to permit the publication of their names, as named by Fred Deirknig, of Chalk erned in Asia? ed an ovation by the multitude pres Seventh Do you believe that taxa A fact which has heretofore been generally overlooked is that the state senators to be elected this fall, holding office for four years, will have a vote for the election of the United States senator in 1903 to succeed Senator W. A. Harris. In the Clay-Dick-insou county senatorial district the fusionists were the first to appreciate this fact, and they passed a resolution instructing for the re-election of Senator Harris. This is a fitting compli ent.

Mr. Towne will leave Tuesday or tion without representation is tyranny when applied to us, but that it is phil Mound, follow: John Neumeyer, Mar Fifth If you are a friend of the old soldier, explain why it was that the Wednesday for Idaho, and other western points, to enter actively into the work of the campaign. application of every old soldier of this county for appointment was turned Mr. Towne opened by expressing down by you and only renegades to lack of patience with any one who be tin Eberle, Ulrich Berger, August Neumeyer, and Ernest Zurbaeher, all of Chalk Mound and vicinity; John Pape, Jacob Hoch, C. Falter, Philip Andres, Rev.

Beck, all of whom get their mail at Beman, Morris County; Casper Andres, Henry Kahle, Adam Meinhardt and Jacob Mayer, all of Alta Vista. lieved in their "party, right or wrong" ment to an able, fearless, conscientious man, who has honored himself and his state in the United States Senate. or "any President, right or wrong, Democracy and Populism appointed to odice over the bargain counter. Please also state why you gave no heed to the protest of every old soldier of this township, with two exceptions, whose considering the latter simply another statement of the divine right of kings. He then said: "Numerous questions are involved In this campaign.

It is rare, however, that more than one great issue is de sible constitutional right under which the United States could hold and govern colonies, ridiculing the alleged claim that this right was given by that provision of the constitution which gives congress the power to make all needful rules and regulations respecting "territory and other property" from the United States. cided at a time, and, as a rule, one subject of interest uppermost in the public mind and chiefly calls for dis cussion and decision. It is especial ly true in 1900. The relatively sec The action of W. Eugene Stanley and his official associates in kicking up a fuss over the state labor report will not serve to strengthen the administration any with the laboring men of the state.

The statistics contained in the report are comprehensive and exhaustive and are very valuable to laboring men. They were gathered by Labor Commissioner Johnson at a great cost of money and effort. The average cost of the reports is about 50 cents each, but they are worth many times more than that. Stanley proved himself to be a mighty little man in kicking over the trifling expense, especially so when it is considered that the insurance report, valuable principally to the big insurance companies, was passed through and printed without regard to expense. ondary matters, important as they are, all have reference to policies to be pursued by the republic.

The issue of first moment, the one that temporarily dwarfs all others by comparison, is whether the republic itself is to continue. anthropy when applied by us? Eighth Do you believe that forcible annexation is criminal aggression, but that1 the payment of $20,000,000 to non-owners is benevolent assimilation? Ninth Do you believe that militarism and foreign broils strengthen despotism abroad, but makes Republicanism strong at home? Tenth Do you believe that American policies have made a little nation of us, but that by adopting European policies we will be made a great nation? Eleventh Do you believe the commandment should read "Honor thy father and thy mother, but disregard fathers of the country?" Twelfth Do you believe this would be an improvement: "Thou shalt not kill, except to extend trade?" Thirteenth Would you teach your Sunday school class this: "Thou shalt not commit adultery, but you may enter into entangling alliances and have harems and slaves in Jolo?" Fourteenth How would this fit your creed: "Thou shalt not steal, but shalt annex by force?" Fifteenth How is this: "Thou shalt not bear false witness, but you may censor the dispatches?" Sixteenth Is this good doctrine: "Thou shalt not covet, but if you want anything take it by force?" Seventeenth Why does the pension depatement of Clay Evans and Mr. McKinley reverse all known rules of evidence and require the widow of every old soldier to make proof she is a woman of good moral character when she aplies for a pension? Eighteenth Why must the dependent mother of the soldier boy who TERRIBLE TEDDY TAKES WATER His St. Paul Speech Is Causing Him Trouble. By way of showing the trend of political affairs in Wabaunsee County, the account of the annual August German picnic of the settlers there is an Indication of the politics of the county.

During the picnic, which was of a semi-political character, an enterprising fakir, who saw a chance to increase his capital, purchased a supply of both Bryan and McKinley buttons to place on sale. He took out one hundred of each kind of buttons and placed them on his stand for the Inspection of the crowd. About the middle of the afternoon, a young man of the neighborhood strolled up to the stand with two girls and asked for buttons for the crowd. The young man asked for a Bryan button. One of the girls wanted a Bryan button and the other a McKinley button.

The fakir showed them the Bryan button board, which was clean, and told them that he had just sold the last one, but had about ninety-two of the McKinley buttons left, which they could have at a reduced price. "Let us first inquire how the ques tion of Imperialism has arisen. It is one of the paradoxes of history that a policy of subjugation and conquest should have been the inheritance of a war of liberation." protest wus backed by ninety per cent of the voters of this (Center) township? Sixth Will you please answer the questions asked by Past Department Commander Botkin, relative to the Klondike, in which he said: "There are 40,000 old soldiers in the state, and 39,000 of them are demanding that the infamy which is going on up there be stopped. Against them are some 200 jointists and thugs who do not want the infamy stopped. On which side is Governor Stanley? Does he imagine he can fool all of these old veterans all the time? There are tens of thousands of people who are growing suspicious that it never was intended to clear out that nest of villians and it does not help the case for some political Jawsmith to interview himself and talk grandelo-quently about the difficulty of getting evidence." And he adds: "Is this administration afraid of the Klondike's political influence?" Seventh While speaking about the Klondike and the way old soldiers are murdered there, let us ask you to explain why you gave no heed to the letters of Comrade Donald McPhail, who with two of his brothers served four years in the civil war, and who in a most pitiful letter dated August 2, 1819, related to you all the circumstances of the death of one of those brothers, a victim of the infamous Klondike? Eighth Is it not true that there is not a sjngle place In the Klondike district that has not witnesed the brutal HE IS CALLED DOWN President's Assumption of Power.

He then reviewed at some length the causes leading up to and the chief events of the Spanish war. He took General Palmer Rebukes Him and He Apologizes and up the insurrection in the Philippines, sketching it briefly, and telling how brilliantly Dewey and his sailors en gaged the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, and continued: "The plan to possess the whole Philippine archipelago and to subdue The spectacle of a man abandoned by his friends and left to his doom is one which would under ordinary circumstances bring tears to the eyes of the hardest-hearted. Such is the present condition of Governor Stanley. His friends are leaving him every day and will let him battle with the waves until he goes down, while they exert themselves to pull the national ticket through. Not until recently did his "Royal Nibs" come to a realization of this situation.

Since then his manner has changed entirely. Now he beseeches his friends not to leave him to his fate, and promises to work more for the good of the party next term and less for the advancement of one Stanley, a third-rate lawyer of Wichita. His pleadings are all in it if necessary by force of arms, was bluntly set forth by the President In his instructions to General Otis, un Grave issues hang upon the result of the fortbcomingelection and because of this great public interest will be attached to the work of the campaign. This paper will keep in touch with the various state committees and will give its readers the latest news of the campaign, as it develops, and will endeavor to dish it up in a readable and entertaining manner. If you are not already a subscriber, send in your subscription and get your friends to do the same.

Governor Roosevelt, being called to acount by General John M. Palmer for that part of his St. Paul speech in which he denounced Democrats generally as "traitors at home and cowards abroad," has written a letter to General Palmer, "explaining" what he really meant to say. This is a peculiarity of Roosevel-tian campaigning. Governor Roosevelt is called 'upon to speak one day and the next to "explain;" or, as Chairman Hanna would put is continually getting into hot water because he can not restrain himself." In his St.

Paul speech, Mr. Roosevelt, Ignoring the fact that Democrats died in the Philippines introduce proof that she is a woman of good moral character before she receives in her behalf "the plain duty of the government?" Nineteenth Is it not a presumption of law, recognized by the civilized world, that every person's character Is good until it is shown by proof to be bad? and, if so, why does the pen der date of December 21, 1898, which were embodied by the latter in the famous proclamation of January 1, 1899. "It is Important to bear in mind the time when this proclamation was made, as touching the question of the President's right to Issue it; its responsibility for the warfare that followed, and its relation to the general subject of arbitrary power, for in sion department presume that the character of every soldier's widow and the character of the dependent moth of the army and navy men like Dew BOURBON COUNTY IN FINE SHAPE er of every soldier boy is bad until she introduces proof to the pension department that she is a woman of good moral character? and Breidenthal, and we have the names of fourteen others in this city, formerly Republicans, who will vote our ticket from Bryan down. The fusion committees have opened headquarters In a spacious room on Main street and will keep the doors open till the polls close and the votes are counted. Stanley carried this county two years ago by nearly 250, but Breidenthal will carry it this year by not less than 400.

Twentieth Is it beer or the consti murder of some old soldier inmate of the Home, and have not hundreds of them been robbed, with your seeming acquiescence, of their pension money? Ninth What truth is there in these words from the Wichita Eagle: "'Truly our great and pious governor is a man of varied parts. Scarcely had the holy claim of the Sabbath's spiritual refreshment evaporated from his mind and blended with the mist and fog of machine politics, than the thrifty and astute governor plunged headlong into the legal arena, as lord chief counselor for her Majesty, Queen Dixie of Smoky Row, In an injunction case. While the soiled queen of Wichita's street's most splendid palace of vice and soul damnation, has conferred a signal honor upon the people's chief magistrate by choosing him as her chief counselor, the chief mag-' istrate has confered equal honor upon tution that you believe should follow the ag? Twenty-first Is it patriotism to haul down the flag In Alaska at the demand of England and treason to advocate that It float side by side with the flag of our Philippine allies until they can stand alone against the governments of Europe that are engaged In land grabbing and the murder of OHIO IS DOUBTFUL ey, Hobson, Schley, Wheeler, and Lawton had carried off the honors in the war with Spain, characterized his Democratic countrymen as "traitors at home and cowards abroad." This phrase appears in every stenographic report of Governor Roosevelt's speech made at St. Paul, and the Governor's passionate denunciation of well-known heroes has excited much indignation throughout the country. Even General Palmer has moved to rebuke bis young friend.

Now, Governor Roosevelt, seeking to extricate himself from the dilemma, has resorted to the expedient of of quoting from his "prepared" speech. In a letter to General Palmer, made public to-day, he explains that he was misquoted, and that what he really said waa this: "They stand for lawlessness and disorder at home and cowardly shrinking from duty abroad." There Is not much difference in the phraseology of the speech, afc "prepared" and of the actual speech as "delivered," but Governor Roosevelt gives himself the benefit of the doubt. creasingly easy assumption and exercise are the invariable accompaniments of Imperialism." Mr. Towne then discussed the protocol and the treaty of peace, and the proclamation of January 31, 1899, at Manila, which, he declared, "is of the very essence of Imperialism." "Divested of its cant and made over Into plain language, the proclamation tells the Filipinos that we have seized their country by brute force and propose to hold it; and that they must submit to our pretension and yield to our assumed authority, or be shot to death. "It boldly proclaims the right of conquest, the highway robbery of nations.

For the first time in American history It Is asserted by the responsible leader of a great party, and a President of the requblic, that we may rightfully wage war for purposes of dominion and acquire property In the land of other nations and jurisdiction over their liberties and persons by the mere test of superior strength. It violates the most sacred traditions of our history. "But, what Is probably as sinister In this proclamation as even this flagrant Indorsement of force as the basis of political authority, and as significant of imperialistic tendencies in the executive, is the cool assumption by the President of the power to act Will Give Bryan and Breidenthal Ticket a Big Majority. Stampede From Republicans Has Begun. Fort Scott, Aug.

27. The Populists and Democrats of Bourbon County met in this city last Saturday and named the following ticket: For senator, John Caldwell; for district clerk. C. B. Drake; for county Pttorney, H.

A. Pritchard; for probate Judge. F. T. Dysart; for county clerk, Mrs.

B. L. Barton; for county superintendent. Mart Miller; for county commissioner, D. B.

Chambers; for representative 21st district, Timothy Hack-ett; for representative 22d district, J. M. Davis. The ticket Is an exceptionally strong one, and although Bourbon County Is usually very close, the prospects are very flattering for the election of every man named. One man who was a delegate to the Republican county convention tells his neighbors that he can't stand the trust dictation of Hanna nl the Imperialism of McKinley, and will vote the Bryan ticket from top to bottom.

Three prominent busines men of this city who have always voted the Republican ticket are thi year supporting Bryan of many of them. They therefore urged the Importance of the organization of Bryau Democratic clubs. BRYAN CREETS COLORED MEH NOT NEEDED, BUT WELCOME. Mayor McKisson of Cleveland and Many Prominent Ohio Republicans Come Out for Bryan. Chicago, Aug.

28. Information has been received at Democratic headquarters here to the effect that former Mayor McKisson of Cleveland will support Bryan this year. The acquisition of such men as McKisson of Cuyahoga County, "Golden Rule" Jones of Lucas County, and G. B. Cox of Hamilton County, means the reclamation of Ohio by the Democrats.

McKisson was the candidate against Hanna in the sensational senatorial fight in Ohio in 1898 and was only beaten by one vote. This Is the fight In which it is alleged that Hanna bought his seat They Are Dissatisfied With McKinley and Pledge Bryan Support. Chicago, Aug. 28. Mr.

Bryan had a conference with a delegation of colored men headed by J. Milton Turner of St. Louis, former minister to Liberia. They represented that there was much dissatisfaction among the member of their race with the present administration and assured Mr. Bryan that he would receive the votes Alonzo 8.

Prather, a Life-Long Missouri Republican, Converted to Democracy. Alonzo S. Prather, a life-long Republican and present representative from Taney County In the Missouri house of representatives, has announced his conversion to Democracy and says he will vote for Bryan and support that party henceforth. The Kassas State Register wants agents In every city, town and township in the state. Liberal commissions allowed.

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