Belle Plaine Voice from Wellington, Kansas • 1

Plaine Be By LYMAN NAUGLE. At War with Class Legislation anl Mal-administration. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. VOL. I.

BELLE PLAINE KANSAS. FRIDAY. JUNE 23, 1894- NO. 4 5. KANSAS AND HER SHAME.

Mayfield. TOWN AND VICINITY. Topeka Letter. Topeka. June 21 '94.

"No need of rainmakers in Kansas Republican Tricksters and Fixers. Among the Republican leaders and Wellington convention fixers of this county is the noted secretary of the party, whom "A Subscriber" has de any longer. Miss fJertnide Mark is visiting in scribed in the Voice of May 18. Said secretary canvassed the late judicial Republican convention and declared to the delegates that unless bis man George R. Steele is at Ham Beers' harvesting.

Harvest is now here. Many farmers in our vicinity are cutting their wheat. Mayfield has been visited by quite a few tramps on their way to join the Coxey army. Rev. C.

B. Parkhurst preached two very interesting sermons at the C. P. church Sunday morning and evening. Quite a number of our Mayfield people attended Children's day exercises at Silver Creek Sunday, June 17.

Miss Lula Sanders, of the Strip, has been visiting friends in our vicin dates were obeyed, he would turn the Monitor-Press over to the apposition. He made it win, too. "Greater England." The following is an extract from an editorial in the Financial News of London England. Read it. There can be no doubt about it, that if the United States were to adopt a silver basis to-morrow, British trade would be ruined before the year was out.

Every American industry would be protected, not only at home, but in every other market. Of course, the States would suffer to a certain extent though having to pay her obligations abroad in gold; but the loss on exchange under this head would be a mere drop in the bucket compared with the profits to be reaped from the markets of South America and Asia, to say nothihg of Europe. The marvel is that the United States has not long ago seized the opportunity, and but for the belief that the way of England is necessarilly the way to commercial success and prosperity, undoubtedly it would have been done long ago. Now. Americans are awakening to For county attorney, an old news The republican candidate for governor Major Morrill, the hanker, says he 1 ashamed of Kansas.

A state Independent, Sick of the boss, I'losely intent on Truth without gloss. Handle her carefully, Doubt not her bravery Boldly and prayerfully Casting out knavery. Steady by jerks, Toiling like turks, Wnilstthe sweat slowly Drips from her brow; Kespectiug the lowly, Following the plow. Hoot not with scorn, Howl not forlorn; Plainly and reasonably Note the needs of her, Watch the deeds of her. All done peaceably.

Flaunt not her errors-XT nele Sam's fairest daughter-She fears not scare rows nor terrors; Pioneers taught her. Look up her record. Grounded in freedom. Brave husbands and wives Risked here their lives. Looking forward, not backward.

1 1 ere came a father. Here came a mother. Then came a sister To keep house for a brother, And from home came sweethearts Longim: to greet hearts That l'. at for each other. Rut.

Alas! for the creed paper man, who claims the defeat of Frank Hunt, a Republican for commissioner of the Third district, who, as one of the tellers of the convention, purposely deceived it; of which he boasted that he beat Tyler Sturm out of the nomination for county treasurer, after having received a ity. She returned home Wednesday morning. Mr. Deer, who had the misfortune majority; who worked with the opposition and assisted them in defeating Charley Elliott on the Republi to break his leg, is improving rapidjy. But he has been suffering from rheumatism the last week.

the fact that "so long as they narrow their ambition to become a larger England" they cannot beat us. It has Regular correspondence In our last letter we piomised to show up the dead-beat record of the candidate on the Republican ticket for lieutenant governor, and give more fully some of the details of the shoddy business transactions of F. B. Dawes, candidate for attorney general, but we will lay this matter over for awhile to give space to more important news. We must tell our readers what a harmonious and enthusiastic convention the Populists had.

The only question over which there was any difference of opinion was the propriety of adopting a resolution in our platform favoring woman suffrage, but this contest, while animated and earnest, resulted in no bad blood, and with a splendid ticket afterward nominated, both sides will roll up their sleeves and go into the fight to win a glorious victory. Probably the most exciting scenes ever witnessed in any convention before in Kansas was enacted when the minority report of the committee on resolutions was adopted by the convention, thereby placing a woman suffrage plank in the Populist state platform. The contest waged for nearly two days and nights. When the final vote was taken enthusiastic women waved their handkerchiefs while standing on chairs, cheering, shouting, laughing, while strong, sturdy oldtime politicians wept like children with hearts overflowing with good will to all men and womenkind. It was a scene of a lifetime, and one which made even opposers of the plank feel happy while gazing upon the uspeakable joy it brought to so many earnest chiistian hearts who have for years advocated ''equal can ticket, because the convention been a piece of luck for us that is has never occurcd to the Americans to was not fixed to his taste.

Children's day was observed at the The old scheme to defeat Burnette, scoop us out of the world's markets by going on a silver basis, and it might the Republican nominee in the late Baptist church Sunday evening, June 10. The church decorations were very nice and the recitations by the ir, irritated oy the contemptuous judicial convention, was detected so apat hy of our government to thegrav- ltyof the silver problem, the Ameri little people were well rendered. quickly and exposed by one outside of the fixers, that the would-be probate judge spoke out in meeting so unblushingly, and convinced the con Quite an excitement was created in cans retaliate by freezing out gold. It could esily b2 done, and we propose shortly to show, by evidence collected regard to the spiritualist show last Thursday evening. I will not say vention that he would not take any thing out of his reach (unless lie could get it.) whether there were any spirits or not, only an old man with a white scarf about his neck.

Belle Plaine this week. Scott Nye is making cider for vine- There will be a basket meeting at Palestine next Sunday. Net Bishop unloaded a new steam thresher here last Friday. Joe Sparger is up from the Strip cutting his wheat. Robert Smith had the misfortune to lose his barn in the recent storm.

Wm. Hatfield was handing out the cigars Friday and Saturday it's a boy. High Overstreet's barn was turned almost around during Monday's storm. Harvesting is about done. What was not harvested by machinery was harvested by hail.

John Cowen left Monday for Kansas City where lie will visit his brother and two sisters. Ye home correspondent was last last week in the harvest field between two foaming rivers. Mrs. T. B.

Loer left on Tuesday of last week for a three month's visit with relatives and friends in Illinois. Miss Florence Barton was home from Oxford over Saturday. She returned to school again Sunday morning. John and Mack Mogan left Tuesday for Enid, O. near which place they expect to locate in the near future.

It is a positive fact that one of our old bachelors is soon to quit the pleasures of single bliss and trot in double harness. There will be a basket meeting in the grove south of town the third Sunday in July instead of the fifth, as announced in a previous issue. Miss Clara Boss returned from Emporia Saturday, where she has been taking a course in kindergarten work. She commenced her summer school here Monday. A terrific wind, rain and hail storm struck this vicinity last Monday afternoon at two o'clock and lasted until six in the evening.

Crops are badly damaged, garden truck beaten into the earth, wheat threshed in the sheaf and buildings, windmills and other property suffered similarly. COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. All that is needed is for the dele Mr. ITamill's infant son, who has gates to meet in Wellington at a been suffering for some time with brain and spinal trouble, died Sunday fixed time and take their quinine. Why not the people meet en masse and elect a pure ticket for countv of evening, June 10.

The funeral ser from perfectly unprejudiced sources, that even now the process has begun, and is proceeding at a rate that will astonish most people, and probably make this country regret that it did not at an earlier stage fashion its monetary policy on principles of friendliness to other nations, instead of on a basis of short-sighted selfishness. Chster 1. Long. Enid (Ok.) Wave. For the second time the Republicans of the Big Seventh Kansas district have nominated Chester I.

Long for congress and this time by acclamation. Being personally acquainted with Long, we can say that he is a real goodlooking fellow, as fine an anDearinc man as can be found in vices were conducted at the Baptist, church Monday evening, June 11, by Ut 1 he speculators' creed. And worship of gold Idlers are fed. And producers of bread Turned out in the cold. Fat hcr'iy.

mot herly. Sisterly, brotherly. Feelings wore crushed; Uolil with grasping hands Cobbled the lands, Even Cod who commands, And conscience, seemed hushed. Where the sun shines And the butterfly dines: Midst riches untold 1 valley and prairie. In pasture and dairy.

Stand homeless William and Mortgaged and sold. The rough side of trouble Made people think. And sec thrmiL'h the bubble And foam of monop.iiy sink Facing the blizzard. They discovered the ffiz.anl And gall of the gold-bug clan irinding and plu nclc; big Tile laboring man. Then the worm turned.

And her heart burned-Liberty's tire kindled From coals in the ashes. Behold how it Listen to them quietly. Heed their Nor consider lulu ly The Kansas farmer's calloused G. A. I.

(Wellington.) ficers, irrespective of political preferences. IlrxxEWELL SrnscniBEii, An old soldier and a Republican. Rev. John Evans. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the en tire neighborhood.

rights to all and special privileges to LAWYERS and MILLIONAIES. The Suffrage Meeting. The equal suffrage campaign in Sumner county opened last Friday evening in the Methodist church at Wellington. Judge Derrick presided none." We have interviewed many who op They Carry the Custom of Taking; Fees on Any 5ide, Into Lefislation, The president, speaker six of the posed the amendment solely upon the ground of political policy, all of whom admit that if it creates half as much enthusiasm throughout the campaign heads of bureaus, are all lawyers. In the scnate(from Congressional Directory) shows: as it did in the convention, no com bination could be put up to beat it.

Kansas, but, that is all there is to him, we can say no more for him. lie is a regular "old gang republican" and is owned, body and soul, by the railroads who spent thousands of dollars trying to elect him eighteen months ago: were he in congress now he would be found voting agaiiisjb the people' of Enid in their struggle against the Rock Island. The Populist state convention was over the meeting and Rev. Sumner T. Martin of the Christian church invoked the divine blessing.

Miss Lizzie Campbell made an address of welcome and introduced the speaker Mrs. R. L. Child who delivered an intelligent and intelligible address. Saturday afternoon Misses Elizabeth Yates and Helen L.

Kimber addressed a meeting composed largely of women. In the evening Rev. Anna Shaw composed of the intelligent and en lightened men of the state: men who showed by their utterances that they Serious, Curious Comical. The is but a man as Tain. The violet smells to Mm as it doth to me.

Tut-element shows It to him as it dot tome. All his senses have but ions. His ceremonies laid by. in ills nakedness he appears but a SaikllM'tAIIK. were posted on live issues of the day The convent-ion was very much un Long is not honest in mind, jirae- tice or principle: he is a man of the i made one of the best speeches that i luce K-iii convention in this respect While the Republican con- Sixty-four lawyers, Five Bankers, Ten merchants and manufacturers, One doctor, One fanner, Four of other vocations.

In the house: Two hundred and forty-five lawyers. Twenty-one merchants and manufacturers. Eight Editors, Five doctors, Twenty-eight farmers. Twenty-live of other vocations. There are numerous millionaires in congress.

There are 'many represen-tathe-oi the banking interest, the vent ion was composed of old political li'Hcrs who know nofhimr of the live we ever heard upon the subject. The Voice will reproduce part of her address next week. The Rev, Black of the Baptist church delivered the invocation at the last meeting, and Let monopolist Beware of the l'opuli-t Ki-lil and courageous. Weary of ceremony. Bclicvim: in silver mom 'on iuced ha 1 iiuis world with an oily deceitful tongue.

He will never be elected in our opinion, but if he should he, he can never stand up with he hoiiesl Jerry Simp son, the Democrat IN in any way shape and manner, except that he is better looking than Jerry. The First Strike. The first on record was led ml r.e-eou-. faction is dest met ion. Kiiforced irlh I 10 la'iore Miss AllieSaylorsanga patriot icjequal rights) solo.

The meetings closed Saturday night but the ladies remaining in the city over Sunday. Miss Yates and Miss Shaw occupied the pulpits of the Methodist and Christian churches great railways and other corporations hell. The gatewav belt' js I issues, the Populist convention was i composed almost wholly of fanners and laboring men. who showed thoy (were doing their own reading and I thinking, men who are abreast of the I times in regard to political 'and they ruled the convention, llcie State Journal, Republican au- thority. for "Thi' most enjoyable thing in the 'Populist enliven! hn u-t ended, is the polii icians of thai party 1 were effectually squelched by tl in-! sertion el' the woman suffrage plank:" We trust that the Journal will not forget itself before election and be and the monopolists all placed there Corbin.

Fine rain Monday. ini is growing tliioly Oats are a poor crop scarcely worth cu'ting. Wheat will give a better yield than wis expected, but will be in most isos badly shriveled. Parties who higan heading wheat "tit week had tctopan account ol the wheat lipening silver than they by an agitator named and took ill! gold. Lillian lias gone to Km, ji, tie anot her ho-lund 1 Us- for the purpose of effecting legislation in their behalf, or of preventing any act ion adverse to I lie interests of those who own and control the I'nited States today.

We don't want, a gov.T i. vh place in Egypt over years ago. Moses was a Jew. and it is a singular i fact this race have furnished all the great socialists. Karl Marx.

Lasalle, Krapotkin and Bakounine were all Jews: and so was Jesus, who was so radical a socialist that, he whipped delivering sermons that were appli-' cable to the men as well as women. The local club feels Arrangements were made for lh" organizaloiu of suffrage campaign clubs in all the townships of the Twenty-live millions of ngricult'ir- ts: Twetitv-nine members of congress county. 7 per cent! the national banners and the ten-pcr-ecnf-a-moiith deacons of his day out of the stock exchange of the temple Fifty thousand lawyers 1-1 1 of per cent population! swearing by the gods the Populist ticket was put up by fixers. In marked contrast to the above quotation as to the true clement of the Populist convention, we append here an extract from the Topeka Mail, excellent Republican authority, as and called them thieves, robbers, and it became necessary to suppress Sander's Army. Leavemvokth, June lu.

Judge Thomas sentenced Sanders' commonweal army as follows: Thirteen men lined 2" each and committed to the Douglas county jai1 at Lawrence; six men, Sanders' stall officers, fined T0 each and committed to the Sedgwick county jail, at Wichita: 40 lined ii0 each and taken to the Leavenworth county Jail: lined 2o each and committed la the Wyandotte jail; lined $20 each and committed to Shawnee county jail at Topeka. to the makeup ol the Republican state convention: ashamoo of his uiiow ciu.M iis. Snow is death mi bugs--the yohl-bug will lie snowed under ncxi fall. The jelly-fish and the sponu'e govern the suckers. What llshtliese mortal I.e.

Heboid, the oiv so, who rc. fuses a bribe shail expose a hogV nest. 1 the people would ijuit u.sing sugar and co flee for awhile the trusts would tumble. When the Hops are in Hie whiti house, we'll all sing a joyful song not funny, but happy. If the United States treasury wen-guarded by the Populists.

It might be In as good condition as the state-treasury of Kansas. When Kansas Is "redeemed from there will be openings for several great breweries and a few hundred saloons In the state. thought. Coxcy can't get any new recruits for his army bore, as those that were idle iimw have employment in the harvest field. Considerable wheat will be threshed out of the shock by strippers, as a great many of them don't want to make the trip back to thresh.

Lmi Keece has purchased a new scii'. v. i engine, Lou always did good threshing aod is now prepared to do bet ti.M than ever. The W'-llington people who were fishing iit lMury. must have been follow inn cvchind as cartooned In last we.

ks Von fishing for amusement, as from the number of persons there uld have been no profit, Dr. Wlliholt made a trip to the north part of the state the forepart of the week on business. Onlte a number of hail stones fell Mini by the strong arm of the law to prevent a lUng of the lower classes. Moses was not only an agitator and leader of st rikes. but he encouraged the strikers to borrow a lot of gold and jewelry which was never returned to the owners, and he caused the death of a number deputy marshals and "Pinkertons'' by enticing them into the dangerous ford of the Red sea.

Exchange. In congress 70 per cent! Labor classes Twenty millions! In congress Where has the evil come from which desolates the union? The federal government and its legislation. Who controls absolutely the destinies and happiness of our country? One lawyer president. Throe hundred and thirty lawyers and bankers in congress. Nine supremo court judges.

In the states, In a smaller degree Two hundred lawyers In forty-four supreme courts. Twenty-five hundred lawyers and bankers In the legislatures. So we have an oligarchy of about 3.000(out of two classes of number) who are higher than our pretended constitutional guarantees as "It. was conceded by everybody that the finest body of the representative men of the state of Kansas, assembled at the Republican state convention held this week. Of delegates composing the convention 4S1 were ex-union soldiers and unlike the convention of two years ago.

there were no strange faces in the assemblage, all were well known wheel horses in the Republican ranks." Now then what we conclude when we look at the Republican platform of two years ago which delared for free silver, reduction In exorbitant freight rates, and against high taxes and usurious interest. This year nothing Is said upon these questions, these Ills which afflict and impoverish the common people. We must conclude that the Republican rarty has this year surrendered completely to the corporate and money power. It had turned Its back upon the firmer and laborer by Ignoring their Interest in the platform, and spit In their faces In not placing one of their representatives upon the state ticket. It Is Irritating to read the pipings of the little weazened stunted parrots that run republican papers.

They do not think. They can't think and they are too lazy to try to think. Their perpetual squeaking and repetition of "you can't change things, because all history shows they have always so existed, "(or words to that like the habit of the dog turning round during the rain Monday, which did considerable damage to windows on the east side of buildings. The Populists of Arkansas will march across the country in wagons, on horseback and afoot, to the state convention at Little Hock July lit. Meetings will be held and speakers provided for every delegation, so that they may spread the gospel as they In Texas Republicans belonging to clubs composed of both blacks and whites, were excluded from the Republican state league convention.

Yet the negroes arc told that the Republicans are their friends. Hon. John Pa vis received the unqualified endorsement of his constituents and was renominated by acclamation as candidate for congressman from the fifth district of Kansas. to the "life, liberty and property" of 70,000,000 of citizens, who have labored under the delusion that the oligarchy were simply "servant of the people!" I U. anton Duncan, Lor Angeles, Cal.

three or four times before he lies down on a stone pavement. No matter how much imitators love It, truth custom demands that the vail be renf The blind man becomes reconciled to his condition but once given hope of restoration to sight, he sees already Mr. Morrill has already lost a fine-opportunity for holding his tongue. Every speech he makes In the coming campaign will be votes In the pockets-of the Populists. Keep on your shirts, gentlemen, you cannot hoot and ridicule the people to scorn this time.

They know morc than they used to know. Thejr are laughing some themselves at you excitement. Labor has concluded to stop tut? manufacture rf millionaires. There Is an overpunluctlon of these hlgla priced luxuries that has overdrawn the public fund of common comfort for common people. The president kissed his baby ou the eighth anniversary of Ills marriage and lo! It was telegraped Vj'tlw? uttermost ends of the earth.

Wa Act If that was the first lime fnc old nun INscd that kid? Crnway JSUr that his consolations arc nothing compared to sight. When you see that The shipping of cattle from the south seems to have commenced In earnest, some days four and five train loads pass through on the II. I. Ry. The rain Monday did some damage to hci.did wheat "tacks spoilt the little potitocs, and some begin to think they wort raise a nubbin of corn.

Martin lleckrrman went to the Strip Inst week to attend the wedding of ProresHor Spurlock and Miss Anna Summer, Iwth formerly of Corbin. The wedding took place at Pond Creek. The newly married couple Intend teslding In Mcdford. May happlne attend thorn through life. Martin m.iis a llnetrlpand a gcr-crul good time.

Is It not about time that some fa- our present system Is unjust, Incom All men who arc employed at useful labor, merchants, doctors, some lawyers, teachers, preachers, farmers, railroad laborers In short all who are either producing something useful, or employed In distributing the same where it will do the greatest gcod to the greatest number must open their eyes to the fact that all speculative business for mere profit draws It sustenance from the people who are engaged in real production find distribution. amhW do not vi.fi nt There are no funds In the state treasury of Virginia for paying the militia bill of $10,000 which was made In the effort to force workmen to accept, the terms of mine "owners." plete and temporary, that should be cetlous Republican exchange was ris-reason enough for thinking and work-1 lug to remark that the "Populist lng for a change. I party Is going to The banking system Is as much the It looks now as If the Republican I If the nation owned the co 5 mines li the only party not in It this year, fault as the banker's fault. At 1 1 Kven the St. John I tea have plat- against oanKers b( miners would receive better wages, form that means something.

Topo-! I irll virtual, but we oppose the system and the people could buy Ihclrcoal mi Uclk It shouu be abolished, cheaper..