Western Socialist News from Topeka, Kansas • 1

Zrd1E WESTERN more these wast som OCIALIST rhe Volume 1. Number 3. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE, 1900. Single Copies Five Cents. ways leads except in remote instances.

It is true that many Republicans will vote for Breidenthal and vote against Bryan. On the other hand there are some Socialists and disgruntled Populists who will vote against Breidenthal and for Bryan. It works both ways. And here is what the Populist chairman said: If all of the forces opposed to the Republican party could be united the Republicans would be beaten by We do not claim that we will harmonize all of these elements. Some of them we shall not try to pacify.

TICKET. The following ticket is submitted to referendum Congressman-at-Large F. E. Miller. Associate Justice Supreme Court A.

A. Carnahan. Governor G. C. Clemens.

Lieutenant Governor C. R. Mitchell. Attorney General Charles Gorsuch. Secretary of State J.

W. Forest. Auditor of State Nixon. Treasurer of State C. A.

Gordon. Superintendent Public Instruction Frankie S. Mayberry. Superintendent of Insurance T. J.

Maxwell. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. At Large B. C. Sanders, Cloud county; Louis Ma-tignon, Osage county; E.

H. Cain, Cherokee county. First District Robert Tompkins, Atchison county. Second District Geo. W.

Lefffin, Allen county. Third District Joe Taylor, Wilson county. Fourth District John I. Price, Lyon county. Fifth District Vard Ramsour, Geary county.

Sixth District Charles A. Brannon, Sherman county. Seventh District Charles D. Hillabold, McPherson county. These names are merely suggested.

Members may substitute other names altogether. The voting is absolutely free for all Socialists who organize branches or clubs and comply with our plan of organization by send-ind names to the State Secretary up to July 15. Organize and vote. The voting can begin at once. Organization plan will be mailed on application to me.

G. CLEMENS, State Secretary S. D. P. MATTHEW ARNOLD.

Ask yourself if you do not sometimes feel in yourselves a sense, that in spite of the strenuous efforts for good of so many excellent persons amongst us, we begin somehow to flounder and to beat the air; that we seem to be finding ourselves stopped on this line of advance and on that, and to be threatened with a sort of standstill. It is that we are trying to live on with a social organization of which the day is over. Matthew Arnold in Equality. IS SOMEBODY WORRIED? Kansas Socialists who do not expect a Socialist ticket to cut any ice this year, look here a moment. I am going to quote a few words of hope to you from my esteemed contemporary, the Kansas City Times the recognized organ of the Kansas fusionists.

Sunday, June 3, that paper published interviews with the state chairmen of the Populist and the Democratic parties concerning the fusion vote; and it took pains to say that neither one knew of the estimate made by the other, but that they were questioned on the subject separately. You know what kind of witnesses the opposing lawyer always wants separated during a trial. What do you think must have been the Times opinion of its own witnesses when it had them separated? But here is what the Democratic chairman said about a certain disagreeable crowd: Bryan will lead the ticket. The national ticket al.