New Parties and Populist Winds Across the Nation
A long editorial argues for radical government reform and the rise of new parties, citing Populist sentiment and potential realignment. It questions judiciary independence, notes tariff and railroad rates debates, and predicts ongoing party cooperation under Bryan while pursuing reform through Chicago and St Louis platforms. It mentions local events in Topeka and Cheyenne as context for broader political shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanamaker
Democratic Party
Bryan
Chicago
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat yarns on McKinley prosperity mockery
A skeptical editorial essay ridicules proprosperity predictions tied to McKinley’s election. It accuses Republican papers of peddling nonsense to win votes, argues office seekers profit from booms, and cautions that tariffs and bosses shape hard times more than economic reality. The piece ends by stating the bosses are in a tight spot.
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Globe-Democrat
Mckinley
Globe
Times
Cleveland
Willson
Six hundred turn on McKinley as workers lash out in waxen ruin
In Wilmerville Pennsylvania on May 31 angry laborers who backed McKinley a year earlier burned his portrait and uniforms after being dismissed from Westinghouse Airbrake. They chanted against prosperity and denounced Bryan as the true savior, tearing down banners and torching regalia in the lot outside the factory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmerville
McKinley
Canton
Unmistakable Signs of Improvement Claimed by Dunn
The big headline touts gains in trade while the report shows cotton and wheat fluctuating, wool down half a cent, hogs and corn dropping, and 248 failures. Loans rise, a boon to lenders, but many workers face wage cuts or unemployment as prices fall and hardship grows.
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Dun
Dunn
Cottom
Tariff and Trusts Roil 1900 Campaign Outlook
A Pittsburg dry goods house notes price rises due to tariff on wool in the Dingley bill and urges a 25 percent markup on woolen goods. Joan E. Starnes, secretary of the star trust, predicts trusts will dominate the 1900 campaign, arguing progress will outpace the silver issue as long as trusts prevail.
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Kansas
Topeka Pension Agency
Cy Leland
Senator Baker
Baker
Leland
John E. Searls
Sugar Trust
Standard Oil Company
Pittsburg
Opee
Kansan
Joan E. Starnes
Star Trust
Cotton Cotton Trust
Lone Elm Items and Local Happenings
Community notes from Lone Elm record visits to nearby towns, social events, birthdays, decorations day, and a street snake-charmer. Entries mention Miss Lola Gordon in Garnett, M. EK. Children’s Day June 6, I O O F Memorial at Colony, a party at L W Anderson’s, and a buggy purchase. Also listed are shipments by Bidwell & McDowell, a wagon accident avoided, and a railroad excursion offer to Winfield from June 1 to 15.
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Lola Gordon
Garnett
F. P. Ewing
M. EK
Colony
Lone Elm Lodge
Will Carleton’s Every Where Poems and Sketches Listing
Will Carleton’s News paper Magazine Every Where features his poems and sketches in each issue with Best of Additional Literature. Subscription is fifty cents a year or twenty five cents for six months. Published by Every Where Pub Co Brooklyn NY.
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Paper Magazine
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Supreme
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Spain
Ben Harrison
Ben
Olathe and
Gardner
Olathe
St. John
Wall Street
Montana
Tux Topeki Independent
Albert Griffin
Frank A. Root
Bes Borregworn
Laurel Hill
Philadelphia
John J. Ingalls
John Wanamaker
Westinghouse Airbrake Co. Ponr
Uytrd
McKinley Club
S. E. Babcock and Wife
Tola
L. W. Anderson
Mr. Anderson
May Veitje
Myrtle Mourer
Bidwell & McDowell
John Scheussler
Bernice Street
Josie Ginhey
G. O. Olmstead
Caroline Hox
Equity
Ann Frazer
Blanche A. Stanley
N. Harden
W. D. Clarke
J. P. Duvall
Mary Garton
Marie Halstead
Marie Henderson
Mary Holt
John Hininiman
B. Lane
Winfield
Kas
Missouri Pacific Railway Co
R. G. Wing
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Will Carleton
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Every Where Pub. Co
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