OUR "BUSINESS" GOVERNOR MORRILL AND CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Governor Morrill faces fine and imprisonment for using contingent funds for campaign expenses office rent and staff costs. Republican papers defend him, but the issue centers on legal violation. A Leavenworth saloonist Tim Burk urges Morrill to favor whisky interests citing his bank ties. two hundred Leavenworth saloon keepers reportedly deposit $5,000 monthly, suggesting business motives.
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Morrill
Geo. W. Martin
Kansas City
Kas
Tim Burk
Leavenworth
Political Scandals Stir Kansas State House Controversy
The State Journal defends a charge against Staee Treasures Atherton alleging intoxication, while rival papers publish damning reports. Ewing Herbert’s Hiawatha World highlights a separate graft story involving a enrolling clerk and a room payment demand. Governor Morrill’s paper questions officials’ conduct and reform moves at the state house amid saloon allegations and national figures debating liquor laws in New York.
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Staee
Atherton
State Journal
Ewing Herbert
Hiawatha World
Morrill
Herbert
Sesson
State House of Kansas
oTieRs
Sheik Nystett
The Silver Question in Money Value and Labor
A historical piece arguing that lawful money must be a working medium for all debts. It contends increasing money supply with silver or gold benefits labor and producers, while reducing money burdens debtors and crashing wages, and warns against demonetization harming business and credit. It critiques coalitions opposing silver coinage and claims fixed gold value benefits lenders at workers’ expense.
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Cleveland
Salvage and Scorn Across a Turbulent Era in Oklahoma
A compact analysis of social strife and political discontent surfaces through references to toiling wheat producers, enslaved labor, and coastal unrest. The piece critiques tax burdens, rail and utility controls, and the influence of liquor interests in Topeka politics, contrasting reformist rhetoric with entrenched redeemer-era cynicism.
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Carlisles
Ati
Press-Record
Oklahoma City
O. T
Reform rHe ss Nonconformist Letter on Cleveland and Finance
The Bouton Herald notes President Cleveland's letter has a true ring and suggests wider party turmoil over finance and the meat trust. It criticizes Populists, defends the current party, and warns of shifts as public discontent grows amid debates on currency and tariff.
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Bouton Herald
Cleveland
Meat Trust
Cleveland-Harrison
United States
Grover Cleveland
Goldites and political winds in 1896
A fragmentary 1896 editorial compares Clevelan and Harrison as a ticket, notes debates on gold standard and prohibition, cites remarks on wages, taxation, and party conflicts. Mentions Governor Morrill, Denmark elections, Madison city vote, and the sugar trust, with speculation on free silver and reform party aims.
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Clevelan and
Harrison
Star and Kansan
Sugar Trust
Madison
Wisconsin
Mortill
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Jeffersonian
Otter
Pete Kline
Topeka
Er Ie
Pullman
Pullman Car Company
Greshary Gresham
Gresham
Cet Naminte
Govexwean Sr
Joan
Senator Tulkman
New York
Sameab Agtiator
Amoument
DR. Delos Walstite
Ngab
May
Brooklyn
Republican League
Redeemers
Rurope
Lincoln
Denmark
Socialist-Labor Party
Copenhagen
Bick
Fayette County
Kentucky
Baltimore
John H. Vincent
Oid
Tauteneck
Weaver
The
National Watchman
Reform Party
Cain
Snys the
Kansas City Star
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Welda, Kansas
Lebroek Price
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