Kansas Legislature and Campaign Rhetoric In 1890
The Tae Gazette copy notes July 31 1890 communications address and Kansas political scene. It mentions Kansan delegation voting against a package bill and Funston linked to Bourbon County rumors. Democratic campaign frames prohibition and protection, while a W. W. Apaire Harper article on Haskell Institute is hinted. It also critiques Lodge federal election bill and federal control of elections.
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Tae Gazette
Journal Building
South
Lodge
Farmers' Alliance Grows Stronger Against City Woes
The Yr Farmers' Alliance remains a formidable force among the laboring classes and shows no sign of disintegration. The Wyandotte Herald targets the city council, accusing it of plans to financially wreck Lawrence. The public questions reciprocity versus free trade, influenced by Blaine and others, with thousands set to vote accordingly this fall.
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Yr Farmers’ Alliance
Wyandotte Herald
City of
Lawrence On
Political Gambit and Rhetoric Span from House to Wyandotte
The passage recounts reactions to a House debacle over free ore promises, notes Billy Buchan rushing to Wyandotte, and critiques Nebraska Republicans and their stance on prohibition. It highlights perceived political maneuvering, figures like Fusstox and Ingalls, and tensions with farmers and civil rights issues.
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Funston Air
Billy Buchan
Wyandotte
The Candidate Factory in Kansas Politics
The Gazette decries a long standing Kansas and Douglas County political machine terming it a candidate factory. It denounces liquor aided reform rifts, urges Republican reform, predicts its downfall this fall, and laments hypocrisy in state and national party leadership. It calls for disaffected Republicans to unite with reform-minded minority groups to end the cycle of manipulation.
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Douglas County
Tue Gazette
Tie
Gaazette
State of Kansas
Topeka
Republican Party
Kansas
Prohibition
Democratic Party
Yaller
Salina
Pension Debates Highlight Public Revenue Burden
The New York Tribune urges halting pension bills as harmful to government finances arguing that a population of 12 million will not tolerate higher taxes to fund pensions. The New York World notes current revenues are stretched by 167 million in pension costs, comparing it to war debt and calling the administration paternal and state funding bloated.
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The
New York Tribune
New York World
Tribune
Commissioner of Pensions
Green B. Raum
Raum
Nebraska Pension Bill Sparks Rhetoric Over Freed Slaves
The piece attacks a proposed pension bill for freed slaves, labeling it a political ploy to win black votes and estimating first-year costs near eight hundred million dollars. It cites county attorney powers under a prohibitory law, a Sed an case, and Kansas black voters pressuring Republicans, while contrasting prohibition poetry with practical liquor policy.
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Committee On Invalid Pensions
Nebraska
Masked Kansas Republican Hypocrite Exposed as Rev Campbell
A Kansas City incident last week reveals Rev A B Campbell once a temperance advocate and Republican organizer seen drinking and visiting saloons after a police raid. The piece labels him a hypocrite, tying him to prohibitionist politics and past campaigns, likening him to a similar Junction City figure.
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Kansas
A.B. Campbell
State Temperance Union
Prohibition
Penitentiary
Kansas City
Humbug
General Campbell
Philip Krohn
Junction City
Atchison
Campbell
Rush of Imports Stalls Trade Amid Tariff Uncertainty
The tariff bill uncertainty slows new orders as buyers hesitate at old prices while importers seek assurances they can enter goods before duties rise. Spring orders postponed, European buyers await clarity, and some goods already imported sit at higher prices. Imports remain large despite lower consumption, boosted by the McKinley bill prospects.
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New York
Europe
New York Commercial Bulletin
McKinley Tariff Fight Sparks Importer Debate
The piece argues that Major McKinley’s import restriction plan targets importers as foes of American consumers. It questions the motive behind rushing goods under duties and questions who bears the tax, noting importers act to meet American demand and suggesting tariff rhetoric misleads the public.
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Maj
McKinley
America
Wool Trade in Decline Spurs Free Wool Debate
The textile sector faces depression as high McKinley wool duties threaten manufacturers. Reports show Dover Maine’s Brown Manufacturing on half time, Beacon Falls Connecticut’s Standard Woolen planning to wind down, and Keene New Hampshire’s Faulkner Colony and Harriaville Cheshire Mills pausing operations. Other mills idle or auctioned include Rhode Island shipments and Philadelphia plants. Proponents argue free wool would lift domestic wools by enabling world market access, boosting demand, machinery use, and steady prices, while Ohio wool growers oppose repeal.
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New York
Brown Manufacturing Company
Dover
Standard Woolen Company
Beacon Falls
Conn
Faulkner Colony Manufacturing Company
Keene, N. H
Cheshire Mills Company
Harriaville
Rhodes & Brothers
Ashton
N. J
Llewellyn
Collins
Gilsumn
N. H
Angora
Hoffman
West Philadelphia
Hutchinson, Ogden & Co
Frederick Brown
Philadelphia
Army Manufacturing Company
Powers & Weightman
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Senate
America
Ohio
Delano
Lawrence
Harpster
Galveston
Tex
Mississippi
Wool tariffs drive wool growers to slaughter ewes for mutton
The article argues high wool duties under McKinley fail to sustain prices. Wool prices have fallen since 1867, and with protection not lifting them, wool producers slaughter ewes for meat to reduce losses. The piece labels this a warning for political leaders and notes continued calls for higher protection.
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McKinley
New York
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Wants In Endorses McKinley Bill Debate
The Pennsylvania Republican state convention endorsed the McKinley bill as passed by the house, which lowered steel rail duty to 11.4 and later to 11.20 per ton in the senate. Rail manufacturers complain of injury while arguing for protection, claiming a shared equality of opportunity but seeking to keep duties. They warn that cheaper rails abroad and inland freight costs could ruin domestic producers.
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Pennsylvania
House
Penmsylvania
Senate
England
Ben Butterworth
Washington
Pittsburg
Chicago
Senate tariff resolution rattles on as empty critique
The senators promise light on tariff changes but deliver a perfunctory report. They offer vague phrases and lump multiple duties under one line note, then dismiss specifics with "The same as preceding." The piece questions sincerity and accuses some of pulling wool over farmers eyes.
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Plumb
Senate Finance Committee
McKinley
North Carolina
Butterworth's valiant talk on tariff and McKinley bill
The piece portrays Maj Benjamin Butterworth as a vigorous speaker who, after losing his vote against the McKinley tariff, questions the party's situation and complains the tariff remains unrevised with no hopeful prospect from the senate. He attacks the farmer tariff linking many listed goods to duties and ends mid-sentence.
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Ben Butterworth
Senate
Benjamin Butterworth
Butterworth’s Impassioned Stand Against Tariffs
The speaker condemns high tariff laws for injuring prosperity and making the common people servants of a few. He argues for removing trade barriers to regain access to western markets and laments caucus suppression of Butterworth's vigorous rhetoric.
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Butterworth
America
Ingalls Pension Push Draws Fire Over Voter Rights
A critical column accuses Senator John J. Ingalls of demagoguery and opportunism in pushing broad service pensions to secure votes. The piece argues pensions would burden taxpayers, boosting northern and southern political power while ignoring nonwar veterans, with strong language about fiscal consequences and party motives.
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Ingalls
John J. Ingalls
Atlanta Constitution
Kansas
Kite
South
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