Show I Bleedinc Kansas It is not strange that the attitude of the state of Kansas in politics should attract such general attention Her whole political polit-ical history has been unique It was Kansas Kan-sas that precipitated the secession war that gave to the world that apotheosized negrostealer horsethief and murderer JOHN BROWN that was the pet and pro toge of BEECHER GERRETT SMITH WENDELL WEN-DELL PHILIPS LLOYD GARRISON GIDDINOS and other underground railroad scalpers As late as 1SSS she raced with Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania for the prize of giving the largest Republican majority for president and won Two years ago she knocked INGALLS off his pedestal and now it is an even bot that HARRISON cannot carry her electoral vote Again sbe is Bleeding Kansas buther red wounds are not on account of i the poor black Up to the introduction of tho McKINLEY tariff act Kansas got her politics where she once got her SHARPES rifles But eastern politics on the Republican side means low prices for corn eastern railroad proprietorship eastern mortgages gold money and high interest Last year the people didno have to burn their grain because be-cause famine in Europe made a market for it but they are no more in love on that account ac-count than they were before with the policy that forces them to contribute to the bursting coffers of the protectionists Kansas being a western state finds itself longing for B western policy She needs it moro perhaps than any other commonwealth in the Union for she has no great railroad centers no forests no large manufacturing bhe is a typical agricultural state and must secure its welfare wel-fare in the prosperity of that great but long oppressed Interest She requires cheap farming impJiments cheap tools cheap lumber cheap fencing wire cheap tinware cheapleather goods cheap clothing cloth-ing ch ap blankets cheap crockery and glassware with every other article of her J 5 necessity and comfort cheap The people donot see in the policy of the Republican party any relief for their hard condition They smashed INQALLS because he adhered to the Massachusetts principle of protection protec-tion and they will smash the HARRISON eleotoral ticket as sure as the sun rises five weeks from today |