Nobody knows if Adam Hamilton will win in Kansas. But he’s already defined a populism of decency.

By: Max McCoy

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 27, 2026

Words: 2,086

Last Updated: 3 weeks ago

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At 7:30 on a September night in 1897, two trains collided on the Santa Fe railway about three miles northeast of Emporia.

An eastbound mail train smashed into the Mexico and California Express, a passenger train pulled by a pair of steam locomotives. The express, which had seven or eight full coaches, was on its way back from Burlingame, some 40 miles away, where evangelical populist William Jennings Bryan had delivered a speech to “nine …

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