Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
Kansas Politics.

affairs and his letters are always of il,
terest In his last he has the FOLLOWING
to say of Kansas politics:
The democratic tickets are in the f;eld
in nearly all the counties in the STATE
The democracy have lighted the camn
fires on the hill tops and in the valleys
They have shown not little of the
old time Jacksonian fire and spirit
They act as if they believed victory is
attainable. As the issues are local and
there is no general state ticket the par-
| ty has very properly refrained from
treating national issues at any length
But that. the democracy has fairly met
the local state issues no one can deny.
as the prohibition question and the en-
/ fOrcement of the law made in pursuance
of the amendment form the Onlyspoints
of variance between the parties i'm this
state, the democratic party has boldly
and fairly taken a position, and it is
against the amendment, against prohi-
bition and all its works. There is no
dallying, no hesitation or equivation.
The democratic position is easily un-
derstood. The republicans have been
slow to hold their. conventions, and but
few counties have made any declaration
on the question. But this must not be
taken as an assurance that the partv
will next year thus hedge and cowardly
seek to dodge the same. Not a bit of it.
There will be power" of missionary
work done between this time and the
holding of the state convention next
fall. When the state convention gives
forth its utterances the counties will fall
into line.
The republican state convention will
be as largely prohibition as was the
convention that nominated st. John,
about four to one. No new ground will
be taken, simply areaffirmation and rat
ificatiOn of the principles enumerated
in the platform last year. The party
cannot take any other course if it wish
es TO. Grant that it will lose one-fOurth
of its votes if does this, it will lose
nearly three-fourths of its votes if it
does not doit. And after the cOnven-
ton the great fight will be for the legis-
lature. The fiercest'contest will not be
for the governorship. Most any good,
sound, radical fellow with backbone
will satisfy the party, for he will be
placed upon platform that will inter-
pref itself and not ''falter in a double
sense" Colonel ID. r. Anthony could
easilyihave had the nomination if he
had dared to do what the Anthonys us
ually dare to do. But alas! the GOd-like
Daniel has sadly lowered the proud es-
cutcheon once carried by the Anthonys.
The heraldic fame and glory of the
house has, / fear, departed. Susan B.
Anthony would not have done this.
She nobly stands by principle, and veri-
ly she has received her reward She
did not have to wait for prosperity, but
in her own time ranks as one of the
bravest, noblest and best of American
women, and all because she stood
squarely by principle at all times. Years
ago l said in gubeTnatorial message
to the third house: Behold Susan b.
Anthony; the noblest Anthony of them
all" and so she is. What man in the
United States would not prefer her
fame to that ID. r. Br Geo. T.? Col
onel ID. r. is one of the not few who
would like to be governor of Kansas;
but he has sinned away.his day. grace
His badness in the last campaign, his
failure to support the platform, his luke
warm support of the ticket, his rejOic-
ing at the defeat of st. John, his cynic-
ism and ridicule of prohibition have
sealed his fate. lie Is claSsed among
the enemies of law and order, of tenn
perance, and is placed high on the roll
of the nti-prohibitionists. He and the
other kickers, whether they he the high,
bold, cavOrting, mOOn-strikers, star-hit-
ting kickers, like Tomlinson and Geo.
Martin, or the milder Eand better sort,
like the wicked Bent Murdoch and An
thony ct al, will be allowed to come
back into the party. In fact, they will
be welcomed; their return will be hail
ed with delight; small steer will be
killed, but they can hardly expect more
than a shank from the soup bowl. The
tender and juicy parts of the roast will
be reserved for the old standbys.
They will not be allowed to feel too
gluttonous, and any attempt to destroy
crockery or upset the mahogany will re-
ceive condign punishment and summa-
~ elections from the house. The old
man means BUSINESS this time.
Colonel: John 4. Martin has long
looked to the gubernatorial chair with
longing eyes; but he came mighty near
SHINING away his day of grace last year.
Yet it is barely possible that he will be
plucked as brand from the burning
and consuming flames of prohibition.
Thacher should have staid in Europe
longer and employed expert builders of
his fences. But, with the state ticket
in the field, the great fight will be made
for the legislature, for the special pIr-
pose. First, to make sure of legislation
that will make prohibition prohibit;
secondly, to clean out Ingalls, and keep
John y. Anderson from going to the
senate. There is no question that the
prohibition element is intensely hostile
to both ingalls, and Anderson; to the
former because he is conscientiously
opposed to prohibition; TO the latter be-
cause he has never raised hand to IA
yOr 1T, that intellectually he does not be-
lleve this method the best one to secure
the triumph of practical temperance,
though undoubtedly prohibition COM
mends itself to EAnderson's conscience
and he would rejoice to see the law en-
forced and prohibition policy in effect
that would prohibit. 1t is expected
that the legislature will he largely pro-
hlbition, and in that event the election
OF prohibition u. S. senator NAV be
ciassed foremost among the probabili-