Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-14

The Topeka correspondent of the
Kansas City Times, under date of the
sth inst, has an interesting letter OH
state politics, which we produce below:
During this week, drawn by the sit
tlngs of the supreme court, etc, a num-
Der of prominent citizens of the second
district, including both democrats and
greenbackers, have been visiting this
city, among whom The result of the re-
cent congressional election has been the
chief topic of conversation.
While expressions OF regret over the
unexpected defeat of Mr.. s. A. Riggs
have been universal, it is exceedingly
gratifying to know that, not only is
there no disposition on the part of lead
ing men of either element to indulge in
any elimination of the other, but with
one ard all with whom the Times rep
resentative has cOnversed the DISPOSE
ton has been, accepting the defeat of
the gallant Riggs philosophically, ITO
pick the flint, and Try again, in no wise
dismayed, or proposing to give up the
fight against the republican party, fort
fled by quarter of century of abso-
lutte rule in Kansas.
In the judgment Of all with whom the
writer has conversed, whether represen-
tative democrats or greenbackers, who
are animated by the common desire to
see the party Of corporations and cor
ruption hurled from power, the one
moral to be drawn from the untOward
disaster of cOllition i'm the second dis
trict is that in the coming campaign Of
1884 the democrats must work under the
name of democracy
Garry the name and the flag of the
opposition in this state, trusting to
the straightforwardness and sinceri-
ty of its advocacy of the right and inter-
ests Of the people for success. This, say
these earnest greenback advocates of
Mr.. Riggs in the recent campaign, is
not only abundantly demonstrated by
the result in the second district. it being
susceptible of proof that Mr.. Acers, or
any candidate of straight democratic
convention would have been stronger
by thousands of votes than was the can
didate of the coalition movement but
the democratic party, which has a ma
jorIty in the present house, and the gov
ernors to-day, of twenty-seven of the
thirty-eight states of the Union, and
which, moreover, is well nigh certain to
elect the next president of the United
States, is entitled to preserve IN this
manner its party identity.
This is reasonable. To ask the con-
trary would be manifestly unjust. All
that greenbackers or revenue reformers,
who desire the overthrow of the repub-
lican party, can in fairness ask at the
hands of the democracy, say these gen.
tlemen, is that their principles shall be
enunciated, clearly and distinctly, in
the democratic platform. About this
there can be no difficulty, as upon the
railroad and land questions, and many
OF the vital issues of the day the princi-
pies OF the two parties are substantially
identical, and will be laid down in the
most emphatic manner in the platform
OF the next democratic state convention.
Upon such platform representative
greenbackers believe the great body of
their party would work In accord with
the democrats in the next campaign, as
the sensible way of seeking to dislodge
the corrupt republican party, and of
stamping their views upon the country.
The course of Governor Click in
demanding railroad legislation, and
in standing by State Agent Crawford in
his work before the interior department
and congress in the restoration of for
feited railroad lands to the public do
main, will have a decided tendency in
bringing about this sentiment, which.
from the present look of things, is like
ly to receive a powerful impetus from
one wing Of the republican party. espe-
cially in the central and western part of
the state.
There are two issues before the voters
OF Kansas that they understand, and
upon both Of which they intend to vote
next fall. One is the prohibition issue
and the other is the railroad question.
and both are likely to prove serious
thorns in the republican flesh in the
coming state campaign.