Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-18

We are anxious, as far as possible. to
keep our readers posted on presidential
talk, and while it is no small undertak-
ing, we will manage to do it.
The democrats in congress are badly
DIVIDED among themselves on the tariff
question, and it does appear that they
may do their party serious injury this
year. The Carlisle Morrison faction are
demanding reduction of tariff equal
nearly to free trade at once. Randall
and his followers, principally eastern
men, are more conservative, and are
about as near protectionists as the
other side are free traders. There is a
wonderful amount of bad blood aroused
and with such hot headed advisors as
Henry Watterson, of the Courier-Jo
nal, the free-trade element is likely to
be very stubborn until after the Chicago
convention. That convention will not
be held until July, and between now
and then, more than two months, there
may satisfactory compromise be made.
We hope so.
Since there appears no probability of
Mr.. Tilden accepting the nomination,
and since Mr.. Payne has declined, and
Mr.. Flower Is not considered q big
enough man, and Morrison and Carlisle
do not come from the right section of
country to command the eastern votes,
there has suddenly been Randall boom
started. His own state, PENNSYLVANIA
has declared for him, and others have
indicated that they will follow.
One of the leading members Of con-
gress from Missouri is Jas. N. Burns, of
st. Joseph. He is a man who generally
manages to be on the inside" He is
the proprietor of the st. Joseph. Mo-,
Gazette, and he has employed as its ed
itor Maj. John n. Edwards. In late
issue the Gazette spoke out on the Ran
dali boom in eloquent though plain
terms. That paper is published in the
west, too; edited by an ex-confederate
major, and therefore his words may be
an indication of what other western pa
pers and politicians willdo. Following
Is the article in question
with great enthusiasm, and with a
unanimity that was not marred by a
single selfish or insidious manifestation.
the state democratic convention of
Pennsylvania instructed for Randall for
president. 1t might have gone further
and Jared much worse. An ADLER. clean
er, purer, or more devoted democrat
does not live. He has been twenty
five years in the public service, and he
10 30 poor that the strictest frugality
with him is a matter of necessity.
Through every storm, crisis, and period
Of demoraliZation-wh many demo-
Gratis, passion-smitten, wandered into
forbidden paths-Randall held fast to
the constitution. When it was darkest
for his party, and when in the night
and the tempest the timid only spoke in
whispers, Randall's voice rang out like
the clarion which summons to battle.
When radicalism was master of the
country, with procousuls everywhere.
the law was dead, the jack boot in place
OF the legislature and the camp kettles
Of the Janizaries transported from Con-
stantinople to Washington City, Ran
dali fought the whole banded oligarchy
Of bayonets, with every resource known
to parliamentary war, and with the
calm, cool audacity Of tho born leader
who 10 inccuuptable. Victor in some
memorable battles fought In their be-
half, the people Of the south owe Ran.
dan debt Of gratitude which they
could not repay even II to-day they had
the power and would exercise IL to make
him president Of the United States.
II Is fashionable, we know, to sheer
a. Randall IN Misscuri. and speak much