Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-10-20
for Hoover for repreSe NATIVE.
HYPOCRASY OF KANSAS RE.
PUBLICA NISJC

understood object of stealing the thun-
der of its opponents and OF defeating
the objects of the very things asked for.
When the granger party came for
ward and demanded reform, the Repub-
lican party came forward and made de-
mands equally as strong, and at the
same time the leaders of the party
laughed and joked each other over the
smartness Of their schemes to hood
wink and deceive the people.
When the temperance question was
brought to the front republican state
convention adopted a plank favOrlng
prohibition and then in the language of
Col. Carpenter, a member of the con-
ventiOn, nominated drunkard for the
head of the ticket.
When the greenback question came
up the republican conventions adopted
greenback platforms and then repudi-
ated them as soon as the danger was
over.
When the silver question came up
the republicans adopted free coinage
plank and Mr.. Martin, then candidate
for governor, endorsed 1T and pledged
himself to it, yet after he had failed TO
get nomination he turned against the
men who believed as he pretended to be
lieve and heaped abuse and insult upon
them.
The navigation of the Arkansas river
was made the eleetiOneering scheme of
one campaign in this part of the state,
but when they had elected a congress-
man upon the issue the subject was
dropped never to be revived again.
The question Of controlling the rail-
roads received the attention of that
party, yet the buncombe resolutions,
buncombe laws and buncombe commits
siOns of that party have only had the
effect 10 secure the railroads in their
plans of eXtortion and discrimination.
The same laws administered By party
not in sympathy with the monOpolists
might prove more effective and more
beneficial, but so long as the republi-
can party is allowed to place itself be-
tween the people and their interests, all
| such laws will prove to be dead letters.
When the prohibition question was
brought stroDgley into politics the re-
publican party promised everything.
yet threw everything in the way to pre-
vent the law from proving a success.
The straddling policy Of that party on
that question has been so plain and no
tOrlOuS as To disgust every true temper
ance man in the state. Prohibition TO
the republican party was only another
easily-managed scheme for making IT.
publican votes. 1t was and is i'm their
| hands threat held over the heads of
the liquor men, compelling them to
give AID TO the republican party. and a
bride to the prohlbitiOnists, promising
everything and doing little or nothing.
The republican party asked for the
opening OF Oklahoma, yet the leaders
OF that party in this state have fatten-
ed their herds off those lands and intro
duced bills in congress for the object If
binding and deceiving the peOple-bills
that they never intended to accomplish
anything. Republican candidates for
congress have used this question as a
hobby on which to catch votes. Samu-
el the servant Of monopoly for four
years IN congress. is again aStride of
the old Oklahoma horse and asks God
to hasten the day when the work NAV
be done that he has neglected to do.
When laboring men organized and
demanded recognition the republican
party was ready with the resolutions.
Out also ready with the machinery of
state government to see that none of
labor's demands were acceded to. The
republican party of Kansas is a friend
and instrument of monopoly and never
inf MI wn-s1 IL L..
mo matter how much it may promise)
TO help the laborer.
When the question of forfeiting un-
earne railroad land grants was agitat-
ing the people the republican pOliti-
tons and republican legislatures pass
edresoiutiOns, but republican congress
men and republican u. s. senators
fere on hand to see that nothing eff
ective was done. The only one of the
Kansas delegation who was true to bis
| pledges is the one In the fifth district
who came home to find that his servi-
ces were no longer wanted by the lead
ers OF the republican party. Mr.. Peters
found no opposition from the railroads
nor from his party managers. lie ex-
actly suits them, but does he suit the
people
The republicans were the professed
friends of the negro, but now, they
have turned their backs on him and. in
the language OF the republican papers
he is a "nigger," a coon" and z
skunk because he dares to assert
his independence and vote and run fol
Office in party other than the one thai
has always bought and sold him in hi.
own market.
There has not been a single question
in Kansas politics during the past tel
or twelve years in which the people
were interested, but what the republi
cans have taken high moral ground:
upon it and then betrayed the interest.
of the people at the first opportunity
No wonder then that the people ar,
tired of the treacherOus old institu
ton aud are DESERVING her. She viii
60 down with the weight Of her owl
rottennesS.