Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-04


GREAT BEND, KANSAS,
KANSAS TRAITOR.
The man who represents the Seventh
Congressional district in the congress OF
the United States, is a traitor to his
constituents. He took hold of their in
terssts IN the national legislature with
the promises OF maintaining them,
working Tor them, fighting for them.
How has he fulfilled that sacred trust?
At the 6ehest and bidding of Kelly and
McKinly, the paid agents OF the eastern
trusts, monopolies and combines, he
deliberately took those interests by
the throat and cut it from ear to ear.
When the time came for him to vote
FOR the true interests Of the dwellers in
sod huts, when the moment arrived for
him to obey the viii of his constituency
expressed by their immediate represen-
tative in the Kansas legislature, de-
manding the repeal of the lumber tax,
he preferred to obey the mandates Of
the hired agents OF giant corporations
and vampire trusts in the north and
east and vote to continue the burden.
What are the trials and hardships of
the pioneer OF western Kansas to Mr..
PetersP What cares he for the heart
aches and worries that beset the hard
working, honest farmer, living in his
upright, board shanty that cost him 20
per cent. more than it ought to, wherein
his blessed family is exposed to the
bitter blasts of Kansas blizzards in
winter, and to the scorching sweltering
rays Of a summers sun, that dry and
parch all that the chinch bug and grass
hopper have left Of a meagre crop?
What cares Mr.. Peters that this man
sells his scanty harvest at prices fixed
by free trade market and buys his
necessaries OF life in q market that
flches from him nearly so per cent. OF
those free trade prices under laws which
this congressman is voting to retainP
What cares this man Peters1how much
poorer this man becomes year by year
until the grinding usurous capitalist of
the east forecloses the mortgage upon
this now cheerless but sweet home, his
all on earth, and he walks forth again
apauper in purse, and broken in spirit?
And this traitor, this violator of sacred
obligations, comes out into this district,
in this city and has brazen effrontery,
the illimitable impudence to boast of his
vote against the Mills bill because it
was . democratic measure and because
his party forbids him to sustain any
OF relief TO the people coming
from democratic sources. A shame on
The manhood, the Independence of such
. man. Is he worthy to be called q
man at all? One who will stand up
before an intelligent people and say
that he cannot support a democratic
OF relief to an over-burdened
people because it was the demand of
his party leaders that it should not be
done, is not worthy the confidence of
an honest man, and all honest men
who love principle, honor and justice
above party dogmas and superstitions,
should forever damn himj and repudi-
ate him. Mr.. Peters speech was re-
markable for nothing except its length
and the number of words in it. It was
replete with audacious mendacity and !
illusions. 1t was the speech
Of a hypocrite, a demagogue, petit J
logger, and a man of weak and concil-
6ating intellect, whichi was swayed by
the glittering power of accumulated
and groveled in the dust in the
presence Of those near to the throne of |
wealth. |
His bitter attack on President Cleve-l
land showed the littleness of his soul
and the bent of his narrow nature. His |
that the most heinious of all |
The crimes committed by the president |
was the appointment of Hon. L. @. C. |
Lamar to the supreme bench, showed
his bitter partisan spirit and the Sec
tional hatred that permeates his whole
nature. He insulted the intelligence of
his audience and the people Of this dis
trict by thus appealing to their preju-
1ices instead of their intellectual ca
pacities. His speech was simply words,
words Of bitterness and hate, instead of
and craftsmanship. Oh, hon