Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-31
NOTHING IN NAME.

Principles Count-A Question for Honest
Voters to Carefully Consider.
There are thousands of men in the North
west who have heretofore voted the Repub-
hcan ticket who know that the attitude Of
their party on the tax and tariff question is
immoral, vicious and destructive. They
know it because they are men Of intel-
hgence and of patriotism. They know II be-
cause they remember the time when their
party was pledged to no such monstrous
doctrines. They know it because self
interest has taught them that taxation can
not in the nature of things bring prosperity,
and because, having eyes to see, they wit
ness on all sides evidence that the CONNER
cial rings owe their existence to the great
tariff combine, the father of ali trusts, and
that the rapacity of the protected classes
threatens the very stability of free govern
ment.
In every Northwestern State there must
be twenty-five thousand intelligent and
patriotic Republicans who privately re-
pudiate the wicked doctrines switch, by a
singular fate, have been fastened upon
their party. What are they going to do
about iti Is the Republican party as at
present organized going their wayl Do tho
Blaines, the Ellxinses, the Phelphses, tho
Claytons, the Thurstons and the Depews
represent thema Is the railroad attorney,
the Union Pacific lobbyist, and the manipu-
tator of Eastern combines to speak here
after for the Republican party-for that
party whose boast was its patriotism, its
devotion to liberty and equality, and its adj
herence to the fundamental truths of free
government
These are questions, says the Chicago
Herald, which independent Republicans of
the Northwest must answer this year. It
Will not do for them to say that the Repub-
hcan party, which favors taxed clothing
and free whisky, which stands for subsidies
and trusts and reviles economy and hon.
esty, and which spits upon its Curtises
while it elevates its Elkinses, is the same
as that which once trod the paths of glory
and Of righteousness. 1t is not the same.
The name only remains. 1t has been sue
ceeded by an organization which is led by
malignants and by adventurers, by plum
derers and by spectators, by an arlstoc-
racy OF ill-gottem wealth striving by fair
means or foul to retain it's riches and still
further oppress the people.
Here in the West this contest is to be one
of classes-a hateful and an unnatural thing
in democracy, but one which the masses
have not invited. This class conflict has
been forced upon the West by the trans
portation rings, the iron rings, the glass
rings, the coal rings, the wool rings, the
salt rings, the lumber rings and the thou
sand other combines and trusts which, but
for the protective tariff, could have no ex-
istence in this country Self-preservation
demands prompt and united action by the
people of the West, They must renounce
the party which has sought to enslave
them. To reach the destiny which is theirs
by divine right; to preserve the legacies
bequeathed to them by the fathers, and to
remove the menace which now eonfronts
that system Of government which is the
hope of tyrant and monopoly-curscd earth
they must sink party to-day as the men of
1850 sank party.
Democracy was dear to the free-soilers I'm
New York Democracy was dear to the
Douglas men Of the North But above De-
mocracy was country. Republicanism may
be dear TO the men Of the Northwest TO-DAY:
tneY may cherish IT'S memories; they NAV
glory In It's trtdmphs. But above them ali
is country. This is the Nations hope tf,-dav
as IL ever has been when the cLonds low
ered darkest. To these men tha HeroId adj
dresses fseif-to the honest toilers of Iili-
hois, OF Iowa, OF Minnesota, of Wisconsin.
Oh michigan and Of IuGiana, the men who
neeo ciothiIg, who heed homes, who need
Ooois Cad machinery, all taxed in the inter-
Est OK monopoly-the most patient people
tnat the world has ever seen-a people
whose patriotic endurance has astonished
prlncipalities and powers-when it asks:
Is the Republican party Of Elkins and
Blaine, of free whisky and taxed blankets.
OF castle-in Scotland Carnegie and corn-for-
fuel Western farmer-is that party now go
ing your wayl