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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-22
CONGRESSIONAL PLATFORM.

1.-THE democrats of the seventh conRression-
al district of Kansas in convention assembled,
recognizing our responsibility To- the people
as the source and ultimate responsibility of all
political power, heartily endorse the present
democratic administration as power for re-
form and progress, rs the exemplificatiOn of
the true principles of the peoples govern
ment, as the purifier of the disease and cor
ruption inflicted by the republican party upon
us i'm the past Us real and insurmOuntable
barrier TO the dangerous course of trusts and
monopoles so long under the protection of the
republican party To the spirit of Capitalization
fOstered by the party as if they were the Bona
partists of America.
ave heartily endorse the nomination of the
st. Louis convention and accord to Cleveland
and Thurman the banner that will lead the
democratic hosts to victory not only because
their past services make them statesmen of
the highest type OF the day. but because they
represent the peoples wishes In throwing of
the yoke OF taxation, because they are arrayed
in the might of right against all evils of a gov
Grnment Tor a few.
I'VE believe i'm the reduction of the tariff as
announced in our presidents message and the
Mills bill and we rest not in our belief until we
have shown the agricultural state of Kansas
how they are unprotected 10y their gods of pro-
lection and how they buy their clothes
with two bushels of wheat instead of one.
That especially the seventh congressional dis
trict OF Kansas IS not a manufacturing dis
trict, asking for the enrichment of certain
nanufacturers. but a farming district praying
for lOw-priced necessities of life That the corr
munity i'm its smallest branches may know pros
pcrity but we do not pose as the enemy of whis-
ky on the right hand and beg for free whisky
on the left hand. The former j. the idol of the
republican party of Kansas. hile the latter is
The idol Of the republican parry OF the United
states.
I'VE are i'm favor of the repeal Of all laws
that confer upon private corporations the
privilege " issuing currency based upon the
credit OF the government and The substitution
OF grecnbacks receivable for All dues TO the
government in the place of national bank cur
rency. Inc volume of currency to be rezula-
ted by congress in the interest of the people
and SO as 10 promote tho business of the coIn-
try.
We endorse thv action OF the state conven-
ton at LcaVcnworth. ana the strong ticket
there placed before the people as a manly,
honest and unequiyOcal expression OF demo
cratic principle and harmonious effort TO
bring happiness TO the household # every Cit
izen, black or white. rich or poor"
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Party Delusinns

1t is peculiar theory Of dyed-in-the-wool
Republicans that the Republican party is
lnstlnctively the party of reform Notwith-
standing its reactionary policy, it's obsolete
issues, its repeated failure to meet existing
situations, they look to 1t with a beautiful
and unfailing hope. Believing that it masses
the intelligent and advanced opinion of the
country, thousands of Republicans, blind to
its acts, regard it as tho only agency by
which the reforms they desire can be Sc
cured. By Civil-Service reform Republic
ans it is believed to be the sole hope of Civil
Service reform. By tariff-reform Republic
ans it is thought to be the only hope of
tariff reform. So powerful is party attach
ment that these men refuse to Judge the
party by its acts, and rely upon its supposi-
ttious superior patriotism and good sense
eventually to bring about the reforms re-
quired. If, they say, reforms are to be
made, the Republican party is the one to
make them.
1t is q curious and delusive idea. A DO
htical party is not the same yesterday, to-
day and forever, and the Republican party
OF to-day is no more the party of 1860, upon
which such hopes are built, than Jim Blaine
is Abraham Lincoln and Steve Elkins is
Salmon +. Chase. As an effective political
agency, says the Chicago Herald, the Repub-
ican party is what 1t is to-day, not what it
was quarter of a century ago. 1t by no
means monopolizes the intelligence and
patriotism of the country, and it is to be
judged alone by its present acts and aims,
by its platform declarations and candidates.
Looking at the Republican party as it is,
what have reform Republicans got to hope
for within itl 1t insulted civil-service re-
formers by following up a satisfactory
declaration on the reform with the nomina-
tion OF Blaine Instead Of moving forward
in the direction Of tariff reform, as Repub-
hcan tariff reformers have hoped. it has re-
treated in the opposite direction. Its plat
form is wholly reactionary. 1t is a COM
plete repudiation of the advanced position
of Its platforms of 1880 and 1884 and of the
recommendations Of its own tariff commits
sion Of 1882. 1t is most insolent rebuke of
the tariff reformers Of the party The lat
ter may vote for the ticket with the certain
ty that party success at the polls, instead of
promoting the reform, will be seized upon
as vindication Of its protection policy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-22

This computation shows the farms of thir-
teen Western States mortgaged for 81 ,43O,-
OOO,OOO fourteen hundred and thirty mill
ion dollars). 1t does not include State
debts, railroad property in these States
mortgaged to the Eastern favored class, or
any thing except farm mortgages.
AS these mortgages are foreclosed and
the small farmer evicted, the land passes
more and more into the hands of the trust
and loan companies which put out at usury
the surplus money of the favored class.
Buying every thing he uses in q cornered
market, selling every thing he sells at free
trade prices, the Western farmer has moth
ing before him under this policy except
ruin, followed by eviction; or else the no.
sltion OF tenant or hired man on the i'm
mense farms that will be managed bv in
corporated syndicates under the new sys-
teIs OF agriculture that must take the plac.
OF the old when embargo taxation for mo-
nopoly shall have done its perfect work.
The farmer is flouted by the Republican
party when he asks relief. The Chicago
convention was willing that "the tax should
be abated on tobacco and whisky, as the
same men were that it should be on bank
stock, bank deposits. incomes from United
States bonds, perfumery, playing cards,
ETC." but 1t proposes still higher taxation
"on the shoes, the blankets, the clothing.
the plowshares and on all other neces-
saries Of ife.n
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MR. BLAINE on L0W 7,ARLFEs.
lBlaine's 'sTwenty Years i'm Congress. n

1NtulN III IOuEfcSS-
The tariff Of 1876 tCds yielding abundant
erenue, and The business Of the country
lcds IN a JiOuriS'ting condition. Money be-
came very abundant after tie year 1919;
large enterprises ,Cere undertaken. specuIa-
toI trds preudlent. and, for considerable
period, the prosperity Of the country Seas
general and apparently genuine. after
1859 the democrats had almost undisputed
control Of the government, and had grad
Udily become the free trade party. The
principles iRrolued in the tariff or 1876
seemed for the time 10 be so entirely rindi-
Gated and GDproued that resistance to it
ceased, not only among the people, but
among the proteotive economists, and eueR
among dIe manufacturers TO large extent.
So general ,cas this acqHiesence that in
1856 dprOttctire tariff ,Cas MT suggested or
eren hinled at by any one Of the three par
ties schich presented presidential candi-
dotes. IL iDas not surprising, therefore.
that in 1857 the duties mere placed lorer
than they had been since 1919.
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READY TO RETREAT.
The Republicans Showing a Change of
Front After tho Battle Has Begun.

The Republicans Showing a Change of
Front After tho Battle Has Begun.
The Republican platform, written by Nc
Kinley, of Ohio, who has supplanted Reed,
OF Maine, as the leader of the Republicans
In the House, denounced every attempt to
revise the tariff, insisted that it should be
surrendered, demanded, instead of reduced
duties, higher duties, to ''check imports"
and concluded with a promise of free
whisky. The platform has startled the
country. Republican newspapers like the
Commercial AdUertiser of New York, and the
Providence Journal, repudiate the platform.
The Christian Union, religious journal
edited by Mr.. Beecher's successor de-
nounces 1t. DIR. Storrs, Republican and
the most eloquent orator of BROOKLYN. saws
that 1t VIII be impossible for him to support
1t, and the reports from the people are so
alarming that Cannon and Dingley in the
House sought to change front and substitute
free sugar for free whisky.
Never before in the history of political
parties in America, says the Louisville
Courfer-Joa17adl, has platform been so en-
tlrely abandoned in the first month of the
campaign.
The Republicans in the Senate, recogniz-
ing the utter defeat of their party in the
House, are preparing new line of battle
and are ordering up their reserves The
Press, of Philadelphia, acknowledging that
the Mills bill will certainly pass the House.
says:
THE charge that the Republican party
opposes reduction of taxation and rsyenue
needed no refutation at any time, but II is
now likely to be most forcibly met when
the Mills bill goes into the Senate. The Re-
publicans of that body, realizing the insin-
cerlty OF the Democrats, promise measure
which shall at once provide for the reduc-
ton OF revenues to such extent as to pre-
vent any dangerous accumulation of surnIus
ana not menace either the industries or la
Dor OF the country. Republican statesman
ship has done this in former years. and II
Will make no mistake now if it proceeds on
the line OF the Republican National plat
form'' P-o'-
ms Is strange language from a Rennb-
mean organ which processes to indorse the
Cmeago platform. 1t is utterly Inconsistent
with the policy maintained in the House hv
mckinley and Reed. They have been OBJ
structionlsts throughout; they have refused
70 oner any substitute for the Mills bill:
they have declared the existing tariff good
enough for them, and as a measure of tax
reduction propose free whisky.
Now. seeing popular condemnation writ
ten everywhere, they "promise u a meas
ure which shall provide for q reduction OF
revenue,' - etc, etc.
This Is progress; this shows the power of
public sentiment. II is a change of front
after the battle has begun. Force the fight
ing all along the line
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-22

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS body servant while
ne was President was Barney Norris, a
Virginia negro, who lately died at Galena.
Ill, at an advanced age. When a boy he
was slave in Commodore Stephen De-
catur's family, and was present at the
duelling ground at Bladensburg when his
master was killed by Commodore Barron.
GILES WILLIAMS, Wall street broker of
note, who died a short time ago, bought q
square of ground years ago in the center of
Chicago. 1t cost him six hundred dollars.
He sold it for forty thousand dollars, and
he was exceedingly proud of the bargain
he drove. Chicago tax-lists show that the
same property is worth eighteen million
dollars now
LEONARD w. VALE, the Chicago sculptor,
says that once when taking plaster cast
OF President Lincoln's hands he discovered
scaron the left thumb. Noticing that il
mad attracted his attention the President
said: "You have heard me called a rail-
splitter; well, one day while sharpening a
wedge on log the axe slipped of and
nearly took the end of my thumb of. That's
the scarf
GENERAL CROOK, the famous Indian fight
er, stands six feet in his stockings, and is
as straight as an arrow. He has been
thlrty-six years in the service, and knows
LlS DuSineSS JnOrOugnly. Wnen on the
war-path General Crook wears an old can
vas suit said TO be worth $1.25. He rides at
the head OF his column on a mule, with
rifle across his arm. He is devoted
hunter and fisherman, and it is said that he
would go thousand miles to shoot bear.
MANY Americans are familiar with the
history of Father Damien, the heroic young
Belgian priest, who in 1873 voluntarily took
up his abode in the Island of Molokai,
whittier lepers are taken from the Hawaiian
Islands. He has since labored to tighten
the brief earthly lot to the wretched out
casts. After thirteen years almost miracu-
lous immunity Father Damien was seized
by the deadly disease, and now it seems as
though death will soon end his sufferings.
He continues, however, TO minister to tho
spiritual and temporal wants Of the poor
lepers, assisted by Father Joseph, another
devoted priest, who joined him in 1886
SENATOR EvART's favorite amusement
rests in his feet rather than in his hands,
and he winds his long legs in and out like
the india-rubber man of the circus. He is
said to be able TO twist one leg around the
the floor, and this is his favorite attitude
while listening TO good story, or thinking
OF an after-dinner speech. Evarts is one OF
the best after-dinner speakers in Congress,
and he Is one of the best story-tellers. He
rarely remains In his seat for any length of
time, and slides about through the Senate
chairs from one brother Senator to the
other, giving q word Of wisdom here and q
witty repatee there, and carrying good
nature with bum wherever he goes,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-22
FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE.
The Boilers of Four Years Ago from the
Republican Ranks Still See No Good Rea-
son Why They Should Return.

Republican Ranks Still See No Good Rea-
son Why They Should Return.
Four years ago this summer we were in
the very heat of the most turbulent political
contest the country has ever known The
excitement of the Presidential campaign
reached all classes of our citizens. 1t was
not thoughtful civic discussion; it was
hot and angry fight that arrayed neighbor
against neighbor, friend against friend,
kinsman against kinsman. The cause of
this excitement was unique in our history
1t was the detection from the ranks OF the
greater of our two great political parties of
a number Of voters who refused to support
the party's candidate on the ground that he
was personally unfit for the high Office he
sought, having been unfaithful to his public
trust In lower place. This was practically
the one reason for the detection. The
"bolters" were not at variance with their
party in matters of political opinion-at
least not to such an extent as to incline
them to separate from it. They opposed
the candidate simply and solely because he
had been a dishonorable official, and they
held him unworthy of the greatest honor in
the gift Of the people.
The detection, says Puck, and the subse-
quent determination Of the boilers to sup
port the candidate of the opposition party
awakened most violent political storm.
1t was detection made solely and entirely
for conscience's sake, not in any hope Of
material benefit; but if 1t been treachery
bought with coin, it could not have been
more vehemently denounced by the parent
party. The cause of this bitterness was
obvious enough. The party had been in its
earlier days party Of principle Its found
ers were men who stood up for the right
against an arrogant and selfish majority,
corrupted by specious doctrines and moral
ly blinded by too long tenure of power. A
party thus founded had the right, most
surely, to call itself "a party of moral
ideas," and to feel a pride in its record. To
be accused-and iustly-of being false to
that record and to those ideas was indeed
q severe blow to the pride nurtured
through years of prosperity, power and
honor; the more severe that it was dealt
by the party's own flesh and blood The ar
raignment of its enemies 1t could bear with
equanlmity; but the accusing voice within its
own household was not to be suffered.
You can not, however, greatly hurt a
voter by calling him a recreant, traitor, a
mugwump, or even dude and pharisee.
he still retains his vote, and he may even
be able to answer back and use some un-
pleasant epithets himself. So the infuriated
party turned upon the candidate favored by
the boilers, and fell upon him to wreak
upon his head the whole force of its wrath.
The manner of its attack can not well be
forgotten by this time. The party leaders
introduced TO this civilized country, In the
last quarter of the nineteenth century, the
campaign of indecency.
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NOT RAG.

a Democrat Who Objects TO Seeing the
American Flag Used as Nose Wipe.
The American flag has not braved thou
sand years of battle and the breeze, but IL
has huttered pretty successfully over a
tenth part Of that time. 1t is a handsome
nag. Its colors are attractive and brilliant,
and what battling it has had to do it has
braved with success and with honor. The
same may be said about the breezes. The
American flag started in business in a
somewhat limited scale, and the business
has grown steadily and healthily; q proper.
legitimate growth, which is the best kind
OF growth for any business that is to be a
permanent and sound one. When it began
to hutterit futtered over comparatively
sparse population, now it waves from ocean
to ocean over 60,00O,0 900 Of people. It takes
great flag to cover so many people, and
the stars and stripes is great flag
But OF all the breezes it has had to en-
counter there has been nothing SO degrad-
ing IS the blow that threatens it now. The
Republican party has so little respect for
the banner of this great country that il
actually proposes to blow its somewhat
ruddy nose on the starry banner from now
Until next November. The well-knoyn lines:
And beneath the starry nag
We SHAH breathe the air again
take sinister and sonorous meaning when
we think of the use to which the Republic
ans have seen fit TO put the flag that has
hitherto held so proud position. The ''air''
viii be breathed outwards who's Repub-
hcan gets hold of the flag nowadays, and
that was certainly not the breathing that
the poet so touchingly alluded to.
The chances are that Hon Tim Campbell
breathes the popular sentiment when he
said TO a user of the flag:
I" What is that you have!"
a handkerchief" said the frightened
user, bacs1ng away.
. That. SIR" roared Tim, " is the Amer
ican flag, sir. If see you wiplng your nose
on it again, sir, VIII break your head.
sir''
detroit journal; Labor organizations win
have sonlething TO say in the present cam
paign. With Reid's rat - Tribune In New
York supporting the ticket; John c. News
" rat indianapolis Journal posing as the
dlscoverer OF the candidate, and General
Harrison's Chinese record, there promises
70 be something else than personalities in
the contest
Brooklyn E0gle. The champions of 9free
WHISKY Tor the sake Of protection viii not
think 50 much OF Alexander Hamilton as
they did before the publication Of the living
alexander Hanilton's letter to the New
York Reform Club stating that his ilIustri-
gus ancestor was free trader and only adj
yccated a limited and temporary protection
on account Of .'the peculiar sisra.ion Of the
country at the 6me.n
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A RIGHTEOUS JUDGE:
He Bolts the Republican Ticket and Civ
His Reasons.

He Bolts the Republican Ticket and Gives
His Reasons.
Judge Aaron Meland, for many years
Judge of probate of Minneapolis, and one of
the leading Republicans of the city, has
bolted the Republican ticket. He says:
Il do not believe in protection. 1 shall
vote for Cleveland and Thurman and will
be proud to do so.
s'The people of the United States are like
a farmer on large tract of new rich land;
the work put on his land results in large,
abundant crops. He and his family and
hired men and hired girls get plenty to eat,
drink and wear, and good home to live in.
The servants get good wages, because the
crops are so large that every one engaged
in raising them can have good share.
This is, of course, provided nobody takes
the crops away. The people in Europe, on
the other hand, are like farmer on an old
worn out piece Of land; the same amount of
work on this land results in smaller crops,
and consequently in less to eat, drink and
wear, and in poorer buildings and smaller
shares for servant hire. But the people on
the good big farm have not only the ad-
vantage Of getting more for the same
amount of work, being better fed, clothed
and housed, but they are also able to do
more work than the others. Just as horse
fed on oats can do more work thar a horse
fed on straw. This extra work gives ad-
ditional returns, and makes the difference
of what the people on each farm earns still
greater. Thus the people of the United
States owe their better condition to the
rich natural resources of the country and
TO their ability to do work upon those re-
sources, and not to any protective tariffs
- tell you General St John is sharp
one. He is jovial companion, too,' said
tipsy drummer to fellow passenger in
railway coach.
"Where did you ever meet himln asked
his vis-a-vis.
80, sat in Pullman car and we drank
brandy and water together on trip down
the Louisville & Nashville roadn
Drank brandy and water with General
St Johnl Ar'nt you mistaken young mana
General st. John is a teetotaler ~
30, know that; drank the brandy and
he drank the water
ACCORDING to well known horticulturist,
peach trees heavily and annually banked
with xuood aahQo IN keen the horaru
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-22

For the annual encampment at
Columbus, Ohio, in September, round
Trip tickets Will be on sale at Medicine
Lodge at not to exceed one rate of fare
for the round trip. IL
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-22

AT large-J. L. Grider. of Sumner; John
Sheridan. of Miami.
First district-B. A. seaver, of Doniphan
county.
Second district-C. E. Benton, of Allen
county.
Third district-E. A. Scammon, OF Cherokee
county.
Fourth district-John E. watrous of Coffey
county.
Fifth district-w. C. Buchanan. of Ottawa
county.
Sixth district-W. d. Covington, of Phillips
county.
Seventh district-B. F. Milton, of Ford
county.
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Farm Loans.

pARAfERS should patronize homo .pstitu-
u tons and get their Farm Loans -.1l tiia
McNEAL MORTGAGE co. Money aip AVS
ready. Principal and Interest payabl ar tiseir
once. at Citizens National Bank. 4lm5
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GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR
JOHN MARTIN. of Shawnee.
LIEUTENANT-GovERN
w. F. FRASIUS. of Cloud.
SECRETARY OF STATE
A. G. THU RMAN, of Labette.
STATE AUDITOR
w. II. WILHOIT, of Miami.
STATE TREASURER
w. III. WHITE, of Morris.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
C. +. DIFFENBACHER. of Barton.
SUPT. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
A. N. COLE, OF Phillips.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
w. p. CAMPBELL, of Sedgewick.
FOR CONGRESS
c. S. EBEY, of Sedgewick.
ron c1r
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEVELAND.


FOR vICE-PREsIDENT
ALLEN q. THURMAN.