Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-22

VOLUME V.
EDITORIAL O0NENT.
1.-TWO siddy girls We shall soon forget:
Campaign Lac, and Election Bet"
THE Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton meets at Topeka December 26th to
2Sth inclusive.
THE clouds have rolled by and the
country is safe. Lay aside your poll
tical differences and look pleasant.
HON. EDWARD CARROLL, here's to
you, the luckiest democrat in Kansas.
May you live long and watch the tricks
of your associates.
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PATENT medicine cuts and sewing
machine advertisements will now take
the place of overgrown roosters in our
republican exchanges. We will ap-
preciate the change.
The papers are now showing up
Quay's record in the past, and from all
we can learn about the fellow, he is a
man whom it will do to watch. He is
apparently capable of almost any trick
cry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON once said: II
never suffer political 20 become a
personal difference There is at least
one successful candidate in this county
who has not that manly attribute of
character.
ONE SATISFACTION democrats have
is that there will not be near as many
democrats turned out of Washington
as there would have been had not
Grover Cleveland did his best to COM
ply with the civil service law.
REPUBLICAN papers were just a lit
tie previous in their cry "the solid
south broken" The only object they
had in view was to continue the sense
less practice of arfaying one section of
the country against another.
If THE Kansas City Evening Nescs
Ia very excellent paper, by the way).
should cease to find its way into the
9rooms over the postoffice daily where
iwonld 1.-The only religious" get his sup
lply of funny gags" to work over?
The editor of the WILDER Opposition
fhinks the devil would be elected if he
ran on the republican ticket.
He WOULD be a no-account devil if
a,e could not carry his own party vote,
and we fully agree with the WILDER
Opposition.
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WE GIVE the official vote of Barton
county this week. The vote for state
officers runs about the same as the vote
on governor, with but a few changes
one way or the other, and we only give
the vote on governor and attorney gen
eral, on the state ticket.
IT WAS too bad the boys did not get
to say their little pieces Saturday night
at the jamboree. From the looks of
them they all had something funny to
say, and perhaps some wonderfully
grand orations will not be permitted to
''go thundertng down the ages be-
causea of the overjoyfulness of the
gathering.
WHERE, oh, where was Stoke with
his u. l. communication and affidavits?-
Register.
He WAS right to the front, Reuben;
right where he will be found every
time. enlightening the voters of Barton
county. 1t might now be in order to
ask where is that promised retribution
which was to overtake Brewer and the
affidavit maker, latter the election.''
THIS IS John Judas Ingalls, valued,?,
opinion on civil service reform: eff ]
could have my way, on the fourth of
March. would remove every mothers
son Of them. That is my idea of ad.
va1ced, refined civil service reform.
give notice now to the democratic
Office holders of Kansas that, il my
win shall prevail, not to stand on thu
order of their going, but go at once.''
SENATOR PLUMB says that while tha
people Of Kansas want tariff reform
they do not want the kind which thu
democrats propose. The last election
entirely proved this. The discriminat
ing and thoughtful agriculturists u
Kansas, decided by majority of 100.
600 more or less that they wanted tn,
republican idea of tariff reform, whicl