davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11
TARIFF TRUTHS.

A very interesting pamphlet with the
above title compiled by Hon. Albert F..
Thayer, Of this city, is on our table.
We have CLAN ced over the work with
pleasure. It is well worth reading, from
beginning to end, by both republicans
and democrats. It consists of selec-
;oions from some of the best works and
speeches on the tariff and trusts.
Mr.. Thayer is a former resident of
Maple Hill, Kansas, and the work is
addressed to the farmers of Wabaunsee
county, where he has lived since 1874
and is we'll known. He has always been
an active member of the republican
farty, and always voted that ticket.
He has often served as a delegate to
the county conventions, and when
present, has been invariably selected to
preside as chairman on account of his
known ability and fair dealing. He
was chairman of the last county con-
vention; was elected a delegate to the
congressional convention, but required
his alternate to attend when he found
that convention had been packed by
the strikers of the present representa-
tive.
Mr.. Thayer is deeply interested in
tariff reform and firmly believes that
there is no hope Of that being done by
his party which promised ga wise and
conservative reduction'' of the tariff in
1868, 1872, 1866, 1880, 1884 and now in
1885; yet the tariff is higher to-day
than at the close of the war, and be-
ieving that the democratic party will
accomplish this ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ed to the country on this one issue-he
not only decides to support the demo-
cratic party, but gives in his pamphlet
some Of the reasons for his doing so in
the hope that others will be convinced
as he has been.
We say to republicans who believe in
tariff reform, if you do not receive a
copy of Mr.. Thayer's pamphlet, and
want one, send your address to the
democratic state central committee at
Topeka, by whom they are printed for
free Observation-Disclosures Democrat.
I'VE have, at this Office, few copies
of tariff truths" which we will be glad
to furnish to anyone wishing to read
the Same.-ED.1
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11
Beware of their Establishments;


The country is being flooded with re-
publican literature, the main object Of
which = 70 try and make out that the
democratic policy is free trade" pol.
icy. There ere various editions of these
fraudulent tracts, and as the republi-
can party hes all the trusts. monopolies,
land-grAbbers and syndicates to back it,
no expense will be. spared to get their
stu6 before the people. There is tar
iR tract No. H." entitled: 1.-The Mills
Bill Percentage fraud,'' and tariff
tract No. g." and mo. Is" entitled:
"Mr. Cleyeland and the Mills Bill Pop
ular in England" ".along with various
other literature Of the same stamp.
Democrats, when you read these tracts
and circulars, see if you do1not discover
the hand Of the monopolist in every one
of them. See if you can find any state.
ment that would help you to think that
your interests are looked after as well
as the interests of the eastern manufac-
turer. Remember that it costs piles Of
money to get their literature before you
and if they were not in hopes of being
reimbursed they would not go to the ex-
pense they are going to get up ''free
trade" scare, and bamboozle the Amer
lean people into continuing to submit
to the domination Of heartless and un-
principled monopoI1sts.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11

SIS, and it dill splendid, matured in less
than ninety d;sys, made about thirty-fve
bushels per acre of good sound corn.
81 kept said ,.orn as pure as / could,
but / found out that it got mixed in
spite of my care and got later.
1.-The next I tr led was some early
corn from Iowa, bl It it was not so early
as the Minnesota ce1rn, though some Of
it matured last year before the drouth
set in; but believing that it would be
best to have another start of pure
northern-grown corn, ] sent last winter
up to Minnesota again.
by the way have an old uncle liv-
ing up there that has lived there ever
since 1855, and is quite a farmer; made
my home with him number of years;
he has propagated corn Of his own and
he sent me down two bushels of fine
corn last spring, cost $4.25. Iplanted
said corn with common planter on
well-plowed land the 9th day of April;
o1l the 9th day of June it was in silk,
and on the 9th day of July it was
dented. cut the most of it: up some
time ago, and of course it is dl y enough
to shell. I have husked out the most
of it and fed it to my hogs, and think
it goes all Of thirty five bushels per acre
1t was not hurt by the drouth rs most
corn in this part of the country " 'as. Al
long as farm intend to plant = part
Of my corn of an early variety.
s'Last year was hard one on farm ers
here, and some are not much better of
this year, but if theyihad planted a part
of their corn of an early variety it woul d
have been God send to them"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11
HARRIsoNs WAGES.


The supporters of Harrison claim
that he donated to a militia fund the
$40 he drew for his services as a vofun-
teer against the workingmen in 1877.
This may be true but it is not inn
portant. The money was legally Har-
rison's and he was free to keep it. IF
he were really the enthusiastic s'cham-
pion Of American labor'' it is now
pretended he is; if it is true that he
has bitterly repented of having earned
the money, he might have returned it
for the purchase of potter's field. It
was only twenty pieces of silver-only
$50 for four days work at $5 day as
volunteer suppressor of strikers, and it
was his money by legal title as good
as his title to the 81 600 he drew for a
weeks work for the O. & M. railroad
company in March, 1877, or the $21 900
drawn from the same source at the re-
ceivership settlement.
It is to show the 'sdisinterestedness''
of his course that his supporters claim
he donated the $40 to militia fund.
Twenty dollars worth of dissnterest-
ness is something to be sure, but what
became of the s22, 900 from the railroad
company Was he disnterested
enough to donate that to anything?,
Did he found home for the starving
families of blacklisted workingmen or
did he suppress his great love for Amer
lean labor sufficiently to allow him to
put it down into the securest corner OF
his own pocket?
The 'tmen of grit who were hired
by railroad companies in East ST.
Louis to shoot strikers make no pre-
tence of being disinterested patrols
or ardent friends of labor. They took
their 81 a day and their repeating
rifles and fred when in their judgement
demanded it.
There is some difference between
% day and 81 900 week, it is true,
but we see no other difference between
the attitude of the men Of grit in East
st. Louis and Captain Harrison, man
Of grit, hired by the railroad compar-
nies in Indianapolis. Both pretend te,
be acting under the States warrants
and both were equally ready to earn
their money.
We have not a word to say Of the
merits of the strike of 1877 or of any
other strike beyond reiteration Of ollr
expressed opinion that
there is no merit in the strike as a
practical means Of redressing wrongs,
but it is nevertheless our conviction
that Harrison's attitude is a most un-
manly and contemplate one.
When his supporters claim and when
he claims that there is no warmer
friend of labor" then he; when they
assert that his failure to keep 500
shows his Observation-Disclosures they
condemn him and themselves of the
basest hypocrisy, for they know that he
did keep the 900 and all the other
thousands he received from railroads
in whose service he was while engaged
in organizing volunteers to suppress
strike againts dollar day wages
Salina Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11

OF tariff reform the Star has, therefore,
never been partisan. Had the republi-
can party taken the lead in the move
ment for the remission of the war taxes,
as it ought to have done, it would have
had the hearty cooperation and support
Of the Star, which, time and again has
supported republican candidates when
the tariff question was not an issue.
But it is to-day fer Cleveland because
he has forced the issue upon his party
and upon the country, and, like Ban
quo's ghost, it twill not down.
Tariff reform is the drift of public
thought and national prosperity. It
may or not fructify this year, or next
year, or the year after, but it is the
manifest destiny of the country. If 1t
is to be worked out through the agency
of the democratic party so much the
better for the democrats and so much
the worse for their opponents. But
protection" is doomed; its sseyes are
sot." In no part of the country will the
reform of the war tariff be sof 80 much
service as the expansive territory trib-
utary to Kansas City, and the Star and
its friends will have reason to be glad
that it has always been, from it's very
first issue and without regard to party
success, a consistent, persistent, out
spoken and uncompromising advocate
of that spirit of commercial freedom
which is inseparable from low tariff.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11

SCENE at Kansas republican rally.
Central committeeman loquitar: It's
there democratic orator in the hall''?
There is not" ssGood; now ladies
and gentlemen, have the pleasure of
presenting to you the next governor of
Kansas, L. q. Humphrey. Let the in
tellectual symposium begin. kansas
City Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11

REPUBLICANS HAVE trouble in keep
ing their speakers in line. Ingersoll
has been ruled out, Blaine has been put
under restraint, and the managers in
Indiana want Anna Dickerson to quit
the field. In sentiment the republican
camp is divided against itself.-Wich-
ita Journal independently
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11
Brewer Writes a Piece,

In the Labor Ne,ns, of Larned, of
October 4th, we find a lengthy COM
munication from T. HI. Brewer, of
Pawnee Rock. Brewer rakes both the
democratic and republican parties in
strong language, to the extent of half
a column, and then touches on the re-
publican candidate for senator from
this district, as follows:
"Sometimes you will find an old polit-
ical fraud, who will unthoughtedly speak
his mind but will regret 1t Immediately
and deny that he ever said it. For in
stance, E. L. Chapman, of Great Bend,
republican nominee for state senator of
the seth district said, that t'a man
could not be elected who would not sell
out if he got chance" and when re-
mOnstrated with and told that in the
time of the Revolution there were men
so true that all England could not buy
their influence from their devotion to
eth cause Of freedom, he still reiterated
his former statement, and said further,
that s'they, (the ofice-holders) were on
the make, and the salary did not justi-
fy any man for his time and money ex-
pended in getting the Office" My Godl
has it come to such a pass as this?
Nay, know it is libel on the honesty
of the American citizen to say that he
will sell his honor, and that all he wants
with an Office is TO sell it's patronage
and his influence to the highest bidder.
1 will admit that the class of men who
have been doing all the bowling for
several years past will, as a rule, sell
their souls salvation for a mess of
pottage and cringe before their super
iors like whipped hounds. I don't think
the native-born American is so low
down in morals and honor as to give his
vote to elect man who says he will
sell his honor and the interests OF his
constituents at tho first opportunity,
and that man a foreigner by birth and
an American only by adoption.
Men and voters of the 36th senator
ial district, think of this! I know
whereof ! speak, and if Mr.. Chapman
kicks, can prove every. word say.
will not mention anything in regard to
his past official conduct while probate
judge of Barton county, nor his con-
duct when in charge of ''grasshopper
supplies" in "a or '75, which would not
accord with the teachings Of the golden
rule. just look up the past record Of
the candidate. and then vote for the
man whose interests are identified with
yours; vote for home, family and free
dom; vote for the part that says the
mortgage must go; vote to down trusts
and monopolies; vote for the man who
recognizes the sacredness of his trust,
and is pledged to honestly represent his
district, and who will spurn the bfibes
of corporations, and we may yet prove
to the world tina: we are not hungry,
lazy and lousy T. III. BREWERY
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11

Subscribe Sor the UnfocRAr.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A PARTISAN genius has got out list of plays
which may be properly attended by those who
in mourning. A alf-mourning list will soon
follow from the same authority.
Pope LEo's jubilee has turned ont even big
ger cash success than was expected. He has al
ready received gifts valued at 5000, 900 and
the offerings are still pouring in.
MARION HARLAND declares that it 10 harder
for beautiful women to be good than for those
who have been taught from babyhood to seek
the approval which all crave in the cultivation
of mental and moral traits
In is curious fact that while Quesn Victoria
speaks German in her home circle. the present
German Empress dsregards it IN hers and uses
English as much as possible ENGLISH Is the
Preside tongue of the Greek. Danish and Rus
sian royal families.
DR. HOWARD CRosBY's youngest son. Nicho-
las Esartson Crosby, Is .'corker.a He can
speak ancient Greek and modern Greek, Is a
professor at Columbia College and can play the
piano, the harmonica and the banjo. He recent
il got home from a years visit TO Athens.
GEs. JoHa G. FREMONT and wife travel
ing on the Pacific coast. and at last accounts
were expected at San Francisco. If the Eener-
n would faithfully record his feelings - he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-21
ECHOES FROM EXCHANGES.

This is the way the Richmond Daily
Telegram puts it. 1.-THE knowledge OF the prefer
ences of Indiana Republicans that prevails in
Illinois and Missouri. is truly remarkable"
The Muncie Daily Times thinks that, after
General Harrison, Senator Sherman is the
choice of majority of Indiana Republicans
with New York's celebrated after-dinner man
next In favor.
The Hon. VIM Ell. Trammel, in telling letter
to the Huntington Evening Herald of the 10Th
inst compares General Harrison's candidacy
with that of Lincoln, and draws favorable augu-
RES for Harrison's nomination and election.
The Fort Wayne Gazette is agitating the ques-
ton whether or not Allen county shall buy the
gravel toll-roads within its limits It is claimed
not less than 500, 900 will be required for the
purchase and $4,000 year for their proper
maintenance.
It is estimated by the Springfield tNIass.l Re-
publican that during the present $4,000
Northern tourists s'have been taken in-of
course in the biblical sense'-by Floridaus and
that Florida is Sc O00 600 richer since the arrival
of it's visitors.
The Warsaw Daily Times charges the Demo
cratic district attorney for Indiana of being
afraid to call the case of General Carnahan for
trial, knowing that the General will be
quilted, and thus spoil some Democratic
paign thunder
The establishment of q Prohibition paper in
Goshen entails, according to the Daily News of
that city, another expense upon the tax payers,
as politicians will be showing partiallty If the
new paper does not get public printing to do.
the News sarcasticaslv remarks: Encourage
the organ it it drains the city treasury"
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican hits the
nail square on the head by saying: Republicans
who have allowed themselves to drift from old
party moorines under the pressure of the false
freetrade cry, will do well take account of their
bearings now and then. Nothing is clearer than
that they have foolishly allowed the Democrats
to steal an old issue"
In an editorial headed sPlenty of Hope for
Indiana" the Cleveland TO- Leader and Herald
says: The corrupt and inherently dishonest
own defeat" in this State and cites the abuses
in the Insane Asylum, the tally sheet forgeries
and the feeble attempt to enforce clvil-service
reform in lndiana-just feeble enough TO demon
strate what driveline farce it is under Demo
cratic management" as being certain to insure
Republican victory next fall.
The Portland tOre.) Daily News, in a long
leader advocating the iudicious advertising of
Oregon, states the truth when it says in the
East little Is known of that Stste 1t is older
than Kansas, Nebraska. Colorado has
rich, If not even more productive lands and
many resources and means for wealth, and pos
sesses climate unsurpassed by either of her
three sister States above named. With immi-
grafton. capital and manufactures Oregon would
compare favorably with any State in the Union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

BIRMINGHAM Age (Dem.) President Cleveland
is not yet the nominee of the Democratic party.
and we earnestly hope he will not be-
THE information is definitely vouchsafed the
public that William E. Grace is a candidate for
Governor of the State of New York.
THE Democratic congressional convention of
the Nineteenth Illinois district held at
Waynes boro. yesterday, and Hon. A. w. Towns
bend unanimously renominated.
In Oregon the State elections this year will be
held the day the Democratic ma
tiona1 convention; and s'The San Francisco
Chronicle" pleads with the voters up there not to
render a verdict in favor OF free trade, which
will encourage Cleveland's friends at St Louis.
THE muewumps discounted 10 advance by
the Springfield, Mass, Union thusly: sThere
will be no place at Chicago IN June for Mandy
pamby men who don't know whether they are
going TO support the nomin atoms they have
helped to make until after they get home and
what the Democratic papers say about
them.h
STEPHEN B. ELKINs says: IF the States of
New York. New Jersey, Connections and In
diana could be shut up together the Repub-
lican national convention at Chicago in June,
and agree upon a candidate for President, the
result would be eminentv satisfactory to the
party. / not sure but that would be coed
way reach conclusion. | am Sure [ would
be satisfied, and think that the delegates and
party WoulQ oe
COLONEL MONTGOMERY. Of Portland, Ore,
says that the best dark horse is Gen. Nelson A.
Miles. He is great soldier and has q splendid
record. His executive ability is something
derful. His life reads like romance. Before
the a clerk in dry goods store
Boston He went to the war, became a second
lieutenant, and by the time be was twenty Eve
years old he maior-general and COM
manded q, 900 soldiers
AN address to Virginia Republicans from John
S. Wise strongly opposes ex-senator Mahone's
proposition that the ''nnit rule" be adopted by
the delegation from the old Dominion. The let
ter, while conciiatory in tone. and expressing
personal good will toward Malone. gives notice
that the coming State convention will be asked
anew TO consider q plan for reorganzing the
party. so that the power will reside among the
mass of voters instead of with the chairman of
the State committee. now.
THE following is in the New York Sun:
For President
NJ E. INGALLS, OF Ohio
Fer Vice president.
GEN. H. w SLoCUM. of New York.
To the Editor of the Atlanta Constitution;
The above are about the only two men who,
if nominated by the national Democratic conven-
ton at ST Louis, June 5 1888, can successfully
lead the Democratic party to victory
HENDRICKS DEMOCRAT.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-21
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Democrats needn't count California to
help them out State that grows s. 900 900
pounds of wool per year isn't going to offer up its
mutton on the altar of Democracy.-Detroit
Tribune
LET the Republicans get at this question and
reduce the surplus revenue honestly, squarely,
and in such manner that American indus
try but the Kentucky whisky trust will be in
jured. Do this and the country will indorse it.
New York Press.
GENERAL GRANT had no need of any pen but
his s'All untaught of the silken phrase
makers, he strung words together with some
thing that will still bring to American ears, as
long as America shall last, the roll of his van
ished drums and the tread of his marching
ts."-Cnicago News.
No human institution is free from defects
which are incident the imperfections of the
bodies and minds of men. The fres-trader
would destroy the institution in order to cure
the defect. He would decaptate man cure
felon on his thumb, temporary disorder
of MS brain.-New York Press.
THE Republican party IS more united in favor
of protection and the Democratic party less
united in favor of free-trade theories than at
any former time The Democrats are anxious
Just to break the line of protectionists, be-
cause they know that il they fail their
troll Southern States will long be
broken. That is the milk in the cocoanut.
New York Tribune.
THE effort of the Democratic newspapers to
make it appear that the Republican minority in
the House is responsible for the failure of the
Democratic majority to agree upon policy of
revenue reduction is as comic as anything in
the recent history of the United States. The
Democrats have been Entrusted with re-
spousi bility which is clearly many times too big
for them.-Philadelphia Press.
THERE is no Democratic margin. s'small"
great. in Tennessee. The State is Republican in
sentiment, and will give its vote for the NOM
inee of the Chicago convention. Thousands of
men who have heretofore acted with the Demo
cratic party thoroughly disguised with the
free-trade ideas of the Cleveland Carlisle Mills
combination. and will vote for the Republican
idea of protection to American industries" and
laid American schools. National Repub-
lican.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-21

cate in 1884 returning to their old
party. Mr. Curtis says: believing
him [Ar. Cleveland1 to have been
overpowered by the spoils pressure of his
party, and utterly distressing it as a party
from which any real administrative reform
can be expected, and p-eferring upon that
subject Republican traditions and probabili-
ties, they would naturally incline in the alb
sence of any new party, toward any person
ally UNDERSTANDABLE Republican candidate"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-21

THE Prohibitionists of Iowa will be dis
couraged at the decision of the United States
Supreme Court, in the case of Bow
man Brothers VS.. the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad Company. which
involved the validity Of a statute of
Iowa, forbidding railroad company to bring
intoxicating liquors into that State without
certificate of the auditor of the county to
which the liquor is consigned, showing that
the consignee is legally authorized to sell il.
The Supreme Court holds that the power
vested in the State to regulate or forbid, the
sale of a commodity after it has been
brought into the State, does not carry with it
the right and power to prevent its introduce
ton by transportation from another State
and declares the Iowa statute invalid. This
ruling of the court of last resort tends to
illustrate how difficult it is for single State
to pass anti liquor laws which viii really pro-
hibit. Under the decision in question any
private individual, club. or other association
of individuals, in Iowa or other prohibition
State, may order ad libitum wines and liquors
from a border State, and, under the law, they
must be delivered at their destination without
question. Under this ruling, prohibitory stat
utes must prove, at least, partially abortive
until every State in the Union passes uniform
laws covering the liquor traffic.