Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-18
EDITORIAL oRlFT.

st. Paul Globe: Harrisonl A machinei
And Mortonl A reimbursement And the
platforml Defense of robbery
Utica Observer: AS Democratic journal
the Observer is more than satisfied with the
nomination of Benjamin Harrison. Com
pared with Blaine he is weak-hopelessl
weak In New York the nomination viii
spur the Democracy on to an effort which
viii result in the burial of modern Repub-
hcanlsm under tremendous adverse ma
jority. The head of the Republican ticket
is the unfortunate offspring of Republican
Generalization and Republican degeneracy.
st. Louis Post Dispatch, with Democratic
emphasis; Harrison would run better if he
had not owed his nomination to the Pacific
railroad attorneys and to Depew aud
Elkins. Morton's money-bags viii also be
something of a load to carry. The big cam
paign fund that Morton will be expected to
collect from Stanford, Huntington, Gould
aud the trusts is one of those weapons
that sometimes hurt more than they help in
National election.
Louisville COauicr-Journdl: The chieftain
for this Republican crisis was Depew, and
his rejection shows how little of the genius
of political instinct and sagacity is left In
Republican leadership. Next to Mr. Blaine,
Mr.. Depew is, to say the very least for him,
the showiest member of his party, and
there are in him magnetic possibilities
which might have rivaled those of Mr.
Blaine himself. The senseless clamor
which ruled him of the track would. had
the nomination been given him, have proved
but clatter of pots and pans, lasting for a
day only.
Chicago News: With respect to the one
issue involved in the present contest for
the control of the Government. the Repub-
hcan platform IS precisely what might have
been expected from the recent course of
the party in Congress, and from the fact
that Mr.. Mckinley was made chairman of
the Platform Committee. There is plenty of
talk about other things, but the tariff is
really the only thing that is presented as
the issue involved. All the rest is matter
of form, or to avoid giving offense to the
numerous "elements A" that demanded the
embodiment Of their hobbies in the party
creed.
Chicago Times: The Republican candidate
for Vice-President was added TO the ticket
for two reasons. He comes under Ingalls,
definition of "some fellow who can reach
the conservative forces of the East and get
contributions from the manufacturers and
Wan street, and he is a very wealthy
man, who is in the habit of contributing
with amazing generosity TO the campaign
0eiD
the ticket in the East; he will hardly do so
in the West, as the political methods which
his candidacy represents and involles are
very distasteful TO people already weary
OF the impudent assumption that money can
buy preferment.
Indianapolis Sentinel 1t was Ben Harri-
son who declared, only few years ago, in
public speech at Martinsville, that the
Greenbackers ought to be sent to lunatic
asylum.
There are good many old Greenbackers
In Indiana. They have been quietly bidng
their time. They have lived to see the
principles which they espoused-and which
Ben Harrison pronounced idiotic- solemnly
affirmed by the Supreme Court of the
United States. The idea for which they
contended has triumphed, and the power of
Congress to emit legal-tender notes, at its
discretion, in war or in peace, to any
amount which it may deem expedient, has
been established beyond question.
New York World: While the Republican
platform is Enthusiastically in favor of ex-
treme protection it has no ringing sound.
1t lacks the directness and confidence of
the utterances of the Democratic platform
in vindication Of the policy of tax reduction
and tariff revision as upheld in President
Cleveland's message and embodied in the
Mills bill 1t talks about the "destruc-
ton of :" the American system of protec-
ton by "the President and his party;n
charges them with serving the interests Of
Europe; denounces the Mills bill as " de-
structive to the general business, the labor
and farming interests of the country" and
has separate condemnation of free wool
But it is dumb about :" free trader
and about the wages of labor" which
the Democratic reduction of taxation aud
cheapenlng the necessities of life, we were
told, were to cut down to the rate of the
"pauper labor of Europe" Compared with
Mr. Blaine's cable message in reply to
President Cleveland'5 letter the platform in
point of strength is as milk and water to
alcohol.