Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-12
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Grand Old Man of England
is seventy-nine and the Grand Old Man
of American sevUnty-four.- MILLOaRkee
Journal.
Tho verdict of the convention
upon Mr.. Cleveland-"W Well done. good
and faithful servant"-will be ratified
by the people of the United States at
the polls next November.-C Charleston
Courier.
We'll may the delegates to the
Democratic convention congratulate
themselves on the wisdom with which
they have discharged the responsible
duties imposed upon them by the peO-
ple.-He6rcW Standard -s
Cleveland and Thurman do nos
suit the Republican leaders. and weGre
glad of it. The more they displease
the monopolists the more they please
the people who are fleeced to satisfy
their cravings. -BellerilIe Democrat.
The foolish but popular notion
that preachers sons never amount to
any thing will have to be set aside to
make room for the fact that the fathers
of both President Cleveland and SEN
ator Thurman were preachers.-Chi-
cago Times.
The election returns show that
when the Republican party has been
defeated in New York, Now Jersey and
Connecticut it was owing to the vote of
the manufacturing centers and that
just as high-protAction doctrines arc
emphasized the majority against the
Republican party in these centers is in-
creased. Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
The National Democracy have
made no mistakes this time. The
ticket presented to the people is abb
solutely invulnerable at every point,
and the bold, straightforward, states
man-like manner in which the plat
form deals with the great issue of the
campaign must commend itself to
every honest and unprejudiced mind.
bangor (Me.) Commercial.
In his Twenty Years of Con-
gress," Mr.. Blaine says of Mr.. Thur
man that ''his rank in the Senate was
established from the day he took his
seat. and was never lowered during the
period of his service. His retirement
from the Senate was serious loss to
his party-a loss, indeed, to the body.
He left behind him the respect of all
with whoI1 he had been associated
during his twelve years of honorable
service"
I've favor freer trade, but not
free trade" said Governor Hill, in
his speech to Tammany the other
night. and the New York World, in
commenting on the remark, adds:
With $3.50. 900. 900 of revenue to
raise. chiefly from customs duties,
nobody favors or expects free trade.
But every body, whatever his politics,
is interested in lighter taxes. freer
trade and wider market. The war
taxes must be clipped"
The present uprising is against
unnecessary taxes and over-protec-
ton There Is no opposition to a
tariff that shall afford all reasonable
and necessary protection to both cap
ital and labor. The Democrats do not
believe, in a word. that a surplus
producing war-tariff should be per-
petuated. They do believe that both
manufacturers and woriSing-men would
be better off with lower taxes on
necessities, free raw material and a
wider market.-N Y. World.
Tariff revision is Cleveland's
gift in this campaign. And the an
swer is an unprineipled cry of ''free
trade" One might as well accuse a
man of proposing to disrobe because
he takes off his overcoat in warm
weather as to assume that a ten per
cent. reduction of duties means a one
hrrr, H.
this kind of captious criticism that Of
tends people. The traffic in false
colors, as evidence of loss Of faith and
lack of trust in the power of honesty
and virtue, is the thing that Threatens
tae party and multiplies independents.
.-SprtnqfeEd Republicans.