Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-02-09
READY FOR BURIAL.

n Few Kind and Considerable Words for
the Republican Corpse.
The Republican party. evidently. has
not long to live. Extraordinary eff
forts are being made to galvanize it
= into something like vitality, but it is no
go Its best friends recognize that it
Is in IL dying condition. 1t is without
An issue. A party without an issue is
I'm condition as deplorable as sick
COW that has no cud to chew The
E,Arty's second stomach has given out.
The quid recommended by Blaine
don't answer for cud-for an issue.
AS for the bloody shirt, it is no longer
an issue; it is effete. barren. exhausted,
worn out. The free trade nonsense is.
If possible. more dilapidated than the
bIOOdy-shirt foolishness. The Presi-
dents message has taken the country
by storm, 1t has given all honest men
u straight-out sharply-defned issue.
The Government has been robbing the
people, compelling them to surrender
their money when the Government had
mo use for it Mr.. Cleveland and the
Democratic party, and the honest ele-
ment of the Republican party, approve
the issue, indorse the policy. They
say the time has come to inaugurate
IN era of honesty; that stealing the
peoples money under cover of law is
= raonstrous iniquity, and that sophis-
stry. chicanery and legal legerLemaiD
sAuence the policy of tie Governments
The Republican party, it will be
seen ut a glance, is i'll a preparatory
condition To hand in its checks. 1t has
no Issue. We challenge the Indian
rnpolis Journal to state the issue upon
(which the Republican party proposes
TO go before the American people in
the campaign of 1888. The tobacco
quid issue will not do, nor will the
free whisky issue. John Sherman's
effort co make the robbing of the peo-
pie of 800, 10000 year can't be
Emnde TO work. Chambers Southern
election issue is already dead, and
Blair's Educational bill never was an
Issue 1t is seen that the Republican
party is without an issue. To make
the safeguarding of the Democratic
party an issue would result disastrous
Az. since honest Republicans indorse
Tire Democratic policy. The conclu-
sion is therefore inevitable that all
that is left for the Republican party
DIS to die 1t is said of Indians that
---the good Indian is the dead Indian"
Possibly that can be said of the Re-
publican party when gone; at any
rate, it is we'll enough 10 contemplate
the demise of the party and be
proposed to speak kindly of it
when stretched out en- cooling
Board, or lying Geld and stiff in
ats winding sheet. And in this connec-
4ion we are reminded of beautiful
Grait in the character of man in
Illinois who always had something
kind to say of the dead. 1t came to
auass ut last that notorious reprobate
died. a man of such VIGOROUSLY bad
character that those who knew him
5est could think of nothing to say of
him In the way of commendation. and
vet 1t WAS believed that the man who
WAS ia the habit of saying kind words
OF the dead would manage in this, as
an every other case, to find something
worthy of praise, and bet was made
that such would be the case. On the
day of the funeral, the eulogist of the
dead, with others. took farewell look
at the corpse. He came up solemnly.
slowly, and with benevolent look
on his features. He leaned over the
coffin and looked long and anxiously
at the features of the dead reprobate.
at last he raised his head, looked
around upon his friends, and whis-
T1ered with a sigh:
well, he had good teeth" That
was all-'.He had good teeth. " We
suggest that that much could be said
of the Republican party-"lt had good
teeth. "-IndianGpoiiS Sentinel