Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-19
WHO IT rs THAT WILL NOT VOTE
FOR CLEVELAND.
For the DEMOCRAT.

1Hor6 seems TO De DuC one issue III
the approaching campaign for the peo-
pie to consider, and that is the tariff.
That question would have been settled
long ago if the voters of our country
had not had their attention drawn
away from their own best interest
and that of their country-by sec
tional feeling that has been kept up by
a set of designing men, in order that
: they might accomplish the ends of
hellish design to demolish our demo-
cratic form of government. If it had
not been for this, say, the question of
tariff would have been settled long
ago.
But the election of Cleveland to the
presidency caused the cloud that hung
over the southern states to change
color, and that threatening danger that
was repeatedly foretold by our repub
Iican neighbors has been held out for
the people to examine, and for the sun
to shine upon, and they find it is moth
:. ing but filth rising from the breasts of
some of the republicans of the north.
But their time has come, thank God,
and all that is left i'll the future for
them, is an egnominious grave. Hav-
ing full faith and confidence in the
American people and their institutions,
. has been sufficient guarantee for me
. that the objects and dangers of the
present system of tariff would be writ
ten in such large letters that it could
be seen a far off.
There has been time when one
might ask, who is going to vote the
democratic ticket? But it is not so
now; the question is, "Who is not go
ing to vote for Cleveland?" Now let
us go way back in the history of our
country and see if we can find who it
is that don'tvote for Cleveland and re-
form. In order to do this we will have
to go back to the administration of
: John Adams. We had at that time a
political party!headed by one Alexander
Hamilton; this man served in Wash
ington's cabinet-he was a power in
council; at the same time he was op-
posed to the constitution and demo-
cratic form of government, and de-
nounced it as a frail and worthless
fabric; and his party was drawn from
power, by the election of Jefferson in
1900, to the presidency. Jefferson
completely upset the plans of the
federals (as that was what they called
themselves) in their attempt to over
throw the government. 1t was then
. that Hamilton bitterly threatened to
abandon his country forever, and said:
EVERY day proves to me more and
more that this America was not made
for me-"
And, if it had not been for the
strong arm of the democratic party,
headed by Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, and other great and good
men whose glories are still fresh in the
hearts of the people, this American
institution of ours of which we feel so
proud, would have been simply Amer
ica-controlled by military discipline
dictatorial government-head by
men commissioned for life. And it
was this great struggle that brought
about the feeling of animOsity between
the north and south. The history of
that party, from the foundation of our
government to the present day, has
been characterized in the same unen-
viable manner. / will not attempt to
follow them i'll their wicked design of
forming as strong a government as
they could upon centralized principle,
q. but will come down to the close of the
rebellion, when again they made an
other attempt for a strong government
of the same kind. From the fact that
the results of the war had brought into
their ranks good men-men who loved
&. their country, and could not bear the
thought of seeing it disrupted send
ing to God in chariot of smoke and
fire, thousands of the best men this
country ever afforded-that our Union
might exist-seeing the results of the
war which they had predicted would
directly bring about their long cherish
ed design of breaking down our demo
cratic form of government, failed them,
they form another conspiracy and say;
s'By the eternals we will accomplish
our ends yet, and establish centralized
power gradually by taxation which
will eventually place the power in the
hands of the capitalist who constitute
the aristocracy of this and all other
countries, and will accomplish this by
keeping up sectional strife by the use