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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
Republican Dirty Work.

The so-called political pay en-
.es" have reached this city, and
the employees in several of our factories
have been compelled to accept their
wages in them. These envelopes are
a libel and fraud, and the use of
them by manufacturers is a very dirty
business. 1t is, if not a technical
breach of the law, at least violation
of the intent of the statute against po-
litical intimidation. The envelopes
have been manufactured by the en-
velope syndicate, and have been paid
for presumably by the Republican
National Committee and by them dis
tributed to Republican employers. II
Democratic manufacturers resorted tc
such methods what howl would be
sent up from Republican organsi It is
mean, despicable imposition. de-
signed to intimidate the workmen into
voting for the Republican ticket But
the trick won't work. The wage
earners know where their interests
lie. They can not be scared and
eoerced by such scaly devices and
tissue lies as those perpetrated by these
.spay envelopes" They will rebuke
at the polls the party and the men who
stoop to such dirty and undetermined
methods of campaign lying. The '.po-
itical pay envelopes" will work on,
their own retribution- Eaterbae1
(Conss.l Democrat
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

Judge Thurman letter of accepts
ance is brief but to the point He
compliments the Administration OF
President Cleveland and indorses the
St Louis platform and denounces the
idea that a people can be enriched by
heavy taxation. or that it is to their
interest to amass an idle surplus in
the Treasury. The object of the DEM
ocratic policy is to give the people
cheap clothing, cheap tools and cheap
Timber. As to the cheap labor matter
he says that 81 the great majority of the
laborers in America are not engaged
In what are called protected indus
tries" And as to those who are en-
ployed in such industries the duties
imposed by the Mills bill far exceed tbs
difference between American and for
eign wages, and. therefore, If it were
admitted that working-men could b<
protected by tariffs they would be pro
tected and more than protected by thG
measura-CAteGgo zEsseA
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
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eNo eSectionA Figures OF preceding year.
The total Republican vote fell off in
the State elections of 1862 only I6l, 797,
9nd In the State elections Of 1868,
adding the latest vote OF Indiana, New
Jersey and Oregon, # exceeded the
Presidential vote OF 1860 by 1928
The Republicans who went to the
ear" we're certainly not missed when
election day came around They were
% home and ready TO vote. They were
not in the army. In 1864 their vote
Increased TO 2174.27S. showing the
SECULAR and normal increase (31S. O1s)
chat there would have been In any
8O0r years without . war, and with
A0shins 20 disturb the smooth and
even tenor Of a political party.
How Jared it with the Democratic
Rsrtys Let the Republican election
3ables tell the story:
DEMOCRATIC VnrR
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
THE NEWARK VICTORY.

An Election That Shows How Working
Men Are Going to Vote.
The city of Newark, N. j., is city
of working-men. It is one of the
largest manufacturing centers in the
United States. It is the place where
the &c free-trade p" scare was played for
all it is worth, and where the high
takers hoped to repeat 1880 over
again. Besides this. it has always
been Republican city. Not in thirty
years has it gone Democratic in q
Presidential year. Four years ago it
went Republican by 1,5OO majority.
On the 9th the Democrats carried it by
700 majority.
During the campaign the only ques-
ton debated was that of the tariff, and
the Republican managers left no
means untried to brighten the working
men into voting the Republican ticket.
They resorted even to the dastardly
trick of printing on the pay envelopes
of the workmen that lower tariff meant
lower wages, and that they must vote
the Republican ticket if they wished
to keep wages up. Every thing that
meanness, as we'll as shrewdness,
could devise was resorted to, and it all
failed. The working-men do not in
tend to be bulldozed this year. They
are beginning to understand that their
wages do not depend on the tariff. but
on supply and demand; that employers
reduce wages whenever they can. and
will always hire the cheapest labor
they can find They know that i, Is
better for every body that the neces-
saries of life should be cheap, and they
see that the tariff is q tax that makes
the necessaries of life dear. They are
understanding these things this y'.ar
better than they ever understood than
before. and they are voting according
~.
The election in Newark shows how
the working-men are going to vote.
It is a straw that indicates the curr,.nt
of thought It is preliminary stir
mish to the great battle in November,
and clearly determines how that battle
viii Chicago Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

numbers did not diminish, Wilt, that
of the Democrats did until they
showed loss of over 200, 900 in actual
numbers and 800. 600 in normal
growth. He would also be curious to
know why, when the war was over
and the soldiers in the field at tho close
of the war returned home, they voted
the Democratic ticket In the elections
of 1866 and 1868.
What answer would the Republican
swashbuckler make? What answer
could he make? Why, that the inter-
rogator was British spy. paid with
Golden Club gold, whose object was
to destroy this country. This. IS all
he knows.
The Republican party-in spite Of
its twenty years of power by
fraud and forgery-has never in its
existence had behind it or in it's ranks
a majority of the total votes of this
Union. It was in minority of over
.one hundred thousand in the loyal
North when the civil war came, and
it has remained in a minority since
the Union was preserved by the loyal
Democracy of the North against the
wishes and desires of the Republican
leaders, who would have been glad to
''let our maynard sisters depart in
peace" who branded the flag they now
appropriate as a Haunting lie,'' and
who denounced the constitution as
a "a covenant with death and a
league with hell"
They desired q disruption of the,
Union. They plotted for it. And they
never can and never will forgive the
rising OF the loyal Democratic masses
of the North under the lead of Stephen
A. Douglas, compelling a fight TheY
let the Democrats do the fighting
while they did the voting and stealing
The facts of history make them insane.
Cor. N. r. World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
WHO WORE THE GLUE.

some Valuable Statistics Compiled from
Republtcan Almanac, Showing That thu
soldiers q tho Union We're Democrats
&nd the Stay-at-Home Voters Were Re-
publicans.
There is no evidence that even one
Republican voter in 1860 shouldered
Qhis musket and fought in the Union
Ganks during the civil war. That few
did is exceedingly probable; but the
evidence is lacking. and we must &C.
8ept the statement on faith. Outside
al She SECULAR army corps officers but
three Of the prominent Generals were
Republicans. Grant, Sherman, Sheri-
6ans Mcclellan, Meade. Hancock, Slo-
&um, Butler, Logan, Hooker, McPher-
9ons Buell. Rosecrans, Sickles = the
Rhoh galaxy of volunteer Generals
Were Democrats when the war began,
Whatever they may have been after it
0ndede But for them and the loyal
Democratis leaders of the North there
Sever would have been a civil war. or
@ ssmore perfect Union" preserved
Cor us.
I'm $500 che total Democratic vote in
Che loyal States was 1857, 119; the total
Republican vote was 1856, 261, sh ow-
ing Democratic majority in the loyal
North of 1OO,853
These States furnished 2,600,7 46
SrOOps under the different calls. If
every Republican voter in the country
Dad shouidered musket there would
have been . deficiency of 844, 485, and
- would have been necessary TO call
0pon chic number of Democrats g
Aelp them out. If not one Republican
Had stayed at home to vote. thirty 1.-TWO
pee cents OF the army must have been
Democratic Ii exactly IS many Dem
ecrass 40 Republicans had enlisted.
She Democrats would have remained
IN . majority in the voting. TO find
how many Republicans went TO the
far 1et Us Gee how many Republicans
stayed home to vote. The truly loyal
Almanacs Of the Albany Jour'sa1 and
New York Tribune will furnish the
9tatfsticA. Here Is the Republican
eote for Ice years:
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


The tariff tax on broadcloth
suit is fifty per cent less than on q
coarse suit of WOODEN cl0thes--Sk Pau
Globe.
Apparently none Of our Repub-
lican exchanges have seen Mr.. Depew's
statement that England fears the re-
suit of tariff reform as proposed by
the Democratic party.-Goshen( On ~
Republican.
"A tariff duty Is not q tax
True as the Book of Mormon. Call II
a benefit conferred by the Govern
ment upon loyal people, or the proud
privilege of the citizen to pay duties
which the Government does not need,
or a voluntary contribution.-Butd lo
Courier.
We propose, too. by extending
the market for our manufacturers, to
promote the steady employment OF
labor, while by cheapening the cost OF
the necessaries of life we increase the
purchasing power of the working
mans wages and add to the COMFORTS
of his home CleUelasad'S
Letter of Acceptance.
The men in opposition to the
Republican party certainly represent
the honored names identified with
Massachusetts, history this year.
Here are portion of them: Adams,
Quincy, Andrew. Garrison, Everett,
Hoar, Higginson- The Hoar family
is divided. but the younger branch of
it takes the progressive side--Boston
Herald.
Carl Schurz is as uncompromiS-
ing In his support of Cleveland in 1888
as he was in 1884, and he will have
with him the great mass of intelligent
thoughtful Americans of German birth.
Mr.. Schurz's visit to protected GerH
many has only served to strengthen
his dislike to Governmental systemG
discriminating between classes.-Sk
Louis Republic.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, is O
campaign work this year by attacking
Mrs Thurman for earring food to rebel
prisoners during the war, but he now
has stopped calling public attention to
the incident. He appears to be willing
to let the country forget Mrs. Thur
mans record as comforter of people
in distress. Chicago NesOs.
November will be good time
for the American who believes in free
dom and fair play to express his
opinion of
Costly coal, Costly porhR
Costly -four. Costly lard,
Costly sugar. Costly Clothes.
And all sorss-of costly necessaris6
November 6 will be a good time "a
give it to the barons and bosses and
cut-throat monopolists Of all sorts and
PHILADELPHIA Record.
MIR. Blaine says that. trusts are
largely private affairs" and his
friend, Mr.. Carnegie, says: e|The pubs
lie may regard them with serene cons
fidence." But Democratic Attorneys
General in New York, backed hE q
against the sugar trust on the ground
that it is ''illegal, monopoly and a
criminal conspiracy" We rather
think this is the peoples view.--M Y
World.
"A Government which constantly
raises much larger revenue than is
needs for an economical admiuistra-
ton, and then embarks in lavish ex-
penditures for the sake Of spending
the surplus-that Government is in q
very bad way. Such a practice some
time continued, will produce a carnie
val of rascality in our public affairs
compared with which she Tweed
regime in New York will appear like
white innocence and virtue. Such q
practice. raised to the dignity OF syss
tenn, would be the moral ruin Of thE
Republic.-Carg ScIHrz's Letter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

the tax collected at the custom house
on the imported goods is not also col
lected by the seller on goods made in
this country. This is true of taxes for
revenue, which do not corner the home
market. If this market is not cor
nered on any articles by q high Gov
eminent tax, American manufacturers
are forced to manufacture enough Of
that particular article at reasonable
price to supply the home demand.
Otherwise the consumer or his agents,
the wholesale merchants, would send
abroad for it
But if the tax is high enough to be
'sprotective"-that is, to check or pre-
vent importation, the home manufact-
urer will not fully supply the demand.
He will even form ''trusts" and shut
down mills to prevent the demand
from being supplied. This makes
prices high and adds the amount of the
tariff tax to the price of articles made
in this country.
There are very few exceptions to this
rule, and where they exist at all it is
only in industries which have not been
able as yet to combine and avail them
selves of the privilege of adding the
tariff tax to their prices-a privilege
on the existence of which the entire
protective system depends-with-
out which tariff taxes would be of no
benefit whatever to our manufacturers.
In considering the items of his cleo
tion-day outfit, the voter must assume
therefore that the amount of the tariff
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
THE TAXES WE PAY.

The Burdens on Voters Ouf6t for
Election Day.
As. between now and November, the
voters of the country who can afford
to do so will lay in their winter cloth
ing. we will consider the taxes on the
articles Of dress in which the voter in
this latitude viii go to the polls. For
the sake of the argument we will sup
pose that he can afford them, though,
owing to strikes, lock-outs, trusts,
syndicates and general restriction Of
the market by these laws and their
beneficiaries, the assumption will not
be warranted by the facts in hundreds
of cases.
The dress of our average voter in
November ought TO consist of a hat, a
wooden overcoat, wooden suit,
worsted stockings, flannel underwear,
cotton or muslin shirt with linen
bosom, collars and cuffs and silk
cravat. If it rains he will carry an
umbrella, which may be included in
the list. He will have in his pocket
a handkerchief, which we will suppose
to be linen; a pocket knife, watch
and bunch OF keys. He may have
other articles of dress and other things
in his pockets, but whatever he has,
it will be taxed. He is taxed from
the feet up and from the head down;
taxed up for the Government and
its necessary revenue; taxed down for
the beneficiary of the Govern
ment who collects his share of the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

Suppose some impudent Republican
had stcolled up to him and boosted
that the Republican party had
fought the war" Would he not
know it to be an impudent falsehooda
Would he not point to these four
States and ask where they got these
25O.695 troops from if not from the
296. EOS Democrats? Would he not
ask the secret means by which $50. 695
soldiers could be got from IS, 1O3
voters, and would he not ask this silly
liar to explain why if these Demo
cratic States furnished more than their
quota OF Union troops from their Dem
ocratic voters. the other States did not
do the same? He would also ask this
silly liar to explain how it was that
the Republicans had not lost q voter
by the war; that at all the voting their
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
Totals 26OO 746 l,957 119 l, ASS. Oss 2,214. ss1


What would be the natural and
rational explanation of any keen
witted foreigner, who never had heard
OF our civil war, who should be
shown these tables? Would he not
say: "This country has been visited
by great famine or great war
which has not affected the Republican
party in the slightest, but has fallen
entirely upon the Democratic party"
1t he knew of the war, would he not
take the tables and point out that the
Democrats plainly had furnished all
the Northern troops and borne all the
Northern losses? Would he not point
to Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky.
Missouri. for absolute proof of his as
Sertion2
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

tax was added to the cost of the article
in every instance, because if it had not
been it would. have been of no benefit
to any one in this country and would
have been reduced long ago.-.& Loslss
Re7MbZic
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

AN impression is really gaining
prevalence that Blaine desires the de-
uting very much to that end.
Gazette
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
Totals. z 600 ass 1,s9s .o1 2 174, .7s asa ESQ

Here is the history of the Democratic
party in this civil war, taken from the
IT1bune's election tables. Its increase
from 1864 to 1868 is greater than the
Republican; but how can the loss of
nearly 200, 900 between 1860 and 1864
be accounted for? Where has the nat
uraljncrease of nearly 800, 900 gone?
They sleep in the National cemeteries.
They are not present, but they can all
be accounted for ON the rolls of the
Union dead.
THE DRMOCR ATTIC Worn
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

THE REPUBLICAN VOTE.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-14
State NicknameS.

The Brooklyn Eagle publishes the fol-
lowing list of nicknames applied to the
citizens of the various. States:
Maine, foxes; New Hampshire, gran.
ite boys; Vermont, Green Mountain boys:
Massachusetts, Bay State boys: Rhode
Island, gun fints; Connecticut, wooden
nutmegs; New York, Knickerbockers; (;
New Jersey, blues or clam catchers;
Pennsylvania, Penamites or leather heads
Delaware, blue hens chickens; Mary
land, clam bumpers; Virginia, bcagles;
North Carolina, tuckoes; South Caro-.
lima, wcasels: Georgia, buzzards; Ala
bama, lizards; Mississippi, tadpoles; ;
Florida, fly up the creeks; Louisiana,
Creoles; Texas, beef heads; Arkansas,
toothpicks; Missouri, pukes; Tennessee,
whelps; Kentucky, corncrackers; Ohio,
buckeyes; Indiana, hoosiers; Illinois,
suckers; Michigan, wolverines; Wiscon-
sin, badgers; Minnesota, gophers; Iowa,
hawkcyes; California, gold hunters; Ne
vada, sage hens; Oregon, hard cases !
Nebraska, bug eaters Kansas, jay hawk
ers; Colorado, rovers Dakota, squatters:
Utah, polygamists; New Mexico, Span
ish Indians; Idaho, fortune seekers or
cutthroats. The natives of Nova Scotia
are called blue noses; of Canada, canuc ks
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-14
What Constitutes a Ration.

An interesting order recently issued
from Army Headquarters, at Washing
ton, lays down this rule as to what q
soldiers ration shall be:
"By direction of the Secretary of War,
paragraph 2l5O of the regulations is
amended to read as follows:
"2150. A ration is the established
daily allowance of food for one person.
For the United States Army it is now
composed as follows: Twelve ounces of
pork or bacon or canned beef fresh or
corned), or one pound and four ounces
of fresh beef, or twenty-five ounces of
salt beef; eighteen ounces of soft bread
or -four, or sixteen ounces of hard bread,
or one pound aud four ounces of corn
meal. TO every one hundred rations,
fifteen pounds of beans or peas, or ten
pounds of ric, or hominy; ten pounds of
green coffee, or eight pounds of roasted
(or roasted and grounU coffee, or two
pounds of tea; fifteen pounds of sugar;
four quarts of vinegar; one pound and
eight ounces of adamantine or star
candles; four pounds of soap; four
pounds of salt; four ounces of pepper !;
and to troops in the field, when neces-
sary, four pounds of yeast powder to the
one hundred ratioEs of four"
When questions arise hereafter as to
the sufliciency and succulcnce of the
ration, this will be the proper basis for
the discussion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-14
The Height of Waves.

It is a very common phrase to speak of
the waves during storm as running
mountains high; but this really means
nothing. Accurate measurements made
by Scoresby proved that during storms,
waves in the Atlantic rarely exceed 43
feet from hollow to crest, the distance
between the crcsts being $50 feet and
their speed 321 miles an hour. More
recent observations in the Atlantic give
from Al feet to - feet as the highest
measured waves; bat such heights are
rarely reached, and, indeed, waves ex-
ceeding 30 feet are very seldom encoun-
tered. The monsoon waves at Kurrachee
brcakwatcr works were found to dash
over the wall to the depth of 1S feet or
about 40 feet above mean sea level. The
greatest heights of waves on the British
coast were those observed in Wick Bay
so famous for the exceptionally heavy
seas which roll into it-beiag 3Ti to 40
feet. Green seas to the depth of 25 feet
poured over the parapet of the break
water at intervals of from seven to ten
minutes, each wave, it was estimated,
being mass of 40, 900 tons of water and
this continuously for three days and
nights. During severe storms the waves
used to rise high above the top of
Smeaton's Eddystone tower, while at the
Bell Eock the seas with easte7ly storms
envelop the tower from base to balcony
a height of 400 feet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-14
Crawling Through Fire For Life.

Hiram Collier, engineer at the Glen
dale (Pennsylvaniaj, iron works, had a
frghtful ,pericnce and narrow escape
from shocking death few days ago.
He had crawled into one of the boilers
in his charge for the purpose of cleaning
it, taking with him a can of crude pc.
troleum. He placed this can in the
boiler, near the open end, and crept to
the other end of the boiler While he
was examining the interior the oil in the
can exploded by some mysterious cause
ard it caught fire. The end of the boiler
was at once filled with the flame of the
burning oil. Engineer Collier crouched
down in his end of the boiler, with his
back to the flames, supposing that he
could hold out against the heat and
smoke of the fire until the oil was all
consumed. The heat became so intense
and the smoke so dense and suffocating,
however, that Collier saw he must either
escape from the boiler at once or meet
with terrible death. The only way for
him to escape was to crawl through the
fame and smoke Letween him and the
opening in the boiler. His progress was
necessarily slow, and his torture, as he
passed through the three or more feet of
solid fire, was frightful. He held his breath
to prevent inhaling the fame, and closed
his eyes to project them from the fire,
and reached the open air. He was able
to get but few feet from the boiler
when he fell unconscious. His clothing
was in flames, but they were quickly cx-
tinguished by workmen who were near.
Golfers hair and whiskers were burned
to the roots, and his face hands aud neck
and other parts of his body were terri
bly, blistered. He received no fatal iu-
jury.-Rochestar Union.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-14
What Wood Pulp is Used For.

care those things made of papier
mache" repeated New York wholesale
dealer, as the question was put by re-
porter for the Mail and Erpress. who was
handling a pail formed in one piece.
"Why, no. That is wood pulp. Papier
mache would break, while you can turn
this on its side and Jump upon it, if you
choose, and it will not give3"
"How is it made"
s'The makers take the wood, prir-
cipally elm, grind it into powder, then
make it into pulp. When fit for the
purpose, steel dies are used to shape the
article, which is next submitted to a
great heat and to process by which it is
hardened. 1t is then lacquered and
finished off by adding handles and so
forth. 1t is stronger than any wooden
ware. They will not break. Washtubs,
filters, umbrella stands, bathtubs, wash
bowls, and, in fact, almost everything
required in household, are made of the
same material"