Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
A VOICE FROM TIE SLOUGH.

A VOICE FROM THE SLOUGH.
Blind Bent Murdoch, Of the FL
Dorado Republican, is not SO blind to
the corruptness of his party as the ma
jority of republican editors. He is
one of the oldest and most respected
republican editors of the state, and is
to he greatly respected for his fearless
arraignment of his party.
eve look over the acts of the legis-
lature and are ready to declare that it
is one of the most corrupt and prof1l-
gate bodies that ever assembled at the
state capital. We contemplate the
present state government and weep
over its rank stupidity. We consider
our congressional delegation and
wonder why it is that Jay Gould and
his crowd do not already own all the
railroads in the country, or that the
country is not bankrupt, and we look
illustration of what score of de-
termined politicians can accomplish in
a few years.
''These lying old hypocrites and rep
rebates have got the state and they
mean to keep it. This old crowd makes
politics trade. They live by it, grow
fat on it, and really make formidable
combination. They bulldoze the news
paper, tramp upon small politicians,
blackmail the railroads for fat positions
for their followers and rob them of
money for corruption fund. They
put stupid imbeciles or characterless
dead beats into prominent places, and
dominate as successfully as Boss Tweed
ever ruled New York.
If strong man revOlts he is bought
off, and with a fat Office. If a weak
one objects they snuff him out. They
lie, and deceive, are inscriptions, cor
rupt and rotten, and it is high time the
whole gang from "a to lizard" was
rooted out. Nothing is too small for
them to tackle, so they will continue
to gorge themselves at the public crib
till they die of old age or fall off from
sheer exhaustion.
The combination is so rotten that its
peculiar perfume pervades every por-
ton of the state; so rank that it smells
to Heaven while the angels hold their
noses. It is not only rotten, but it
testers in great sores of political mag
gots, which feed and fatten upon cor
ruptiOn.
It is treason to the party to say these
things, and a half dozen of these So
called party organs will call us to ac-
count, but. thank the Lord, we are free
of the whole crowd.
These political old dodgers have al
ready named the next United States
senator, the next congressman, the
next governor, the next delegates to
the national republican convention and
who they shall vote for. The whole
program is as absolutely fixed as that
the year of 1890 dawn upon the state,
and to offer objection or protest is just
as reasonable as to express any opinion
in opposition to the gang who do the
fixing"
For the past few weeks these brana-
Giles have been tramping around the
state fixing things. They appeal to
one class of republicans to ''stand by
the ticket, for the success of the grand
old party" They approach another
class with promises of fat offices, while
in reality they do not care tlnker's dam
for the party or anybody in it. They
are simply looking out for themselves
and their following, and are at any
time ready to be all things to all men
provided they can be kept in Office.
The agricultural department at
Washington sends out lying reports
about crops in order to depreciate the
prices of grain and produce.
The treasury department stands
in with Wall street to fleece the peO-
pie.
The railroads own and run congress.
The legislationu of the country is in
the interests of the millionaire thief as
against the interest of the poor man.
The coal combination, the coal oil ring,
the cattle and hog combine, the grain
manipulators and the public robbers
and plunderers of all classes and con-
ditions are running aud running the
country, while the peoples public
servants, the same old barnacles are
stupidity wondering why it is that the
country is echoing with the sentit-
ments of socialists, the anarchist, the
communist and all other evidences of
a political revolt or national upheaval.
This is what the people of Kansas
think of the gang of demagogues under
whose corrupt and lying domination
we toll"