Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05

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> "YE WHO have steers to shed prepare
to shed them now,' sensibly remarks
an exchange.
THE midwinter sun shines so bright,
the wheat fields all smile and look gay;
our county, fair Barton's all right
"December's as pleasant as May"
NEXT week we will publish Judge
Fosters reasons why he is In favor of
giving the people chance to again
vote upon the prohibition question.
THE Rush Center Ne,os interviews
the business men of that town and
publishes the result, on the q1sstiOn q
resubmission. Out of 81 business nsens
q are for resubmiss1on and 10 opposed.
Governor elect Campbell of Ohio, is
a Knights of Pythias, G.. A. R. man and
an Elk In fact he is "j'iner."-
Hutchinson Ne,rs.
YES, and gentleman and scholar,
a democrat and an ''Eli.''
THE Baltimore Journal of Commerce,
weekly journal devoted to the -four,
grain, milling and shipping Interests,
is one of our added exchanges, and is
a valuable addition to our supply of
reading matter.
HARTLAND has a new bridge over
the Arkansaw, 7sG feet long, just COM
pleted. Now when the supreme court
decides that Hartland is the county
seat, beyond a shadow of doubt, that
town will be fixed"
IT SEEMS that there is little kick
among the ''ioint'' keepers of the city.
Some of them pay $50 per month for
the privilege of dispensing the ardent,
while others have to pony UP sSid0-
Arkansas City Democrat.
3 THE Wichita Journal calls upon the
republican politicians to ''vote as they
drink That will never do. Two
thirds of them would be in jail for
hours.-Lawrence Tribune.
THE republicans of Iowa now claim
that they never were in favor of prohi-
bition. How long will it be until the
republicans of Kansas will be claiming
the same thing? The republican party
is a free whisky. party todaY.-Lyons
Democrat.
KANSAS CITY raised 800, 900 for the
packet line project without any trouble
at all. They now propose to add $780,
600 more, and the thing will not be
hard to do. We predict that Kansas
will derive great benefit from the
revived river business.
THE democrats now have eight OF
ten district judges in Kansas-electing
no less than four at the recent election.
Democratic justice is of. the simon
pure variety and more of it would
inure to the benefit of the state
Mcpherson Democrat.
KANSAS CITY is making very
strong effort to secure river packet
line of steamers. The movement has
already assumed large proportions and
is commendable one. Anything that
will help to reduce freight rates out OF
Kansas City will benefit the people OF
Kansas, and we wish the re-establish.
ment of river traffic abundant success
SOME people often wonder why it is
that editors generally wear long tailed
coats. We don't think it will be telling
tails out of school when we state that
the skylights that our wives often put
into our pants do not always match
color;with the original goods, and a
long tailed coat is the most appropriate
under the circumstance-or over 1t
either, for that matter.
CONGRESSMAN r. L. FLOWER an
ndunces that he will introduce bill
into U. S. congress having the end ir
view of changing the laws so as to en-.
able the people to elect pOstmasters
This of course would meet with the
approval of the public in general hui
it is not probable the present admin.
istration will do anything that would
cut off bit of the presidential pat
ronage.
Quite an INTEREST," ng debate at River
Side Tuesday night, subject, "Resub
mission" They tell us they got quite
political before the close of the argu.
ment.-Pawnee Rock Leader.
AS Bro. Lewis of the Leader is an
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. we presume the
reason he did not give the result of the
debate was because it was a victory fol
the resubmissionists. Come out square
neighbor, and voice the sentiments Of
your constituents, and you will gar
by it.
A FEW prohibItion-for-po policy-only
anti-resubmission republican papers
make a terrible to-do in claiming thai
"the idea of resubmissiOn in Kansa!
is all bosh.' At the same time the!