Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-08

Tie tnaI lltCle Dill just yeL-WdII uil1ii
we thresh our wheat.
A MAN in New Haven has been fined
$6. AZ for taking refuge from the rain
in a side tracked freight Car.
MEMBERS of the democrrtic county
central committee notice the call for
meeting of the committee III another
column. Attend the meeting if pOssi-
BILE.
Do you want good interesting read
ing matter? Hunt up the Kansas
crop report for July. 1t is a story
that grows better month by month,
and is almost stranger than fiction.
Ex-SECRETARY WHITNEY formally
announces that he is not candidate
for the presidency of the United States.
He is for the ''best man." This may
be said to be the first declinatiOn for
1892, next.
"PAY as you go,'' should be the
motto of every farmer, says an
exchange. The advice is good, and the
more farmers that are in position to
follow it, and do so, the more indepen-
dent men there will be in the land.
CERTAINLY the gentlemen who are
laboring to preserve the old fashioned
gallows as a civilizlng instrument will
agree, after reading the account of the
hanging bee in Louisville, KY, that
it is high time to abolish the amateur
hangman.
RICE county only has thirteen papers,
and there are to be found announce
ments of candidates in each one OF
them. This does not seem SO strange
when every other man you meet down
there is a candidate-before the repub-
lican convention.
AFTER visit to Topeka and Kan
sas City, last week, we are constrained
to believe that the Topeka Capitals
three column disquisition on Kansas
City was really only a pen-picture of
Topeka under another name.-King-
man Courier (Rep.)
THE pension bureau has at last re-
jected a claim. The applicant was a.
poor negro woman, who was formerly
slave Having neither vote, nor
money, nor friends, nor influence, Tan
ner disposed of her case summarily.
Ill I01 ;,,h hot 10
son Democrat,
THE most utterly demagogical ap-
pointment which has been made by any
President in recent years was Mr.. Har-
rison's appointment of Corporal Tan
ner to be Commissioner of Pensions.
And from the way in which that bull
in china shop has been carrying on it
looks as though the party would be
held for heavy bill of damages.-N.
Y. World.
THE rule. OF nepotism still prevails in
the national administration. A
nephew of Mr.. Blaine has Just been ap-
pointed assistant postmaster at Au-
gusta by the reinstated Joe Manley.
The Harrison administration, taking
the cue from its chief, evidently re-
CARDS public Offices in the same light
that Mr.. Blaine did trusts-as sslargely
private affairs"
A REPUBLICAN editor at Garden
City has been found guilty by a jury
of having sworn falsely and thereby
committing purjury in the matter of a
small bill of 81 ,551 against the county
for printing, and two of the commits
sioners who allowed the account are
under Indictment for allowing the bill.
Even the editors of the opposition party
sometimes go astray after feed from
the public crib.
WE spent last Sunday, the 4th inst,
in Kansas City, Mo-, and want to say
that Kansas City can be just as orderly
and decorous as any town, when she
lays her plans that way. Saloons were
all closed, as far as we could ascertain,
and it was not our misfortune to see a
would like to suggest to the writer of
1.-The Rum Soaked City, article in the
Topeka Capital, that he go and battle
his cranium.
SUITS have been begun against the
millionaire members of the South
Fork Fish Club, the club which main
tanned the fatal Johnstown dam, to
recover damages for loss of life and
property. In the line of Justice every
member of that club should be com
PEELED to devote the wealth he owns tt
repairing as far as possible the dam
ages done through carelessness; but in
the line of legal litigation we don't be
lieve they will do it.
WHAT needy veteran feels thrill ei