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

Pharisaical Arguments Made by a Shame
less Protection Organ.
This from the Inter Ocean is as coolly
pharisaica1 as any thing in which it has
indulged:
THE Democratic programme OF political
action fails in this: It takes note of the CON
science of the American people. 1t Is an old
and ineradicable tendency of the Democratic
party to ignore the public conscience IT is a
party that always seeks to win by winking at
and allying itself with the uncertain tendencies
Of the age
Are you there, old Truepenny? Note,
then, this: That the Republican party
assumes that the American people have
no conscience and that its campaigns for
power are made upon the theory that the
people may be debauched with their own
money. What are the specification?
The Republican party gained power on
what ground? That it will substitute
steamships; that it will pay out pen
sions unstintedly; that it will give
bounties for sugar-raising; that it will
vote great river and harbor bills: that it
will prevent free market in fabrics of
home production for the benefit of the
home producers-in short, that it will
take the money of all the people and SO
bestow it that while the plunderers will
be enriched, something, a small piece of
the pork severally, a vast chunk collect
lively, will close the mouths of veterans.
The Republican party assumes that
the majority of the Nation are ad-
venturers, schemers, jobbers, mendi-
cants-shiftless fellows who want Gov
eminent support or greedy and crafty
spectators that would make the Govern
ment increase their present large fort
uneS.
The whole campaign of the Republic
an party last year was an attempt to de-
bauch the people. Where the bait of
the platform was not successful Quay
committee was at work with concrete
corruption funds. Dudley would have
electors bought in blocks of FIVE out of
money furnished by the pious Wanna
maker. The platform made no secret
of its purpose to bid with the funds in
the National exchecker. "Hc-c ~c are. -
they cried, ''here we are. the only party
in the land that will make the public
money fly for private benefit. Here we
are, Messrs- Veterans of the War, with
out regard to length of service, circum-
stances of enlistment or character of
record; here we are. bidding for your
vote out of the National Treasury. Come
on, subsidy-grabbers of all kinds, we're
the only fellows in the field that will
legalize your schemes of robbery. You
scratch our back by giving up the Gov
eminent and we'll scratch yours by pass
ing some subsidy bills with great oppor-
tunities. This way. manufacturers; no
nonsense here; you want high tariff
and we want your votes. Come on, gen.
tlemen, come on; it's a bargain; you
buy US and We buy you"
And so it ran, always promising free
use of the Treasury for particular inter
ests, offering debauchment, and assum-
ing, of course, that the American people
are wholly without conscience or have
consciences so weak that itcan be stified
by an act of Congress with a job in it.
The popular vote was against them, but
they won, and expect with q Congress
and an Executive wholly in their inter
est that the brides will be paid. The
old vet. of thirty days service, the sub
sidy-hunter, the Nool-grower, the
manufacturer. the fellows with irriga-
ton schemes, the pigiron lords, the
mill barons, all and singular, the people
who want the Government to aid them to
riches. are gathering at the capital to
demand for themselves and their kind
the fulfllment of campaign promises.
1t is entirely fitting that the organ Of