Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-08
REPUBLICAN METHODS.
4 Few Words About ~ G. O. r. Cam
paign I'm the New States.


Few Words About the G. O. r. Cam
paign I'm the New States.
The state Of the weather is exceed
ingly favorable for frying the fat out
of manufacturers" again, and the in
dications are that the experiment Is to
be tried once more. An election is to
be held in the four new States. and
proclamation has been made, not only
from the party headquarters, but from
the White House itself, that they must
be carried for the Republicans. It is
seen very clearly that the Republican
party has much to lose in the contest
and nothing really to gain. 1t has
now majority in Congress, and it
will only have a majority if it carries
all four OF the new States. But If it
loses all four, or two out of four, its
majority is imperiled. This is why
the political pot usually permitted to
cool in the heated term is bubbling as
actively and as noisily as it ever did
in the midst of Presidential contest.
The Quays. the Dudleys, the Chand-
lers and the Clarksons, unmindful of
the imminent risk of sunstrokes, are
busily at work laying pipes for the
holding of the popular will in the new
States; and it seems to be generally
conceded in Republican quarters that
the methods to be employed are those
which the same manipulators used in
the last election.
How far they will succeed is still an
open question. AS for the fat-frying
process it is safe to say it will not pan
out with any thing like the abundant
results of last season. The manufact-
urers not only have less fat to spare,
but are far less in the mood for spar
ing any. A good many of those who
yielded up their pinguidity to the per-
suasions of Quay have got their pay in
the shape of offices for themselves or
their friends, and will plead to be re-
garded as out of politics. Those who
have not gotten their pay for the fat
they furnished will be even more 10th
to enter the frying pan again. They
will admit probably the necessity of
carrying the Dakotas and Washing
ton; but they will be very obtuse as
to the necessity of using money in the
process.
The prospect for carrying the new
States by successful fraud is even less
promising. The ''blocks of FIVE"
game can not be played to advantage,
even by experts like Dudley. without
money; and this, as we have already
intimated, is not likely to be forth
coming in sufficient amount. Even if
it should come through fresh appeal
to the fears of the manufacturers we
doubt If the game could be played in a
new State as it was in Indiana. There
is likely, of course, to be considera BILE
laxity in allowing the exercise of the
elective franchise, as there always is in
a new community. But there is likely
also to be agood deal of disposition on
the part of the people to manage their
own affairs. The man who goes from
one of the older States into either of
the Dakotas, or Washington, or Mon
tana, and attempts to manipulate the
voting. as it was manipulated in In
diana last fall, stands an excellent
chance of being lynched.
AS for appealing to the fears of the
working-men and securing their aid in
carrying the new States for the Re-
publican party, we doubt if the most
brazen of the leaders of that party
have the necessary "cheek." The
working-men have spent some six
months and more in lea rning just
what Republican promises of constant
work at high wages are worth A
good many of them have had little
else to do during the past three
months; and the assistance they are
likely to give the party in strengthen
ing its hold upon Congress is likely
to be of the smallest. It behooves
Dudley, Clarkson & Co., therefore, to
invent some new schemes for carry
ing the new States. The old ones
will not work.-Det-Oit Free Pl esq.