Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-24

| chase Oh uld1y muc8. .O110 C8Q 8lC on
horse or in q carriage and see the rac>
for many miles. Many ladies as vel
as gentlemen attend on horseback, ant
the recent rains having laid the dus
and purified the atmosphere person,
can enjoy one of the grandest weeks o1
sport ever experienced in the west.
What Fools These Nnrtals Be!'
That is evidently the opinion Towns
ley has of the people Of Barton county
On the 18th of September he said. in
the Tribune:
The democrats will hold their con.
ventiOn tomorrow, Saturday, to renOm.
mate the officers now serving their first
term. There will probably be nc
changes made. Thus, the two tickets
are practically before tho people. The
II ibune ,ciu haze no personal tight with
the opposition. Personally the officers
are pleasant, clever gentlemen, and
have doubtless done their best to dis
charge their duties faithfully and hon
estly. That they have m1de some mis-
takes, is possible, but if =, from no de.
sire to do so. OF this zoe kdue no charges
to make. The people have the candi-
dates before them, and they are to ex-
anime into the characters of their SER
wants and decide who they want"
That is the sentiment Of Mr.. Towns
ley month ago, on the day before the
calmly and deliberately that the demo
cratic candidates now before the peo-
pie are pleasant, clever gentlemen .
that if they have made any mistakes in
their conducting Of the county Offices
it was from ''no desire to do So" and
he had mo charges to make.'' He
knew that he was acknowledging the
facts, though such admission was the
best Endorsement he could have given
the democratic candidates.
But a change has come over the gen.
tleman. The republican guns have
been loaded with the old-time mud and
filth of bitter partisanship; the ''fat
has been fried' out of the candidates,
and doubtless Townsley's pen has been
literally CREASED with the same; for in
the Tribune of the 18th, last week. the
following language, in an editorial of
some length, appears:
''The republican party has placed a
ticket of good men in the field; men
who are well fitted for their several po-
sitions; men who are well known for
their uprightness and honorable deal
ings; men who obey and respect the
laws. This cannot be said of the dem
Ocratic ticket. The democratic party
in Kansas is Joint" party. Every
man who violates the prohibition law
is democrat, and democrats are the
patrons and endorsers of .sjOints."
You will not find in Barton county a
republican running secret dive" in
of the laws of the state. You
will not find republican meetings, pic
mics, and political gatherings where to
drink beer and whiskey IS chief source
of amusement. You will not find re-
publican meetings made up almost en-
tirely of one nationality, and seeking
to put the offices of the county wholly
under the control of such influence
You will not find republicans abandon
ing party principles for Office, nor flop
ping about from one party to another
year after after. You will find this in
the democratic party. We ask you to
look at the conduct of these two parties
in this county, and acquaint yourselves
with the individuals on each ticket and
when you do this if you desire to vote
for the best ticket rather than for the
party, you will have no trouble in cast
ing your first vote in the right way"
1t will be a strange thing if the peo-
pie of Barton county put any confidence
in a man who will so quickly change
his tune and thus vilely traduce the
men whom he so short Il time ago &C
to be good officers, good
men, and in whom he finds nothing to
criticise. Democrats, however, have
no fears of such a senseless and gar
bled harangue having any weight with
the people, with 1.-The young men who
will cast their first votes this fall" or
with the older men who know that,
ever since the editor of the Tribune
came to Great Bend. that paper has
been in the field to the highest bidder.
They know the sheet as a political
its editor as scheming
aud they will place no
faith In either.
1t appears to be ''in the play" also
for the Tribune to join the Register-the
republican ring organ
little side issue at Pawnee Rock in an
attack upon the voters of German
Townsley cannot abuse
and malign the democratic party with.
out slurring and slandering the German
voters of Barton county. Verify,
what fools these mortals be,'' and
chief of all the fools is the man who
expects voters to place any confidence
in the slnsh above last quoted.
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