Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-21
4 BRUTAL ATTACK.
0Weos OF che 0ailod Mead ConsrdsoA
Insult Northern DemOcratA.


Insult Noethorn DemocrotA.
'.Stsnd Back, Doughfacesr' is the
headline President Harr1son's home
organ, the indianapolis Journal, puts
over an editorial on the mailed-hand
policy of the Republican party. 1t is
addressing in this comprehensive and
emphatic gay the 1000. 600 Democrats
outside OF the RECONSTRUCTED States"
who voted FOR Mr. Cleveland in 1888.
In 1876, when the Presidency Was
stolen and . usurper seated in the
White House, these Democrats stood
back. In 1883, when New York and
Indiana were colonized; when the cleo
ton was decided by the money used to
vote Aoaters in blocks of five, these
Democrats stood back. They stood back
when Mr.. M. S. Quay announced
that the Republican party would hold
Congress with the mailed hand;s they
stood hack when the precedents of a
century we're nullified by the Reed
Dudley conspiracy in the House OF Rep
resentatives; they stood back when the
Democratic minority in the House was
gagged; when Democrats were unseated
to enable the PlutocPatic league to
carry out its policy OF depressing the
masses. They stood back when the
Montana Senators were stolen and the
Senate was fraudulently packed for the
perpetuStion OF Plutocracy. And they
sre stsnding back still.
After all this Mr.. Harrison's organs
once more assail them with the cry:
''Stand back, doughfaces."
It is impossible, gentlemen The
Democrats OF the unreconstructedS States
can stand back no further. II you steal
another Presidential election: if you de-
prive them OF their rights with the
mailed hand, they will be obliged to
stand forward. They'love peace. They
are the conservative element OF this
country. Their principles and their
fidelity to them have time and again
saved the country from chaos. They
have made great sacrifices for peace.
They have hoped for reforms; they have
waited patiently for the era OF radical
ism to pass; for oppression to exhaust
itself; For the love'of liberty to reassert
itself once more. And after all this
comes once more the old cry: '.Stand
back, doughfacesw
They will not They will stand for
ward-as far forward as duty and their
love of liberty leads them. If they are
to be smitten in the face with the
mailed hand of fraud and violence, it
will be found that the face is not dough;
that it can be set to iron hardness
against insolent oppression.
The first and highest duty Of the mill
ion Democratic voters in the recon-
structed States is to endure and wait.
The highest duty of the 1000, 900 Demo-
Gratis of the unreconstructed States is
to keep the peace and defend American
liberties They are Democrats, not
DULLES. They have no threats to make,
but we warn the mailed hand conspira-
tors that successful coup detat is i'm
possible in America. The history of
1876 can never again repeat itself. If
such an attempt is to be made, no bully
ing cry of STAND back, doughfacesl"
will intimidate the 1000. 900 Democrats
of the unreconstructed States from
standing forward. This is the situation
as the Republic understands it. 1t will
be we'll for Mr.. Quay. Mr.. Dudley and
others interested in the mailed-hand
policy to examine the situation careful
ly with a view of ascertaining how far
they are right in presuming that there
is something in the air of the North
and West which makes a Democrat a
''doughface, a supine coward, on whom
the utmost insult, the greatest injuries
and the worst expressions may be safely
inf1icted.-St. Louis Republic.