Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
DEAouRATIC PLATFORM.
by Barber County Democracy

The democratic party of Barber county. Kan
sas, in mass convention assembled. without
Gear of successful contradiction, assert
LIST. The administration of county affairs by
che republican party, during the past sixteen
wears, has been little better than highway rob
berry, it having saddled debt OF third of a
million dollars on the people. with nothing but
courthouse and few ordinary bridges to
show where the expenditures were made.
I'll The republican majority, by electing to
office Incompetent or dishonest rncn, or both
mas been the means of the county losing thous-
inis Of dollars, at least $4,000 of which was
openly and boldly acknowledged, and the only
explanation the taxpayers could get oft of
their servants was TO beasked What are you
going 10 60 about it =
sd By falsifying census returns an Juggling
with ngures, at least three county officers haze
lrawn from the county treasury, ana retained
salaries larger than were allowed by law, and
have refused, and still refuse to return to the
treasury the money illegally taken.
Alb. the law requires that an annual state
ment CT the financial condition Of the county
shall be published, and yet the taxpayers have
never been permitted to see such a statement,
aud no effort has ever been made to punish the
officer for failure to prepare and publish this
financial exhibit. ',-
9Th. The rate of taxation is permitted to re-
main so nigh that there exists in the county
treasury an average daily balance of 81, 900,
when this money should be in the pockets of
the tax payers. 49,.
J. Therefore, the democratic party of Barber
county, being in favor of rcform.in all branch
es OF government, national, state and county.
demands complete oyerhauling of county
finances, a strict settlement of all balances
due by any former office-holder, a publication.
of the exact financial condition of the county
and reduction in the rate of taxation to the
actual demands OF the county government,
economically administered.
The democracy of Barber county is in favor
of reforms outside of county affairs, and here
by declares for the following
The Australian system OF voting; '" &C.
The free and unlimited coinage Of silver;
The enforcemento of the law to pre- vent usury: :
The repeal of the national banking law, and
the issue of all currency direct by the govern
ment, i'll sufficient quantities to meet the de-
mands of trade -...-.-. . -,-.
The abolition of trusts and combines
A constitutional amendment to regulate the
issue of articles of incorporation TO alleged
companies, whose existence is confined to the
paper on which the articles are writ en- and
whose liability and capital stock are IS unstable
as the fabric of a school boys dream.
We are opposed to the alien ownership of
land; to the present system Of tariff robbery
to the control of one legislative branch of gov
ernment by millionaire senators TO the out
rageous rulings of a despotic speaker of the
house Of Representatives to the system now
prartjc1d by the republican majority in con-
gress of unseating duly elected members of
congress and we are especially opposed to the
reelection of John J. ingalls,, whose only ser
vice for his state in congress, has bcen to keep
alive sectional issues, calculated 10 divide the.
people of the north and south, and prevent
that united brotherhood for which all good
citizens so devoutly wish.
We are opposed to a paternal governments,
proposed by the republican majority, and
we denounce, as outrageous, the proposed
Lodge elections bill which would have the
polls presided over by armed soldiers special
deputy marshals and other federal machinery,
calculated to prevent free Americans from
controlling their own elections in the manner
guaranteed to them by the constitution
We believe the right of petition should never
be denied; and, therefore, when a respectable
number of electors ask that they may be per-
mitted to vote on the repeal or adoption of any
part of the organic law. their request should
be granted, and the individual or party that
refuses to hear such petition, is unworthy of
confidence or power.
Resolved, by the democratic party of Barber
county, assembled in mass convention that
we are in favor of the nomination of straight
democratic ticket, upon pla form of demo-
cratic principles, from state officers down. and
1 including all county Offices