Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
A Sanple Reuuh hlican.

Neighbor Stoke having asked his
friends to excuse him from dehb-
Grating further upon democracy,
for a season, or until Diff. and
Roetzel could hold another consul
tation, devoted his paper exclusive
ly to the editor of this paper We
feel complimented by his.hrst article of
one column and quarter, In which he
shows conclusively that we are a loyal
republican which is the best thing on
earth that can be said of any man.
Register.
Yes, you are certainly a ''loyal
republican" as republicanism is under
stood by the gang you train with.
You are one of the Dudley republicans
who stopped to fry the dirty fat out
of the eastern manufacturers. and with
that fat buy the floating vote in ''blocks
of five" You are an ingalls, republi-
can. who, while you profess christianity,
believe that the Decalogue and the
Golden Rule have no place in politics
you know it has none in yours You
are Quay republican, who considers
it smart to be able to do the dirty work
needed to keep your party in power
and defy the laws of the land through
the protection given by the power you
bought. You are one of the kind of
republicans who cannot realize that
men may take an interest and an
active part in politics and still remain
pure in thought and motive. You are
built upon that kind of a republican
plan which allows Hallowel TO swear
| on oath that he is a resubmissionist in
Wichita, and the next day affirm as
strongly that he is prohibitionist in
Hutchinson You are one of several
republican editors who deliberately
printed an article charging Simpson
with opposing pension legislation,
when you knew such article TO be lie,
for you heard his talk yourself and
KNOW that he did not oppose pension
legislation. You are one of breed of
republicans who seldom draw a breath
without an accompanying thought that
mayhap you may manipulate yourself
into office
OF course you are rSpublican-one
of the most virulent, tricky, scheming
breed. Yon are evidently long cared
one, for you are always kicking at
something. Because uf your wonder
fully appropriate requirements YOU
can't be anything else but one of the
most despicable kind of republicans.
You know you could not be demo-
crat. for you tried it once
| What you will be, a few years hence,
when there is no thing known as a
republican party, it is hard TO coDjec-
| ture- May be a third party prohibi-
tionists, though for the good memory
of some of our misguided but honest
friends, we hope not. At any rate you
will never be democrat, for the rea-
son that you don't possess a sufficient
amount of good horse sense iyou being
too much crossed with the long cared
breed). You will never be a democrat
for the reason that you have not a suf-
ficient amount of comprehensibility to
enable you to take i'm the full meaning
of democracy. Thank the Lord, you
CANNOT be democrat,
i Mydear readers, We beg your pardon
for intruding this political picture upon
you; but Brother Caraway is afraid
some one will think he is not a repub-
lican, and to please and compliment
him we have told you just what kind of
!, a republican he Is. You Will be thank
full with us that his species is rapidly
becoming extinct, blowing themselves
into imbecility, as it were, III their vain
endeavor to make the people believe
that God created this fair land for
, them and their lordly masters cnly.