Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-04
oARAwArs GALL"

our friend Caraway more than other
things, it is his supreme gall" He
has enough of it to supply the whole
neighborhoOd, and he exhibits II every
week through the medium Of the paper
he bought ON time and got the post
Office thrown in. He cries it out upon
the streets daily, and shoves it under
the noses OF unsuspecting and innO-
cent citizens at every turn. Gall! He
has even more of it than had the man
who's preceded him as owner of the
fanning-m mill sheet known as the Regis
ter, and Lord knows HE had surplus.
This cheeky editor and self-satisfied
postmaster hardly lets . day pass with
out trottine down the street and yell
ing out, to the terror Of ladies passing
by and the amusement of street lOafers,
"Hurrah for Hallowsll!'' He is 50 full
of the ida thathe must make AN ass OF
himself, all because he runs . republi-
can "organ" and must swallow every
thing that in dished up to him BY the
bigger bosses, that he forgets that peo-
plo look for q sman in his position to
show little consistency; q. little hon
esty Of purpose and some small amount
of gumption.
People who notice his exaggerated
rrotestations of loyalty to Col. Jim,
the resub-prohib-repub. ''absolved"
candidate, sometimes refer back few
months to his pronounced views
on the subject Of Hal. and his candi-
dacy. For instance: In the Register
of April l7th, 1890, Caraway said, edi-
tOriallv:
'.The implioation by Col. HallOwell
during his speech at the reunion that
General Al9er was SO under the infiu-
shce of Wall Street that he could not
do the old soldier justice. was little
Imagination. Gen. Alger is not made
OF that kind of metal. Many On old
soldier in time of need has ,bisosed the
beneficial hand of General Alger, and
are mortified to hear . prominent
speaker indulge in such tnstnuations."
So, "many an old soldier vSs mOrti-
Ieds 90 hear Hallowell Jump onto
Alger with both feet, - be did vt his
Arst speech in this cityr Strange! And
chat speech Of tire oily Col. % stirred
up the ire of Caraway thst he broOded
aver its unjustne1s to the old soldiers;
and kicked about it on the street corn
&rs; and the next week, in the Register
Of April 24th, he came 1t ''Mr." Hal
Owell again as follows:
'.Mr. Hallewell, in his speech vt the
opera house on April 7th, u1jnaly, Ce
thought then and ,eOtc, charged COmman-
der I'm Chief Alger with beiuH ON q
western tour in the interest OF Wall
Street or the mOnied men Of the east"
Cnjustly does he think nows Or,
was the s'princely," the sweet, the
@moral" and the ''truthful' Hal. Civ
dng his hearers ''straight goOds'' or
anly playing them for suckers3
Along about that time our friend
Caraway asoangling little FOR suck
ers himself. He was running, on the
patent side of his paper. from two to
four columns of red-hot alliance mat
ter. and on tho home print side vas
dishing out . great deal of ''tany" to
the farmers. He Was putting in what
time he had to spare from reading post
al cards aud holding star chamber con-
sultations with the party from Lsrned
and G. Wash, to telling the farmers on
the streets how anxious he Was to p1eaaB
them, and how sure b. vas that the
farmers of the 7th distriee would noQ-
mate "a farmer candidate"
o, he was sure he was right; he
could not poAaibly. b Distaken in
thinking that the rspvhlioars would
not dare to put any bat Arnar can
didate in nomination 10 DO1ee City.
In the Register of date JuDe 18th, find
this:
Those who appreciate the condition,
Of politics in this district, commend the
position the Register has expressed in
favor Of q farmer congressman hom
the seventh district. The signs art
propitiOus il the republicans place
themselves ~ accord soith the scntin.ent
of a majority Of its members"
Did the republican party appreciate
the condition Of politics in this dis.
trict" and place itself in accord with
majority Of its members when i,
threw Overboayd all the farmer candi
dates before the Dodse City convention
and nominated the Wichita lawyer,
the politician, the man who never
farmed lick In his life and has ne
feeling in common with the farmer
no interests identified with the inter
ests Of Western farmers; who ''morti
fed" the old soldiers who heard hin
here in Great Bend the day he held )
talking match with Henry Booth? No
by. several:
In the Register Of July Sd, that rex
letter issue which hoated out nike th'
bloody shirt In a high wind, he agail
Insisted that ''this is the farmer.
year"
THE congressional candidates ar,
becoming warmed up. This is tn
Pa IA.