Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-07

upon them over the backs of their
officers. Stand closer together, then,
for these things Stand by your col
ors and defy the slander-monger.
Again, welcome Polk. Welcome Beau-t
montI Welcome all workers in the
cause of the people against aristocracy
and the money power!
And this is who Polk is.-Kansas
EDITORIAL COMMENT. III
THE congressional Scoopshovel still
continues to shovel the money out of
the nations treasury.
The chairman of the Dodge City n
convention said I'VE are all farmers"
But it was notable fact that the men
who supported "Col. JIM were the q
richest republican politicians in the dis /.
tr;ct, andemostly from the towns and ,,
cities. 8
DEMOCRATS, see to it that every e
township is represented in the mass
convention to be held in this city Sat ]
urday of this week. A meeting of the \
central committee will be held on tnat I
day, and all committeeman should be t
present. lip
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ORIGINAL package fishing excur- 7
sions are quite popular in our city.
Men will go off and hide in the woods
to dri8k beer, who denounce the resub-
mission movement and holler ~hurrah
sor the republican party and its pro-
hibition.''
WICAITA'S monied men promised, at q
the Dodge City convention. to stand by j
afallOwell to man. And as far as | h
money backing is concerned, they will a
see that ne has plenty of fat with i
Rhich 90 conduct a hip-and- -hurrah {
csEapaian.
WHEN such men ass Jim Blaine and F
idea aeaiast the rObber tariff, there i
ought to be Il few of the $1,000 Kansas
''jays' who voiced for it who will now h
acknowledge that they were duped, and :
duped badly:
Col. HALEo~ELL wifi have fine ]
time explaining his real position in t
favor of resubmissioa toe the prohibi- +
tionistSs AID bis essasnaed position
aeziisss resubnliasioa TO the anti-prohi. E
constituency The Col. has an oily G
t0uSne and may succeed in elaying {
both rOSes. In
VEGfLf sAe sariE heaven given to the i,
people ds,siug tAe last presidential cam
the Atchison Clsea'spsoa; fcr thirty years
a stalWart republican, oEean, came out
against the protection falacy, saying
that 1.-The west, and ell agricultural
countries, have 40 uss 9or protection
Let the gand work 60 on.
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Cob. ]. e. HAAdowELE appears to q
have put his capacious Soet in 1t. In
trying to masquerade es prohibition
ist, ne. has not deceived temperance e
people and has greatly disguised the
resubnissionists. Re fakes @ skislful +,
acrobat to cArTy wafer on bush
shouideFs-or rather water on ono !
shoulder and wiskey on the other. {
Emporia lsspublscSa. ft
jim HALLOwskE GILL cork the old :,
soldier racket fOy e]l there is in it. He
will be fuller OF promises than a dos is
full Of fleaS. In the meantime there
will be many old soldier farmersI
throughout the district who would
rather be certain of tariff reduction,
railroad regulation and free silver, thsn
hear all the false promises of the repub-
lican party over again.
THE advance in silver has appreci-
ated the grain market abroad by
increasing the cost of the rupee, with
which England pays for her Indian or
colonial wheat. The higher silver goes
the more the wheat costs, whether the
quotations are advanced or not. AS
we sell our wheat for gold, we are thus
e3abled to csnlpete more easily as siluer
and gold more to,cards a parity--Balti-
move Journal of Commerce.
WESTERN Kansss is dryer now than
it has been for seven years. From
Larned aest, except Immediately
aDder thejrrigating bitches, all kiuds
of vegetation is dry enough to burn.
Between Dodge City and kinsley the
whole face of the coNntry is bleak
waste; especially on the north side of
the Santa Fe road where To grass has
been fired by passing trains, is the pros
MEET oreary look,px. The question of