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

legislation ana demand the earliest reSub.
mission of the so-called Prohibitory amend.
diate repeal of the laws passed in the inter
est of prohibition which confer dangerous
powers upon the courts and substantially
deprive the citizens of trial by Jury and 10.
cal self government, and we declare une.
Quivocally for high license and local option
Tenth-We arraign tho Republican men,
bers of the present National House OF Rep
resentatives from Kansas for their unani.
NOUS vote for the Mckinley bill which, AZ
Hon. James Gillespie Blaine said would not
provide almarket for single bushel OF Kan
sas wheat or q single BARI Ell OF Kansas pork.
We condemn this vote as being in the In
terest Of the maa ufacturers of the East and
against the farmers and working men OF
Kansas
Eleventh-As the Republicans of this State
In their late convention made John James
Ingalls, an issue in this campaign. we are
compelled to ask the people of Kansas to TO.
pudiate a man who. in widely circulated
interview. denounced reform in politics al
an "iridescent dream" declared that "the
decalogue has no place in politics." and ex-
pressed the belief that the use of money in
campaigns and the employment of hired
Hessians were justihable.
Twelfth-We believe that prohibition has
brought upon the people of this State meal
cuIab. e evils and has tended to produce, as
has corrupted the very foundations of just
ice by a system Of hired sp es and informers
and made at times our courts isgrace in
the adm Illustration of public Justice.
Thirteenth-We declare emphatically in
favor OF high license and local option, and
recommend law providing that for each
license issued for the sale of liquor $5OC
shall be paid to the county treasurer for the
purpose of making and improving county
roads, and that the city mum icipalities shall
in addition fix such sums as the mayor and
councils may determine. @-@-.
Fourteenth-We are emphatically in favor
of the exercise by the Legislature of its I'M
doubted powers to regulate the operations
of railroads in this State, to the end that
passen ger and freight rates shall be equal.
reasonable and fair. There is no legal right
in railroads to charge o small shipper q
higher rate than large one, nor is it just
for common carriers to charge a higher sum
for the transportation of agricultural prod
ucts than of any merchandise.
Fifteenth-We favor a liberal appropria-
tion by Congress for the purpose of thor
oughly testing the practical ility of irriga-
ton in the western portion of this State,
and also in favor of q liberal appropriation
by Congress for deep water harbor on the
Gulf of Mexico. and it is the Judgment of
this convention that the railroads of the
State should be required to pay taxes upon
the full amount of their capital
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The following State Central Commit.
tee was appointed, there being three
.snOohSAOSS ny JuuAOAdA u1oeIAOlS.
First. -; Second, r b Morris Atchi.
SON; Third, Jake Arnold, Shawnee; Fourth
Thomas j. Highly Anderson; Fifth, G. NJ
Clinsty. Coffee; Sixth. j. l. Leonard, Craw-
ford; Seventh, -; Eighth. b L. strother
Dickinson; Ninth, .. g. Coffin, Reno: Tenth
John NJ Pettijohn, johnson; Eleventh. F. w
sapp. Oh rokee; Twelfth, H. L. PETER. Cloud
Thirteenth, Ed NJ. Hewens. Chautauqua
Fourtee nth, George A. Collette. Ellsworth
Fifteenth. ID. A Freeman, Mitchell
VT Dow
Seventeenth George B. Steer, Norton
E ghteenth, F. B. Smith. sedgwick; Nine
teenth, Luke Horning, Summer; Twentieth
Frank Lacede, Rice; Twenty first, l. w.
Libby, Marshall; Twenty -secon |,
Twenty third. S. 8. Reynolds, Cove; TWEEN
ty -fourth, George I. Perry, Harper; Twenty
fifth. j. G. johnson. Marion: Twenty-sixt
III. n. Horton, Butler; Twenty seventh
Joseph Dillon, Kearny; Twenty eighth
w. A. Eaton, Kingman; Twenty ninth, john
B. Prentiss, WyAndotte; Thirtieth, Charles
A. Hitler, Saline; Thirty first I. G. Cham
bers, Comanche; Thirty second. Lambert
w. Willstedt, Seward; Thirty third, c. W.
Kyle, Rush; Thirty fourth, James w. Fike
Thomas; Thirty fifth, l. Paulsy, Wabaunsee