Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-31

OdO oAC ACCiiuS ChOAA OoeC.
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A REPUBLICAN president, a republi-
can senate and republican house are
plaques that even the Egyptians were
never forced to endure.
THE battle of the wire pullers COM
menced at Dodge City yesterday. Our
farmer friends can rest well assured
that no matter who the republican
nominee for congress may be, he is in
with the old gang, and if elected will
trot right along in the same harness the
bosses furnish.
SUCH ordinations as democratic
scheme!" ''Sore Heads!" Mugwumps!''
"Ofice Seekers!" etc., are indeed able,
manly and d'subllme arguments for lea&-
ing partisan papers to indulge IN while
making faces and attempting to ignore
the great uprising of the independent
Peoples party.-Kansas Farmer.
WHAT are the hOts winds saying Sis
ter, the whole day long? Ever amid
their playing hear this low lone song:
Cooked are the sweet potatoes,
scorched are the roasting ears: baked
are the beets and parsnips, dried are
the dewdrop tears" This the hot winds
are saying, sister, the whole day long.
The farmers of the 7th congressional
district can be represented in congress
by farmer, one independent of party
caucus OF affiliation, if they SO desire.
Will they SO desire? Or, will they
listen to the siren voice of the partizan
press and fall in line again with the
party that is responsible for all the laws
they, the farmers, are opposing?
NEW York City is importing ice from
Norway. This is bad. Mckinley
should see to it that foreign ice pays a
duty, as it would be too bad to cheat
the home freezer and give the people a
cheap, pauper article of frozen product.
1t is hard that American cold should
compete with the pauper cold of Nor
way.-S0lind Herald.
IT ONCE was the usual thing for the
prohibitionlsts to charge every incendi-
airy fire upon their opponents, but the
times are not now as they were. Hon
a. l.. Allen, of Topeka, chairman of
the state resubmissiOn republican
league, has been Outspoken against the
prohibition fraud, and as result his
barn and contents were last night con-
sumed by fire started by prohibit
tion crank.-Wichita Journal
CARAwAY was so anxious to begin
mud singing at Jerry Simpson that he
clipped bodily an editorial from the
Hutchinson sNe,os of the oath, headed
'Simpson the Marshall and run it in
the postofilce adjunct as original wis
dom. If Caraway was in the least
inclined to deal fairly by the farmers
candidate for congress he would have
withheld his criticism until he had some
opportunity of finding out from reli-
able sources something abO1t Mr..
Simpson.
AS THE days and weeks slip by the
political situation in this county, is
still somewhat cloudy. The alliance
has called Il convention for the Goth of
| August, ut which time a county ticket
will be put in the field. Neither the
| democratic nor republican committees
have yet called a convention to NOM
mate county officers, each apparently
holding off to see what the alliance
men would do. 1t behoOveS every
democrat to keep his wits about him,
and when the party acts let us act in
unison and with a determination to
win.
! THAT the friends Of the farmers ALI
ance movement in Kansas are strong
enough to carry the state and a major
ity of the counties, if they vote together:
there can be no doubt, but the veper-
alton entertained by the average repub-
lican for the &. o. p. is so great that
when they hear the republican orators
enumerate what they are pleased to cal
its victories and virtues and receive
the order to fall into line. if history
repeats itself there will be great rush
of wanderers asking to be counted once
more among the faithful. If this should
be the result, independent movements
will be hard t3 organize in the Culture
Lacrosse De'apcrat.
! THE Farmers alliance is non-par-
tizan but it is several degrees from
being non-politlcal. 1t is founded OF
politics. The fundamental principles
upon which it has grown and fiourished
are questions which can be settled only
by political action. The great mission
of the alliance is to educate men sc
that they know how to secure tlaar just
rights. In order for man to be ben.
eft to himself or anybody else the frs,
thing that he must do upon entering