Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-04
EXCHANGE PARAGRAPHS.

EXCHANGE PARAGRAPHS.
The farmers of Kansas are not buy
ing as many scrub brushes this year as
heretofore. They now mop the floors
with republican candidates.-Junction
City Sentinel.
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A Mitchell county man who had
forty-five acres of wheat this year SOLD
the crop at net profit of 81, ,23O. de
offered to sell the land for so an acre
last winter McCracken Enterprise.
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The bosses keep right on debating
what shall be done in the next legisla-
ture just as though they had not been
J defeated. Well, it don't harm anyone,
and they ought to have little fun,
anyway.-Lyons Eagle.
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Kansas went ehrorgA she successive
stages when the grasshoppey hoped,
the chintz bng chintZed and the CHG
gers chigged, very successfully, but She
couldn't stand is when the alliance
Wichita Gagke
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One of the best results Of the late
election was to knock che sectional cry
higher than kite. Tbere is a demo-
cratic majorits e ehirfy congressman
from the northern states alone. Let's
hear no more about She solid south and
the solid north.
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The ElDorado Yimes says that if
prohibition could be submitted to vote
of the people of Kansas it would carry
by 10000 majority. That probably
accounts for the prohibi-ionists snot
wanting to let the people vote on the
question again.-Beacon.
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Our contemporaryette the photoplas
mic Independent is shaking like jelly
fish over the startling brilliant items
that appeared in its columns, and
flashed from it's pages last Saturday
Ike a Oil CCCdH VI
mud. .-Halstead Tribune.
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The republican party is the natural
place for the farmer and had they been
treated fairly theo would never have
gone from ite says the IeavenwOrth
Times. according to the Times rea-
soning mans natura1 place is where
) he is not fairly eooatee. Wichita Bea-
con.
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Nearly all the farm Implement man
ufacturers of the country have been in
-corpOrated into one company with a
Icarital of $35 600, 600 and will be oper-
ated as one company. OF course it is
done in the ireesese of chose who buy
their machines, as congress at the last
session passed an anSi-trast law which
would prevent Chem 5sOo doing it for
their own benefto
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The amendments which acre defeat
ed by large majoriNiee were skillfully
submitted. 70 Vns HoSed Co carry the
judicial amendment bF using the Other
as a scapegeas. She second was so
bad that it's projectors shought it would
help the first b9 contrast. The con-
clusion is that no amendment will bt
tolerated until the prohibitory amend
ment is resubmitted.
Previous to the election, the
Topeka Capital was wont 20 de
clare that a vote for Ives wa
"a vote for yesubmission. Since
Mr.. Ives election, the Capital is per
fectly frantic in his efforts to prove tina
his election does not indicate that th
people are in favor Of sesubmission. II
which case are 80 Seliege the Capita
honest-or is g over bonest?-AdvO
cate.
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The Kansas legislature meets on tn
= second Tuesday IN January which Wi
be the 18th of the tnOnth. The eleC
tion of United States senators is regu
lated by federal law. The election c
senators will take place on the secon
L utS&aty u OlSI titS Sncclluo UlIO SSth
zation of the legislature, which vii
make it the 26th of January. Fac
house will vote in viva voce manne
separately On tho first day. On th
second day they will niece in joint col
vention at q2 en.o an6 each day there
after until some Oao is elected.
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The democratic 9arsy is che Onl
great national party now. 1t is tt
olRy party which appeals equally to a
parts of the country snd has strengt
in all. Its representatives in the fit.
second congress Yill come from Ne
England, the Middle Atlantic state
the south, the west, the southwes
and the northwest. They will const
tute a body representative of evel
quarter of the U0ion and pretty near
equally representing all. 1t has. bee
thirty wears since any DOlitical mar