Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-11

GREAT BEND, K.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
THE first echo from the force bill was
100 900 democratic majority in the Ala
bama elections. The whites all voted
with the democrats.
ED. CARROLL describes the repub-
lican candidate for governor as 1.-The
fellow who breaches prohibition in Kan
sas and gets drunk in Colorado"
HARRISON did not have sand to
enforce his order for the removal of
cattle from the Cherokee Strip Sept.
1st. He has given the cattle barons
until the 1st of December.
SOME of the republicans of Great
Bend speak of the convention held at
Topeka last week as 1.-The republican
SLATE convention" Very appropri-
ately stated, though bunglingly slated.
KANSAS has now population of
l $3.50, 900. It could have been increased
to nearer two millions but for the
cranky laws of the state which have
been on her statute books for the last
ten years.
GEN. J. B. WEAVER was nominated
for congress by the U. L. convention at
Des Aloine5, Ia, on the 4th. Weaver
is sure OF election, having been also
nominated some weeks ago by the
democrats.
LOST. strayed or stolen: One repub-
lican candidate for state auditor, for
merly a resident of the town where the
Lacrosse Chieftain is published. I'D.
Welch will pay reward for informa-
tiun of his whereabouts.
WHEN Vermont towns return to the
legislature democratic representatives
''for the first time since their settle
ment" 1t is time for the grand old party
to get out its speculem and take look
at ltself.-KansaS City Times.
THE Hutchinson News asks "What
is republicanism?" Why don't it take
the National platform of 1888 and the
Dodge City platform of go and figure
it out. The majority of the people
would also like to kuOW.-Rice county
Eagle.
THE sting Of Mr.. Cleveland's s defeat
in 1888 is largely removed by seeing
the shrewdest of the republican lead
ers, in 1890, trying to get Oh the plat
form occupied by him at that time.
But then they would do anything for
popularity.-ElDorado Democrat.
THE farmers alliance is marching
through Georgia. on the dOuble-quick,
and the democratic congressman are
falling before it at a rate that is beau
tiful to behold. And yet we find repub-
lican papers in Kansas almost sOlidly
fighting the alliance.-GlObe-D Democrat.
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OUR republican friends who went
down to Topeka last week to the repub-
lican convention did not come home
filed with much enthusiasm, as the
cut-and-dried ticket was simply en-
dorsed by the delegates, after which
they paid their usual hotel and liquor
bills and scattered.
Is THIS you? John j. ingalls,, in
speaking of the farmers alliance, says
it is composed of the ''corn huskers
and corncob peddlers of this state
| class of men too lazy to work, too COW
ardly to steal, and trying to make I
living out of politics. Where, oh
where, has the honorable gentleman
obtained his fine living? What part o
it has been contributed by the 'cor1
huskers and corn-cob peddlers of thi.
state?'
MAINE, Vermont, New HampShir,
and one or two other of the eastern
manufacturing states have fallen off il
population since the last census, a
shown by the census of 1890. One O
the greatest reasons of this decrease il
population is that protection has cen
tralized capital, driven out small deal
ers, and made agriculture and the com
moner pursuits of life less profitable
and the working people have left thos
| states
! Senator Edmunds still stands OH
against 1.-The muzzling process" in tn
8 .nate. He remembers when tn
republican party was the party of fre
speech, that never feared discussion O
any of its measures. N. Y. World.
If EDMUNDs remembers the tim
when the republican party was "th
party of free speech he has a goo
memory for an old man. The worl
will applaud him for his opposition t
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