Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-13
Stop Your Spiteful Quarreling.

Stop Your Spiteful Quarreling.
The pugnacious spirit displayed on
election night by number of alliance
men from the south side indicated that
they had been taught some very danger
Gus political doctrines, or had filed up
with very bad article eff bug juice.
They were spelling for fuss, and try
ing to get up row wherever they
appeared. We are charitable enough
to think that these young roosters were
not taught this sort of thing, in the ALI
ance, and that if they had been without
the influence of whiskey there would
have been none of this disgraceful con-
duct. Such course Injuries the cause
espoused by such men. The better ele
ment in any political party is against
rowdyism and drunkenness, and the
sooner the bummers and disorderly ele-
ment are given to understand by the
decent members of their party that such
conduct will not be tolerated, the better
for such party. These fellows wand
cred about town showing people off the
sidewalks, insulting any whom they
knew to differ with them politically and
bent on mischief. The only alternative
for those who were imposed on by
them was to knock them down, and this
had to be done before they could be
made to behave.-Tribune.
We are at a loss to know why such
an article should be published in a
paper that pretends to be fair and just
to all men. In the first place, there
was no more fuss and noise, no more
rejoicing and jollifying that night by
the alliance boys than has been induig-
ed in on the occasion of every cam
paign we have had for the last ten
years. The difference was only that
the country boys did the rejoicing and
not the town boys. In the second place,
the statement that they were "drunk,
spelling for fuss, insulting, and bent
on mischief" is without reasonable
streets all that night, going from one
political headquarters to another, and
we never saw any of the tough conduct
so freely ascribed to the ''south side'
any other part of the county. There
were but two fights, OF disturbances,
only during the night. One was
between a town man and an alliance
man (but not south-sider), and the
other between two city men, one a pro-
hibition republican and the other a
reSubmiSSiOn democrat
The Tribune further says that 1.-The
only alternative was to knock them
down, and this had to be done before
they could be made to behave" II
there Was any of the knocking down
business INDUCED in by the Tribune
man or any other of his kind OF
defeated politicians who were so soured
that they could not bear to hear the
other fellows rejoice, we have failed te
hear of it, only through the above
article.
The whole gist of the attack OH the
south side alliance men is this: The
Tribune man has suffered defeat 81
long at the hands of the bosses in hi:
own party that his disposition is souret
to such and extent that he wants to SET
contention on every hand, and ha!
evidently made up his mind to foster
and nourish, the feeling entertained b.
some of the town people against thu
country people, and to stir up conten
tiOn and discOrd that would foreve
keep the two classes divided shoult
they pay any attention to his grumbl
ings.
, In this he will fail because the peo9l
of the west are united for the benefit
, of the WHOLE PEOPLE, and REASONABLE
men will see the folly of keeping up
strife between the country and town
for the sole purpose of letting some dis
gruntled politicians work out thei
little revenges.
! There are grander things before us
there are matters that, by united effor
of the whole people, can be brough
E about to the benefit of all; and to tina
5 end let US all work in harmony.
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