Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-06

votes were badly scattered.
On the 22d ballot Hallowell was NOM
mated, and the convention went wild.
and it did not quit cheering until the
delegates had returned as far east as
Wichita-all because prince Hal'' was
nominated for congress.
But if the convention was wild and
untamed affair, the resolutions or plat
form that it adopted was the greatest
conglomeration of democracy, alliance
principles, republicanism, anything to-
catch-vOtes, ever dished up to the intel
ligent voters of congressional district.
A brief reference to the platform, by
sections, certainly is not out of place
here. Understand, 1t was bloody
shirt, high-prOtective tariff, radical-re-
publican, straight-prohiDition, solid-for
ingalls,, anti Cleveland, antI-reform con-
vention that adopted the platform it
was platform built for COMPRESSION
al candidate to stand upon, and here
are few of its planks:
After cOngratulating the republican
party on its great achievements in the
past, declaring it to be the only party
with sufficient independence to criti-
cize its leaders, and the courage to med
ify or change its politics when such
change is in the interest of good gov
eminent and the general welfare,'' the
platform proceeds, and declares it is a
matter of cOngratulation that congress
has moved, with rapid strides, in the
line of wise legislation, looking to the
revision of tariff schedules, and extin-
guishment of trusts.
That from a lot of republicans who,
two years ago, were declaring that a
high tariff was right and healthful, and
that trusts were private affairs, with
which the public had no concern.
These same republicans proceed to
favor the unlimited coinage of silver,
and an increased volume OF currency:
they believe the national banking sys-
tenn has accomplished its purpose, and
they want itrepealed theywant issued
legal tender treasury notes in amounts
sufficient to transact the business OF
the country; they favor a re-adjust-
ment of the tariff, and they want the
products of factory and shop cheapened
in ratio with farm products!
Think of all that democratic doctrine
coming from republican convention
And this, too, only two years after the
| republicans, In their convention at Chi
cago, which nominated Mr.. Harrison
| said
ave are uncompromisngly in favor of thu
l American system of protection. Thu
protective system must be maintained.
We denounce the Mills bill as destructive of tn,
| labor and the farming interests of the coun
| try. The republican party would eff
| feet all needed reduction in the national reve
nues by repeating the taxes upon tobacco
| which are an annoyance and burden to agri
| culture, and the tax upon spirits used in tn
arts and for mechanical purposes. If Their
shall still remain larger revenue than is REQ
! uisite for the wants of the government, w
| favor the entire Fepcal OF internal taxes rathe
than the surrender OF our protective system
But this blanket platform, bull
broad enough to catch and hold peopl
of every political belief, goes on ant
commends the administration of MI
Harrison, who was elected on the plat
form quoted.
Then it endorses Mr.. Blaine's free
trade reciprocity scheme.
1t proposes to encourage a close
! union between the west and south, il
| accordance with the Ingalls, sugges
tions. Mr.. ingalls, is for the force bill
and would have federal bayonets rul
at every voting place in the south; h
would have returning boards, Eliz
Pinkston witnesses, and everythIn
despicable and rotten that existed Fl
the south prior to 1877.
Again, Sthiy, the platform is ''agin
trusts and combines for the speculation
in products of labor. Mr.. Blame say
these robberies are private affairs, wit
which the public have no concern. Tn
Dodge City convention endorsed MI
Blaine.
The convention, 10thly, demanded
reformation in the transportation queS
ton. And yet the nominee went ther
in special Pullman car; his principa
hackers were railroad attorneys; hi
loudest champions were the railroa
corporations of the state, each one vie
ing with the other for the honor O
hauling Mr.. Hallowell and his striker
back to Wichita.
The convention threw out bone t
the old soldiers by demanding a seryic
pension bill. That is bait that ha
heretofore caught many suckers; bu
it will scarcely prove so effectual thi
season.
PrOhibitionists must be satisfied wit
a demand, by the convention, for la,
allowing the state to regulate the lie
uOr traffic.
The convention aisS favored bank
ruptcy law ; and also that rotten an
corrupt steal, the alleged irrigatio
, sseheme, to be supported by the govern
ment, or course.
It endorsed tie Lodge election hill
and Speaker Reeds helllsh rules an
then 1t favored deep harbor on tn
gulf. In one breath insulting the sout
and west by endorsing Reed, and in tn
, next attempting to heal the wound b
, asking for deep harbor and an apprC
: priatlon.
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