Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-08
Two Views,

The Topeka Capital and Kansas City
Gazette don't quite get together on the
Alliance scheme. The Capital can only
see great, gigantic conspiracy by lot
of rebels to steal Kansas, while the Ga
zette takes this view:
The Farmers Alliance threatens to de-
stroy the solidity of the Democratic party in
the South. 1t has captured the organ ization
In South Carolina, 1t controlled the Tennes.
see State convention, and it has defeated q
number of promn ent Democratic candidates
for Congress. How far It will go Iefore its
power is spent no one can predict at present
Every Republican desires to see the solid
Democratic South brought to an end. The
methods by which IL has been maintained
have met the unqualified disapprobation of
all fair and intelligent men.
Now the Gazette ought to scare up
some fellow in Kansas who was present
at midnight caucus out in the deep
and gloomy iungles of Finney County,
where the plot was laid to ''bust up the
solid South, then it would have some-
thing to stand on, but at present the
Capital al-Commonwealth is ahead
H~tnhinsnn Nawe
The E0eorC NJ an Old Party That R::-s---
. aCrltical Examination.
party kept the Democrats out of power
by arraigning the North wing of the
Democracy on its pro-slavery symptoms
and the South wing on its secession.
Solid-South record.
Republican leaders opposed the Dem
ocracy on its record. They used it for
all there was in it They used it till 1t
became threadbare and nauseating but
still it was winning card They used
1T till the record of the Republican party
itself became so much worse than the
Democratic party that the people chose
the latter as the least of two evils.
vigorous, uncompromising and per-
sistent attack on the record of the Re-
publican party, by combined opposi-
tion, would sweep it out of existence. in
would never put another Presidential
candidate in the field.
Let the people be fully informed Of
the monstrous robberies which have
been perpetrated in taking of the pub
lie domain 200, 600, 600 acres of land; of
taking "a. 600, 600, 900 from the pockets
of the people and transferring it to the
Golfers of greedy. extortionate bond
holders, at the same time doubling the
burden of the National debt; of build
ing up robber system of corporate
banking; of fostering gigantic monop-
olies-and they will rise up and forever
hurl from power any thing and every
thing that bears the partisan name of
Republican.
This work must be accomplished by a
new party.
Our bonded debt must be wiped out of
existence.
Our National banking system must be
abolished.
Our farmers should be helped out OF
debt
Our workingmen must be aided and
assisted to homes of their own.
| Our burden of taxation must be cut
down, and that which is necessary to
carry on the Government must be placed
! upon actual wealth, and taken from the
shoulders of wealth-producerS
| Our public lands. which have been
stolen, must be reclaimed, every acre of
them, and kept as q sacred pledge for
the landless poor.
These issues are not 'false issues. -
They are live issues, by the side of
which the tariff question dwindles into
absolute insigniicance.
In no better way can these important
issues be brought before the people
than in showing up, for all it is worth,
the record of the Republican party for
the past twenty-five Chicago
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