Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-01

KANSAS, THURSDAY, OC..
sack of -four shipped in twenty-five
cents; add one dollar to each steer and
fifty cents to each hog. Then the
bread and meat buyer would think the
increased cost was the natural advance
in price and he would not object be-
cause he could be told that the import
er paid the tax The, little matter of
unconstitutionality need cut no figure,
for haven't we clever courts to help us
out of difficult situations?-K. C.
Times.
IF THE alliance had kept travelling in
the original path its original engineers
had mapped out, paralleling the we'll
beaten road of democracy. all would
have been WE'LL with it and with the
country. But when it turned to the
right and to the left and went off into
the trackless woods of sub-treasury and
government ownership of railroads it
got far away from the main roads and
the goal of its hopes and desires and
got very far away from it. If still it
shall heed the voices of its wisest men
and retrace its steps it may become a
power for good in the land.-Atchison
Patriot
When it comes to getting full the
moon can just knock the socks off the
EllinwOod Advocate.
Don't know about that. The sun is
FULL all the time, while the moon can t
stand it but once mOnth.-Great Bend
News.
THE moon represents the republican,
prohibitionst-for-pa -party-only. She gets
''fuli'' occasionally, but tries to let on
she never did it. The sun, on the
other hand, is certainly a democrat;
for he goes right straight ahead on one
line, unchanging and uncompromising.
Old Sol never gets so full" but what
he comes up smiling each morning, and
attends strictly to knittin'.
WHEN a man tells US he has voted
with the third party movement in
order that he might help elect men who
would revise our laws for the benefit
of the farmer and labOrer, we ask him
what the election of county officers has
to do with the making of laws? When
third party enthusiasts say they
smashed the republicans last year
and are going to try and smash the
democrats this year," we ask them how
many republicans would they have
Gratis helped them do so? And how
much aid will they get from democrats
in the future if they keep up their un-
grounded abuse of that party?
IT NOW appears.ttst the administers
tion has made another ''bull' in open
ing up the Indian lands for settlement
in the manner in which it was done.
1t is estimated that not one out of
every hundred of the men who obtain
ed lands are actual home seekers or
poor men needing farms. The whole
country is filed with lot of s'soon-
ers" who grabbed the lands as mat
ter of speculation and with no inten-
tion of remaining on and developing it.
AS result, the poor man in need of a
home will have to, in some manner,
scrape together sufficient money to ap.
prase the demands of the spectators
if he gets any of those lands.
To THE republican editors of the 9TH
congressional district who are in town
today, the DEMOCRAT extends greeting.
Our latch string is out, our Office chair
is holding up it's arms for your recep.
ticn and our devil has washed his face
and put on necktie. You should re.
member that yOC are in the historic
town that has always been headqu ar.
ters for the American Coursing Clut
and has some of the fastest running
dogs in the state. Reflect, too, that
here is where the hoseless hayseed
Hon. jeremiah Simpson, was started
in the race with the Prince from the
'Peerless," and that our own Barton
gave that same Jerry majority of ASS
votes over the silk stocking politician
from Wichita. Remember likewise tha,
our people are good people; are neither
repudiators nor calamity howlers, and
that there are enough of them good
enough believers in the old-fashione6
JefersOnian democracy that never dies
to elect a straight democratic county
ticket in 1891. Look our town over
take of the hOspitility of our people
beware of the joint that never dies
and when you get home tell the boys tt
''dOuble lead that complimentry article
upon the beauties of Barton county,
List of Jurors.
Following is the list of jurors drawn
for the November term of the distric,
court in this county:
Independent township. H. Viii.
hanson.