Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-14
A DANGEROUS GLASS.

/ In this government of and by the
people the most dangerous class con.
sists of those who refuse to abide by a
majority rule. When a government
by the majority is superseded by a
minority rule the principle indulging
free government is destroyed.
The republican party. in the control
of Wall street and the tariff barOns,
loses no opportunity to defeat the will
of the majority. Depending upon a
favored class to maintain its ascen-
dency. the republican PARTY cannot
appeal to the masses. 1t appeals to
the protected class and the monopolist
and attempts to deceive the ignorant
and bribe the mercenary among the
masses.
The first victory won by the republi-
can party on this line was the seating
of Mr.. Hayes in the presidential chair
in 1875. Tne people had repudiated
him at the polls and elected Mr.. Tilden
to the high position. This requires no
argument now. The great mass Of in
telligent Americans admit that the peO-
pie elected Mr.Tilden to the presidency
and that the electoral commission seated
MI. Hayes. 1t makes no difference to the
INSCRIPTIONS managers of the repub-
lican party how they get the offices.
They are concerned in getting them
and not in the means used to accom-
plish that purpose. Republican Office
holders never parade the fact of their
holding Offices by consent of the
governed. Their actions do not COM
port with that Jeffersonian idea en-
grated in the organic laws of this re-
public.
This idea of holding the offices with
out having been elected seems to have
descended down to the republican CT
ganizations in the states. At this very
time republican, Morgan G. Bulkeley,
holds the office of governor of COnnec-
ticut without having been elected to
the position he now holds for a second
te rm. Mr.. Morris the democratic can
dIdate for governor, received 1856
votes more than his republican oppo-
nent, while every other candidate for a
state Office on the democratic ticket
was elected by clear majority. The
republicans hold majority in the
lower house of the legislature and they
persist in counting some Informal votes
which had been rejected by the can
vassers. Counting these informal votes
the result still gave the democratic
candidate more votes than any of his
opponents but he lacked a few votes
of having majority over the republi-
can, labor party, and the prohibition
party combined. The republicans took
advantage of this to enable Bulkeley to
hold over. In other words they de-
feated the will of the people.
In Nebraska the democratic candi-
date for governor, Boyd, was elected.
Nobody could get around the fact that
he was elected, but the republicans ap-
pealed the case to the courts and took
the Office from him on technicality in
his fathers naturalization papers. The
republicans were for anything to beat
Boyd and they succeeded in their evil
designs.
1t is no wonder the young republi-
cans are becoming weary of the old
crowd. They can see nothing i'll Larty
that seeks to rule by such un-American
and unhOly methods, and they are get
ting ready to either reform their party
or desert it. The latter is what many
of them will dO.-Wichita Beacon.