Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-26

IISUU tO vOIcs HI u0S 0lSO CuttIbkOu SuO
name of Geary county back to Davis in
honor of jeff, of ancient memory
Tribune.
WHEN the editor of the Tribune
wrote the above sentence concerning
the changing the name of Geary county
back to Davis county. he was aware
that he made Misrepresentation de-
cidedly unbecoming praying christian.
or he should acknowledge himself
chump of the worst quality. Davis
county was never named for jeff Davis,
but in honor of Judge David Davis, of
Illinois; and was changed to Geary
only as flimsy bloody shirt fiasco of a
republican legislature.
IN ALL the Kansas papers which we
have received in exchange the last
couple of weeks there is not one OBJ
jects to Kansas legislators making a
sufficient appropriation to enable our
state to make good and respectable
showing at the Worlds Fair in 1893,
and many of them urge upon an apprO-
priation of at least 100000. Let our
set aside good round sum
for state display and then take proper
to see that the money is ex-
pended properly, and it will be the
best thing Kansas can possibly do to
set herself right before the world. By
1898 the state of discomfort that many
people are now in will be outgrown;
provision will, we hope, be made for
of our laws, and many of the
things that now Oppress us
and retard advancement will be done
away with. Kansas will be all right,
by 1893, and don't forget it.
REFERRING to the proposition of ar
ranging for new state constitutions in
both Missouri and Kansas. the Kansas
City Times says: ''Kansas is in worse
plight than Missouri. Its constitution
is so Outgrown that nearly all the well
Informed newspapers and lawyers have
been for a year asking for new one.
The Fort Scott Monitor and the Atch-
iOOil IICdtOu CdC oOOJOSV oOly
last year. Each published a series of
articles explaining the more cOnspic-
uous shortcomings of The present con-
stitutiOn. The Kansas of today is no
more like the Kansas of thirty years
ago than the Italy of today is like the
Italy of 1850. 1t has grown into great
state with the second mileage in the
i niOn with many large towns, with all
the complicated modern machinery of
business. Its industries are varied and
its people are pushing and intelligent.
Such Il state is more than ready for
revised fundamental law under which
the interests of the people may be more
guarded and the proper au-
tonomy and liberty OF each locality and
of each beneficial activity may be pro-
vided.''
In reference to the alarm of eastern
capitalists, which has caused the con-
ditions that exist today" it is only
necessary to state that the grand old
party, to which Caraway belongs,
together with its boon companion the
Cleveland ring has caused the condi-
tion that exists today" and the Amer
can people are just waking up to a
realization of their real condition. It
was the kind of legislation for the past
twenty-five years that caused the Or
gaDiZatiOn of the alliance and the kind
red organizations. that are now making
the e. O. p's. tremble like the chills and
fever had seized them.-Beacon.
WE HAVE no criticism TO make of
the above extract from an editorial in
last weeks Beacon, other than this: We
object to the Beacon editor charging
the democratic party with any Of the
evils that have been brought upon the
people through the unjust legislation
of 1.-The past twenty-five years. The
republican party alone can he held re-
sIOnsible for the oppression of the peo-
pie through 1.-The kind of legislation -"
referred TO. 1t is hard, of course, for
one who has been republican as long
as has the editor Of the Beacon, to re-
frain from giving his old enemy, the
the democratic party, side wipe, even
though there is nothing in history or
the knowledge of man to justify such
charge.
Although Kansas needs the Austria
lian ballot system as little as any state
in the Union, she is likely to have it in
the near futura.-Ex.
We don't know how bad any other
state needs it, but we know it is just
what Kansas does need. 1t is a law
that puts intelligence into the ballot:
we have had the herd law way Of voting
long enough.-Evening News.
REALLY does an honest democratic
heart good to see such old time. bloody
shirt republicans as Bro. Townsley, of
News and Tribune, come out and ac-
knowledge the corn IN this manner.
For many long years the republican
party in Kansas has herded the voters
like flock of sheep, and sheared them
just as regularly and Systematically as
they herded them. But the flock OF
sheep, becoming tired of the monotonY
of their life have at last taken a notion
not to be herded; some of the young