Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-06
SIGNIFICANT STATEMENTS.

-Conmissioner Raum makes the
announcement that he is going to hurry
through and dump $50, 900 original cases
upon the various pension agencies of the
country before the year is out Away
with the surplus,-Kansas City Star.
"A soldier who died at Vieksburg
in 1868 has been drawing a pension of
sixteen dollars month ever since, with
81, 600 as back pension When the dis
covery was made pension official said
that it was "a mighty curious CASE
\. Y. Sun
1t is sign of returning reason
that republicans have stopped worship
ing the tin calf of Mckinleyism and
are looking to the big southern cotton
crop and the western wheat fields tt
pull the country through the yea<.-
Albany Argus
MIR. Mckinley had no toleratsoa
for Blaine and reciprocity when he had
the matter in his own hands in The
ways and means committee Mr.. Blaine
had to flank him in the senate and to
summon the people to assist in the job.
The record is an interesting one to Mr..
Blaine's friends in Ohio.-N. Y. World
The republican party is queer
aggregation of persons anyway They
love Garrison for the heads he has cut
off. They love Corporal Tanner for the
feet he had cut off And they fairly
adore Mckinley for the markets he has
cut Off The only cutting they disap-
prove of is cutting down taxation--
Chicago Times
SO, at the rate of more than o
thousand cases a day, the list of pen
sioners is to be increased, and Secretary
Foster must wrestle with the treasury
balance as he may. 1t isn't Raum's
business to find the money; he is only to.
do the dumping" 1t really looks as,
though it may be necessary to dump;
Raum to save money enough to pay the
salaries of the officials at Washington
As distributor of the surplus Tanner
wasn't in it with Raum at an--Phila-
delphia Press (Rep-)-
Senator Hoar has been enlighten-
ing the world as to the issues of the next
national campaign Among these he
enumerates increased exchanges with
foreign nations. taking from them all
that we cannot produce keeping our
own market for ourselves, and occupy
ing foreign markets with the things
we can produce" The picture is a very
pretty one, but the senator fails to ex-
plain how there can be an increased
exchange with foreign nations as long
as the avowed policy Of the dominant
party in American legislation Is to
more and more efectually shut out for
eign products from our markets--Chi-
cago Times
A Trick of s.FIne Workers -
The discovery of the fraudulent
count of the vote for member of the
decennial state board of equalization
which gave the republicans the one
controlling vote In that body comes too
late to make any change in the board,
as its work is done and it viii adjourn
sine die next week, but 1t promises to
make a valuable piece of campaign ma
terial for the democrats Secretary of
State Ryan. whose duty it is to cam
vass the returns, has been forced to
come out in a card denying all knowl-
edge of the alleged miscount But the
democrats say they will produce af6-
davits to the effect that Ryan's clerk
John c. Lester, was laughing about the
trick that had been played upon the
democrats The effect of the errone-
Gus count was to throw about twenty
five thousand dollars Of salaries into
the hands of republican clerkA-Chi-
cago Herald