Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
NUMBER Is.
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, D. c. July g. 1891.
Governor Campbell, of Ohio. thinks
the vice-presidency mot position that
any man would banker for" If there
really be one position in the entire fab
ric of the federal government that
doesn't enkindle hankerings in the
political breast, the extraordinary fact
well merits publicity in this season of
general news dullness.
Reports from Mississippi show that
the negroes in the state have apparently
lost all their interest in their right Of
suffrage. Only about one-fourth OF
them have complied with the new con-
stitution, which requires voters to reg.
lister four months in advance of the
election. There is little hope that the
republicans viii ever be able to carry
Mississippi if the strength, beauty and
flavor of the party take so little interest
in its success as TO fail to register.
There is a general disposition among
the democrats of Ohio to simply drop
the free silver platform, and to make
the campaign on the paramount issue
of tariff reform. The Mckinley tariff
has been made the issue by political
forces and conditions that are more
potent than the work of the most cum.
ming joiners of platforms. In Ohio the
real issue of the contest-tariff reform
has been ably presented in the speech
of Governor Campbell accepting his
nomination; and upon this question the
contest will be made. As for free sill
yer coinage, its chief danger comes
from the republican representatives of
the Rocky Mountain mining camps in
| the United States Senate. But for the
pressure upon the republican party of a
political force holding not less than
eighteen republican seats in the Senate
this question would cause no serious
concern. In Ohio free silver coinage is
a mere side-issue which the democrats
are rapidly repudiating, and before the
November election it will have become
completely overshadowed by the one i'm
perious issue of tariff reform.
Another breach has been made in fhe
disordered ranks of the republican
party of Iowa by the prohibition ques-
tion.- The republican candidate fol
Governor has been nominated again OF
a prohibition platform, and one of the
most influential republicans of the
state. T. w. Faulkes; of Cedar Rapids
in coEmunicatioa r. the Ctieags
} Inter Ocean, predicts his inevitable de
. feat. Mr.. Faulkes, through the sams
D source, gave warning of the danger o.
c prohibition before the republican con.
e ventiOn met, but his earnest cry was
t unheeded. He now declares that pro-
f hibition is ruinous to the future of tb,
republican party in Iowa as well as Il
= the progress of the state, and that il
!. the next election it will cost the vote
a of thousands who adhered to the part,
f until the failure of the prohibition
b policy had become apparent. In orde
!, to stem the tide of popular discomfort
t in Iowa Ex-Congressman Gear an,
b other politicians who have been hostil
to prohibition have been sent througl
S the state to bring back the republican
S voters to their party allegiance. A cur
e ious phase of the situation is the atti
e tude of the colored voters, who ar
e determined in their hostility to prohi
l. bition, and who, it is feared, will vot
v as body for Governor Boies, the dem
+ ocratic candidate. The colored voter
will hold convention at Cedar Rapid
# on the 18th and 10th of August, whe
o they will take definite action on tn
lQuestion. In the meantime the oppos
it tion of the farmers of Iowa to the part
8 of prohibition is growing in force an
IF volume
II A Great Object Lesson.
The American people have ha
three months of free sugar." says th
r.