Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-09

VOLUME VIII.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Cows, in fighting flies, make grea
many flank movements.
ONE honest man to five demagogues
is the way the Register sizes up tn
members of the farmers alliance.
THE IvanhOe Times proudly calls at
tention to it's sheriff's sales by calm,
them the ''Sheriff's romances in soli(
nOnpariel." Ivanhoe is in Haskell
county, and the Times a republican
organ.
WHEN the alliance and labor organ
iZations of Wisconsin consolidated the,
adopted plank IN their platform il
favor of woman suffrage. What viii
the next Kansas state peoples party dt
on the same subject?
THE Sterling Bulletin has gobbled uE
the Sterling Gazette, both republican
Now if the Tribune of this city could il
any manner be induced to swallow th'
Register, Great Bend would be as for
tunate as is Sterling.
ILLINOIS now has the Australian
ballot system. Kansas would have i
also IL it had not been for the contrary
rreverse and recalcitrant republican
senate. Our people want it, and ought
to have it; and we believe we Will have
it after the next session of the legIs
lature.
The Santa Fe railroad company has
issued a circular TO its employees an
nouncing that in the future three gar
pishments against an employe within
the period Of twelve months would re
suit in his discharge unless it could bt
shown that they were run for the pur
pose of persecution.
OUT OF eighteen Georgia editors i'll
terviewed by an associate press re
porter eleven were for Cleveland fol
the democratic nominee for president
in 1892, two for Hill and five non com
initial. That makes one more demo
cratic paper in Georgia for Hill than il
Kansas Palladium.
TO THE fellows who wonder why &
man can stay with the democratic
party in Kansas, we would say that ii
is simply a question of principle and
not of spoils. Kansas democrats are
the staunchest democrats going, and
nothing proves it more completely than
their long fight against great odds.
TARIFF Bill Mckinley brags about
what protection has { )ne in the way OF
establishing manufactures, but he is
discreetly silent concerning big cuts in
wages i'll the especially protected iron
industry, and he does not refer to the
expectation in the west that corn will
sell for ten cents a bushel this fall
Hill City Reveille.
IOWA democrats showed the true
metal in their resolutions adopted al
their state convention June 24th. The
nomination of Governor Boies, made
unanimously and without dissenting
voice, assures the Iowa democrats I
strong leader and one who, by his tern
OF office, has proven that "a public
office is a public trust'
The Register of last week said, "Oul
readers have ere this learned of the
death of. Sam Wood, the noted adven-
turer and agitator." Doubtless some
of them had, Morg. Those of your
readers who also read the DEMOCRAT
were given the particulars of the kill.
ing full week before the Register
found out that Sam was no more.
WHEN the Register says there are
FIVE demagOgues to one honest, con.
sciencious man in the alliance move
ment, it means, virtually, that to one
formerly republican alliance man who
will go back and vote the republican
ticket there are five formerly republi
can alliance men who will not; and
that is what brings on his great kick.
--
SEVERAL of the miners, factory
hands, millers and other mechanics
who lave been working in Colorado fol
some time, but who were recently com
PEELED to swell the army of five million
tramps, who are passing the noontide
OF their life in enforced idleness, are
now happy in the enjoyment of beine
permitted to assist the farmers Of Kan
sas to help save their grain.-St. Johr
Capital.
The returns are all in, and about the
only damage done to the big wheat croK
by the recent rain was the miring of {
harvester in the streets of Emp0ria 4