Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-24
DEMOCRATS, TO WORK!

a few words concerning the situa-
zion at this time, on the eve of the
democratic convention, may be of in
terest to democrats of Barton county
who are firm in their allegiance to the
time honOred principles of true demOc-
racy. The convention which meets
on Saturday will, we doubt not, place
in nomination straightforward, cOnsci-
encious and capable democrats, with
a very good chance of their being elect
ed, from treasurer to coroner, and it
behOyes every democrat to be wide
awake and Jealous in the cause.
To those who may, on account of the
result of the 1890 election, think the
democratic party of this county is scat
tered or demoralized, we would assure
you that such is not the case. The Pc
.culiar situation of last year was one
that our party had never come in con-
tact with; it's results have been a last
ing lesson to all men VINO are firmly
grounded i'll the principles of right and
justice, and lesson that will strength
en- the democracy of Kansas instead of
weaken it.
The meeting of the county central
committee, which was the largest CEN
tral committee meeting our party has
had for number of years, demonstrate
ed that we may reasonably look for the
usual democratic majOrities in many
localities of the county.
Democrats who went into the alli-
ance movement to enlighten and help
along their republican neighbors, in
the belief that that organization was a
sort of middle ground on which the
two extremes might meet and neighbor
work with neighbor for the good of
leach, did not expect they would be
called upon to denOunce the principles
OF their party, nor to uphold those who
did so without reason OF cause. They
Gid not expect that third party move
ment would be organized and pushed
forward, with its main and principal
platform planks an advocacy of the
Capitalization of power and paternal-
ism of government, as the ownership
of railroads by the government and the
land loan scheme most certainly are.
The democratic farmers of Barton
county are not, as a general thing, de-
SirOuS of borrowing money for living;
they are the men who make living by
their own eXertions and will not ask
loan them money at low rate of in
terest. They know that if such a
scheme should be brought about some
person would have to furnish such
ing this generation or the next. They
know that the infamous tariff laws
under which we now suffer are an in
justice and disgrace to our land, and
that the government furnishing aid to
farmers would be no more just than
the government furnishing aid as it
now does to the favored manufacturers.
Therefore, knowing all this, and see
ing that the third party movement is
founded principally upon those two
planks, democrats in every part of the
county are cutting loose from that
party.
Another thing they cannot swallow,
and that is the fact, becoming more
PLAIN every day, that the head men,
the most of the newspapers and many
of the members of the third party are
slowly but surely steering that organi-
zation into an endorsement and es-
pousal OF the prohibitory law of this
state, and they predict that the time
will soon come when the party will
split on that very prominent rock of
contention.
AS to the republican party. its own
members, many of them, confess can
didly that they are not sin it'' this fall