Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-09-11

said by Thomas II. Benton. If he were
In Alabama to-day and insisted upon
that ''vagary" the Montgomery Adver-
tiser and Mobile Register would try to
read him out of the democratic party
Alliance Herald.
One of the most insulting sugges-
tons made against the agriculturist by
the leaders of the old parties, is that
the bountiful crops will secure his re-
turn to old political associations and
his obedience to old machine methods
Advance.
If some of our two-foot rules were
made of brass and some of iron, and
heat would expand one kind and con-
tract the other, there would be as much
reason manifested in attempting to
keep them equal as in attempting to
keep our gold and silver dollars equal
-Nonconformist
in Kansas the democrats and re-
publicans are fusing against the peo-
Piles party. Speed the day. There is
no more effective way to kill the mo-
nopoly octopus and open the eyes of the
people to the fact that there is no diff
ference in principle between the old
reminiscences.-Nati Advocate.
Politics, to a politician. means the
instrumenta!ity by which an Office is
procured To the great mass of the
people it means a way by which rights
are protected, liberties preserved and
interests advanced To a partisan it
means the blind following Of the lead.
ership of men whose chief concern is
their own welfare and self-aggrandise.
ment
If the political parties arc in favor
of granting the demands of the farm
ers, as both of them claim to be, is it
not a little strange that they are now
to unite in order to defeat
the farmers? The fact is, their most
serious dread is loss of the Offices Be-
yond that they care very little for
party or party name, or the people,
Progressive Farmer
We are informed that unusual har-
mony prevailed in the demo-republican
convention in the Eighth judicial dis
trict and Judge Humphrey was nomi-
mated by reclamation. Why should
there not be harmony? When the sham
fight between the two old cats ceases
and they come together in loving en-
brace, there is of course nothing to dis
turb their blissful harmony.-Advocate.
Gen. Rice, late of Fort Scott, now
money shark on Wall street, n. Y,
has 'vindicatd" Kansas in a long, open
letter. Rice is an old fraud, and foisted
himself on the peoples party last fall
as a candidate for the legislature, but
was ingloriously defeated in a district
strongly peoples His ''vindication'' is
in line with Joe Hudson's and is in the
interest of the money sharks.-Pitts.
burgh Kansan.
The democratic and republican fu-
sion in most of the judicial districts of
the state is evidently preparation to
set aside all laws the peoples legis-
lature may enact Our voters under.
stand the game and will see to the
election of honest judges to interpret
the laws, trusting that all who desire
the good Of mankind will stand Shout.
der to shoulder while the columns
sweep on to victory. r Detwiler, in
Alliance Tribune.
1T Is wrong to make metals the
basis OF our currency. because there Il
always limit to . governmenf's sup
ply Of metal, and when calamities be-
fall nation and its supply is likely to
be shut on, or when Il Is naturally
weak there II an inducement n hoard
for the scarce season. This Is why gold
and silver always hides during wars
and greenbacles are forced to tie front
to sustain . faltering credit II TIE
Sreenbaelks viii do this when . govern
1entas credit b weak. Why not risk
shem when Tie credit = goodf-Weshly
Coilse