Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-11-25
ALMOST TOGETHER.

The PIutocrats in the Two Old Parties Are
Getting Ready to Fuse.
One of the most cheering evidences
OF the progress of reform and the
power which it wields may be found in
the fusion between the two old parties
that is being consummated in different
parts of the country. Nothing save a
realizing sense of their danger and the
necessity for a desperate fight for self
preservation would ever force these old
enemies of thirty years and more to
com bine against what they are pleased
to call common foe. By so doing they
make two important admissions: First,
of their wavering strength, and.
second, the absence of an important is
sue between them. These are confu-
sions that indicate complete change Of
men and methods, or final disruption
or disintegation. It discloses a want
of confidence in themselves, and IL an
acknowledgment of the power of
the reform movement In the last
election democrats and republic
ans joined in not a few instances
to defeat alliance candidates. At the
present time the democrats of the coun-
ties of Adams, Bolivar and Sharkey, in
Mississippi, have united with their old
! time opponents against the alliance and
support three republican candidates
for representative. In Kansas a nun
Der of judges were nominated by
fusion of democrats and republicans to
defeat the peoples candidates In the
Tenth congressional district of New
York the republicans indorsed the
democratic nominee. In Ohio, Gov.
Campbell said: eff you can't vote
for me, vote for Mckinley" The New
York Sun says: "If democrat cannot
be elected senator in Ohio, by all means
return John Sherman" All this goes
to show that the two old parties are
going to join issues in an effort to de-
feat the reform movement as their
only hope for existence, and, if sue
cessfnl, divide as before on the same
old lines and continue their work of
oppression and deception. This con-
dition OF affairs must obtain before
any true reform can be successful. 1t
is the natural outcome of the perfect
work of education. By joining together
in this manner the two old parties dis
close the hollow mockery of their pro-
fessions, and it is positive proof of their
hypocrisy and deceit Such action will
+, tend to disgust and drive into the re-
form movement many honest and inde-
pendent members of both parties, who
place country above party and the well
fare of the people beyond political sue
cess. The usual tendency which waits
upon such methods is to force the peo-
pie through sort of natural selection
into two parties, the one containing
the plutocratic-partisan politicians and
blind followers of both parties. and the
other to represent the producing, lib
erty-loving, honest. intelligent element
of society. That such an evolution is
now going on but few close observers
will dispute; that its final consumma-
ton would bless and benefit the people
no one should deny.-National Econ
omist-
According 70 tns fsG1es collected by
-c.a33ts-eet D. .a33ts-eet thare are ORa. 0nn ue-sons
engaged in trade in this country. OF
these 902, 900 have less than 5000 cap
| ital 1t is in this class that over 90 per
cent. of the failures occur. They
haven't the means to compete against
large capital, and few of them have
| the capacity to manage it If they had
It Any man can prove his capacity
with $1,000 or less and If he shows
marked ability or ovov, o1ava,,,r-. -.