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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
OLMITZ.

From 81. ii Pa
Corn is almost made in this vicinity.
First load of wheat came into town
Thursday.
Joe Schreiber is clerking in the store
of Karl Kriesel.
Mr.. Pilkington's child has been quite
sick the last week.
Our mill started up for business
Monday in full blast.
Jim Livesay started threshing Thurs
day, and is doing first class wark.
Will Dee returned Saturday after z
long pleasure trip home, at Humboldt,
Kansas.
There will be dance given at Adolpt
Hampel's grove, Saturday afternoon o.
this week.
c. Metcalf is going to roof his stone
stable, fiftysix feet long. ]. Pilkingtor
is going to do the work.
Prof. Frank Metcalf, of Salt Lake
City, is visiting his parents for few
weeks. He has a bird dog valued a
$500 that he brought with him from
Salt Lake.
Eighteen new arrivals at Olmiti
Sunday, coming all the way from Sara
tow, Russia; relatives of our merchant
Peter Brack. All intend to go to raising
| wheat in Gods country.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

LET NO man who honestly believes
in JeffersOnian democracy, be deluded
with the familiar assertion of peoples
party leaders that they are advocating
and supporting ''pure Jeffersonian
democracy" jefferson never advocat-
ed nationalism. On the other hand he
fought it under every form it came up.
The fewest laws for our protection. the
fewest office-holders possible were the
things that jefferson contended for.
He wanted nothing done by the gen.
eral government that wasn't specifically
authorized by the constitution. His
life work was against government of
centralized power and in behalf of
economy and simplicity in public affairs.
Think of a party loudly declaring for
Jeffersonian democracy and at the
same time advocating in its platform
a system of legislation that would, if
successful. create every tenth voter in
the United States government office.
holder.-Paola Spirit
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

raised in this country. and by a most
cowardly betrayal in the house of his
friends. Next year, however, we will
again place him in the White House,
and his election will signify the final
overthrow of legalized corruption
under the name of spoils, and legalized
robbery under the name of protection.
Yon say that We have been following
the republican party for the last thirty
years. We certainly have been follow
ing them with very sharp stick, if
that is what you mean. You. say
further that not one great measure has
been inaugerated by the republicans
that the democrats have not endorsed.
AS know of no great measure that
the republicans have inaugerated since
the war, except the resumption of
specie payment. this statement seems
to be correct. But when you say that
the principles of the republican plat
form today will be the platform of the
democratic party tomorrow, you are
certainly laboring under serious de-
lusion. The principles of the republi-
can party today are: Taxation for
everybody; protection for few; boun-
ties for few; subsidies for few; priv
ileges for a few; burdens for every
body" The principles of the demo-
cratic party are today, as they were in
the days of jefferson, and will be as
long as the country shall endure,
Honesty and economy in government;
equal rights, equal taxation, equal
privileges and equal burdens for every
American citizen" Between these
two platforms there is an irrepressIble
conflict, which will last until the prin-
ciples of democracy are firmly imbeded
in every law on the state and national
statute books.
No, Mr.. Editor. it will hardly pay
you to waste any time in condoling
with the democratic party at present.
Your own party is in such hopeless
state of decentralization that it will re-
quire your most strenuous exertions to
collect enough of the pieces left over
from last fall to make a respectable
showing the coming campaign. 1 de-
sire, however, on behalf of my fellow
democrats and myself, to thank you
for your kind attempts at consolation.
A KANSAS DEMOCRAT.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

81 SAY the people of the United
States ought to have their innings
sometime, and I think the time has
come now,' said Senator Plumb, of
Kansas, in protesting against the Nc
Kinley bill, and in the same breath he
added: 1.-THE whole tendency Of civili-
zatien is the reduction of the prices OF
everything which results from human
labor, and to claim that the tariff has
been the sole or main factor in the re-
duction of prices of manufactured
goods is to ignore all the forces OF
civilization. The American people are
entitled to have cheap goods if compe-
tition can bring them about" He is
right and every intelligent American,
democrat or republican. knows that he
IS right. The high tariff era of arti-
ficial scarcity and high prices cannot
last. The people will go to the bat.
They will have their first innings in
Observation-Disclosures Messenger.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
Kansas Wheat.

The following from the Kansas City
Times of Sunday, the 18th, will be read
with interest:
with view of furnishing its read
ers with an approximately correct
statement of the present condition of
the agricultural classes of Kansas the
Times this morning publishes resume
of full reports received from every
county in the state. The information
presented below is not the opinion of
any one man or any one class of men,
but compilation made up from more
than 400 replies to letters and tele-
grams sent out by the r. G. Dun mer-
camille agency and the Times. The
acreage of wheat id Kansas as esti-
mated from these replies is 1922, 600
and the probable yield will be So, 47O. .OOO
bushels, or an average for the state OF
a little more than 15} bushels pei
acre. This total is divided among the
three belts of the state as follows:
Acreage in eastern belt, composed of
80 counties, 7s3 900, yield 13,135, ,0OO
bushels, or 1877 bushels per acre; acre
age in central belt, composed of 81
counties, 1850. 900. yield 49, $50. .OO0
bushels, or 1906 bushels per acre; acre
age in western belt 4S9, 900, yield
7,20S, 900 bushels, or 14.72 bushels pei
acre. 1t will be seen that the acreage
of wheat in what is known as the cen.
trail belt is more than twice as large al
the eastern and western belts com.
bined."
Of Barton county the Times report
is as follows: Estimated acreage in
wheat, 154 600, estimated yield in
bushels, 100000. Last year we had
loo, 900 acres, with yield of II bushel:
per acre. Acreage in corn, 10000. 1,
is in fine condition and is now tassel
ing. Acreage in oats, 5000, crop good
will yield at least 80 bushels per acre
Wheat harvest is about over and all O
it has been stacked in fine condition
Threshing will commence in about /;
week. Condition of agricultural popu
lation prosperous"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
SOME BUSINESS METHODS.

Business is business and there is no
sentiment-no such thing - love or
mercy or charity or do-unto 6thers-as-
you-would- uld-have-others-do u n 20 y ou
business. Business might be defined
as getting the most for the least. The
best business man is he who releases
the minimum and grasps the most.
Buying something for one dollar and
selling it for 81 900 is business par ex-
cellence and a man who can do this sew
eral times is leading citizen and eleg-
ible to the United States senate. In
business there are some things so mean
and small that man would shrink
from their personal performance, so
lot Of these shirking souls get. together
and form a company and then the COM
pany goes and does the mean, small
things the share holders could not do.
These coal companies in Pennsylvania
were and are splendid specimens OF, this
sort. They combine among themselves
into kind of capital union. They ar
range so that man leaving their en-
ploy of one mine cannot go to work for
another unless he has an honorable
discharge from the company he just
quilted. They lay plot for the public
and arrange to put out only SO much
coal. This cuts every way. It keeps
up the price of coal because of scant,
scarce market; it saves the mine from
exhaustion and beyond all the rest saves
outlay in operation by reducing the
amount earned by the miners. These,
of course, being paid by the ton. The
miners, some of them, in 1887, got as
low as sixty and seventy cents day.
Those who made $45 and $50 a month
were regarded as rolling in fabulous
wealth. To bind them to the dark pur-
pose of the mine and hold them beyond
the hope of escape these coal COM
panies started stores. At these the
miner was expected to trade, and if he
was wise he did not disappoint his en-
ployer in, this. He and his family were
liable to face the world roofless beggars
if he did. Well. these miners traded at
the company stores and got certain
credit just as the Indians do with
traders ON their reservations. They
paid about the same prices, too. These
miners were living mainly on sort of
pOrridge made from corn meal and we're
in circumstances which, while already
bad to the point of desperation, seemed
getting worse. With despair ahead
they concluded to do what Wat Tyler
and Straw and Ball did six centuries
ago and hundreds and thousands have
done since their time: strike.-Kansas
City Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
PAwNEE ROCK.

From the Leader.
From the looks of things Pawnee
Rock is about to boom.
Rev. Shawhan says he means to
spend his days in Kansas, and that they
twill take the state for God.''
The first new wheat was brought
into this market Thursday afternoon by
Mr.. Larsh. 1t tested So pounds and
brought 90 cents.
The M. E. quarterly service which
was announced to be held at Seward.
will be held at the Pioneer appointment
August end.
The Postal telegraph Office was To-
Gated in our city this week. Walter
Bowman, the operator, sent the first
message over the wire Tuesday after
noon. AS formerly stated, the Office is
located In the new part of Bakers grain
office.
]. NJ. Depue met with quite severe
accident on Wednesday evening. He
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
NE1GHBoRHooD HAPPENINGS.
ELLINWOOD.


John RAIDER informs US that he yes
terday shipped fifteen baskets OF
peaches, which were raised by G. w.
Jackson.
A. T. Redmon left yesterday morn
ing for Coates, Pratt county, where he
will buy grain for the Kansas Grain 6
Live Stock Co.
Several light showers have visited
this community this week, not enough
to delay the farmers work but doing a
good deal of good to the corn.
Frank Baker informs US that he pur.
chased the first car of new wheat that
was brought to the city from Messrs.
SCHNEIDER and Henry Mellies.
Mr.. Robert Smart sent US a short
limb from one of his apple trees, enc
day this week where there were over
twenty apples in less than a foot of the
limb. Who can beat this?
John Schneider, one of the rustling
farmers of the south side, informs us
that he has fifty acres of wheat which
will average forty bushels to the acre,
and forty-fve that will go about thirty
FIVE bushels per acre.
The city council at their session
Mordou piobf ordorod tho yoorcbo1 RI
strictly enforce the ordinance relating
to dogs, and owners had better pay.
unless they prefer to be brought before
the police judge.
About fifty of the young people OF
our city assembled at the home of one
of their number, Grace Parker, and
rendered that young lady very agree.
able surprise. Everybody had lots Of
fun, and when they went home it was
wishing that there would soon be
another party.
v. S. Musil left yesterday evening fo1
trip through Colorado in the interest OF
the Ellinwood Creamery & Manufactur-
ing Co. Mr.. Musil is doing good work fol
the company, and were it not for his able
management, assisted by an efficient
board of directors, the creamery would
never have been brought to the stand
them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
HOISINGTON.

From the Dispatch. ~ssskf-=ss----
A four-year-old child of Widow
Clemens, on the Haskins farm, died
Sunday night.
E. F. Boxwell has sore arm-not 4
rafting in the side this time. A COW
dragged him forty rods at the end of q
rope the other day.
Lemuel Pfster marketed the first
load of new wheat in town Monday. II
was purchased by the Hoisington Ele-
vator Company for 81 cents per bushel
Fred Reiche threshed between thirty.
five and forty acres of wheat this week
in Homestead township that yielded
8oo bushels, an average of over twenty
bushels to the acre.
A school district bond election has
been called to be held in this city July
II, to vote on bonding the district il
the sum of one thousand dollars for the
erection of an addition to the schoo
building.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bedwell, Mr.. and Mrs
Mallory, Mr.. Jones, Carrie Payne
Clarence Payne and ]. M. Wohlfort at
tended "Damon and Pythias" at Grea
Bend Monday evening, and were wei
pleased with the play.
George Bagley and ]. w. Clark sho
very large pelican down on the bot
toms the other day. 1t measured
seven and one-half feet from tip to tip
They have sent it to Great Bend to bt
stuffed, it will then be on exhibition a
Webb's drug store.
The alliance speaking to have beer
held in the Philips grove Wednesda,
afternoon did not materialize as tn
audience was too small. Everybod,
busy in the harvest field and could no
come. The speaker, Van B. Prather
was in town but would not speak unles
he had good sized audience.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
CLAFLIN.

From the Banner. 4.--r
Mr.. Lunz started up one of his
threshing machines this morning.
Norris & Dusenbery started their
new threshing machine out Monday.
Clahin will grow during the coming
months as she never grew before.
Clarence Elmoce came out from Miss
ouri this week and will spend a few
weeks with his brothers in this city.
DIED-At his home, a few miles
northwest of this city, on Sunday last,
Mr.. D. Lemon. Funeral services were
held Tuesday.
Sam Hendricks and his best girl,
Miss Libby Amerine, were up to Great
Bend yesterday. Particulars viii be
given later on
The man who remarked that the harp
was symbolical of romance, the organ
of history and the violin of poetry.
might also have added that the Tyre
was fiction, and by far the most popular
instrument.
There is no part of the United States
that can beat Kansas for hustling. On
the large farm OF Dusenberry & Son
Monday last, could be seen the header.
thresher and Plow, all running at the
same time. Before the present crop
was all harvested the seed wheat wa:
running from the thresher, and the
plows were preparing the ground fol
another crop. This is the way the pros
porous Kansas farmer farms, and i
beats ''sub-treasury' farming all to
sheol.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

The Topeka papers promised the
people of that slow old town boom
when the dam became a fixed fact.
The dam is secured and Topeka has a
boom i'm the drug store joints. At last
accounts the number was twenty seven
but meeting of preachers developed
the fact that the probate judge of
Shawnee county still held himself in
readiness to license as long as there
was any demand. Wichita Beacon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
"Partizans Without a Party."

Under the above heading the Hutch
inson News, of a recent date, attempt.
ed to say something mean of Kansas
democrats; "whistled to keep its cour-
age up,' as it were, and the Register
of last week reproduced the article in
question. The next day. however,
after the News published its 'Partizans
Without a Party editorial, it gave
space to the accompanying letter in
reply, from a young democrat of that
city, which reply, by the way, Caraway
will be very careful not to publish.
The letter is as follows:
ED. NEWS: Under the above head
ing your issue of Wednesday contains
a most amusing editorial on Kansas
democracy. Indeed, it is hard to tell
which is the most amusing, your COM
passion, your denunciation, your his
torical accuracy, or your advice. Lest
some of your readers, however, should
by mistake believe that your editorial
was written in sober earnest, and not
as a passing jest, should like to say a
few words, in reply, on behalf of the
poor old democratic party, for which
you express such contempt, aud to
which you give such excellent advice
In the first place you say you are sorry
for the Kansas democrat in this the
hour of his detection. Either your
od;tOr;ol roovoorv r,ouot Io x,oys, shout -,
your fund of sympathy very large. il
after the practical annihilation of the
republican party at the polls last fall
you still have any sorrow to spare fol
the woes of others.
AS regards the superanuated fossils
of whom you speak their existence must
be admitted and deplored. But barn.
acles on ship. though they effect the
speed of the vessel, do not impair the
soundness of her timber. And it must
be remembered that the democratic
party of today is not the party of fos
sils who have learned nothing and for
COTTON nothing for twenty-five years
but the party of the young men, who
wearied with the ceasless fighting ovel
the worn out issues of the war, have
turned their faces toward the morning
Go to an eastern state and ask the re
publican statesmen with gray boards
where are their sons and they vii
mournfully reply, Fighting the battle.
of democracy" It is true that thers
are men who call themselves democrats
but who, like Chares A. Dana and th,
editor of the Topeka Democrat, fint
their ideal of democracy in the person
of that eminent statesman, David B
Hill. Not so with the young men oi
the democratic party, They have ont
leader. Grover Cleveland. Once he lee
us to glorious victory. The second
time he was defeated by the use of the
greatest corruption fund eyer yet
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

The OHIO democrats have Governor
Campbell for their standard bearer,
and if Ohio democrats stand by their
colors they can increase the governors
former majority and retire from circu-
lation that worthless Bill called Nc
Kinlpv
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

In IOWA it is Boies, tariff reform,
and free silver; in Ohio it is Campbell,
tariff reform and free silver! What
more do western democrats need to
assure them that the party is in the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

WE NOTICE that many Kansas
papers are now giving attention to the
alfalfa crop, and urging its Importance
as feed for all kinds of stock. We have,
for several years past, urged the farm
ers of Barton county to plant alfalfa,
and we still believe the crop will prove
one Of the most profitable that can be
raised here. Any farmer who has had
a field in alfalfa for two or three years
will tell you that it pays to raise it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

AND now we find that the so-called
American tinplate manufacturers will
hire Welsh operatives to manufacture
tin plate out of English steel and tin.
Quite triumph for American protec-
tion (?), but where does the American
labOrer come in2
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

just as well have had the manhood, il
there are any grounds for his charges,
to give the name of the attorney. But
Caraway does not pull political strings
in that way. He would be departing
from his favorite methods Of abuse and
villifcation should he make such
charges boldly and above board.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

YES, sugar is somewhat cheaper
now; but in order to have it 80 under
the Mckinley bill, the people of the
United States have paid out, to the
wealthy sugar planters, over eleven
millions of dollars since the putting in
operation Of the Mckinley law. Paul
is paid by robbing Peter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

IT will require 10000 freight cars,
each holding 30, 900 pounds, to move
were placed end to end they would
stretch over q distance twice as great
as the width Of Kansas from east to
west.-K. G. Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

IT WAS not very long ago that pro.
lection enthusiasts were telling of the
high wages to working men that would
surely follow in the event of the sue
cess of the protection ticket. The
labOrer is still looking for that raise.
Won't our great promisers give us some
information as to when the higher
wages will come?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

AT PEDUCAH, KY, on last Wednes-
day, the republican state convention
met and resolved to make no nOmina-
tiOns, but to endorse the peoples party
candidates. How will tie Kansas re.
publican papers reconcile this with
their ceaseless cry about the peoples
party being a democratic annex?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

WE are sorry to see such died-in-the-
wool-Ben -prOhi-repubs as Col.
Hartman. the Claflin p. NJ, and Capt.
O'Blennis, the Clafiin editor, in war
with each other. 1t is liable to cause
great trouble in that community. AL
ready a financial depression is felt
because of the postmaster having had
his name taken off the editors sub
scription list. If this trouble goes on
and Blaine don't recover soon and put
a stop to it, great internicene war may
reSult.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

The Great Bend DEMOCRAT does not
seem to have the kindest regards for
the alliance. Mrs. Mccormick was the
subject of quite an interesting article
last week.-HoisingtOn Dispatch.
The Dispatch must not take it for
granted that Mrs. Mccormick is 1.-THE
alliance" The DEMOCRAT will be
found exposing trickery and fraud,
shams and pretensions, wherever we
may find them being practiced, no
matter in what party or by whom.
Straightforward open dealing is what
the people admire.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

No, 1T seems that Caraway really
don't know that his party was COM
pletely horn-swaggled, gobbled up and
spit out during the last election. His
party, once with $4,000 majority in the
state, does not dare meet an election OF
a state officer this fall-and yet Cara.
way has not sufficient acumen to catch
on. Poor fellow, he is so afraid of
losing the fat job he as has postmaster
that he does not dare for a moment
admit that his party is 'in the soup.'
We would like to spare him the pain
of another walloping, but don't see
how it can be helped. He is bound to
play Don Quixote to the end.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

Ore Of the prominent repudiating
attorneys of the alliance, while stop
ping at hotel in Great Bend a few
weeks ago became so obnoxious to a
lady at the hotel that the lady in ques-
tion was forced to report him to the
landlord. and demand protection from
this licenscious reformer's insults. A
coat of tar and feathers would teach
him good lesson.-Register.
AS THERE was only one Wichita
attorney here having any connection
with the alliance, being also one of
their speakers and an organizer of
of the citizens alliance, Caraway might
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23

AT meeting of large number Of
the democratic editors of Kansas, at
Topeka, on Saturday last, to consult
on the political situation, the almost
unanimous conclusion was arrived at
that the democracy of Kansas should
put straight democratic ticket in the
field this fall in every county in the
state. Whether the party itself is in
accord with the newspapers remains to
be seen, but should the alliance leaders
persevere in their demand that there
shall be no fusion with the democracy
on any basis, the democratic voters
will probably indorse the actions ofsthe
newspaper men.-Howard Democrat.