Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-06

'SuppOSltlOn" about our opposition TO
the christian religion. we believe the
injury you intended to do us by that
sort of language will prove an abortion;
as the people who know the editor of
the DEMOCRAT will not take any stock
in your insinuations, especially when
they remember the peculiar ''science"
of the professed christianity of the
Tribune's editor.
THE Beacon asks the DEMOCRAT to
show its readers some of the 'decep-
tions practiced by that paper" Life
is too short, Bro. Armstrong, and our
space is too limited to be devoted to
your paper or its deceptions.> Our
readers want the news, and care very
little about newspaper chickering's. We
are satisfied to let you go on in the
present course, knowing that in due
time your sins will find you out. You
know you came here to ''work" the
alliance racket for all the Doodle there
is IN it, and we are perfectly satisfied
as the supporters of your paper will
stand it. We have heretofore pointed
out the result that will inevitably fol-
low such leadership as you assume to
give and it would be space and time
wasted to go over the same thing again.
We have forced you to acknowledge
that you are prohibitionist and a
woman suffragist and would like to
lead the alliance in that direction;
your weekly utterances prove you to be
in favor of Capitalization of power to
the end that your party may be enabled
to control the nation indefinitely
through the government ownership of
railroads and the management of store
houses and sub-treasuries; all this
shows that you are willing to advocate
anything, no matter how much of a
menace it may be to good and pure
government, so long as by doing so you
can hold following. That you and
your associate editors do not voice the
sentiments of large majority of the
members of Barton county alliances,
you know as we'll as any one, and this
lack of fidelity to the wishes of the ma
your own undoing.
The evils cmplained of by the peo-
ple's party are the result of republican
politics and republican laws, carried out
fO ivS,
iously affect the whole life of the peo-
rle. The spirit impairing these laws is
that of the indefinite enlargement of
power In the hands of a constantly in
creasing number of office-holders, and
of the persistant use of the power of
government, legislative, executive and
judicial, for creating and upholding.-
st. Louis Republic.
PALMER or more truthful words were
never written. What is surprising to
us is that many of the peoples party
men seem willing and anxious to in
crease the Office holding privileges by
the adoption of a plan by which the
government would own and manage
the railroads, deal in wheat, corn, cot
ton, etc.. making 80 vast an army of
government employees that the power of
those at the head would be as great as
that of the Russian czar. What our
country needs is simpler laws and
palmer. What we must have in order
to continue in advance of all other ma
tions is less governmental machinery
and that machinery nearer the hands of
the people. All officers should be elect
ed by popular vote, and thus the ten
dency to paternalism in government
would cease and no set of men could by
the distribution of position and patron
age. buy their way into power as did
the present administration. Gentle
men of the peoples party, we ask you
to look carefully into the sub-treasury
plan and see the danger to- govern
ment by the people lurking therein;
consider thoughtfully the numerous,
almost unlimited number of places of
public trust that would be created by
the government ownership of railroads,
and see therein another threatened
danger. Then. if you decide that those
two planks in your platform are not
tenable, tell US what other demands
does that platform contain, what other
principles does it advocate that are not
democratic, what reforms does it ask
that the party of jefferson has not been
lighting for? We are appealing to the
honest osober-thinking peoples party
men, the rank and file of the move
ment; not to the unreasonable and Wis.,
iOnary leaders who are forcing them
selves to the front and cOntending for
the third party movement only for the
spoils of Office. You know them, gen.
| tlemen. Their bitter denunciation of
the democratic party; their CHASING
that party as being equally responsible
with the republican party for the evils
both you and are crying out against
is the best evidence of their motives.
What We ask of our readers is that
they be fair and just, as we believe