Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-23

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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Mr.. HARRISON travels on free spec
ial trains; when Mr.. Cleveland was
president and wished to go anywhere
he bought a ticket just as ordinary peo-
pie always do. No comment is neces-
sary.-Larned Eagle Optic.
THE New York Methodist conference
has voted overwhelmingly that women
shall not be admitted to the general
conference as delegates. Is MethO-
dism the same all the country over;
or do We have select branch or a spec
ial dispensatiOn in Kansas?
In THE Illinois legislature humor-
Gus statesman introduced bill to COM
pei railroads to carry ''hog killer" On
every passenger train; the duty of the
''hog killer'' being to club passengers
who pay for but one seat and occupy
two. Not bad bill, by the way.
IN MAINE, where prohibition has
been the law for generation, judge
of municipal court has just been re-
moved from Office by the governor and
council for continued drunkenness,
which goes to show that water will in
toXicate if used to eXcess.-K. G.. Star.
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ONE of these two things must be
done: The volume of currency in cir
culation must be increased to meet the
demands of the increasing business of
the country, or there must be a check
put to the growing business. Which is
best, and how to accomplish 1t, is what
is puzzling the people.
The republican machine in Kansas
has thrown prohibition overheard. All
the first class cities of Kansas-except
Topeka-are being run on the high
license system. We understand that
Topeka will also soon get the benefit of
the Kansas India rubber prohibition
niquity.-Kansas Democrat.
I'VE are convinced that this country
must look to the tried principles of de-
mocracy to bring it out of political
Chaos" says the Salina Evening News
heretofore republican in politics.
And suiting the action to the word, the
News comes out strong for democracy
and calls upon all other republican
organs to ''Get in Line"
Mrs. E. MOSES, of Creswell town
ship, tells US that she has two three
legged cats. They are now over year
old and are sound every way except
being minus one hind leg. She says
they are good mousers and can run as
swiftly and cut up as many pranks as
any four legged cat in the country
Arkansas City Democrat.
The first person to vote iii the fourth
ward al Leavenworth on Tuesday was
Mildred Ann Clay, a colored woman
| 10S years old. And she stuck in a
democratic ticket too. She was old
enough to have known how to vote.
She had reached the age of discretion,
and when our colOred voters reach her
age they will all vote as she did.
| The DEMOCRAT will next week con-
tain an article OH 1.-The Kansas Farm
er as he is Affected by Protection, -
from the pen of Almerin Gillett, a
prominent farmer of Lyon county, who,
although a lifelong republican, cannot
stand idly by and see the interests OF
Kansas farmers made to pay tribute to
the protected millioniares of the east.
THE Chichago Times speaking of the
recent election in that city says that
the 'effort to break up the democra tic
party in Chicago, and hence in Illinois
which may be the pivotal state in 1892,
is the result Of one of the greatest con-
spiracies of the age. The chief con-
spirators are the republican high-tariff
barons, and if unlimited money, fraud,
treachery, and the selling of mems souls
will accomplished the downfall of the
party of the people then it will be
DONE"
The Wichita Eagle says 1.-The total
vote of the state Of Rhode Island is
1900 and the state has two senators
and two congressman. The,vote of the
seventh district of Kansas is about
1000 and it is thirty times as large as
little Rhody, but has only one repre-
sentative in the national legislature D
Which is true, but it overlooks the fact
that Jerry Simpson is giving the eastern
gold bugs more trouble than the entire
Rhode Island delegation in congress
Jeremiah is equal to the task of repre-.
senting the big seventh Wichita Bea'
con.
THE simplicity of our forefathers or
the tariff question almost passes belief