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

ment in conformity to popular desire
for several of the larger cities 1t has
de voted time and care to the perfection
of law securing secrecy of the ballot,
thereby assuring an unbiased and un-
bought verdict of the people at the
polls"
After devoting some time to state is
sues Gov. Campbell continued:
1.-THE electors of Ohio have other
reasons for voting with us this year be-
sides such as solely affects this state.
The battle before us is national one.
Not only is this true because the result
must seriously affect next years fed
eral elections, but also because the re-
publicans of Ohio have unreservedly
identified themselves with every phase
of the Ubiquitous legislation accom-
plished or attempted by the Fifty-frst
congress In their platform they have
reaffirmed their adherence to the in
famous force bill-the republican lost
cause-a measure SO obviously de-
signed to destroy elections that repub-
ican senators unwilling to violate their
conscience and their oaths,- refused to
inflict it upon the country. The republic
an party of Ohio appears sas the de-
fender of the arbitrary disregard of
minority rights which disgraced the
last house of representatives. It up
holds the fraudulent unseating of law
fully elected members, the steal of
Montana by the senate and all the
other high handed outrages by which
that party has sought to perpetuate its
power against the wishes of the peo-
pie It represents the reckless extrav-
agance and astonishing profigacy
which have dissipated the splendid
democratic surplus. forced extension of
national bonds and compelled an Ohio
secretary of the treasury to resort to
tricks of bookkeeping and subterfuges
unworthy of his Office in order to con-
ceal deficit and deceive the people.
''Pre-eminently also does the repub-
lican leader in Ohio (whose high char
acter and conspicuous career but en-
phasizes his advocacy of bad legisla-
tion) stand for that pernicious tariff
measure which was rejected at the
polls last year by the people of the en-
tire country: measure identified with
his name, saturated with his ideas and
wrought by his hands. and measure
designed. as has been we'll said, in the
interest of monopoly for monopoly"
a measure which is bringing about the
worst of all centralization-the centra-
lization of wealth with it's debauching
and destructive results; a measure
which has already in many cases made
less work and lower wages for protect
i've labor; measure which has forced
the farmer of Ohio to sell his wool in
| some cases as low as 80 cents a pound
| and that, too, in market where
hn n
dreds of necessaries which are but
bug of bounty produced sugar; a meas
| ure which forces from the labor of the
country $4,000, 900 each year of the
| benefit of the prospective tin mines
| owned by capitalists who live in En-
gland and prospective tin plate works
to be operated by labor imported from
Wales; a measure which. as it came
from the hands of it's author, did not,
| in the opinion CT an eminent republic
an, open a market for another pound
of pork or barrel of flour; measure
| which could not be forced down the
| throat of a reluctant senate until sugar
| coated with the old democratic doctrine
! of reciprOcity-a doctrine finally,
| though feebly embodied in the bill in
spite of opposition from the great Ohio
protectionists-
'In his recent speech of acceptance
this same champion of high protection
said: we follow the tariff teachings of
Washington and Hamilton, of Clay and
of Webster, of Lincoln and of Garfield.
| Let us see how wide of the mark this
statement is. The tariff to-day is at
the rate of 571a per cent; the tariff of
Washington was ~ per cent The pro-
lection sought by Clay was for the ben
eft of infant industries; the tariff of
to-day increases protection upon in
dustries which have been coddled for
more than ninety years; the protection
| of Garfield was, to quote his own
words. that kind of protection which
leads to ultimate free trade Let the
| republicans of Ohio who have not gone
mad on protection come over this year
and start with US on the backward
| march toward the tariff of Washington
or better yet enroll themselves under a
banner inscribed with those burning
| ing men who train under the
names of the Farmers Ali
ance or peoples party and who
seek to remedy grievances brought
about by republican legislation, re-
member that no third party can sue
| coed; but with us and a part of us they
can help to swell the joyous hosanna
that will peal to Heaven from the tax
burdened people of the country when
the glad tidings go forth next Novem-
Der that we are yet in possession of the
old republican citadel, now the demo
cratic Buckeye state
| ANOTHER BENDER STORY.
| Three of the Monsters Hanged to the
Rafters Of Their Home and Kate Bender