Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-17

Comanche Wheatland. -. 4
Eureka :. 4 WaShburn go.
Fairview. GREAT BEND CITY
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Great Bend -. 4 First. 4
Homestead -. 8 Second 80. 5
independent. -. Third ........ 7
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1t is also recommended by the central
committee that townships and wards
Bold their primaries to elect delegates
60 said convention on Saturday, Sep
tember 18th.
BY Order of Committee,
n FRED ZUTAvERN, Chairman.
WILL E. STOKE, Secretary.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
PROF. HICKS says the winter of
lS91-2 will be the coldest for years.
Republican and peoples party candi-
dates will begin to feel the effects of
Che coming winter about November
9Th.
The licking the republican party
got last year, and the sad disclosures
Of the official rottenness which have
since sprung to light, have had a chas-
tening effect. The bosses show de-
gree of timidity this year.
The Posten, the ablest temperance
advocate in the Swedish language in
the west has come out boldly for the
peoples party. This action no doubt
has been fastened by the favorable
sttitude of the rank and file of that
party towards prohibition.-Ola
Ieader.
WITH American gaip pouring acrcss
che Atlantic by millions of bushels,s and
counter current of European gold
flowing westward to pay for it, the time
Is not very prOpitiOus for arguing with
western farmers that foreign commerce
10 not good thing for country, and
republican demagogues find rural cam
paigning an up hill business.
EUROPEAN grain supply is so short
Chat Austria, Germany and France
will require over One-fOurteenth of the
entire product of wheat of the world to
supply the deficit in that grain, and
about one fourth of the total produc-
zion of rye in the world will be needed
by these countries and Russia. =. The
entire wheat crop is about one four
teenth less than the average and the
crop of rye one fourth less than usual.
RALPH M. EAsLEY, long the man
ager and editor Of the Hutchinson daily
News, has severed his connection with
chat paper and taken position on the
editorial staff of the Chicago Inter
Ocean. Kansas loses bright editor
in the removal of Mr.. Easley, and tho
We differ from him in political belief,
ne have ever admired his fearless and
open manner of fighting for the causes
be eSpoused. The city of Hutchinson
gill not soon find mar to do as much
Cor her as EaSley has done.
DEMOCRATS note this: Two town.
ships of the county were not represent
ed in the alliance county convention,
and four We're not represented in the
republican convention. Let us have
every township in the county repre-
seated in the democratic convention.
This is the year when every democrat
should put himself to some inconven-
fence if necessary in order to nominate
winning ticket. Let every township
y the county hold primary conventions
and select full list of delegates.
TIE tending boys of the Pittsburg,
Pa, glass factories asked of the manu-
zacturers an increase OF five per cent.
on their pay. The manufacturers re-
FUSED the increase and general strike
vas the result. The cotton manufac-
eurers of Fall River, in Massachusetts,.
held a meeting and resolved to reduce
the wages of their operatives ten per
cent. 1t would seem that the tariff
laws, which have been formed with a
view to increase the price of such goods
to the consumer and to keep up the
wages of the workmen, has failed to
accomplish its end. 1t has however,
succeeded in enhancing the cost to the
workman of everything that goes to
sustain his family, and thus robs him
at both ends of the line. Perhaps the
worklngman will get his eyes open to
the enorlnities of our tariff laws, before
he is called upon to cast his ballot for
another president. The tariff laws
were made for the manufacturing mo-
nopolist, and not for the workman.