Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-01

GREAT BEND,
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
MCKINLEY says: IAN honest dollar
will win the Ohio elections for the re-
publicans.' If, by any unfortunate
chance that party should win, you may
be shure that many honest dollars, dis
honestly spent, will be the cause of it.
SOME place in the bible a rich young
man was advised to sell all he had and
give the proceeds to the poor. Repub-
licanism evidently did not rule in that
day, or the poor would have been made
to whack up all they had to the rich by
some sort of protection chicanery.
TITS stated that the peoples party
candidates in this county put up S20(
to Bro. Armstrong, of the Beacon, te
enable him to pull through the cam
paign. If that be the case, Bro. Arm
strong has indeed struck snap, anG
ought to quit kicking about hard times
ALMOST every day we learn CT some
republican alliance man in South Bend
township coming out for the old party
and denOuncing the peoples party
movement. Democrats should keel
their eyes open and not be left to 'hol(
the bag'' in a snipe hunt for count!
offices.
BRENNAN, the slayer of Sam Wood
will have his trial Nov. 4th. The tria
of Messrs. Spencer, Wilkinson, BOsse
thinner, Typer, McCauley, Williams
and John StrOthman ct. al, will bt
closed and sentence passed by tina
time, and the sentence will be, chill!
trip up salt river.
REPUBLICAN conventions all Ove
the land are endorsing the Force Bill
McKinleyism, the billion dollar con
gress and it's depleted treasury. th'
suspension Of silver coinage and thu
private sacredness of monopolies; there
fore the laboring people have the same
cause for fighting that party that they
had when they showed it under in 1890
IFsOME of the former democrat:
who are members of the alliance de-
not believe that the peoples party il
being led into an endorsement of pro
hibition and woman suffrage, they
should look up the record of the lower
house of the legislature Oflast wintel
and see the stand there taken. Tht
records will tell the tale beyond any
question.
THE democrats of Nebraska have
spiked republican gun by prefacine
their platform with thanks to God fol
the bountiful crops. The idea of tht
republican organs is that thanks should
be gived to the Harrison administra
tion. but they will hardly have suffici
ent assurance 10 contest OF eriticise thu
action of the Nebraska democrats
Buffalo Courier.
REED congress spent an awful biz
pile of money, but if the scheme tt
have the government buy the railroads
of the United States. and loan none,
on farm security at 2 per cent. Pc
annum should carry, the Reed profiig
acy would fade into insigniicance
There is no need, however, to borrow
trouble on that score, for such plans
will never materialiZe.
WHEN asked TO vote for or work fO
any other than the democratic candi
dates named last Saturday, enquire
why you should be expected to do SO
Each and every one of the men nomi
mated are competent, trustworthy, an(
in every way capable of filling th'
several offices. They are well known
by most of our people, and nothing cal
be truthfully said against the lntegrit,
| of any one of them.
THE democratic administration lief
money enough in the treasury to pa,
the 44 per cent. bonds now DUE Their,
would have been no necessity for ex
tending any part of them if the money
collected had not been spuandered b,
the billion congress. The cackle of TIN
republican organs over the vauntet
ability of the treasury to meet par
of its obligations has very hollow an,
mechanical sound.
ALL MEN who are opposed to higl
protective tariff policy; all who Oppos
class legislation in all its forms; all op
posed to the extravagant waste of pub
lie funds; all opposed to any and ever,
kind of legislation that tends to foste
or shield monopolies; all who favor fre
and unlimited coinage of American
liver, and an increase of good, SCUM,
currency, can consistently and withou
reserve stand upon the democratic
platform adopted on the 26th of Sep
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