Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-01
b. F. CLossoN,
Preacher IN Charge.
From Sharon.

Ed. INDEX: If xxx who furnishes the
Sharon items to the Cresset would do less Cos
siping and lying it would rebound TO the credit
of the community and set wholesome exam
pie before the rising generation. Mr.. Garrison
is a law-abiding and laws sustaining inhabitant
of our valley, and his prohibition record is
something to be proud of, despite the SANDER
Gus insinuations Of bigoted partisans. Mr.
Garrison remained with the republican party
as long as he Relieved they were sincere in
their prohibition pretensions, but when the
platform committee of the republican party
under the leadership of Senator Farwell
slapped Albert Griffin and the prohibition adj
Yocates in the face and chose in Kansas drink
ing men to enforce the prohibition law it was
plain as the nose on a crocodlle's face that
their high-faluting tune of God and Morality
party" was as sounding brass and tinkling
cymbal. Nothing was left to cause the sin
cere prohibitionist to suspect that they would
encourage throughout the nation or enforce
in the state the laws that he desired. Conse-
quently though even preachers of religion
proved faithless 10 their promises, and desert
cd the cause, Mr.. Garrison cast one OF the
three votes cast in Barber county for the pro-
hlbit1on ticket. Does this look like desertion
of principle? Again, though it is well known
that prominent brewer of Cincinnati invited
the delegates of the peoples party to free
dinner, with view perhaps, to capture the peo-
Pies party for the brewers trust, it is also
well known that but few accepted the invita-
tion and that Mr.. Garrison was not one of
those few; that those who continue to circll-
late this fabrication must be maliciously false
or willfuily ignorant. Another truth worth
noticing is that among the leaders of the peo-
pies party in Kansas are found many of the
leading temperance reformers of our state.
and Is not surprising considering the fact the
platforms of the prohibition party in the past
have set forth as secondary matters nearly all
the principles of the peoples party, that Mr.
Garrison, or any other prohibitionist should
finally see the danger of dividing the ranks of
the reformers and further, that the battle for
existence, the struggle against want. the ones.
ton how best to secure to every man to the
fullest extent the fruits of his own labor. is
the great problem of the day, and that tenn
perance, though important indeed, is but one
factor in the complete solution of this intricate
pfopien' secondary not primary in import
ahce. we cannot but respect the man who
| does not allow partizan SPIRIT and euphonious
words and the glamour of power and wealth
to bind HIM and deafen him and blind him to
the errors and decisions of the past in such 4
manner as to prevent him being loyal to his
convictions of truth and right; and the at
tempt to throw the sinking mud-balls of in.
situation and SANDER at the character and
reputation of one whom we know to be true to
his political convictions, merely because be
differs from some one else in opinion must
| carry an intolerable stencil to the noses of all
decency and justice loving citizens of Sharon
valley; and though conscious that it is in full
harmony with the instinct and calibre of that
cats paw of the republican leaders, called the
| Cresset, yet we hope it will not be repeated.
SELAH.