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

Minnesota voted favorably in the re-
cent election on an amendment to her
constitution providing that a verdict of
five sixshs of jury is sufficient in civil
actions. This is a step in the direction
of reform in the courts which is very
we'll taken.-Lyons Tribune.
And now word comes from Washing
ton that the republican bosses will not
risk the next presidential election on
Blaine and reciprocity. The bosses
claim by going back on the Mckinley
bill that the willy "Jeems" betrayed
Harrison in order to boom himself for
the presidency. Fate seems to have
recorded that James G.. Blaine will
never be Wichita Beacon.
The country is still going democratic.
Since the general upheaval in politics
in November, Boston in its municipal
election has increased it's democratic
| majority from 5000 to 1900. Vicks-
burg has gone democratic for the first
time since the war, while New Haven,
Milwaukee and Louisville have sur
prised themselves with their overflow
of genuine democracy.
Kansas requires for che instruction
( of hes 500 ,6l4 children; 1852 teachers
She has SSH school houses She pays
her male teachers S42 per month and
her female teachers $34 months which
is ''dirty Irish trick, because Che
women make just as good teachers as
! the men. and if there is any difference
| it is in favor of Che women.-Kansas
City Stars
Judge Doster. of Marion county, DIS
missed an action in foreclosure because,
he held, The transferred notes were not
negotiable He based his decision upon
the mortgage clause which says that in
failure OF payment of interest foreclos-
ure may be begun at the option of the
holders constituting the words to mean
! that the holdel Of the mortgage aud che
holder of the note are one. II this
opinion should be sustained it will mix
up matters mightily.-Newton Repub-
licans
There protection editors are a curious
lot. They tell their readers that pro-
| lection will not increase prices but will
cheaper them. Our republican neigh
Dor is all the time harping this nom
sense. Why should manufacturers
want protection if 1t was not to in
crease their profits, and it is not for q
moment to be supposed they would
want law passed that would compel
them 60 sell goods cheaper. Such talk
is the veriest balderdash.-Jun
City Sentinel.
According to staff correspondent
of the Chicago Times, who was sent to
Kansas to write up the senatorial cofl-
tests Ingalls is done for. 1t is to be
hoped that this is true. ingalls, is an
able mans but an utterly selfish and
INSCRIPTIONS one, who, during his
eighteen years in the senate has been
elways a servile tool of monopoly and a
, goweneer of sectional strife. His per,
mansnt retirement from public life will
be distinct gain for decent politics
good government and national unity
Indianapolis Sentinel.
The plan of securing water for irri
cation purposes in the Arkansas valley
P by tapping what is known as the under
flow of the Arkansas river, that one
7 year ago was theory, is now a posi-
8 tive fact, and water can be had in ;
! uniform quantity the year round
That makes western Kansas the gar
den of the great west. But if so mucl
water is taken from the Arkansas il
: the west part o: the state, what effect
r is that going to have on us along th'
! river down here? We look for a spirit
ed kick on this deal.-Geuda Mockins
3 Bird.
= Despite the result of the fall elec'
e tions, despite the sentiment which pre-
e vailed at Ocala, Florida, for the Oblit
e Grafton of sectional lines between nortl
o and south, John ]. Ingalls, the glitter
t ing spectacle from Kansas In the q.
. senate, opened his month again tn
t other day and put his foot in it. Al
8 his old time partisanship and blood
: shirt ideas were ventilated in an argu
g ment in favor of establishing d militar
e despotism in the south. AS usual b
o let his verbiaye get away with his goo
r sense and antagOnized those who nigh
do him good.
III. G.. Brooks, at the United State
experimental farm, has been instructe'
s by the agricultural department to bn
e FIVE thousand pounds of Jerusalem
8 corn for distribution among the farm
+ ers Of southwest Kansas. to be give