Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-31
State Senator?

Dodge City, gave us sample Of his
ideas Monday night. Mr.. Madison Is a
skillful and entertaining speaker, "a most
artfnl dodger of every substantial issue.
He started out with saying, 81 am
here to represent the republican party,
and not for the purpose of explaining
Or defending republicanism,n and he
chung to his text with amazing tenaci-
ty. He descanted oratoricallV on the
past heroes of the party, dwelt at length
on Grants war record, coupled Blaine
with Gladstone, though the two are as
opposite. politically, as the poles, and
wound up with Harrison as an anti
climax.
He said again, 81 am not here to speak
OF the past, present or future of the re-
publican party" and he proceeded to
avoid, with the skill of a lawyer, telling
US what Ed. Madison advocated, or
where he stood on the issues of the day.
He then hurled all his avourdupois on
the Omaha preamble, taking the utmost
pains not to touch the platform. He
squelched 1t Ill one unansWerable SEN
tence by saying, 81 believe every man
who wrote this platform, or sat still IN
that convention, or who sat still and
tailed to raise his voice against it, must
have had very bad case of dyspepsia"
He chen proceeded to assume that for
the nation to be on the verge of moral
ruin, the majority of its people must be
immoral; that to be on the verge of ma
terial rum, the majority of its people
must be beggars, and went into past
history TO prove that there was no dan.
ger of political ruin, but failed to show
how those past events affected present
conditions, or what glory the revolution
shed on the republican party.
Ever and anon he branched off into
paroXysm of eloquence on the deeds of
the war, and besOughu them after each
wave of the bloody shirt, to vote the
republican ticket, the democrat ticket,
anything under heaven but the peo-
ple's ticket. He then told what love and
admiration he felt for the grand old
Jetfersonian and Jacksonian democrat,
those stalwart lovers of principle.
He then quoted words of Mr.. Snow,
an old soldier, scathlng the class of
old soldier who hung around the rear
and fled from the field of battle, and
stepped to the front when the war was
over, and after repeating one of Chap
lain McCabe's tearsplitting stories of
life in Libby prison assumed that Mr..
Snow represented the peoples party,
and that he mallgned such soldier as
this; and some of the audience we're
gullible enough to cheer, including even
a minister on the platform.
He quoted from the n. Y. Herald,
calling 1t democratic, to
find some abuse of the peoples party.
He sneered at the idea of corruption at
the ballot box and said the existence of
the Australian ballot system disproved
it, but he forgot the force bill, he for
got that i'll the Noyes-R contest
case this winter, the republicans were
charging corruption in an Australian
ballot state, New York.
He sneered at the idea of legislative
corruption, but forgot how the house
at its last session surrendered its prin-
ciples on free silver and Pinkerton's,
how ingalls, sought his seat through
bribery that has been proven by aaiday-
its.
He sneered at Van Wyck represent
ing the people, without telling how
Van WYck has sacrificed political DO
sition for the last twelve years in his
unceasing hight against railroad power.
When he comes to the mortgaged
home Indictment of the preamble, he
said he must hurry on, as indeed he
did. He pretended to quote figures
that Simpson had quoted, but which he
never quoted, showing how SO per cent
of the people owned their own homes
absolutely, the rest being mortgaged
or renters; and proceeded with the u.s.
ual assertion that the only excuse ordi-
narlly for debt was laZiness. He then
descanted on our wonderful increase of
wealth, without showing how that
wealth was gathering in a few hands,
on the wonderful productiYeness of our
soil without referring to the fact that
the net profits on our wheat and oat
crop combined will not pay our inter-
est on our debts.
We still do not know what Mr.. Madl-
son proposes to do III the senate. Wei
do not know how he stands on national
banks, on force bills, on silver coinage.
on watered stock and railroad discrim-
nations, on Australian ballot laws, on
the cause and remedies for strikes and
lock-Outs, on the causes and remedies
for mortgage and bonded Indebtedness,
on the monopolizatlon of lands and it's
cure, on the control or ownership of tel
egraph and railroad lines, on the stay
OF execution law, on the state textbook
law, on the remedy for the expensive
process, and a hundred 9TH
er little matters which touch the daily
life of our people. Really, Mr.. Madison
is an Artful Dodger from the city of
Dodge. and we hope and trust that the
people will dodge HIM at the polls just
as successfully as he lodges the issues
that involve their daily welfare.
Mr.. A. B. Jarvis, of Hardtner, was IN
town Yesterday on huSinocS