Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-27


men selected for the positions because
of their fitness for the offices, the other
the republican ticket-contains men
who were put on for the reason that
they were thought by the Topeka ring
to be the best vote-getters; qualification
was not considered in any instance.
A FEW days ago, says the Yelling
ton standard. certain prominent re-
publican speaker who is stamping Kan
sas FOR the old party, in speaking to a
gentleman whom he supposed to be a
republican, in reply to what he thought
of the prospect in the state said: I'VE
have the poll of the state and by our
own showing Lewelling has about 90
600 majority. It looks bad. We have
got to do something to counteract this
if we can. Our plan is to claim every
thing. About two or three weeks be-
fore election, We expect to have men in
various parts of the state to declare
their disgust with some particular parts
of the speeches made by the populist
fellows and declare their intention to
leave the party and go back to their
old party. Interviews have been ar
ranged with republican papers in diff
ferent parts of the state. who will pub
lish this list of names who have left the
alliance and in this way try and make
d break in their ranks all over the state"
When asked if they were sure they
could get their men, he replied: ''Oh,
yes, We have them already selected; we
arranged for them to 60 into that party
last spring and they can now leave it
as being dissatisfied" The expediency
of this policy beng questioned, he re-
piled: why, it is the only thing we
have got left. We are beaten and have
got to do something to try and save
ourselves. In the congressional dis
tricts Humphrey, Long and Funston
will be beaten; Broderick will pull
through, SO will Charlie Curtis in the
! Topeka district. too, I think, and Ha-
ker in the Sixth district may be beaten
as the democrats do not like him.
WHO has heard a republican speaker
talk this year upon the issues of vital
Importance before the people? Echo
answers, who" They dare not con-
fine themselves to their platform or to
the live issues, but must needs resort
to malignant and unealled for abuse
and misrepresentation; must appeal to
the prejudices Of feeble minds, and
threatening to gobble up our fair state
| they cry out in their fear and cringing
| ''Stand up for Kansas" Why, bless
their poor benighted souls. our people
always have and always will stand up
for Kansas; and this year they will
stand up for her 40 well and SO in
telligently that they will wipe from her
| fair name the only poor reputation she
has ever habitat of being beastly re-
publican. Yes, democrats, let US stand
| up for Kansas in way that will sink
into oblivion the cranks and mercen-
! aries who have, through the favor of
the republican party, given our state
[ the farcial prohibitory liquor law; who
| have placed the railroads in position
| that they knew no laws of right and
justice; that have encouraged the tariff
fed plutocracy OF the east to levy
fittings from our farms; that have
called democrats 1.-THE street-walkers
of politics" and s'the slums and off
scourings of the land" Yes, let us
stand up for our homes, our honor and
! our name, by joining with the men who
! are willing to go hand IN hand with
democracy on all the more vital ques-
tions of the age.
Col. JOE BORDERS of the Hoising-
ton Blade-a newspaper by-the-way
which is a credit to the craft-has al
ready began to think of funeral pro-
cessions and the burying of his fond
| hopes for the election of Long. He
says his feelings are ''harrowed up"
and the sod-cutter of impending woe is
rolling over his heart strings, and his
tears are caused to flow." Col. Bord-
ers is d handsome man, and it is un-
fortunate tnat he cannot CONTROL his
grief. IL he had been here two years
ago. and witnessed how easy our cham
pion, Jerry Simpson, waxed the puddin'
| out of the Prince he would not have
| been led into the mistake of believing
that the young elocutionist from Medi-
cine Lodge was ever in sight of an elec-
ton. Come, Colonel, do not take the
matter so to heart. We all like you
and would fain see you accept the in
evitable as becomes a vaiient knight of
the quill. You cannot look about your
own bailwick and find ten straight.
conscientious democrats who will not
vote for Jerry Simpson in preference
to Chester Long and high tariff, force
| bill. monopolies, trusts, dear money.
and all Objectionable features of re-
publicanism.