Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-05
SURE VICTORY IN SIGHT.
The Hosts are Gathering in ALI the Land.
And the Right Will Prevail.

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1892 will be one that future generations
will point to as the turning point in
American political policies. The repub-
lican party, entrenched in the fortress
of official power which it has held
against all opposition for so many
years; loaded down with munitions of
war; in the shape of financial backing
not only of all government employees,
but of the wealthy monopolies, trusts
and combines of the east; that party
which by virtue of its long continued
success has become gormandizing and
inhuman in its demands, is being
attacked with more vigor than ever
before and is in the last stages of a
siege of many years continuance.
Democracy is hurling her forces at
the stubborn foe with the true courage
of knowledge that the right must
win, and with almost certain victory
in sight. While the enemy,s spies
report alleged contention and discon-
tent within our ranks, for the purpose
of encouraging the besieged party to
renewed effort, our OWL people know
that the reports are groundless, and
that when the grand charge comes in
November every democratic state will
be in line and fighting for the common
cause.
Not only are democratic voters en-.
oo,,ro ood onA urOod or, nv, tho or;r;t of
the times, but the independent voters,
the men who have long known of exist
ing evils in our government and have
been uncertain as to how to overcome
them. are also in arms in the shape of
the peoples party; and though their
ranks are made up of raw recruita, un-
drilled and un-disciplined, they are
sure to make strong inroads upon the
entrenchments of the common enemy,
the republican party.
This other army, the peoples party,
whose forces are not as well known as
those of the two great armies in the
coming political battle, is, to many, an
uncertain element and one that many
people Overestimate and many others
underestimate. There are those in the
democratic party who fear that the new
element in the great battle, being as it
were, freebooters, will turn its forces
upon the democratic ranks and weaken
our cause instead of assisting in dis
lodging the great enemy now in the
The DEMOCRAT does not fear this.
The peoples party platform indicates
they recognize the same enemy to the
masses of the people that is recognized
by the democracy. It is true that there
are professed leaders in that party who
assume to charge that their war is
upon the democratic forces as much as
upon the republicans; but the past
short history of the peoples party,
together with the class of men that
compose the new party-mostly farmers
does not warrant any man in believ-
ing that they are Intentionally turning
their guns upon friends and foes alike.
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forces of the new party, being made up
principally of ex-members of the rebub-
lican party, are prone to continue fight
ing as freebooters, with the slight pos
sibility that they may mistake friend
for an enemy through bad tactics, but
with common understanding that the
entrenched party must be routed before
there is any possibility of the needed
reform being brought about.
Our judgment is that the democrats
in convention at Chicago will nominate
the next president of these United
States. His name may be Grover Cleve-
land and it may be something else. If
the New York democracy continues it's
local fight and brings it into the
National convention there is DISPOSE
tion among western and southern dem
ocrats to sit down hard upon the idea
that New York should dominate demo-
cratic action, and we believe that will
be done. In such event the next presl-
dent would not be from New York.
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