Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-28
"a Stand Up.v


Ingalls, died, Geo. L. Anthony, address
ed our people Wednesday last. That
Is, in the afternoon he addressed a
crowd containing II voters, nearly if
not a third of whom were gentIles to
his faith. There was a noticeable alb
sence of country visitors ON that day.
In the evening the Grand March of the
flambeau club consisting of 80 long vot-
ers and 20 more too short to vote, to-
gether with sky rockets that by their
explosion heralded the fate of the G. O..
p. and band in addition announced
the fact that G.. L. would ''stand up"
once more.
He opened his speech by calling on
God and the audience to witness the
fact that he desired to speak the truth,
then proceeded to attribute to the peo-
pies party, theories which every fair
minded person knows to be false; stat
in that the peoples party believed and
held the government responsible every
time they lost money on a horse race,
that they wanted to divide up every
farm and every home with surveyor s
instrument and chain, that they wanted
theocracy, that they considered the
government a far off, distant, and indie
pendent entity, and more hog-wash OF
similar import tending to make an i'm
partial listener feel as though the Ash
attic cholera bad invaded the realm OF
reason.
He then proceeded to give A. J
Streeter credit for the Inauguration OF
the peoples mOvem ent although every
intelligent voter knows that its primer
Piles were promulgated by the Green
back party as early as 1875.
He claimed all the honor for the re-
publican party for the homestead laws
exemption laws, school laws ana the
like; laws which no party pretends to
oppose or question, laws which all par
| ties favor.
BY taking a detached portion of PEI
fer's speech he attempted to prove that
PETER favored paternal government
although Peffer said explicitly in the
senate that paternalism was an ex
otto and could not flourish in free
country, and that what we wanted was
a fraternal not paternal government
He tried to belle the peoples party po-
sition by taking other detached extracts
and wound up with the usual Theodo
Botkin climax on Jerry Simpson, where
in Jerry said that under certain condi-
lions men sell their honor and women
their virtue, which according to j. j
Ingalls, and Talmage is literal truth
the wide world oyer.
He then called up meeting of an
archists at Brussels and attributed the
whole thing to the vicious influence OF
Jerry Simpson, that man who would
never be heard of after election. Fol
far fetched falsehoOd and sillineSs such
an argument is almost without paral
straw.
He INDUCED in the usual TRADE or
the peoples party preamble, but W.
must give him credit for being the frs
|
ing this campaign who dared to discus
the demands themselves.
He told how the military power wa
only so much of individual right as haC
ciety, but failed to show why HI
might not in the same way, surrende
if he chose, the right to govern trans
portation. the issuing of money, tn
running of telegraphs, in fact all tn
demands of the peoples party.
Truthfully and correctly he attrit
utes the ills we suffer to the careles!
ness of constituents in sending me-
chandise instead of men to congress
forgetting at the time the siren song {
prosperity he had sung little befor
! Among the educational" features
: his campaign was the declaration tn
"a legislature of insan9 men had deci
ed PETER sane and started him to Was
I ington,' a spasm over PETERS asse
}. ton that it was the duty of society al
the government to see that every Chi
brought into the earth had home; t
old chestnut about taking cart load
greenbacks to buy pocket full
n goods; statement that we were raj
q ing 20 and so cent corn; that there W
so much money we had piled up in t
treasury $500 600 900 that we did n
d use; howl of horror because Peff
q said that when private business b
came detrimental to the public,
ought to be taken in hand by the pc
IS pie; a denunciation of Judge Doster
> communist, socialist, anarchist /
n cause he declared that the user of pre-
erty had better right to it than t
owner, without explaining the conn'
n tion of the words with the subject L
u der discussion.
d The sum total of his discourse was
G. usual that the theories of the peopl
IL party were wild and visionary, that tt
were revolutionary, disloyal, anarchi
ic and communistic in their aims a
tendencies.
~ Let every peoples man ponder whe
o er he IS an anarchist or disloyal. a
40 ask himself whether he will be whipI
into line by such halberdash or 6G
n harder under the taunts of lying den
,d gogues. Let every other man swall
n what he can of this campaign of edu
10 ucation," being careful not to bite
IN too much at once. A bad diet is
hand maid of cholera.
w. The gentleman who wrote the lett
for one Mr.. Clark, mentioned in
ar Cresset of the 9th, as being refused b
di- in securing pension by Jerry Sir