Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-07-21


democrat" the John Mar tin in ques-
ton is, the following from the Wichita
Beacon will explain:
"The whole democratic party of Kan
sas will doubtless become de moraliZed
now that the Eagle has announced the
detection of Councilman John Martin.
Martin voted for Harrison four years
ago and has been republican office
holder ever since. The Eagle is becOm-
ing the laughing stock of the town"
KANSAS republicans have decided on
a ''blocks of fve'' policy, only the
"blocks' viii be made of twenty in
stead of five. Already there are hund-
reds of negroes from Oklahoma in the
state, and when asked when they came
they invariably reply "May 1st"-just
long enough to gain residence by
voting time. Indeed the republican
party Of Kansas is put to desperate
straits. and campaign of Doodle and
abuse is what they have decided upon.
WOND DE RFUL, is it not, that the re-
publicans can fuse with and endorse
the peoples party candidates in states
and congressional districts where there
is strong democratic majorities, and
lose no. principles" but when the demo-
Gratis see fit to join the third party
movement in Kansas, rather than as
sure continued republican success, then
it is perfectly awful disgraceful!
unheard of! outrageous!!!" 1t makes
cheap O. difference" whose OK is be-
ing gored.
/ You would never have known how
much the republican party loved the
democratic party if they hadn't in
dOrsed the peoples party ticket. They
say that democracy is dead and it has
cast gloom over them such as death
only can. Yes they say democracy in
Kansas is dead, but they are ten times
more afraid of it since it died than
they were while it was alive. They
don't seem to relish the idea of having
the ghost of a dead party rise up and
cheat them out Of the presidency next
November Ellinwood Advocate.
Frank Kennedy, straight haired
democrat from Rice county, was in
town today. Speaking of the action of
recent democratic convention, he said:
II don't intend that the bosses shall
sell out my vote this year. Evening
News.
If THE gentleman named is demo-
crat, he will vote the democratic ticket.
No one has attempted to sell out his
vote; that is his personal privilege, to
dispose Of his vote as he sees fit. II
he is true democrat-and we believe
he is-he will neither "sell out'' his
vote to the republican party nor throw
it away; he will put it where it will
count against all the fanaticisms of
republicanism.
THE republican state platform says
"we demand the strictest legislation
for preserving the purity of the ballot
and prohibiting corrupt use of money
and corrupt practices at elections, and
throwing such safeguards around the
voter as shall protect him from intimi.
datiOn OF coercion of any kind and
guaranteeing the absolute secrecy Of
his ballot" is on par with the rest OF
the platform. During the last legisla
ture the peoples party House passed
the Australian ballot law. If the re
publican party is so dead stuck on tht
purity of the ballot why did not ths
Senate pass the bill? It couldn't afford
to do it, ye know.-Abilene News.
MANY people who would recoil will
horror from cutting human creature
throat, which really does not hurt yer.
much and lasts only moment, will
!, murder woman's good name withou
remorse or compunction, and that hurt
, worse than death for lifetime. 1t i
a meaner crime than murder. We CT,
, out, and rightly, too, against the sensa
tional and depraving habit of making
/ heroes of robbers and cutthroats. IL i
a horrible thing to do. And yet hav
, less of hatred and loathing for the lat
F Jesse James than have for some pee
pie who have never been convicted o
a capital crime, but whose tongues, W
know, are worse than any knife tha
ever severed human jugular.-R. J
: Burdett.
In THE congressional investigation
into the homestead troubles one i'm
portant statement of all the employe
, put on the witness stand should b
, noted, and that is, that the changing Q
) the scale of wages, as proposed by Car
, negie, while it did not cut much off O
the wages, it made them CoNDITIoNA
on the price of a certain output of th
mills, viz: Nsteel billetS,n and the pric