Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
OUR DUTY AS DEMOCRATS.

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B arton county politics has been writ
ten, and the DEMOCRAT cadidly admits
that it is an unfortunate one. 1t is a
chapter that many men who assisted in
making it will have cause to regret in
years to come, and one that many 9th
ers would today be glad to wipe out.
The action of the peoples party con-
vention of last Saturday means plainly
and unequivocally, that the crank ele-
ment is in the majority, and that the
former republicans in that party still
retain all their prejudices against the
name ''democrat;'' and those preju-
dices are so strong that only death will
rid them of the senseless idea, and free
them from their torment.
It means further, that in this county
it is war to the knife between demo-
Gratis and populists; it means that self
respect must be maintained by all hon
est democrats who have the courage of
their convictions by withholding every
vote possible from the ticket named
on Saturday, and that the bigoted, be-
nighted, short sighted nincompoops
who slapped their friends IN the face
without the semblance of occasion for
the act, will be taught lesson in poll
tics that they will never forget.
Let us review the situation and see
what ought to be done:
The democrats of Kansas, knowing
that they are the minority party of the
three, decided in state convention that
they would rather see the peoples party
state ticket win than the republican
party ticket; between the two evils
they chose the least, knowing that with
the success OF the p. r. in the state the
situation could not possibly be worse,
and it might be made better; knowing
that to put a complete democratic
ticket in the field would be to assist
the old, corrupt republican party to
four years more of jobbery and trick
cry; knowing this, and believing that
to place the peoples party men in the
state Offices would break up the crowd
of fanatical, prohibition hypocrits
known as the republican state house
ring, the democratic state convention
nominated the p. p. ticket, and would
vote 1t almost to man if treated with
the respect that is due all honest men
of any political faith.
fhio hn re a
majority of them in this county at
least were satisfied that in Jerry Simp-
son we had man who would better
represent the people of this district
than the republican nominee, the rail-
road attorney and effete dude, Ichabod
G. Long.
Ceming down closer home, the demo-
Gratis of this county would rather sup
port John Armstrong, the honest
farmer, than the candidate pushed to
the front by the scheming Caraway, for
state senator; and the democrots would
also have been satisfied to support Hon.
M. W. Cobun in preference to seeing a
republican represent our county in the
house of representatives.
The democrats desired to work with
the peoples party on all these lines, but
to work as democrats. And mark this
you middle-of-the-road hOt-heads-
the BRAINY LEvELHEADED AND EARN
EST men in your own party saw the
need of something being done to ena-
BILE Barton county democrats and the
peoples party to work harmoniously on
all these lines, and they went to vari-
Gus earnest democrats with the object
Of bringing about fusion of the two
parties ON an equitable basis.
We believe the democrats would have
been willing to accept the nomination
of two straight democrats on the
ticket Saturday, and would have met
on the Sd of September and nominated
the same ticket. We believe this be-
cause of having talked with prominent
and influential democrats from every
township in the county; and the best
men of the p. p, the men who do your
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your campaign, who are the life of
your organization, had sufficient polit-
ical sense to see the business of such
an action.
Now what is the situation today:
1t is this: The democrats of Barton
county, the party which out numbers
the p. p. at least $50 votes according to
the last election, would have been will
ling to name two candidates on com.
bined ticket and given you the remain
ing four, but rather than aid in the
election of two men to petty county
offices; rather than give the democrats
some reason for working with you an6
for you. you slap the democrats in the
ace and drive hundreds of votes away
from your state. congressional and
senatorial candidates, and write Ger.
tain defeat across the brow of every
candidate on your county ticket.
Do yon know the vote between the
two parties in 1891? Here it Is:
r. F. Pleger for treasurer, 923
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