Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.

1t is said that Candidate Reid is
to make an appeal to Blaine to take
the stump. Surely the plumed knight
will not refuse the request of this bat
tle-scared Washington Post
The situation of New York is
now so clearly defined that an offer of
two to one on Cleveland would fail to
bring out republican money except
from the campaign fund.-St. Louis
Republic.
"A vote for Cleveland is vote to
eliminate the Raums. Wanamakers,
Egans, Porters, Elkinses, Martins,
BardsleyS and Delam aterS from posi-
tions OF public trust and inhuence.-N.
Y. World.
The protects have foreclosed their
chattel mortgage upon the republican
party, but they cannot deliver such OPP
ponents of high tariff taxation as Judge
Gresham and Wayne MacVeagh.-Chi-
cago Times
History and reason combine to
show that concentration of wealth is L
menace to the prosperity Of any people.
The republican party's tariff policy is
rapidly concentrating the wealth of
this country in the hands of favored
class.-St. Paul Globe.
Harrison and Reid believe that
the republican administration should
control the registration, the election,
the counting of votes and the certifca-
ton of results in every congressional
district of the country. Such a doc
trine, given the sanction of legislative
enactment, would come pretty near be-
ing a force bill.-Detroit Free Press
when Mckinley corporations,
with or without contracts under the
Harrison administration, wage private
war, and score the heaviest losses, let
the courts decide the matter on the
issue of homicide involving both
parties. But it will never be treason
for an American to take down his rife
when Andrew Carnegie cables from
Scotland that it is time for shooting to
begin in American. Y. Times.
-Repu blicans charge that because
democrats deny the right of the gov
eminent to levy taxes for restrictive
purposes therefore they are in favor of
the ablishment of evils against
which unconstitutional laws have been
enacted. Under the same argument it
could be asserted that those who
disbelieve in taxing houses of infamy
were in favor of their existence. It is
poor logic. But in that respect it Is
consistent with republicanism.@
go Times.
-ssFree trade and debased money
go hand in hand" says Gov. Mckinley.
This is a catch phrase which the re-
publican press has been quick to take
up, and from Maine to California we
read it in protection organs. If the
statement is true we must look to free
trade countries for confirmation. Eng
land is frequently quoted as the lead
ing free trade nation of the world.
English money is generally considered
particularly sound. That country has
an exclusively gold basis. and Bank of
England notes are good in any market
in the world.-Kansas City Times
The fat-fryers are reaping a
golden harvest from the wealthy repub
licans of Pennsylvania. and the most
of the two million dollars, which it is
expected to raise, viii be used as cor
ruption fund in New York The
people of Pennsylvania should come
down handsomely. for in no other
state of the union have plutocrats and
monopolies been more munifcently
benefited because of the Mckinley
iniquity. They come down with from
ten thousand dollars to one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars apiece, and.
OF course. it is all done for 'sthe poor
wJokingman- Detroit Free Press.