Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-10-19
VOL XIII. MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS, WEDNESDAY,
crowd has been partaking of state

crowd has been partaking of state
patronage in large doses Until re-
Gently each has been content to enjoy
its own preserves in its own way, prac-
tically undisturbed by the other. But
now that the peoples party has secured
a strong following and threatens to
take possession of both the national
and state governments, it must be de-
stroyed, and the democrats and repub-
llcans unite, as we have all along pre-
dicted they would, to accomplish their
purpose
Again, the combination of Clark,
Quincy & Co., or rather Quincy, Clark s.
Co. (Mr. Quincy being the controlling
partner in the firm) has forever put a
quietus on the democratic cry of 'force
bill"
The fight is now on and we have the
vantage ground. We have more than
$50, 900 voters in line, as. shown by our
official returns, and we are making
gains every day from all of the oppos-
ing parties. Judge Clark, even with
the assistance of the Cuneyites, cannot
poll in Texas 125, 900 votes. And we
ms..- confidently expect daily accessions
to our ranks from among those hereto
fore known as Clark democrats Men
who will not be made parties to such
an unnatural combine. Hogg could not
hope to poll 100000 at best, since more
than $50, 600 of our people voted for him
in $780, to say nothing of the $4,000 or
$4,000 Clark democrats who have also
left him. And now that the fight ap-
pears to be between Nugent and Cuney
Clark & Co., thousands of Hogg demo-
Gratis will inevita bly, come to Judge Nu-
gent to defeat the democratic-republic
an or epublican-democratic ticket.
Speculations are being literally in
dulged in by all of the opposition, that
we are not going to stand together.
The wish in this case, however, is father
to the thought. Those who are in our
clubs, or are ''in the middle of the road"
though not in the clubs, are in no more
danger of getting back on the fence or
getting over on the other side of the
fence than the Baptists of Texas are
iu danger of going bodily over to the
Methodists, or vice versa. Our people
are populists from principle just as our
Christian friends and brothers are Bap-
lists or Methodists from principle. We
all see our opportunity, and we are go
ing to be wise enough to take advan-
tage of it. Possibly a Weakened, half
converted creature, who, under the in
| fuence of neigh borhood enthusiasm
has come to us from the other crowds,
will be glad of any sort of an ex-
cuse to get back under the bed, :;
and will seek cover in his old thiclxet.
And there may be a few who have come
to us ''for revenue only" and falling to
realize their hopes in this direction will
now go back" on US, and, like the
prodigal son, go home, hoping to have
the fatted calf killed for them. But
the honest, true-hearted peoples party
man is anchored with us, and in the in
terest of his loved ones will stand with
us until the last day in the evening.
do not claim to be prophet or the
son of a prophet, but venture to pre-
dict that we are going to win this fight
and.that Nugent will be the next gov
ernor of Texas. Manager
II. L. Bentley, in Southern Mercury.