Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-02
FOOLISH RouRRoNs.
The Bourbons In Both Old Parties Think
Their Party Ties VIII stu Suffice to Bind
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The Bourbons In Both Old Parties Think
Their Party Ties VIII Still Suffice to Bind
Populisits.
One of The peculiarities of the present
political situation is the hallUcination
on the part of the twin frauds which
causes them to believe that old party
ties are yet dear to the heart of peo-
pies party men. The two old parties
do not seem able to comprehend the
idea that populists have renounced their
allegiance to them and, while supreme
ly interested in the success of their
own party, are utterly Indifferent as to
which one of the twin frauds gives up
the ghost first Thus the Kansas City
Mail, partisan democratic paper of
the ultra Bourbon stripe, says:
Mr. Weaver must know, for he is not a fool,
whatever else he may be, that the only thing
possible for him to accomplish in Missouri i5
the defeat of the democratic party By the tri-
umph Of the republican party. II he and his
assistants can induce Sufficient number OF
Missouri democrats to leave their old comrades
and party and vote for Leverett Leonard, the
third party nominee, he can succeed-in what?
In electing William Warner high tariff, bitter
republican partisan, governor OF Missouri ms
much and no more is the bare possibility or
Weaver's efforts in Missouri So there is man
Ifestly nothing to be accomplished by this varie-
gated many colored politician and office-seezer
In Missouri but the possible election OF repub-
hcan governor in Missouri
The Mail evidently does not under
stand that next to winning victory
over both the old parties, nothing could
please the populists better than to over
turn the existing state of affairs not
only in Missouri, but in all other states,
turning out the party in power and
breaking up the rings and combines
that seek to establish its perpetual
reign.
A true peoples party man is popn-
list from principle, and both of the
twin frauds are antagonistic to the
principles to which he owns allegiance.
In striving for the success of the peO-
pies party and the principles it repre-
sents, the sincere populist does not care
one continental which one of the ''or-
ganized hypocrisies" is damaged the
most by the campaign of the peoples
party. Moreover, a populist who has
burned his bridges behind him and Is
marching through the enemy's country
toward the promised land, would not
turn his hand over to be able to dictate
which one of the old parties should re-
tain or assume control in any state or
in the nation at large.
But the sophistical imbecility of the
Mails argument is best apprehended
when it is remembered that populists
are just as anxious and try just as hard
to win converts from one old party as
the other. Indeed, it may safely be
said, that as a rule the voting strength
Of the peoples party is drawn, in about
the same proportion or ratio to its nu
merical strength, from each one of the
two old parties, so that unless the pop
ulists should become strong enough to
gain a plurality over both of them,
their relative strength to each other, or
the result of an election, would not be
materially changed. For every hereto
fore democratic county in the state of
Missouri, where ul- i5rity Of the voters
have gone into the peoples party, an
erstwhile republican county can be
cited where the same condition prevails.
The Mail insults the intelligence of
the populists in prOpounding such q
gauzy, transparent proposition 1t is
nothing more nor less than an illy-dis-
yuised appeal to that hidebound parti-
san prejudice which, since the war, has
kept the people fighting each other
while the plutocrats robbed them of the
products of their toll. No sincere or
well informed populist will pay any at
tention to this despafring appeal but,
supremely Indifferent as to whether
Lawyer Stone or Lawyer Warner is
elected governor of Missouri, every true
peoples party man will follow his prin-
ciples to the ballot box and cast vote
for God, humanity and Mollie and the
babies GEORGE G WARD.