Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-04-20
the deal. and they have right to know.
Politics is politics, and now is the
time to show politics to Kansas.
The Democratic Party Going to Pieces
In Texas.


in Texas.
PARIS, TEXAS, March ga sensa
ton has been created in this fth,
Fourth Congressional district by az
open letter to the people by Col. Sidne,
Harper, chairman of the democratic
party. He was in the convention thai
nominated Hon. D. B. Culberson in
this city two years ago. The letter was
received here to day, and created a sen.
sation. 1t is as follows:
To the people of the Fourth congress.
sional district:
L hereby tender my resignation az
chairman of the democratic party for
this congressional district. My reasons
for so doing are that 1 go to a party
more democratic in principle, more
patriotic in practice and less proscrip-
tive IN management. Under the name
OF democracy the great mass of COM
mon people of the south have been lured
step by step, each year being led furth-
er away from the land marks of its
founders. until to-day there is no per-
ceptlble difference between the leaders
and the vilest republicans. The age of
corporations, trusts and combines in
which we live is debauchlng our politics,
corrupting our laws and destroying our
government, making a wreck OF our
liberties and paupers of our people.
During this era of corruption the peo-
pie have kept divided while the leaders
of the two parties have been in partner
ship, amassing millions of dollars out
of the very corporations and fraud
which they, by law, have foisted upon
the people. The land, the bank, the
transportation, the mining and manu-
featuring monoDOlies are jointly owned
and controlled by the leaders of the old
parties. The press, the great political
dailies, being largely under the infiu-
ence OF the great telegraph news
combine, must, of necessity, depend on
the enemies of the people 1.-THE trusts
and combines) for the classification and
transmission of political news. BY
these methods the people were kept de-
ceived until they were educated other
wise through their industrial organiza-
tions. Looking back for thirty years
over this era of corruption and fraud
coming out and perpetuating itself in
the passions and prejudices of the late
war, we find, as the production of mod |
ern democracy and republicanism, over
l,OOO millionaires and 100000 paupers |
each year. Over half the wealth of the
union is owned and controlled by rs 900
people, whose corporation managers
have power in the assessment and col
lection Of freights, tolls and tariff. I'M
riyaled by the royal blood of Russia.
states rights, individual rights and the
liberties Of our people have been usurp-
ed by corporate greed. What does the
cry OF states rights signify when half a
1ozen corporation managers in the state
u New York, by tie stroke of a pen,
IAN collect over $5,0OO,O0O a year out of
ne people of Texas on fictitious or wa
ered STOCK IN transportation compa-
hes, or let the salary of a corporation
't1cer at five times the salary of the
hghest paid state officer, and make the
'eople pay 1t with no power in the mod
I'm states rights to prevent it. What
loes the cry of individual rights signify ,
Vhen few chartered classes have a
monopoly of the government to- /
ON, issue and control r. lake
7hIch prices every pr "e money
nd product, an" -dlVlduaFs labor
egal power that, too, without
he " or redress or prevention!
,ery men who have carried our
politics to system of spOliation, pill
lage aud plumber are now, and have
been, about equally divided among the
and leaders of the two old /
parties, thus proving their joint respon-
si5ility for the wrongs which exist. In
this condition of matters it is folly to |
expect reform in either of the old par
ties, and for the good of myself, my
family, my posterlty and my country, L |
expect to take part in the ratification
which takes place at the courthouse on
March 18th, and join the
grand march and struggle for liberty. |
To those who know me have no ex-
PLANTATION to offer, but to those who do |
not Will state that 1 am farmer, was |
born and raised in the south, and have |
taken this step after due deliberatlon. |
SIDNEY HARPER.