Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25
STAND UP FOR KANSAS"


The hypercrytical and plagiariZed cry
of Stand up for Kansas, which republi-
cans use in their mad endeayor to
stand up Kansas for another two years
is shown up in good shape in the foi-
lowing from the Topeka Advocate.
The chief occupation of the republic
can party, Individually and collectively
is standing up for Kansas. They have
been in the business for some time and
they know how it is done. They were
standing up for Kansas when they con-
ceived and executed their infamous
dynamite plot in 1888. They were
standing up for Kansas when they
created new Office by special act OF
the legislature with which to reward
C. A. Henrie for his valuable services
in the execution of that plot, because.
Iceland, we had to do it."
s'Mr. Humphrey, of Independence"
has been standing up for Kansas, while
giving it one of the most corrupt and
demoralizing administrations that ever
disgraced any state. He was standing
up for Kansas when he went to Colo
RADIO on a grand drunk, and he has
been standing up for Kansas in par
doning more criminals than any other
governor Of the state, and in executing
the pardoning power in absolute VIOLA
ton of statute law. He has recently
had Lew Hanback, standing up for
Kansas, according to Joe Hudson's
testimony, by sending him down into
the Third district to work for his NOM
ination and paying him from the state
treasury.
DGeorge T. Anthony is also standing
up for Kansas. He is conducting a
canvass in the interest of his candidacy
for congressman-at-larg while draw
ing the salary of a railroad commits
sioner, when the law distinctly declares
that he shall devote his time to the
duties of his Office. George T.Anthony
proposes to stand up for Kansas also
upon the plan of the Indiana -blocks-of-
five, only when he wants to make it
blocks-of-twenty.
The state house officials also have a
way Of standing up for Kansas by de-
failing clerks from their departments
ia the pay of the state for service in the
Office of the republican central commit
tee.
The Topeka Capital, official state
paper, has stood up for Kansas by de-
nouncing her people as anarchists and
regulators, and characterizing them,
because of political differences alone,
with every vile epithet to be found in
the vocabulary of the slums.
Lew Hanback, was standing up for
Kansas when he went back to Ohio to
assist in republican campaign, got in
drunken row, ard fetched up in the
cooler.
Judge Bodkln has also done consider
able standing up for Kansas. He was
standing up for Kansas when he broke
into drug stores and stole whisky, and
he was standing up for Kansas when
sitting upon the bench in beastly
state of intoxication. He and Bill
Hackney were standing up for Kansas
when they conspired together to rob
the city of Springfield of all the funds
in it's treasury, and used the machinery
of his court for the execution of his
scheme; and the republican senate
stood up for Kansas by sustaining him
in the disgraceful and fraudulent pro-
ceedings. He and his outfit can dc
enough standing up for Kansas to serve
for the entire state, and inasmuch as
the republican senate has ratified his
way of doing it, his plan may be re.
garded as official.
The republican senate stood up fol
Kansas also when it passed the age OF
consent bill. But why multiply illus
trations? The republican party can bt
trusted to stand up for Kansas, indi
| vidually and collectively. 1t is in thu
business.