Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-01

politics is merely d pleasant, friendly
game with which to vile away the time.
These bloated multi-millionaires in
private caucus decide which shall be
republicans and which democrats. They
divide their forces as nearly even as
possible in order that they may auto
cratically dictate the policies, platforms
and candidates of both parties
These plutocratic wire pullers aim to
so scheme it that elections shall be ex-
ceedingly close. This time the repub-
llcans shall go in by a trifing majority,
and the next time the democrats shall
come into power by small plurality.
So long as the plutocrats could keep
the two old parties evenly balanced in
point of numbers, elections were a
sham and the plutocrats mastered the
situation.
The democratic organs in the last
election incautiously declared that
their party championed the cause of
the people against the plutocrats
They avowed that democracy would
wage stern battle against the trusts,
combines and overgrown corporations
that were pillaging the land. OF course
this was merely inconsiderate election
clap-trap and had no meaning to the
rich democratic editors-but they
thought it good bunco material with
which to humbug the voters.
And 10! the thinking millions who
have an honest, patriotic and entirely
unselfish interest in the republic said:
'Of verify these things be indeed
true, and we will use the democratic
party as club with which to crush the
monopolistic ravager who makes the
people his spoil"
When the returns of November s
were summed up the plutocratic demo
Gratis We're terror-struclz at the i'm
mensity of their victory, for it was,
first of all, terrible popular rebuke
to the triumphant plutocrats, while
the defeat of the republican party was
only a side issue and casual incident by
comparison. All too late the million
aire democrats found out that their ora
torical and editorial henchmen had en-
tireiy overdone it in their attacks on
rich monopolies and grasping corpor-
ations
1t is altogether within reason to af-
firm that there are not two democratic
millionaires in the nation who would
not have preferred Harrison's election
to seeing Cleveland take the presiden-
tial chair by the appalling popular ma
jority he received This astounding
landslide revealed to the plutocratic
democrats that mo mass of American
voters had passed beyond the control
of the political machine, and in that
circumstance is the death warrant of
the triumphant plutocracy.
The late election developed the fact
that the independent voters who vi
brate between the two old parties have
increased to an all-potential army
This is horror breeding circumstance
to the plutocrats, for they have no use
for citizens who will not give up their
necks to political machine collars, and
allow themselves to be numbered and
branded like cattle.
Coincident with this startling show
ing of a host of emancipated voters
within the two old parties came the
alarming demonstration of the power,
purpose and number of the peoples
party men. 1t can be squarely and
truthfully stated that the open and de-
clared peoples party adherents and the
voters who held the balancc OF power
and gave Cleveland his unexpected ma
jOrity are the advance and rear guard
of the same mighty army of reform
Chicago Vanguard.