Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-01
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Editor Record.
In the infancy of the anti slavery
excitement. when the Free soil party
began to get control of Massachusetts
and elected Henry Wilson governor
and Charles Sumner senator, there was
terrible cOmmotion among the bunker
Wings and Democrats. They would
harmonic, met in conventions jointly,
and accuse the Free Sellers of all the
crimes in the calender. On one oc-
casion John Z. Hale, the model stump
orator, after referring to these con-
ventiOns and howls of the hunkers,
asked what was the matter. "What
has caused all this commotiOn?" And
he answered his own question by say
| ing. There is Niger loose.'
Well, we are having another COM
motion, although, as compared with
the old time excitement, it is but a
tempest in Il teapot. My good friend
Anthony, OF the Leavenworth Times.
who never before feared anarchy or
the devil, now shouts Anarchy is on
top! Gov. LeWelling has given his
sanction to anarchy!''
Democrats and Republicans at To-
peka fuss in mass meeting and an
orphan house of representatives. The
spectacle is most ludicrous, as it ex-
| hibits not only Republican and Demo
cratic giants in loving embrace, but
great legal luminaries prosecuting
anarchists, revOlutloniSts and law
defier5 in mass convention instead
of in the courts. And why all this
hubub? Why simply because there is a
populist governor loose with a legis-
iature at his heels. Somebody is
evidently badly frightened, but if all
will keep cool no one Will be hurt.
Even the Orbhan house can be provided
for.
If the employers of these mass con-
ventlOn lawyers and editors could pay,
as is claimed, several hundred thousand
dollars to secure the election and or
ganiZatiOn of this house they can
certainly afford to pay their per diem
of three dollars. Also, if the governor
and state senate will not recognize
them, the law students at the
University have moot senate which
might exchange cnurtesies; and doubt
less a dead head lawyer can be found in
Lawrence to act as governor and COM
plete this Legislative machine. Really.
let no one get badly frightened. If
Lewelling and his legislature are the
criminals they are painted, we still
have courts, and perhaps some lawJ ers
can be found who still practice in them
instead uf mass conventions.
No, never fear, if crime has been
committed, ten thousand men Of the
Peoples Party can be found to act as
a posse to see that they are arrested,
tried and punished.
But what a charming sight is this
loving embrace of Republicans and
Democrats, in full view of an aston
ished world! Their Republicanism
and Democracy must be akin to that
of the late Jaw Gould which could be
either one or the Other, just as mis-
railroad interest might require. Some
observing people have suspected that
the two old party machines swere run
by attorneys and dead. heads of the
same interests, and the present ex-
hibitiOn confirms the suspicion. Is it
not almost time for the voters of these
parties, who pay their own fares, also
to combine and either make a pew
party Differed and managed by in
dependent, self respecting citizens, or
join the pOpuliSt? Then the subsidized
men of all grades can vote az unit
and the people DO likewise.
When will men representing great
interests learn that so long as they
keep out of partizan politics their in
terests will be respected and guarded
by all parties. but so soon as they
take the political field they challenge
all other interests to act In self de-
Tense? If they would save the money
paid to influence politics and given
to dead-heads and sycophants, and
expend it in improving roadbeds, or
reduce the cost of transportation to
their patrons it would be much better
for all parties, and state officers and
legislatures would be elected honestly
and properly represent all classes of
people of the state. C. ROBINSON.