Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-13

l-~N-" 49,
South and West submit?-The Elec-
tion Returns show Discomfort.
"a Guiteau for Cleveland Such is
the startling headline used by a demo
cratic paper IN announcing that
crank had been prowling around the
white house muttering wildly about
the golden calf or the brazen bull who
resides there.
Assassination as means of purify
ing politics must be condemned and.
no sane patriot. however bitter, would
condone any attempts on the life Of
the Presidential ex-hangman. But he
should be tried and impeached for the
high treason of selling out the interests
of this country to British capitalists.
Some democratic papers in the south
are calling him the worst Benedict
Arnold this country ever produced.
He may escape impeachment, but not
the brandingiron of history or the
pillory of osterity.
Yet, would it be surprising if some
poor southerner, or western farmer,
crazed by that single stroke of Cleve-
lands pen which means the loss of
homes TO so many, should seek re-
venge?
The Wall Street News is authority
for the statement that shortly before
his last election, Cleveland made
million dollars by specializing in the
street. The people are beginning to
understand why he was permitted by
the shrewd scoundrels who run this
gam bling he'll to win this Doodle.
When we consider how many happy
homes have been blighted and ruined
by the influence of this Wall street
operator and see SO many, day by day,
nearing the sharp edge of starvation,
can there be much wonder if some man
or some woman, like Charlotte Corday
should suddenly b. impelled to exc
cute on the corrupt executive the ven
geance Of a people long oppressed.
If the pressure of Clevelaudism and
Wall street is not enough to drive
some starving men crazy, to what ex-
tent is it necessary to apply the
pressure of the money power in order
to produce reaction? While l depre-
cate and abhor violence, it is not sur
prising if policy of oppression should
produce such results. Whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap
The dispatches to the tapitalistic
press told a very significant truth
when they stated that on the passage
of the repeal bill, after three months
contention, there was mo applause"
in the senate, and that the actin in
the house was tame and without in
terest." In Silent shame it passed to
the shameless sham OF the white house
to receive his paid-for signature. 1t
is safe to say that every man who
voted for repeal felt himself defled by
Presidential pitch The silence was
sepulchral. No JOY marked the event,
but in the homes of the bankers aud
capitalists there was rejoicing, while
the farmer by his humble freslde was
planning still harder and with pain
ful perplexity how to get through the
winter and overcome the loss thus sus-
tanned.
Yet Cleveland had apparently a
brief spell of repentance for the Grim g
he was to consummate There was a
time when it seemed likely that some
compromise N ght be made. Carlisle
reported cleveland as willing to agree
to it, whereat disn.ay seized the bank
ers. Was 1t possible that at the
eleventh hour their Cleveland would
not stay bought? in their despern-
ton they summoned that servant of
Satan, Senator Iscariot of Ohio. He
FASTENED TO the white house and in
terviewcd Cleveland. What did this
tempter whisper in his ear that
caused him within an hour to change
his mind and again demand repeal at
any st? Sherman wanted compro-
mise, with bonds, but repe IL without.
No wonder the Atlanta constitution
walls that John sherman is steering
the administration and the ship is
nearing the rocks"
The republican press and speakers
unite in their gush and praise Of Cleve-
land, and have We'd with the demo.
Gratis in sickening sycophancy One
democratic paper went 20 far as 10
call him another Alexander Hamilton.
1t forgot that the whole history of
democracy has been Jeffersonian on
position to Hamilton. Van Alen-ism
in politics. How significant to south
erners must be the sight of these
northern democrats an / republicans
embracing each other on the rotten
platform of Cleveland. At the same
time they are both denouncinp the
great democratic leaders of the west
and south.
George Fre1 Williams, who slipned
from the republican fold into the
democratic, and led the fight for gold
in the congress before the last, said in
speech at Pittsfield the her night
Fear not that your great leader will
swerve. Victory will come, and those
OF the other policy wi be driven ont
OF the parry just as was Bryan of Ne
! braska."
Is it not, in the light of such utte--
anees' t'lr to hold that the present
prot OF the pIutocrdts in the two old
parties Is to make Grover Cleveland
o whoever is APP ointed his succesSor
| by the English usury combine. the
nominee of joint stock company,
which will, If it wins, reduce the nro.
ducers of this nation t. the level of
mere provinces paying tribute into
the greedy NAV, the tottomless belly
of the money god.
viii the south and west submit to
Clevelands piracy in reducing this
great conuiry to British depend-
ency? The voice of the people in 1894
will thunder mo"
! The election c urns are full of in
terest to the student of politics
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