Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-08-02
All Sorts of Tricks Will Be Resorted to
Order tn Divide the RAnnle,a Ynfa

PlUTOCRATIC TACTICS.
All Sorts of Tricks VIII Be Resorted to In
Order to Divide the Peoples Vote.
A religious war was nearly precipi-
tated in Kansas City by the crusade of
There can always be found class of
religious zealots who see danger in
every church institution but their own.
Free Press.
This crusade of religious bigots is
being pushed for the sole purpose of
precipitating religious war in order
to divert attention from economic ques-
tions in politics. The tariff is
played out as theme for sham battles,
and something new has to be found to
take its place. A religious war would
have an advantage over the tariff be-
cause it would last the year round in
stead of being limited to political cam
paigns, and would appeal to much
stronger passions and prejudices If it
could only be managed to get this re-
ligious war into politics in some way,
SO as to divide the people at the polls
on sectarian lines, what a great thing
it would be. 1t would afford the most
excellent possible means of suppress
ing economic questions, and thereby
prolonging the undisturbed reign of
plutocracy for another generation
The scheme is being worked for all
there is in =, and there may be fools
enough left to permit it to succeed
Topeka (Kan.) Advocate.
This is not the only slick scheme
that is being worked to divide the vote
Of labor's hosts. From the Railroad
Register, of Topeka, a paper which,
while opposing the peoples reform
movement, poses as a trades union
organ, we clip as follows:
What may the laboring men, the
wage-earners, expect from the politi-
clans? Nothing but deception, vague
and illusOry promises and ultimate dis
appointment. The workingmen of this
county propose to give the politicians
thereof the Ego by and select and vote
for their own candidates regardless of
party affiliations. The sting of the
party lash has lost its power over a
large majority of them and is but little
felt by the remainder. Having been
deceived by the politicians; their power
and influence having been sneered at;
their reasonable requests having been
ignored, and promises made to their
committees having been broken, they
propose to stand up aud be counted. A
paper is being circulated and generally
signed, calling for a mass meeting of
workingmen for the purpose Of put
ting in nomination a workingmen's
county ticket and by it's success show
the politicians that they cannot always
divide the workingmen's votes up be-
tween the various parties. Every
workingman in sympathy with his fell
lows and desiring to rebuke the party
hacks and sand-baggers should sign
this call and attend the meeting. Stand
together just one time and show the
mighty force that lies in those snowy
weapons, the workingmen's ballots.
Keep partisanship down. Nominate
good, capable, unselflsh, honest, whole
souled men, free of the greed for Office
and spoils, and the clements of the
community which have hitherto held
aloof from all labor movements will be
with you. A wonderful revolution in
sentiment on such matters is permeat-
ing all classes. The shilly shally
methods adopted by the various poll
teal parties in this county have been
endured by you long enough. AS a
rule it is better for the workingman to
be patient and to endeavor to secure
justice and recognition of the party in
power rather than enter the wilder
ness of political action under its own
leadership. But in this county is a
case in which forbearance has ceased
to be virtue and the only course left
for this class to pursue is to select
their own leaders, a corps of select
pioneers as it were, who will boldly
enter the forest and lead the way To
the goal where the rights and priv.
leges of the genuine workingman will
be recognized. Stand up, shoulder to
shoulder, and be counted. Recogni-
| ton will be your reward.
"Now, word of caution. In this
action no party, old or new, must be
allowed to dictate or name one single
candidate, ne matter how alluripg their
promises nor pleasing their bait, Un-
less the workingman is shrewd and
sensible enough to manage this affair
Alright some of the politicians of one or
another party will simply use this
ticket as a hobby horse on which par
tisan minions will ride into power"
The foregoing Article gives the de.
tails of scheme which is SO
transparent that it would seem
ss if the trades unionist who is
dpped by it was a At candidate fer q
lunatic asylum. The intention is to
fool organized labor into frittering
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a fourth party ticket, SO that labors
vote being divided and portion of it
being diverted from the populist ticket,
fhe republicans may have a walk over:
f!What fools we NOR tails be"
Of like character. emapating FROM
the same source and for the same pur-
pose, is the movement being agitated
for the organization of farm laborers
into trades unions.