Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-29
The Kansas Election.
From the Topeka Advocate,


Since the recent election our eyes
have teen greeted from day to day with
startling headlines and double loaded
editorials announcing the glad tidngs
Ito republicans that Kansas has been
redeemed; that the grand old repubi.
can party is again triumphant in the
state; that confidence has been re-
stored; that the credit of the state has
been re-established; that the peoples
party has been routed, horse, foot and
dragon; in fact that it has been buried
beyond the hope or possibility of resur-
rection. Such doleful intelligence is
calculated to make the spirits of en-
thuslastic poDuiists droop; but some
how there has been a strange familiari-
ty running through those headlines and
editorials that led US TO reflect that
somewhere In the course of our earthly
career we had met with them before.
This reflection was so impressed uron
us that we were moved to turn back to
the files of these same republican pa
pers of November, 1891. The Newton
Republican on the 9th of that eyentful
month had the following:
Calamityites are saying that if so many of
the Alliances had not dropped their regular
meetings they would have swept Kansas
again. That lets the secret out The farmers
were in for helping themselves but when it
came to following a lot of Looping political
buZzards off into a new party, the Alliance
was not to be counted on.
In the Emporia Republican of the
same date we run across this:
The sweeping defeat of the Alliance party
Tuesday is not only a condemnation of the
party's leaders and principles, but it is g re-
buke to that party for the course pursued in
the legislature last winter.
Aud in another editorial we found
this:
One OF the fatal defects of the third party
movement WHICH HAS JUST COLLAPSED IN
KANSAS, was the want OF capable leaders.
The Alliance party was run by ANA
teurs-raw men seeking to experiment upon
this great movement with their crude theories
and Its wreck last Tuesday was only a matter
of-course result that ought naturally to have
been expected
The news column of the State Jour
nal carried the. following headlines:
BACK AGAIN
FARMERS RETURN 40 THE REPUBLICAN, ro.p
IN KANSAS.
Republican Victories in Nearly Every Kansas
County Democrats Rallied TO the Sup
port of Republicans.
But the Capital, that ever reliable old
veteran republican organ, spoke with
the tongue of a prophet and the courage
of hero. Its news t?) column carried
these readiness
REDEEMED,
THE GLORIOUS STATE OF KANSAS Ea ,NcIpArED
FROM THE THRALDoM or IGNORANT
PARTNERSHIPS.
The News Confirmed that the People Have
Awakened to a Sense of Their Degradation
and Disgrace Imposed hy the Alliance.
From Nearly Every Precinct
Comes the joyful Tidings
of Republican Victory.
Mountebanks Squelched, and the Oracles of
| Anarchy. Communism. Fiat Money and
Republication OYerthroYn. = StaIwart
| Republicanism the Medicine
Necessary to Remove the
/ Dreadful Scoarge of
! PETER. Simpson.
! SEQ.
J The editorial columns of the same is
sue November 5, 1871 had this, in cold
doubie-lea type:
AN ALLIANCE WATERLOO.
Inc returns of the Capitals special corrc-
/ spondents throughout the state Indicate that
the peoples party has gone to pieces. The de
] feat is overwhelming, their strongest counties
/ ia 1880 going republican in one short year.
The bacAbaDe Of calmity is broken. Such a
complete disaster to new party Is irretriev-
able. Anarchy, communism. calamity and
pessimism will never ride the waves again in
Kansas a reproach and q humiliation to hcr
people. The dun6erheads elected TO represent
! the state at Washington viii blnnder through
! the Fffty-second congress, rattling round in