Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-15
KEEP YOUR SHIRTS ON GENTLEMEN.

Everybody knows, or has had an op-
portunity of knowing, that the repub-
lican party has 80 miserably mis-man-
aged national finances as to bring ouI
country up to deplorable state of un-
easiness concerning the best methods
of continuing our credit and success as
a nation. But there is no use getting
''rattled" and predicting all sorts OF
dire calamity, as the so-called reform
press is doing these days. The Beacon
of this city, for instance, says:
"The plans laid by the old republi-
can party have brought us to the verge
of ruin and made thousands of million
aires, and millions of paupers, and at
the close of their career, after more
than twenty-five years of peace and
national development, they go out of
power leaving a bankrupt treasury,
with an absolute necessity Of borrow
ing money to pay interest on the public
debt"
That is all right and correct enough;
it is what the DEMOCRAT, and every
other democratic paper in the land has
been telling you would be the final out
come of continued republican rule, for
many years, and we have asked the
people who left the republican party to
go into the new party, and all people
who desired better and safer govern
ment, to join with the democracy-the
party of the masses-and help to Oust
1 mil l/or
The Beacon, in the same editorial,
| continues and says:
| 1.-The democratic party swung into
power upon the promise of lowering
the taxes and filling up the treasury, a
| thing impossible to do. That party will
be compelled to adopt the republican
policy and issue bonds to borrow gold,
or it will have to adopt the peoples
party policy and issue greenbacks to
tide us over the panie."
In saying that it will be impossible
for the democratic administration to
lower taxes and fill up the treasury
the Beacon editor makes very brash
| assertion that he would be much puZ-
zled to prove correct if any one thought
it worth while to put him to the test.
| The democratic administration,
under Grover Cleveland will do all that
and more we firmly believe. The dem
ocratic party advocated tariff reform
to lower the taxes on the masses of
consumers-long before the peoples
party of the present organization was
| thought of. 1t advocated economy in
government by cutting off the thous-
and and one forms of depicting the
treasury that have been recklessly
practiced by republicans for years and
years, before the third or populist par
ty was thought of; and notwithstand-
ing that same populist party, strength
ened and built up by its adoption of
these same principles of democracy,
drew to the support of its candidates
! men who would otherwise have voted
with the democrats, if ruled by judg-
ment and conviction of the right, is
now, through many of its newspapers,
engaged In depreciating the present
administration which is pledged to
bring about the reforms advocated by
both the democratic and peoples party,
| those reforms WILL be brought about
as rapidly as possible, and will be to
democracys credit and NOT an adoption
of the peoples party policy.
| Continuing, the Beacon becomes ter
ribly blue and morose, imagines the
whole country sure to 60 to the dogs.
Hear this:
| 1.-The curse is sure to come. and will
come soon and awful, unless the party
in power discard the doctrines it
teaches and adopt the more rational
principles of the reform party"
My dearly beloved neighbor, there is
no curse coming ''soon and awful"
The curse has been banished by the
voter in 1892, and the spell of republi-
canism having been broken; the ghost
of McKinleyism and Dudleyism has
been dispelled, and by good, solid,
earnest and quite numerous democratic
votes, too.
If you, and all people who are out
prowling around among the debris of
bursted banks whose failing was in
placing their hope in watered stocks,
inflated bonds and risky ventures of
speculators; if you are looking for a
course" to swoop down on this country
all of sudden just because the third
party did not cut any considerable of a
figure in the national election of 1892,
you are engaged in fruitless search
If you would be happy, be contented,
and be reasonable enough to give the
present administration time to get its
congress of democrats together and take
the action necessary to right some of the
wrongs that have been heaped upon
our people for thirty years or more.
Don't be so unreasonable or childish as
to expect one party to unravel in a
day snarl that it has taken another
party over a quarter of century te
tangle up.
| In the language of the poet, keep
lyour shirts on"