Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-04-27

tatlOn OF SelfSeeklHg. His lofty cnar-
acter, bis personal dignity, his broad
and superior capacity are conceded
throughout the state; and now in the
prime of his intellectual force be is
prepared to render services for demo-
cratic principles second to few, if any,
in the illustrious body of which he is
member. He has for his constituents
the democratic party of Kansas, who
are loyal to him now and as united and
earnest in his support as they have
been through the long years when his
leadership gave cohesion and courage
and strength in the face of every ad-
verse condition.
A few democrats, bound by certain
ties to the republican machine, and
moved towards that organization by
impulse well understood in Kansas,
bolted the action of the democratic
party, and took the field in the behalf
of tn republican ticket. Six or eight
of them canvassed the state in the in
terest of the republican party. The
|
of the music, of the printing and all
expenses were paid from the republi-
can campaign fund. They professed to
support the peoples party electors. If
any appreciable number of them voted
| for these electors the returns do not
show it. There were not enough of them
III any particular community of the
state to be noticeable. In this con-
gressional committee of forty-six mem
bers, not single member is in sympa-
| thy with these boiling democrats, not
county committee of the thirty seven
in this district. with one exception, is
in sympathy with them. This excep-
tion is more apparent than real, as the
committee is not recognized by the
mass of the democrats of the county,
The democratic party Of Kansas, by
the course it has taken, has not abated
one jot of its loyalty to democratic
principles, or of its determination to
preserve intact the democratic organi-
zation. The democratic convention
which resolved, from motives of polit-
ical strategy, to support the candidates
of the peoples party for state offices and
| electors, adopted a platform pledging
| its allegiance to all the vital doctrines
of democracy.
| 1t is part and parcel of the great
democratic party, whose principles and
whose triumphs are it's inheritance, and
| it looks confidently to the national ad
! ministration for countenance and sup
port. 1t has no part in the present
government of Kansas. 1t has not
sought, and has not received. and does
not expect any participation in the
state government or patronage. The
democratic party of Kansas in 1892
the combined wisdom of it's representa-
tives for the best interests of it's cause.
That course was sustained by the
united action of democrats at the polls.
The chapter is now closed. The party
is committed by it to no policy for the
future. What may be done to meet
future eXigencies will be decided by its
duly authorized convention. Its men,
bers and supporters and not its hostile
critics will speak and act in it's behalf.
Those who have joined it's enemies and
i assailed its leaders and sought to
thwart its purposes, will have no place
in it's counsels, and will not dictate it's
policy. What that policy will be no
one can yet predict, but it will be dem
ocratic. It will be directed toward
strengthening the democratic organiza-
tion. and advancing the democratic
cause.
1t may not be amiss to say, here,
that the struggles between the contend
ing parties at Topeka were due in their
inception to the cuccessful schemes of
the republican party 10 secure contrOll
of the lower branch of the legislature.
by frauds so glaring and outrageous
that they called forth the open and
public condemnation of republicans and
republican newspapers within the state.
Notable among the former was Judge
Foster, republican judge of the United
States district court. The efforts of
the populists to recover by force the
control of the legislative house which
was morally and justly theirs, while
made against the advice of all Of the
democrats in the legislature, did not in
our opinion, equal in moral turpitude
the unconscionable corruption whereby
the republicans obtained their legal ad-
vantage.
We may further say, that the legisla-
tion of last winter, which has been
most severely criticised as obnoxious to
sound policy and injurious to the credit
of the state known as the Greenlee
mortgage law, originated with the re-
publicans in the republican house, was
recommended by republican judiciary
committee and received large ma
jority of the votes of the republican
members of the Legislature.
: j. 5. RICHARDSON,