Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-13
POLITICAL HASH.
Served Hot and Cold to Suit Our
Readers.

Peoples party is that we advocate
government ownership of railroads.
Nine-tenths of the men who make this
objection have never investigated the
su 3ject. Most of them think it is a
new idea originated by some crank in
the Peoples party. They don't know
that it has been tried for years in
other nations and that it has proved
to be success. Another funny phase
of their objections. they don't seem to
know anything about our own sys-
tenn of railroads In this country if a
farmer gives mortgage on his farm
and from any cause fails to meet his
obilg cations, the court steps in and
sells it out from under him. But if a
railroad company gives mortgage
and can't pay the government steps in.
manages the property until it gets on
paying basis, and then turns 1t over
to the owners again. There is no
paternalism about this at all. This
is special favor for corporation and
it is all right.
On the day before Mr.. Coxey desired
to speak from the capitol steps he
went to see Mr.. Crisp, to ask his per-
mission to do so. Mr.. Crisp wanted to
know what authority he had to make
demands on congress. Mr.. Coxey said
ne represented the people. Mr. Crisp
said he did not; that the 365 represent
atlves in congress were the represent
atives of the people. Now we want
to say right here that Mr.. Crisp's state
ment is not true. Everybody knows
that the people expected the repre-
sentatives now in congress to do some
thing to relieve the people from un-
necessary burdens. They were elected
Tor that purpose and promised to do
so. Yet they have done nothing, and
Coxey is right He is the represent
ative of the people to go up there ana
remind the misrepresentation of their
duties and their promises
1t is wonder that the horses don't
laugh at the puny efforts CT the sum-
mer politician, who is making a bush
walking canvass to secure the nomi-
nation, to show that the democratic
party is democratic. There never was
such fusion of democratic and repub-
lican votes in congress on leading is
sues since Adams off OK died of old
age. They talk about time honored
principles, why, bless their souls, there
is not time honored principle con-
tanned in the original democratic plat
forms that has not been dishonored by
the votes of majority of democratic
congressman. The position of the
present party on the question of
banks, bonds, silver. internal improve
ments, revenues and other great ques-
tlons, is exactly opr osite to
the teachings of jefferson, Jackson
and Calhoun. 1t is exactly opposite
to that laid down in their platform
from 1910 to 1860. It is enough to
make a dog laugh to hear these local
celebrities, who don't know a time
honored principle when they meet it
in the road unless it is in bottle, try
to make the average voter believe
that it is the same grand old party. :"
All this talk of the silver men and
others about securing measures of re-
lief through the old parties, makes us
tired. Haven't we been trying the
old parties for twenty years? And the
more we tried the less we got The
machinery which controls the two old
parties is in the hands of the money
power. A majority of the leaders of
these parties belong body, soul and
breeches to Wall street. You would
as well think of SUNG the devil and
holding the court in hell as to think
they would do anything that Wall
street did not want them to do You
can fire resolutions and petitions in to
congress until you are black in the
face and it won't have any more effect
than pouring water down a greasy
barrel AS long as man hangs on to
the machine he has got 10 turn when
the machine turns. Look at Bland
and Bryan, and Vest and Morgan, and
their followers. What are they doing
but drawing their salaries and tramp
ing the ground down hard around the
parting way. They foam and free
and threaten, but when the time
ONES they weaken, give in, surren-
der, succumb, and theE like a bills
goat. back out, stick up their tolls,
shut their eyes and come agai each
time with the same result, If these
men would leave their party as they
sometimes threaten to do it would
break up that old rotten organization
that has nothing left but the name
and a bad smell, and that would also
break up the republican party, for it is
only kept alive to fight the democratic
party, or rather to pretend to fight it.
This would permit the formation of a
new party that would have the cour-
age and honesty to deal with the
issues of the hour and settle them in
the interest of the people instead of
the money power that is strangling
liberty to death.
There is no better way to play into
the hands of either of the old
parties than to vote the opposite
ticket. The republican road leads
into Wall street, and so does the dem
ocratic road. They come together in
congress, so the democratic road
leads into the republican camp and
the republican road leads into the
democratic camp. If you are demo
crat and want to get into the repubIi-
can camp, you just vote The demo
cratic ticket and your leaders will see