Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-14
DON'T MAKE TOO MUCH NOISE.


There is tendency on the part of
many people to make too much noise:
to do too much blowing. Politicians,
newspapers, ward bummers have as
their stock in trade blow and bluster,
and they use it in the hope of making
other people believe they are wise, in
fiuential or cute. They are working on
this plan every day; but the men who
go quietly about attaining the object
they seek will in the long run prove the
winners.
Whether you work or fight it is not
good plan to make too much fuss about
it. The old hen cackles after she has
laid an egg. The fuss and sizzle of the
locomotive is not the force that moves
the train.
Force is silent. The braying of
mule may startle you, but he is only
dangerous when he gets in his work
with his heels.
The wagon which makes the most
noise rattling along the street is not
loaded. The drum makes big noise
because of the fact that there's nothing
in it. The republican party of Kansas
is today making a great noise. big
clatter, a boasting he-haw! he-hawl
Democrats need not get alarmed at the
noise so long as we stay away from the
heels. Their band wagons are already
rattling over the state, but conserya-
tive, quiet business men will not trot
in behind and follow just because of
the racket they are making.
On the third of July the democrats of
Kansas will meet in convention and
announce their position in a straight
forward, manly and businesslike man
ner, and that position will be in favor
of the vital interests of Kansas people
and opposed to all the heresles and
crank-isms OF class legislation, female
suffrage, prohibition, las practiced in
Kansas). gold bugism and railroad ex-
tortion through legislative favoritism.
Democrats will make a business cam
paign, not brag and buster campaign;
and they will place before the people
set of candidates selected from all sec
tions of the state and from all classes of
people, and not confine themselves to
the money loaners or the lawyers.
The populists are also making the
mistake of counting the products of
their hen fruit before the proper incu
baton has been accomplished. They
are many of them assuming that be-
cause the democrats of Kansas saw fit
in 1892 to make a choice between two
evils and to take the least they will do
''the same thing oyer again" in 1894.
In state affairs land county affairs so
far as this and many other counties are
concerned) that is not a possibility.
The conditions are different. The
democrats of Kansas hoped that the
populist party would not be dominated
by politicians and office seekers but
would work to the end of uniting all
elements opposed to republicanism. In
this they are disappointed. They find
that nothing is too bitter or venomous
for the populist agltators to say against
democrats of Kansas. If the populists
had confined their criticisms to the
eastern wing of the democratic party
the part that has gone back on many of
the pledges of our national platform
and given the Kansas democrats credit
for honesty of purpose in their efforts
of the past years the situation would be
different. AS it is, they have taken a
position which makes it impossible for
the democrats in state convention to
do anything but nominate straight
democratic ticket. In congressional
districts there may possibly be differ
ent course pursued; parties have al
ready "got together" on county tickets.