Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-30
GOV. STONE SlETTER
TO THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
CENTRAL COMMIT EEMEN.
Gov Stone Has Issued Circular Let
ter to the Committeeman of the
state OF Missouri from Which We
Take the Following:


with his property by means of false
pretences, he commits crime-un-
less the one acting be the democratic
party When by deliberate, premedi-
tated and systematic trick or f. aud,
an advantage is obtained, the guilty
party is dcspised by all men-unlcss
the guilty one should chance t. be the
democratic par y.
When by a cheating device or an
open th-ft Il tricIster obtains the
property of another, The trickster is
re- ardcd as a criminal and his pres
ence is not TO Grated in decent com
nun. tie>-unless the trickster is the
democratic party.
From Maine t. Texas. even the dem
ocrats themselves, openly and freely
admit that the declaration of their
last national platform on the subject
OF siv was purposely so written that
in New York, NJ massachusetts, and the
east it could be thought and would be
thought as dec airing against fir C
coinage, while in Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Colorado. Texas and the south,
it could be thought and would be
thought as declaring in favor of free
coinage
The trick W, rled. The fraud sue
ceeded The false pretense, the de-
cei', the dishonest scheme, the vii amy
against the people, dill all that its
originators hoped FOR. The Presidency
was won: the Offices were obtained;
the salaries were ecured; the glutton-
Gus were fed to splitting and all by
deceiving the American p ople.
In Mis- our, no Sc thieve, when
caught are summarilv huns In Mis-
souri,, when country merchant OBJ
tains credit from st. Louis iobbers by
false pretenses he is sent to the peni-
tertiary. In St Louis, even petty
thieves, those who snatch from a.
counter pair OF shoes or a Get
knife are sent to the workhouse or
city Jail, such is the sentiment of the
people of the state against It, fraud
and corruption.
WI. he democratic party with its
stolen power and lis stolen income,
both gained 10y means and metht DIS
and from motives peculiar to thieves,
embeIzlers, confidence men and pro-
tessional criminals be treated bv the
- IF OF
an individual, confessedly gui ty of
the crime the democ, attic party adj
mits having commit ed?
We hold n CRIME 10 be a crime: a
trick to be trick; dishoL cstv t. be
dishonesty; no matter " no commits it.
Theft does not cease t. be theft be-
cause the theft individual is a great
political party. The question to be
determined is one that turns, and must
always turn, upon the honesty or dis
honesty of things done, its manliness
or it's lack of manliness, not upon the
identify of the doer.
II Cockrell and Carlisle stay togeth-
er to maintain and preserve the demo-
cratic party, if Bland helps Cleveland.
and Vest helps Voorhees, maintain the
power and supremacy Of the demo
cratic party, a party that in power
everywhere strikes down the sill
yer of the west, the corn of the
north, and the cotton of the
south, reducing by legislation
the price of all products of the people,
then We want to know how long the
peope, the plain, honest patriotic
masses of the people, the demo-
cratic people (the masses of all
parties are honesty are goiug to stay
in the democratic party. and by voice,
vote and influence help to maintain
the industrial slavery in which our
people are held by the money power
OF England and the nine northeastern
states.
Cockreli supporting Cleveland and
Carlisle is no better than The men and
the parties he supports Bland. yoked
up with Hill, hauling the wea tn ere
ated by Missouri farmers and dug ont
OF Missouri mines TO New York and
Massachusetts for the benefit of mill
ionaires, trusts and syndicates, is as
bad, as unworthy of confidence. as
much to be fought and hated as Hill
himself 1t is not by hat they saw.
not by what they write, not by what
they claim, not by their excuses FIR
past acts or promises a. to future
ones that men and part es are to he
known. by their fruits shall We know
them"
Democratic politi, ians, the demo-
cratic masses arc after YOU, thew are
wstchlng you, and il you don't give
them immediate and substantial helm
cash help, Go you hear they viii
smlte you, hip aud thigh. Men who
are forced TO sell their wheat at ~
cents bushcl, a. is now being done
in southwe Missouri, are not in a
humor to be fooled with. and are ant
to act impulsively when they catch
their hired hands S ealing the susns
OFF the harnes S st Louis MoIitor.
One of the reasons why the pluto