Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-05
HOPING IN VAIN.
Republicans Depending Upon tho CupidIt,
of Voters for Success.

Republicans Depending Upon tho CupidIty
of Voters for Success.
The republican leaders of the coun.
try base great hopes for the future
upon the general Indignation that has
been aroused among the people be-
cause half a dozen democratic senators
advocate more or less warmly the re-
publican doctrines of protection anG
oppose any material interference with
the Mckinley bill. which authorized
IA, 500 firms, organized into $50 trusts
(mainly private affairs), TO levy for
their private benefit yearly tax upon
the people greater than the total of all
federal taxes. That the trusts actu-
ally levy and collect only about half
that which they are entitled to by law
is because their organiza ton is not yet
perfect-a fault time will soon remove.
But the special iniquity which few
democratic senators approve, and
which the republicans expect will
arouse the people to destroy the demo
cratic party, is not one of amount, but
of principle-the principle that the
people can be taxed without their con-
sent by few mill lords from whom
they receive nothing, not even thanks.
and that the army and navy of the
United States can be used to force its
payment.
Republican hopes have always been
placed upon the stupidity or cupidity
of the voters to whom they appealed
for votes, but when they expect the in
telligent and honest masses of the
democratic party to desert their organ
ization in disgust, leaving the govern
ment of the country to the republicans,
because few democratic leaders have
been induced in some way to join them
in preventing the repeal of republic
an measure establishing this principle
of robbery as the law of the land, they
will be disappointed.
There are many republicans who
imagine that the democrats, disguised
at betrayal by their leaders, will join
the republicans and vote for the pro-
lection they abhor. Others expect
them to leave the democratic party
and throw their votes away by scat
tering on independent candidates.
Democrats have too much sense to do
either. They know that the fire is
hotter than the frying-pan, the repub-
lican party in power worse than the
democracy in power and temporarily
paralyzed by the backsliding of a few
leaders. They understand that all
their past woes have come from COM
promises with republicanism, or from
leaders tainted with sympathy for re-
publicans. They appreciate to-day
more fully than ever before that they
have this tenderness for the enemy"
this concord with Belial, to thank for
every defeat at the polls they have
ever suffered, and that they have only
to drive out every leader in sympathy
with plutocracy, and by so doing prove
themselves worthy of public confidence
to receive it.
When the democratic voters are
heard from, as they will be at the state
conventions in a few months, as they
have been in Missouri. they will not
only purify the party from the faint of
repu licanism under which it now suf-
fers, but that publication will be so
thoroughly done no leader will ever
again dare coquette with either repub-
1ican principles or protection DOODLE
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