Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26

that we look to the republican party as
the only one able to restore prosperity
to the country.
''That we are in favor of the use of
both gold and silver as money, under
the policy of the republican party as the
same was outlined in the republican
platform of 1892.
THAT we will enter the coming cam
paign in the state with renewed efforts
to wipe out the last vestige of humbug-
gerry known as populism which has cast
disgrace and odium upon the fair fame
of Kansas and brought US into ridiculo
and contempt before the world.
"That the democratic party is slow to
learn but since its recognition of Tom
Reeds republican method of governing
abody that could not govern itself,
we have hopes for it in course of time. "
Col. Stewards and Dave Gray would
like to have had the convention show
it's hand in favor OF female suffrage
and prohibition, doubtless, but owing
to circumstances over which they had
no CONTROL these issues were carefully
avoided.
Before adjournment several of the
orators of the county were called on for
speeches. Hon. D. n. Heller made a
very neat little talk, with view to
impressing upon the minds of everyone
the fact that he wanted everybody to
be his friend, especially if he receives
the nomination for governor.
Mr.. E. r. Moses was next called up.
He scattered considerably, at one time
being on the verge of saying something
with populistic tendency. but the
next moment wrapping the Mckinley
bill around his manly form and whoop-
ing 'er up for the poor, abused, down
trodden manufacturing monopolies of
the east whose calling and occupation
are in danger of being squelched by
the passage of the Wilson bill. One
bright gem of Mr.. Moses argument we
connot let pass without comment:
After speaking of what distressed
condition the country is in, latter thir-
ty-odd years of continuous republi can
rule) he said that a year hence, when
the republicans had regained Kansas,
monied men of the east would ''take
our lands as they used to do" meaning
doubtless, that the farm mortgage com
panies would again take advantage of
the republican opportunity to put their
porous plasters on Kansas farms and
draw out the life of the land in interest
and then take the dry carcass under
foreclosure. An alluring bait, that, to
catch the hayseed sucker.
Peculiar as it may seem, all the
speakers during the day made regular
calamity" speeches; they depicted a
and nation; and all brought about-of
course-by the overthrowing of the
party which made all the laws
that today govern the land. There
was the same effort to fool the
people. to work upon the prejudices of
the ignorant, and incite the greed of
the mercenary. Their first convention
indicates that Kansas republicans
propose to pursue the same methods of
abuse of their fellow men and neigh
bors that brought them deserved defeat
two years ago and will do so again.
Let them stir up the animals. Let
the ''fatted calf' below and bawl-its
hide will soon hang on the fence of a
long suffering public while its dry
bones rattle in the Kansas winds. In
the meantime no honest or self-re-
specting democrat will desert his party
and seek place in the ranks of the
G. o. p.-''gone out party.