Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-10-09
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be attended to by the legislative bodies
of the state and nation. These seIf-ap-
pointed dictators also contend that the
money question and other problems
which they are pleased to call "mo-
mentous," are too deep for ordinary
people to solve, but should be handled
exclusively by political experts by vir-
tue of their assumption of authority,
and self conceit. The Topeka Daily
Capital OF recent date, tells it's readers
that it il very foolish of the republican
county conventions to tamper with the
money question; that such conventions
should confine themselves to purely 10
cal matters and wait to express them
selves on questions of national import
ance until the national committee
is heard from. This is. as
much as to say that the people who
haye made this grand state and nation
what they are today, the people, who,
by their intelligence, industry and Ia
Dor, have developed the plains and
wildernesses of America into produc-
tive fields, shall have no voice in the
management of this government, and
because they don't happen to be mem
bers of the national committee, shall
haye no right to express themselves on
vital questions-questi which con-
Germ them as freemen or slaves. We
don't believe there is a citizen in Bar
Der county or the state of Kansas who
is willing to indorse such proposition;
and yet this is what the statements of
the ring leaders amount to when prop
erly analysed. To the statement that
national issues should not figure in a
local campaign, we take decided ex-
ception. But four years ago, Senator
Plumb, in speech in this city, said
that in order to make your work effect
i've, the place to begin is at hons in
your local campaign. And this is the
only way to begin anything; you must
begin at the bottom and work upward.
In pursuance of this doctrine we ask
the voters of Barber county to careful
ly examine the respective planks of the
two parties, on the leading issue, and
see which is for something and which
for nothing. Here is The republican
version:
We favor bimetallism and are opposed to
monometalllsm whether of gold or silver We
believe that by wise legislation the annual
output of the silver mines of our country can
be added to the money of the country without
disturbing the equal values of our gold and
silver coin. We are in favor of gold silver
and paper money coined and issued by our
national government, interchangeable at par
and in volume sufficient to meet the demands
of the agricultural and commercial interests
of our country.
1t will be seen that the above resolu-
tion is goldbug instrument in dis
guise-to some. 1t means the perpetu-
alton of the present financial system; it
means that gold shall be the standard
money while silver and paper shall cir
culate, as it now circulates, redeema-
BILE in gold. The clause, I'VE are in
favor Of gold. silver and paper money! -
Is calculated to deceive, and does de-
ceive. The fact is they are in favor of
silver and paper only to enhance the
value of gold which decreases the debt
paying power. Gold is the unit, all val
ues are measured by gold and all prices
are governed by the amount of gold in
the country. Again they say, I'VE ia
vor bimetallism and are opposed to mo
nometallism whether of gold or silver. y
Here it is implied that reconciliation
of silver means silver monometallism
which is clearly false, proved so by the
fact that under free coinage prior to
demonstration in 1873, we had bImet-
allism in reality. The ludicrous part
of the resolution says I'VE believe that
by wise legislation" this and that can
be done. Mr.. Sample paid his respects
to that clause on the day of the repub-
| llcan convention and it is not neces-
sary TO comment. We will only say
that it is little piece of artful lodging
calculated to console the silyerites. The
resolution was framed by the republi-
can committee of the Seventh congress.
sional district last year when Long was
nominated and the republicans of this
county belched 1t up and swallowed il
again. 1t is all things to all men and
and means nothing at all.
Now read what the peoples party has
to say on this subject:
RESOLVED, That we renew our allegiance t.
the Omaha platform, but at the same time we
recognize the fact that in the present condi
ton of political agitation and under the
pressing necessities of the hour, that planE
OF our platform which demands the free ant
unlimited coinage of silver at ratio of is tc
Is the one around which the coming politi
cal battle must be fought, and we further
consider that the plank demanding the aboli
ton of national banks and the substitution
of postal savings banks should be Joined witt
it in rallying our forces for a valiant stan,
for monetary and Industrial reform; an,
while this falls campaign is more or less 10
cal in it's nature, we consider it in part a prep
aration for the battle of 1896 on the line
herein set forth.
Here is PLAIN language that every
body can understand. The resolution
is of no doubtful meaning and says jus
, what it means without lodging benin,
any ifs or ands.
!, The facts are before the voters TO
consideration and every one mus
make choice. If you believe in tn
present gold basis system and conse
!. quent financial embarrassment and SO
, cial disturbance, vote the republican
ticket. If you believe in the free coin
age of silver at the ratio of I6 to an
prosperity and happiness. vote the peo