Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-03-21
REPUBLICANS ON REPUBL1oANIgM.
Out of Their Own Mouths Are They Con-
demned.
spicy Comments by Former RePubzi-
GAN Leaders.


can Leaders.
In these troubious times that are the
elimination of many long years OF
republican nisrule both in state and
nation the brightest men of all parties
are apparently awakened to the great
need of a reform in party methods and
practices, and in the republican
ranks there are found men who areeso
aroused to a sense of right aud justice
that they cry ~out against their kind |
and plead fora more honest, manly and |
just party course.
Col. w. P.&Hackney, at rene time
chairman of ethe Kansas republican
state central committee, and elways a
eader in his party, is just out in a let
ter for publication in which, among
other Things, ,,he says: ''If there is any
thing ia the world more disgusting
than another, lit is to be compelled to
listen to the everlasting twaddle Of a
cringing, cowardly whelp who happens
to be republican editor, and who is
afraid to say bis life is his own for fear
it will reflect en- England wonder
when these republican ignoramuses
will cease TO fatigue US with their ever
lasting Grade fnancialisms. The aver
age republican editor hasn't as much
backbone and sBTains as last YEARS.
birds nest, ard they never pen line.
that they do net discover to e gaping
world what internal fools they are.
ST am in the midst of shoddy aris-
r tocracy and purse-proud medfecrity.
- and my Reen tally is offended and
tramped on every day by their ignorant
assumptions on ethis money question,
but l suppose will have to grin and
bear 1t until eeranson sense and reason
regain their sway. Surely that siHfiu-
ence must be oyeCshrown in the repub-
liean party, CT else you and [ have no
further business in it. We cannot
shut our eyes to the fact that the pres
ent condition is made possible by re
publican legislation, conceived in the
womb of iniq1ity, land born through
legislative raseality, and the masses
blinded to such VenaIty and mendaoity
until they are in as deplorable eondi-
tion as the paupers Of Europe.
1.-The question of a5tariff or no tariff
had nothing to dc with the causes that
made -snch results possible; it was the
same thing the depreciation of every
thing else, by means whereof enter
prise has been stopped, ,etrade and COM
merce stEangled and labor pauperized.
The mistakes of the past are irremedi-
able and the voters of America are in
40 way responsible therefore, because
the crime which made our degradation
possible, had it's inception in foreign
Nillainy and American cupidity. Yer
lily, the cringing, cowardly ,=Sycophantic
toadyism evidenced by the conduct of
modern Americanism, and the avidity
with which they poll parrot like, watch
for and enuneiate foreign ideas, as a
guide for our conduct, Is enough to
make Washington and Jefferson and
jackson and Lincoln rise from their
graves as protest. What has become
of that Alnericanism that threw off the
English yoke in ,76 asserted nationalism
in 'l2 and saved US a nation in 81.
Verify, the leaders of American politics
today can be likened only by hyenas,
who tore the flesh. and the thieves
who robbed the dead on the battle
fields. Enervated by luxury, de-
bauched by greed, and dominated by
English monarchical and financial in
fuence, they are the it representatives.
of venal age, that follow the heroism
and self sacrifice, that tramped the con-
tinent and watered one-half of our
union with their blood in the late war
for self f-preservation. It is enough to
make an old soldier who survived that
horrible ordeal, go out behind barn
and coax mule to kick him to death
for being such fool as to make such
sacrifices for so contemplate a people. u
Sol MILLER'S SAY.
The venerable Sol Miller also comes
out flatfooted in denuneiation of the
late Kansas legislature, saying:
THE legislature postponed its most
creditable act until the very last-tha;