Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
IHB BEACON SEEKS TROUBLE.

few populists in our national congress
who have joined with the republicans |
ard few eastern democrats TO prevent |
arr legislation whatever. and makes
our comment text for a column of |
such one-idead stuff as only a rampant. |
urcalanced populst can write. and |
waich does not cont ain sufficient logic |
or common sense t. merit full repro
due ion in these columns A few of
the assertions and assumptions therein
mafe viii be notIced. however
Clothina himself in the lilly white
robns nf i an refOrmer''-t same
toggerv so brazenlv worn by the poco
rious Sam Wood, Noah Allen. jim
Lnrate Cvrus Corning Mrs Lease and
other, illustrious lights of the peoples
parfv he saws:
The OLD PARTY editors have not
the manhood 70 attack the faults of
their own party, but alwavs aim TO
throw the blame of any bad work on
some one else >
We WOULD like to ask if any Of the
readnrs of the Beacon have read anv-
thing in that paner ahout the notorious
corruptness the treacherv and hood
live of leading lights of. the peoples
party? Has that paper eyer condemned
Potter for voting against the wishes of
the Denple of Kansas and in the inter
ests IF the east time and again? Have
thav raad in the Beacon anv c0ndemna
tion nf Kansas state officers who for
the nest two wears have dickered and
traffioked with the gamblers and
tonghs giving as an only excnse ''the
reruh'icans did it that wav before us?''
On the other hand have not the
readers of the Beacon been favored
with extracts from the DEMOCRAT time
ard again wherein we have exercised
the ryht of A free American citizen to
condemn traachnrv and corruDtness
evan when found in the ranks of the
democratic party? The assumption of
the man i'm attempting TO force his mis-
representations of this paper onto men
who read both the papers is indeed
nauseatino
.'Hundrpds or voters who read no
other paper than his. and quite mum
Der of them are men who PRETEND TO
BE DoDnlits. will never know anv better.
and they will he ready 70 swear that
the nnuulits in congress have all gone
over To the republicans. and that every
man has his price,"
A nice opinion of the intelligence of
the paople of Barton county he has. is
It not? And especially of the men
whom he SAYS pretend to be popnlists.' -
(but do not take HIS paper, you know
The paragraph above quoted explains
the disease with which the Beacon
man is suffering. very plainly. Failing
to make a paper that people of all polit-
icai parties will want for it's merits as
a newspaper. he seeks to pull down
others in order that he may bring more
suckers into his net. In one column he
condemns men who see fit TO subscribe
for but one newspaper, and in another
he argues that no paper should be read
or believed but his, while in a third
column he begs and pleads for the peo
pie who do take his paper to come to
his relief and save him from starvation
or suspension.
He wants a demand for sensible
and truthful discussions" does he !?
Then why in the name of sense does he
not set the example.
Instead of jumping onto the editor
of the DEMOCRAT and secondarily on
Co the hundreds of people who read
the DEMOCRAT-and do not read the
Beacon, why did he not bring some
.'sensible and truthful" argument to
prove that the populists in Washing
ton, representing western interests
and many of them holding their seats
by grace of democratic votes-were not
joining today, and have not in the past,
joined with the republicans and a few
kicking democrats to prevent legisla-
ton for the relief of the financial
troubles which beset this nation, and
which are burden to the west and
south but ''snap" for the east ? Why
did he not do this instead of charging
us with ''gush,'' and deceit" and
sstraitor,'' and the like.
We believe the people of Barton
county generally have sufficient intelli-