Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-14
CAUGHT IN KANSAS.

Tt is no longer the 'sgold Dug'' but
the gold says Frank Webster,
of the Lwarence Gazette.
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Kansans are talking about sending
bread to the starving people. Of Ohio.
Come, let US be generous.
X X X
When Governor Hogg, of Texas, re-
turns to the newspaper business he will
be going back to his pen, as itswere.
X X X
Mrs. Lease promises to hang upon
the outerwail all the hides Of the lead
ing populists of the state, ia her new
book. among the Wolves
X X X
The Missouri legislature is voting to
do away with ball playing on Sunday,
but the Kansas legislature keeps on
playing horse six days in the week.
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If ma houses are banished to out
side of the city limits of Topeka, as the
council recommends, we suggest thatthe
Capitol removal fellows get to work
again.
That was ,snisdirected boomlet the
Kansas editor started out on an unfeel-
ing world when he Dragged about ''our
two undertakers, Jaggs and Smith,
have all the work they can do"
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It begins to look as though the re-
publican fixers were making fight on
Chancellor Snow of the State university
In order to throw him out and give
u some hungry old barnacle his job.
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There are annoyanceS IN newspaper
life as well as any other, but worry
sabout the demands of the income tax Is
mot one. OF them, remarks one of the
boys who did not get the county print
ing.
And now Larned citizens are petit
tioning the legislature for permission
to convert the town back to city of
the third class. Bettertake our advice,
and get tackled onto Pawnee Rock as Il
western suburb.
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The Lyons Democrat suggests, that,
'.sinee the resnbmissionist, Baker has
been elected to the q. S. Senate, Col
Banta of Great Bend is the next man
in line. and the logical candidate for
'96, to succeed Peffer."
Geo. Loman offthe Chase Record is
responsible for the following: Some
of Jerry Simpsons admirers think that
he is a great gun, but wait until the
new member gets down to Washington
and they'll find him to be wind Ches-
ter
Joe Fugate, of the Newton Journal
hits the nail q square jolt when he says:
"a little itemin a newspaper will some
times make an enemy to paper for
life, but it WORT make him stop read
ing il. 1t merely changes him from a
subscriber TO borrower"
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It must have been Leslie Pursell of
the I.akin Index VINO pathetieally des-
cribed his location as: Eighty miles
Hest of rain belt. ninety feet from
water, several million miles from
heaven. fifty yards from the devil and
900 miles from a saloop."
X x x
The new usUry bill by the redeem
ers' fixes the legal rate Of interest at
S per cent. This is to induce foreign
, capital-eastern money if you please
to come to Kansas. The trouble, how
ever, is that it does not make it COM
pulsary for men with idle money to
loan it, suggeets the Wichita Beacon.
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Jim Troutman, the big-mouthed
blatherskite whom the republicans
elected lieutenant governor, says: "If
you don't like Kansas prohibition you
can leave the state.'' And yet there
are people who had faint hope that
the present legislation would provide
for revision of the state constitution.
A young Kansas newspaper man Of
fers this advise free to the young ladies
of his CITY: .tWhen the right fellow