Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-03-07

beer and all this time green country
editors were damning Leavenworth
and commanding Atkinson as pro-
hibition town.-LeavenwOrt Times.
The editor of the Wellington Mail
says, of Elk Governor Humphrey: I'VE
were delegate in the first convention
that nominated him for governor.
Personally, we were not for him, be-
cause we believed he was riding the
prohibition hobby for political purposes,
but in Difference to the sentiment of
the county, helped nominate him. We
knew him we'll during the four years he
was governor. We met him scores of
times in the Copeland lobby this week,
noticed him repeatedly and wondered
who he was. But it took the assurance
of good friend before we could be-
lieve him to be the eX governor of Kan
sas. Today he is a seedy, bIOated,
hopeless sOt. bankrupt financially, per-
sonally and politically" Perhaps the
readers of the DEMOCRAT will remem-
Der that this was just what the kind of
a man you were told Humphrey was,
during the time the G. o. p. was landing
him to the skies as the embodiment of
pure republicanism. And time, the
great teacher, will one day expose many
more of the cranks and hypocrits who
have ridden the prohibition horse for
policy sake.
The people Of Kansas had hoped for
the enactment Of laws that would have
tendency to correct some of the evils
from which they have been suffering,
but the outlook is that about all they
will get will be in the form of reform"
measures introduced, only to be defeat
ed or laid aside as per prior arrange
ment.-Ness City News.
IT Is extremely refreshing to hear
this candid Acknowledgement from one
Of the best edited republican papers of
western Kansas. When the democratic
papers told the people that the many
pledges and promises being made by the
republicans Of Kansas during the last
campaign were only doses of ''wind
puddin' the G. o. p. was highly indig-
nant. When their own papers get up
on their hind legs and howl about the
insIncerity Of their own representatives
the thinking masses ought to acknowl-
edge that our statements as to the ny
pocracy of their party leaders was cor
rect.
Bill Stoke heads column in the
Great Bend DEMOCRAT, Caught in
Kansas" just as if a Great Bend man
ever caught anything any other place
than in Kansas.-Larned Eagle-Optic.
WELL now, Tom, that is urkind.
Why, we know lots of Great Bend men
who have caught good things out of
Kansas-and some things not so good.
For instance, we once caught good
thing down in Washington: Dave
Heller caught the silver craze out in
Colorado, while Will Carr caught the
same fever down in Texas; General
Chapman caught a different kind of
fever in Illinois, and coolies of our
prominent business men have caught
onto peculiar attractions in Kansas
City.
A Quartet of G. N. G. boys cut
loose from the educational ties that
bound them and chit the road" as
'The Only Renowned, California
Comedy Company" under the
proprietorship of Dawson &
Wright. The road led to Ellinwood
and the great western aggregation
played to full house. If the friends
of the boys who went down from
Great Bend are 70 be credited the
show was a great hit, the new features
beng so Numerous that the affair is
likely fosbe written up IN the Satur-
day Quidnunc-the great sensational
organ of the west.
Did you ever notice that the girl
who is too pretty to take just any body.
keeps worrying along until she can't
get anybody.