Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-29
SHADOWS.
NOTES AND COMMENTS FROM
POPULIST STANDPOINT.
PrOdding the Animals In the Old Par
ties for the Dedication of Our PeO-
Pies Party Readers-Trying to Strad-
die Again.

die Again.
Sam Jones says if he was running a
soap factory in hell and they would
bring him a car load of the carCasses
of politicians he would say: Il don't
want them" Sam seems to have
pretty fair idea of the average polit,-
clan, and it is the army of these men,
acting as the paid tools of Wall street,
that are running the affairs of this gov
erHment to-day.
Wherever elections have been held
the Populists have made gains, while
the two old parties have lost. The peo-
pie are waking up. They demand some
thing more than fine speeches and clev-
erly constructed platforms. The politl-
clans are becoming alarmed and will
promise everything if the people will
try the grand old parties Just one more
time;" but this cry is so old and worn
out that it will no longer deceive the
people.
The Chicago Times Herald has
changed owners and will hereafter be
run as a Republican sound currency
paper. The owner has offered Mr..
Clevelands comptroller of the cur
rency, Eckles, who is Democrat, ten
thousand dollars year to become
financial editor of the paper. This goes
to prove the charge frequently made
by the Populists that the Republicans
and Democrats were so near alike that
they could stand on each others plat
forms and edit each others papers.
Those fellows who want free silver
but want it through the "old party" re-
mind us of the old lady that did not
want her boy to go into the water un-
til he learned to swim. ANY man who
has as much brains as an oyster knows
that both old parties have had a fair
trial and both have demonetiZed silver.
On every occasion when pressed to the
wall in their convention they have
straddled the issue, but when it came to
voting a majority always voted against
it. 1t is the height of folly to expect
that either of the old parties will give
us free silver.
The Democratic party put Grover
Cleveland where he is, and he has done
more to put this country on practical
ly a gold basis than any other man in
the United States, not even excepting
old John Sherman. In the light of this
fact why should the Democratic party
be now trusted to restore silver to its
position prior to 1873? 1t is folly to
think of it, and such men as Bland
and Bryan who are advocating such
thing may safely be put down as the
veriest political demagogues who seek
to again deceive the people, or as polit-
ical towards not worthy to lead.
There is a movement on foot in
most of the southern and western
states to call a convention and make
some declaration on the currency ques-
ton. In most states it is known that
this declaration will be in favor of free
silver, or a straddle that can be con-
strued to mean free silver. The cause
Of these conventions being called lies
in the fact that there is rapid disin-
tegration going on in beth old parties,
cratic party. This condition has
alarmed the bosses and they seek to
stop this wholesale desertion by some
declaration in favor of free silver and
financial reform. In the meantime, the
goldbug element in the two old parties
are doing all they can to prevent any
declaration in favor of free silver, and
the bosses are having a monkey and
parrot time of it.
The greatest merit in the silver ques-
tion is that the discussion of it is open
ing the peoples eyes and causing trou-
BILE in the ranks of the two old parties.
The goldbugs, unable to hedge any lon
ger, are compelled to make an open
fight for single gold standard, and
thousands of voters are becoming dis
gusted and leaving the two old parties.
AS the two old parties are the sole de-
pendence of the goldbugs it places
them in peck of trouble. If they don't
fight one or both of the old parties will
pass free coinage law, and if they do
fight it looks like it will break up the
two old parties. Again. the truth of
the old adage is verified, that when
rogues fall out honest men get their
dues
The president has written another
letter. This time it is addressed to
Gov. Stone of Mississippi and contains
much taffy for the southern people.
He says he don't understand why the
South, that produces so much that is
sold abroad, for gold, should want
cheap silver money. The president
seems to lose sight of the fact that the
people of the South rarely ever see a
piece of gold in circulation, and would
not under the system which Mr.. Cleve-
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