Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-09-10


quent address by Judge Frank Doster, fu-
sion candidate for chief justice. Judge
Doster was given an enthusiastic reception
when introduced to the audience. He spoke
as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, and Ladies and Gentle
men: 1t may be well before entering upon
the discussion of any subjects of special
interest to spend a brief time in the ex-
. irons assumed by our political adversaries,
of the main premises from which their ar
guments proceed. Throughout this cam
paign 1 have neither read nor heard of a
platform utterance by a Republican speak
eT, ana nave rarely read a newspaper arti-
bee BEGIN I'm VIE Rep9Pijcan 5our1al which did not
ments Implying that the present deplorable
were peculiar to this country, and did not
exist In the other countries of the civilized
OF such as fact is never made. But the
general trend and course of argument
that we of this country are alone, among
al the nations of the earth, in condition
OF nnancial striDgency and Industrial de-
of course, to the reading and consid-
who keep Informed upon me current events
OF the world, this assumption is known to
it seems to suit the purpose of many cam
pdlBn speakers and writer's, in order, l sup
their constituents rather than their eniight-
nent, TO attribute these conditions to GER
tain agencies and parties and policies some
of which are peculiar to this country and
do not exist elsewhere Upon this negative
eiared in words but always imp neder rests
in great part the structure of Republican
campaign argument and Republican eco
nomic philosophy.
Unrest the World Over.
'In direct opposition to what we are
asked to infer, and in exposure of what is
thus sought to be concealed from US, 1 as
sert what every well-informed person will
bear me out in declaring, that there exists
throughout the entire civilized globe. not
m in nfrxy hut xrlnar
widespread, general and almost universal
dissatisfaction and unrest, .he like of which
history of the world. What with Nihilists
in Russia, Socialists in Germany, Anarch-
lists in France and Italy, throughout all Eu-
rope for that matter, and in this country a
large and constantly increasing class of
would seem that We had indeed fallen upon
tremists have just named to indicate them
as the chief elements of discord, or as con-
shutting the only menace to the peace of
the world and the settled order and habit
OF 0ns society DC but I speak as well and prin-
and cautious body of people, whose pro-
tests thus far have voiced only demands
Tor changes in fiscal admins tration and
economic policy. If this temper of unrest
and sedition, as some affect to believe it,
were confined to the people of any partic-
ular class or occupation in life, or to the
people of any particular country, we might
conclude that the cause causes, what
ever they be. were local and transitory,
and would pass away with the recurrence of
IF, for instance. it were confined to Rus
sia, we might attribute it to her grinding
despotism; If to Germany, to the expense
of her enormous military establishment; if
to n1bc det or Italy to their f den 3ras
trade policy. If the farmer alone were
heard to complain. we might suppose that
adverse seasons or over-productiOn of crops
had worked to his injury; if the manufac-
t turer. that some over-stoeking of the mar;
conspired to his disadvantage; if the mer-
involved h9nkrlIntcU.
common wage-earner that the avarice or
of Of b ms an by or the ds
reduced his wages or turned him out of
not from one, but from ali of these classes,
and from many others, in not one, but
All these GoHnfTes and 10 many others an
test goes up, We must likewise know that
the causes, be they what they may; and
whether adequate or not, are general and
common to them all.
Quacks Have No Right to Prescribe.
I'm autocratic Russia, where they kill
in Republican France where they Kill
Presidents to rid themselves of democracy,
in high tariff Germany, where they build
of foreign products. In free trade England.
where they level down all barriers of re
striction upon foreign commerce, and in
tariff for revenue America, the conditions
forces of disorder, stopping, little short of
armed rebellion, are the same; and the
ditions general and not local special,
and proceed. therefore. not from local or
to fit himself for inquiry into those causes,
and has failed to qualify himself to pre-
scribe remedies for this disordered state of
the body polite; the man who would ignore
the existence of this condition of the
worlds affairs. or attempt to divert atten-
ton from 1t by speaking of it as though it
were peculiar to this country alone. who
cies of certain sects or factions parties
fo tins SH4m5Fy is 9 10 hat e and
partisan ends by conceafment of facts,
and a fool in that he supposes the common
recorded incidents of current history
an explanation from my standpoint of the
causes which have produced this anomal-
country and inferentialiy as to the others
theme, let me say that be '' these ass E causes
what they may, free trade in England,
America. despotism in Rus Russ democracy s1
in France. debt in Italy, one fact exists
mountain high, as it we're, confronting the
gaze at every step and turn in the course
fact exists. and you may call it CONFIDENT
or cause you choose, but it exists never
tries, our well. the gold standard
of money payment either absolutely or
began its existence Immediately preceding
with the spread of this worId-distemper of
THE only exception to the otherwise uni
but partial exception. 1 do not under
stand that country to have yet formally
entered upon the scheme of gold mononnet-
ailism- 1 do however. understand it to
have been for years past in preparation for
the same, and to that end to have accumu-
lated in its national treasury some s4OO. CO.,
to be of American mintage.
Republican FaIsehood Exploded.
Another position occupied by our Re
publican adversaries must be noticed 1t is
that these distressed conditions, which all
admit exist in this country, are the effects
of Democratic policy and the result of DEM
ocratic Incompetence in the mana cement of
public affairs Unlike the other position,
this one is not inferred or implied. On the
contrary, 1t is boldly, unequivOcally and I'M
blushtngly asserted a fact. We are told
that with the accession TO power of the
Democratic party conditions materially
changed; we are told that previous to that
occurrence the factories were running upon
full time: that the fires of the furnaces
burned night and day; that labor was stead
lily employed at remunerative wages; that
the price of the products of the factory
and the farm were ample; that contentment
existed everywhere and prosperity smiled