Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
BRABSTER VESTS LETTER.
The Political Situation Unchanged.-
Grover to be Candidate-Loye and
Abasement for Ii Hung Chang.


Special Correspondence.
Last week wrote you that the Peo-
pies party did not intend TO allow itself
to be swallowed by the democratic
party. So far as that statement Is con-
cerned the situation in Washington is
unchanged. The three national con-
mlttees, democratic, Peoples and Sill
yer are under one roof in WormIey's
Hotel. The democrats had part of the
hotel first, and ,as soon as the Populists
and silVerites moved in they put up a
fence in the corridor to shut off our peo-
pie We have retaliated by putting up
fences which shut them off. Senator
Butler assures me that it is the earnest
wish OF his committee to effect fusion
in every state with any party that ia
vors the election of Bryan. Secretary
Diffenderfer, of the silver party, SAYS
the same but neither of them propose
to allow the old line democrats, who
would be gold men today if the demo
cratic party had declared for gold, to
absorb the refOrmers who haye made
this campaign of the masses against
the classes possibility,
Your democratic readers know, if
they be producers, and not profession
al politicians, that the election of Bry-
an and house of representatives ledg-
ed to support him will mean their sal
vatlon, but the old professional Office
holders, who would vote the democratic
ticket if Satan was the nominee and
the platform were the Ten Command
ments with the word mot" left out Of
each commandments do not care for the
election of Bryan unless it will enable
them to hold offices. Such are the men
who are conducting the democratic
campaign from the city of Washington,
and they seem to have an idea that the
Populist party is corpse and that they
are the firm of undertakers who have
the job OF interring the cadaver. This
reminds me of the story of the furnl,
ture dealer in the West who thought to
augment his profits by undertaking. He
undertook the job of planting the re-
mains OF hard citizen who had been
shot in brawl. The fuss was over,
the hard citizen, boots and all had been
carried over to the shop of the enter
prising furniture dealer who put the
hard citizen away in a coffin The
crowd had dispersed to drink the health
Of the deceased, and the would be I'M
detaker placed the lid upon the coffin.
AS he did so the corpse rose up and hit
that enterprising furniture dealer a
blow which banished from his mind
any Idea of doing any more undertak
ing business. Similarly with the PEG.
pies party and the democratic party to-
day. The Peoples party is no corpse
1t may hare been riddled with abuse.
but it is not as dead as some people
wish it were.
do not wish my friends to think that
[ advocate any split this year in the re-
form forces, but what the Populists, so
far as [ know their sentiments, insist
upon, and what they are determined to
have is this, a fair share Of the elector-
al vote. The Peoples party has created
this movement and will not be enguIfed
by the wave of popular sentiment which
it has created.
The daily goldbug press of the United
States, including that fawning sheet
the Washington Times, is falling all
over itself in abasement to Ii Hung
Chang, the Chinese envoy who will pass
through this country next week. They
love titles so that they call him Earl
Chang, when school boy is we'll aware
that there is no such title in China. 1t
is astonishing how these goldbug organs
love titles, and l believe that their
adulatiOn of every titled foreigner is a
proof of the assertion in my book Zero
yer Cleveland on Tramp" that the
plutocracy of America Is scheming for
the establishment of a monarchy and
the subsidiary titles which pertain to a
monarchial form of government. ]
could write much more but your space
is limited. l simply wish, as your
Washington representative, to say to
your readers that money is going to be
used in this campaign by the Hanna
crowd without stint, and that if any of
them is offered money they are perfect
ly justified in taking 1t. do not mean
that they should vote for Mckinley but
mean this: That even the Rothchild.
Hanna campaign fund has limit, and
every dollar which our people get of il
is one dollar less for Hanna to nse in
corrupting the American electorate. II
your readers get any money from that
fund, they can either use it in hiring
halls and speakers or in buying free
silver literature, but whatever they do.
if they value their independence, they
should vote this year for William Jen.
| nings Bryan. BRABsTER WEST.