Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-15
BRABSTER VESTS LETTER.
Grover Quiet-HiIl RegretfuI-Carlisle
and Eckel's Idea of the Far.
mer's Intellect.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Grover Cleveland has gone to Buzz
Yards Bay; Whitney has gone to Chica-
go: Dan Lamont is in the throes of de-
spair. The latter, who was nothing
before he became cog IN the Roths-
child Cleveland machine, is really dis
consulate. Poor fellow, who can blame
him! He became rich by sticking to
Grover, and now he has been foolish
enough to sink his earnings from the
gold conspiracy in the Cleveland Whit
ney street railway pool and he feels
bad. Grover is at BuZZard's Bay,
good place for such a buZzard as he is,
but the men who sacrificed themselves
upon his altar are in deuce of fix.
Rumor says that Grover has so fixed
things that he Will be reimbursed for
any loss which he pei sonally may sus-
tain from the failure of the street rail-
way scheme, but Carlisle, Smith, La
montana Campbell are to be''souped."
Whitney has gone to Chicago, and
David Bennett Hill went with him.
Poor Hill! If he had stuck by his Ell
mira speech, he would have been the
logical candidate of the free silver fore
es to-day. He is at heart silver man
but he thinks of D. B. Hill first. and
misjudging the political outlook-he
thought Wall street could control the
country, and so he espoused the cause
of the usurers. 1t is pity! No one
knows that better than Hill. However,
he is dead politically; in the reform
ranks he is a rotten egg.
Before this letter reaches the MAORI
ty of my readers, the Chicago conven-
| ton will be over; therefore it is best for
me to leave politics alone in this letter.
[ may say, however, that so far as the
Populists in Washington are concerned
the Peoples party will indorse no man
who is not acceptable to them. 1t Is
hard for Washington correspondent
to please all people. l judge that the
great producing people want the truth
This is the truth: If the silver demo-
Gratis nominate man such as Teller
or Sibley, he can get the support of the
Populists and silver republicans. If
not, then not.
That is the consensus of opinion
among the Populists and silverites In
Washington. They say: 1.-The demo-
cratic party is dead if it tries to carry
the country upon the free silver cry.
The democratic party must give some
proof of its honesty. It nominated
Grover Cleveland three times. A party
which will choose as it's standard bear
er for twelve years such scoundrel as
Grover Cleveland must be viewed with
suspicion"
IT the silver democrats are really
patriots; if they rise above party and
nominate man acceptable to the Pop
ullsts and silver republicans, he will be
elected; if not, then the true reformers
should antagonize their tickets and
make such a fight for liberty that q
democrat may be as extinct bird four
years from now as dodo.
That those who read my letters may
know how the producers of the country
are regarded by their servants, | will
reproduce conversation which heard
last Sunday evening in Chamberlain's
The two who talked are members of
the administration. 1 will style them
G. and +. Of course this does not
mean Carlisle and Eckels. II said go
it would be libel. This is how they
talked:
Mr.. c.: do you think, E., that you
can switch enough delegates at Chlca-
go?"
Mr.. E.: Haven't 1 been controlling
for years. I'll switch them: they don't
know anything about the financial
question anyway"
Mr.. g.: YOU'RE mistaken. The vot-
ers in Kentucky are just loaded to the
muzzle with arguments in favor of the
reconciliation of silver. and they even
quote that old speech of mine''
Mr.. E.: "Psbaw, that's nothing!
Wen confuse them on the bond ques-
ton. They can't understand figures.
One of my clerks whom / sent to Mis-
souri, to counterfeit the work of Tau
beneck, told me that he heard one far
mer trying to explain to another what
the different bond denominations
meant. The explaining farmer said
that 30's, TAOS, and 1O-5O's meant
that the working man had to go to work
at $50 a. m. and work until TAO p. m.
in order that the usurer might lie abed
until 1850 the next morning."
Mr.. G. laughed and said the farmer
had the situation pretty we'll sized up
If my friends throughout the country
want to adopt the $50, TAO, 1880 plan
all right. BRABsTER WEST.
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