Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-09

wZS[NIX.L1O ''Sure Defe a t!'
like the startling cry of fire! on still
winters night.
John j. Ingalls,, the man whom Kan
sas republicans all but worship, and
who certainly has been in public life
long enough to be able to judge as to
possible political happenings, wrote
several letters from the st. Louis con-
yention to the New York Journal, the
last one of which was for some reason
suppressed by the western dailies, but
which has at last come to light. 1t is
mighty good reading, and we commend
1t to all men as a very elaborate fore
cast of what is going to happen the
single gold standard republican party
in November.
THE BETTER.
st. Louis. Mo-, June I7th.-Two
months ago [ wrote from Washington
that the west would bolt Mckinley and
gold at the st. Louis convention. AS
this is written the west, the silver west,
is marching out. The revolt is prac-
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ages of silver are leaving the reserva-
tion for the warpath. Their great
medicine man, Teller, has set up the
war pole, and the young bucks vie with
one another as to who shall be the first
to strike his war ak into it, as proof of
his enlistment. The mutiny is on.
Rebellion is afoet and the silver west,
with its own car.lidate and it's own
ptstfo1u1, VII @ae..e wal on go3d ard
the east
This means the defeat of Mckinley,
possibly the death of repu blicanism.
Not the least significant of the signs
of the hour is the steady confidence
with which the silver forces march
away. They leave their fellows of gold
as Dundee left the Whigamores of Ed
inburgh; their feathers tossing, their
banners wide flung and free. They
nail their gauntlet to the gates Of gold
and the east stands defed to the ut
termost of war. They, too, have a
country and a cause. There is a west
as well as an east. Silver has its clans,
as we'll as gold its people. The allied
natives the east forgot; the west did
not.
And so the silver fighters go back to
their tribes. Hannaism, McKinleyism,
an over reaching east playing the hogs
part in its golden selfshness have split
the party. The last chance of success
for the republicans has disappeared.
There be hills beyond Pentland,
And friths beyond Forth.
If there be lords in the Lowlands,
There be chiefs in the North.
The east can laugh at these people.
The east should laugh at people less
and study them more. This eastern
policy of the tip-tilted nose has already
cost it the south. That region glowers
at the east across its borders, and the
fires of its hatred never die. Today
the west arrays itself against the east
and begins running out Its lines of bat
tie. The west has become ally to the
south, and the ally will be found a
harder, more indomitable enemy than
the original foe.
1t is pleasant and easy for the east
to come from its baths and its gardens,
its games and it's houses of marble and
gilt to idle about the forum and malign
the west and call its people Goths and
Vandals. The east might better recall
what the Goths and Vandals did to
Rome.
These silver people are the Swiss OF
America. They are poor in all save
courage. They have heard their war
horns sounding and the battle is on.
They will fight with the cool valor of
buccaneers. When the east goes
against them. pride blown, purblind in
its conceit OF riches, yet really weak
with the possession of that which it
relies most upon-its money-it will be
the old story Of Charles of Burgundy
over again. The Swiss will win, and