Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-29

loan business to the Amit of the money
actually owned by such Institutions.
But how are you going to apply this
remedy? You cannot apply it except
through your government, and you
cannot do.it there unless you elect the
right kind Of men to represent you.
THE republicans had a convention
down here at Wichita the other day,
They selected delegates TO the national
convention and sent them uninstruct-
ed, let them go down there to go in
for whatever the majority there said,
regardless of what the people of Kan
sas want. If you want your condition
bettered, IL you want your children to
have an equal chance. .you have got
to have more sand IN your crop than
that. 4e
II attended the republican conven-
tion at Chicago in 1888, where William
Mckinley was chairman. That con-
vention adopted resolution denounc-
ing the democratic party for attempt
ing to demonetize silver. Again, in
1892, ring party passed a resolution
pledging the party to silver as stand
ard money. and what was the result.
The election was hardly over until the
goldites Of the party combined with
the democrats who had an equally
strong resolution, to strik down silver
What does that lesson teach? 1t
teaches us that we have come to where
the silver men and the goldites must
part company.
"a great deal has beer said about
candidate and platform. In 1892 l was
for Mckinley, but can not name my
choice now. This much, however,
do say, any platform that the eastern
goldites support and any candidate
they put up and work for 1 am not
going to support. The time has come
when compromise between the gold
ties and silver men is impossible, and
l think more of the welfare Of my
country and the interests of humanity
that 1 do the republican party.
l saw a cartoon the other day of a
man on horseback right at the brink
of high precipice, heedlessly spurring
his steed onward. That, my friends,
is just the position of the republican
party today. They are on the brink
of the precipice, but are driving heed
lessly on.
IF the republican party don't take
strong stand for silver, the st. Louis
convention of monetary reformers on
July % will put up a ticket that will
have the combined support of repub-
licans, democrats, populists and pro-
hibitionists, and will sweep the coun-
try
J. B. Chapman, democrat, was then
introduced. He said the committee
had had trouble in getting democrat
to take the rostrum with 1yed-in-the-
wool republicans and talk for silver,
and he did not want to be prodigal
son. He pointed out the advantages
of an increased currency, and stated if
the democratic party continued to fol-
low the leadership of Grover Cleve--
land, he would no longer follow the
democratic party.
The audience almost went wild when
Captain Joseph G. Waters was intro
duced. The speaker stood for several
minutes to allow the enthusiasm to
work off, then he lit into his talk with
a vim, first making an attack upon
George T. Anthony, on general princi-
pie, roasting him to a nice brown.
Right here in Topeka he contin-
ued, "if there can be any more idle
ness. or any more depression in busi-
ness could be brought about, God AL
mighty would have to do it, no states
man could.
They talk about protection here in
Kansas, where we haven't got fac
tory of sufficient importance to turn
out the woodwork of a Jews harp"
He then showed how for 200 years
prior to 1873 silver and gold had stood
side by side, and how since that time
silver had gone down and trusts and
monopolies had arisen, sphinx-like,
from the grave of prosperity.
Yet" he said, here in Kansas we
yell ourselves hoarse for Mckinley and
protection, where We haven't even the
smoke from flue or the fire in a sim
gle furnace What do Cur people care
for protection?
I'VE once started syrup factory
here, and it didn't go up-it went to
the trust, which is worse Then We
built big wooden mill, and we haven't
energy and enterprise enough to send
tracer after the machinery which is
on the road somewhere between here
and the shores of Maine.
They talk about new laws. We
have the most magnificent laws on the
statute books, but cur Internal officials
will not enforce them. We have
trust law to shut out such octopuses
as the Standard Oil company and
other trusts and combines like it, but
no federal judge nor district attorney
dares to enforce it.
If was county attorney instead of
prosecuting poor devils, would grab
these monopolies by the throat and
choke them out of the state.
Il have always been a republican.
labored earnestly for its success, but
could leave the party now with no
more tears in my eyes than would be
brought there by the east wind blow
ing in my face. have always followed
the procession. but if 1t continues in
its present course. when they come
around with their band or Tom An
derson comes with his Modocs, I'll not
be there.