Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-08-12
BRABsTER VESTS LETTER.

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How TO Settle the Vice Presidential
Muddle-PrOsDects Are Good for Bry-
an, But Doodle Will Have to Be
Fought.
| Special Correspondence.
We reformers In Washington are pes
tered with joeular inquiries from gold
bugs and cuckoos as to our choice fol
yice-president. They wish or affect to
! wish to know whether we favor Sewall
or Watson. Doubtless the yenal and
| ignorant throughout the country fire
| the same inquiry at retormers, and
think that they have propounded q
question which is poser. All your
| readers should reply as l do, that a
higher power is running this campaign
for financial independence and the
| rights of men, and He Will take care of
the vice presidential middle, while
meanwhile all retormers. whether Pop
ulists, silver democrats,o or silver repub-
licans, will devote all their time and en-
| elgy to the election of Bryan.
After all the matter of the vice pres
idency is comparatively unimportant.
To the government the presiding officer
of the senate is about as important as
the fly which gets into the cab of an
engine is to locomotive. Let us elect
Bryan president, which Will give us con-
troll of the treasury. the army and the
navy, and we will hold a hand which
will rake in the pot.
One old gentleman, who was repub-
lican, bat is now supporter of Bryan,
said to me yesterday that 1t is pity
that the constitution Will not permit of
Sewall and Watson sharing the office,
and exercising its functions on alter
nate days, like the two claimants to the
throne in The Tar and Tartar" 1t
would indeed be funny to see one of the
two approach the other at midnight, if
the senate were holding an alI-night
session, and in tones of thunder de-
mand the chair and gavel. However,
even if the constitution could be
strained to permit of such an equitable
settlement of the matter, confusion
would re arise when Sunday came
bringing one days work for ministers
and one days rest for the balance of
| mankind.
II would never do for both to wear
presidential dignity on that day
and to attend the same church. Just
fancy the preacher praying for "our
vice-president" and the two claimants
each trying to look dignihed, as though
he were the one recommended to the
care of the Almighty! 1t would be a
sight worth travelling to see, but L am
afraid we shall never see it.
The republicans are badly scared by
the marvellous identification of the
spirit of 1776. The people have for so
long permitted themselves to be hum
plugged, have so long been content to
eat at the swill-barrel while the usur-
ers and politicians lived on the fat of
the land, that Hanna and his boodling
| crew thought until recently that Nc
| Kinley was virtually elected, and that
everything was over except the shout.
| ing. Now they realize their error, and
every beneficiary of the gold standard
and other monopolies is having the fat
| fried out of him as it never was before
An enormous campaign fund is being
raised, but if the people can be induced
this year to sell their birthright for q
mess of pottage, am much mistaken
in my estimate of the situation.
The republican managers intend tC
hire bicyclists in all the doubtful states
and send them out to scatter lying liter.
allure and utter falsehoods. ALI who
| openly espouse monetary reform and
| American independence are to be CO.
creed, their notes protested, their cred
it's refused, and be in every way modest
ed by the money power. The goldbue
dallies are to offer their weekly blanket
sheets of lies and Misrepresentation
for less than the cost of the paper upon
which they are printed. Money will be
| spent like water because the uSurers OF
| Wall and Lombard streets, who yearly
rob the people of over $500, 900 900. car
easily afford to spend 500, 000, 600 to Sc
cure continuation of the system which
enriches them and impoverishes the
people.
The republicans and gold democrat,
in Washington make no secret of theil
intentions, they openly boast of them
and laugh when they tell US reformers
You may have the people and tn,
principles, but we have got the'stuff.
| Whether thew can make good thai,
boasts lies with the plain, common PEG
pie of the United States.
BRABSTER WEST.
| While AT work in the corn field vea