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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

HERE is a marked difference be-
tween the Populist papers this year and
the republican papers of several years
ago, with regard to their editorial ref
erence TO the legislature When the re
publican party was in power nearly ev-
cry republican paper defended the
members of the legislature no matter
how many pledges they violated nor
how obnoxious their actions were. But
when the Populist party got full power
the Populist press not only did not de-
fend the members who failed in their
duty, but severely censured them. This
is circumstance which we are proud
to note; 1T shows that the people are be-
coming more independent, politically
speaking, and that they Will refuse to
wear the party collar when that party
proves itself unfaithful. Hasten the
day when the American people will fol-
low the precedent established by the
Populist press of Kansas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

The array of comments Oh the re-
cent mortgage statement of the Cap
tai, published elsewhere today. serves
to emphasize the fact that all Kansas
needs is to be let alone and to be given
a chance to work out her own financial
salvation. Topeka Capital.
Yes, we noticed that ARRAY of COM
ments." 1t comes from such papers as
the New York Mail and Express. the
Philadelphia Record, Kansas City Sta1
and other Plutocratic sheets. They
like the Capital. rejoice every time a
mortgage is foreclosed and a poor ole
farmer loses his home. 1t Is to the in
terest of the class which they serve thai
this country should become land OF
tenants and landlords which is the mi
tjal step toward serfdom and slavery
A financial salvation which absorbs
the home of the resident citizen is I'M
desirable, to say the least.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

In addition to keeping his
facial orifice closed about our
business (of which he knows
absolutely nothing) the Cres-
set editor ought to read up
on the national banking law.
Last week he jumped OH the
Missouri World, a paper of
worldwide fame, and tried to
refute one of it's editorials on
national banks, said that the
government does not loan
money to the national banks
at l per cent wherein he
branded p. B. Plumb a liar)
and various other equally
foolish things. Axline's
equal as an egotistical igno-
ramus has not yet found ref,
uge in a newspaper Office.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24
IN DEFENSE OF WESTERN KArsAs.

Hon. Edwin Taylor, formerly state
senator and now representative from
Wyandotte, is the author of the fol-
lowing which appears in the Nor tn
American Review. 1t brings up vivid
recoilections to the average Kan san
and 20 the pioneer settler especially:
The story of western Kansas is one
OF the saddest in history unconnected
with war. East and west have suffered
together there, but not equally, for
while the fasteners have lost some
money the westerner has lost his all.
And let the eastern investor seeking
Tor an object on which to vent his wrath
look not at his fellow victim but at the
distinguished spectators of the eastern
cities. and their able and INSCRIPTIONS
lieutenants in the west, who put ND the
job. Every one of those deserted farms
is mortg aged. and so likewise are the
abani ned stores end dwellings,. Why
should they not be? Your agent, Mr..
Eastern Investor, pursued those PEG.
pie as the wife of Potiphar pursued 10,
seph, soiici ting an opportunity to place
loan on tn cir property. lie got his
commissions; he was looking out for
commissions, not for you. But You are
not blameiess; it was incumbent upon
you TO know where your money
was going. If you embarked it in
financial craft built on lines that insur-
ed sinking, don't blame the sailors at
the bottom of the sea; blame yourself
or those who counseled you that the
thing was safe. Then, again the whole
country is bonded. The bonds are
largely worthless. What value, think
you, IS there in schoolhouse bonds
when the people are gone, or bridge
bonds where there is no travel, or bonds
on railroads with abandoned tracks?
One county has declared itself bankrupt,
Others are sure TO follow. It is time
that the facts in the case be plainly and
bluntly stated, and the reproach that
unJustly attaches to the western farmer
for what he could not help be shifted to
the shoulders of the eastern inancier
and his local representatives.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

THE Populists Of Pratt county gave
Hon. w. F. Brown an elaborate recep-
ton last Saturday on his return from
Topeka. MIR. Brown is one of the orig
inal, old-line Populists and his official
record is without criticism. He intro
duced the maximum freight bill at the
recent session of the legislature and la
bored uncompromislngly fori it through
thick and thin. If all the members of
the legislature had been as Iaborious as
he there would have been no cause for
complaint. But his efforts have not
been in vain, which the reception by
his constituents proves. He has been
faithful to the people and true to his
pledges and can therefore face his
countrymen with clear conscience.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

IT is reliably stated that leading rail
roads weigh mail matter carried over
their lines only once every four years,
national campaign years, and collect
from the government for this maximum
tonnage the other three years. This
fraud is the more notorious from the
fact that 1t is admitted and sought to
be justified by the perpetrators. The
Seaboard Air Line railway, when called
down on this question. promptly through
its representative, Mr.. McBee, Justly
asked our postmaster general: why
is our line singled out for criticism for
'stu6ing' the mails during the re-weigh-
ing period. when it is known that all
railroads practice the same fraud on
the governments" The question is. how
long will it take the American people
TO realize there is but one preventive of
these gigantic government
ownership of railroads. Southern Mer-
curry.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24
TO INVESTIGATES BR1BERrFs.

One OF the last acts of the legislature
was to pass Senator Forney's concur
rent resolution calling for an investiga-
ton of the purported attempts at brib-
cry of certain legislative members. The
committee appointed for this purpose
are Representatives Ravenscraft. Out
calf and Grimes, and Senators House.
holder and Cooke. The appropriation
for this purpose is So, 600 but a house
amendment, providing that the appro.
priation should not be available until
May 10, prevailed at the eleventh hour.
This, of course, was scheme by an
interested party and Governor Leedy
ordered the investigation &c begin at
once, saying that,lf necessary, he would
provide funds for defraying the expense
of the investigation out of the contin-
gent fund. His words are as follow:
Some interested person injected into the bill
a provision that if the committee began pro-
ceedings at this time no money is to be paid to
| them. Further. the money is not TO be avail
able if the courts commence proceedings
This was done for sinister purposes put want
| to say that if there is any rottenness to be
shown up by the investigation and if the mem
| bers of the committee think they have grounds
for conducting an investigation it must begin
at once regardless of the provisions of the ap-
preparation bill, and will pay the expenses
| from my contingent fund. The reference to
the courts is useless as no court has the right
to usurp the powers of an investigating cum.
| mittee. If there were attempted briberies
and there seems to be ample evidence that
there were, we want to know it and an lnves-
tigation committee will bring it out
The investigation begins April and
the public will receive some interesting
information In all human probability.
Perhaps we VIII yet learn why the max
imnm freight rate and few other i'm.
portant bills were slaughtered.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

The editorial announcement that w.
A. PETER has taken charge of the To.
peka Advocate appears in that paper of
last week. j. W.. Morpby. who has
conducted the editorial management of
the Advocate during the past year, re-
mains with the paper and takes care of
the condensed news department Phe
Advocate has always been leading pa
per in the state but with its present ed
itorfal staff it promises to excel itself.
All who fail to avail themselves of the
opportunity to become subscribers, are
missing some valuable reading matter.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

81
THIS week we publish a
list Of the most important
measures passed by the legis-
1ature. Read them over care
fully and you will be con-
WINGED that our legislature
has done more good than it's
predecessor or any legislature
that convened at Topeka dur
ing the last fifteen years.
But for the omission of a few
important, we might say
principal, measures their rec
ord is as good as could be de-
handed; but in saying this it
is not our intention to defend
their weakness. They did
good work so far as they
went but they didn't go far
enough. In this connection
we want to say what we have
often said before, that If it
had not been for a few un-
faithful members who acted
with the repnb lican minority,
every Populist measure would
have been redeemed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

CONGRESS. can construct a
tariff as high as the Tower of
Babel but that won't give
the people money to buy the
goods. High prices for man
ufactured goods and low
prices for raw material
and labor will never ov-
ercome social embarrass-
ment and universal discon-
tent.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

SECRETARY SHERMAN has ap-
pointed a man to a clerkship
in his department who is un.
der Indictment for bribery. He
was convicted in the district
court but the case was sent
back for another trial by. a
higher court on account of ir-
Irregularities. The appointed
briber resides In Sherman's
state Ohio and the repub-
licans of that state are up in
arms. But they will take
their medicine just the same.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

SEVERAL of the Maynard
Populists of the legislature
who helped to defeat the
maximum freight rate bill,
have heard from their con.
stituents very emphatically
and as a consequence they
have already expressed a de.
sire for an extra session of the
Legislature to give them an
opportunity to vote for a
maximum freight rate law.
If a sufficient number of the
traitors promise to vote for
the law the governor will call
extra session.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

The only man in the ma
tional administration who is
not extraordinarily wealthy
is President Mckinley. Vice
President Hobart and the en-.
tire cabinet have money to
burn and they will fatten
their purse still more within
the next four years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24
THOMAS JEFFERSON said tina

THOMAS JEFFERSON said that
a privileged class was a dan.
gerous class. But in these
times we have any amount of
republicans and some dem
ocrats-who know more about
it than Jefferson. They tell
us that a privileged class is
an Indispensable necessity to
the government.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

THE Barber County Beau
ty" was SO sure of reelection
that he loaded up with a
housefull of new furniture at
Washington and now he is
Offering some tempting bar
gains in that line.-Advo.
cate, Topeka.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

In one paragraph Of his
message, Mckinley wants for.
eign products excluded from
this country and in another
he asks that the duty on i'm.
portations be increased which
he says will raise more rev.
enue for the government. 1t
is plain to us that both of
these results cannot be car.
ried into effect.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

The attorneys for the insu.
rance companies in the Hill.
mon case have brought pro.
ceedings against Webb Nc.
Nall, superintendent of insu.
rance, for contempt of court.
They take the ground that
Supt. McNall has impeded
the wheels of justice in re-
fusing to issue license to the
companies on account of
their refusal to pay the Hill
mon claim. This, the attor.
neys claim, will prejudice the
public and make it difficult to
secure an impartial jury. 1t
is not likely, however, that
McNall can be held on the
charge as the supreme court
has, in a previous and a sim.
liar case, held that the decis.
ion of the superintendent is
final and no court has power
to interfere. McNall's action
has been widely endorsed
and he ought to be sustain.
ed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

THE abuse that Grover
Cleveland is getting at the
hands of some republican
leaders is, to say the least, un-
grateful. Grover is the man
who is responsible for Nc
Kinley's election; without his
aid the gold wing of the dem
ocratic party would never
have been swung in line for
the republican ticket and the
result would have been a vic
tory for Bryan. Cleveland is
as good a republican today
as is Mckinley and he has
more times than one endorsed
Macs policy. Why, then,
this censure?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24
ALLISON, of Iowa, has step.

ALLISON, of Iowa, has step
ped into John Sherman's
shoes as the boss and chief
mogul of the republican side
of the Senate. He is as
staunch a goldbug as Sher-
man though not quite as fam
GUS a rascal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

w. L. Brown, editor of the
Kingman Journal, has been
appointed as a member of the
state board of charities by
Governor Leedy. Mr.. Brown
is one of the best newspaper
men in the state and has con-
tributed much to the success
of the Peoples party since its
organization. The appoint
ment is a good one.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

THROUGH a failure of the
legislature to repeal the old
law fixing the salaries of
state officers, the new law is
imperative and the salaries
of state officers will therefore
not be reduced. 1t seems to
have been an oversight.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

THE Doodle investigation by legis-
tive committee begins in the senate
chamber at Topeka on April 6. 1t is
presumed that those PopulIsts who
have established for themselves the un.
enviabe title of traitor, are beginning
to shake in their boots.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

JOHN j. INGALLS, reported
the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight
for the New York Journal. j.
J. has at last gotten into his
proper sphere.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

THERE are twenty-five
Populists in the lower house
OF congress. This is the larg-
est representation a third
party has had in that body
for more than forty years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

AS SOON as a man steps out
of the cabinet these days he
is cared for by some big cor
poration at an enormous sal
airy. The reason is very
plain.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24
GENERAL TOPICS.

GENERAL TOPICS.
Mrs. Mary f. Lease has started south
on lecture tour.
~
The South Carolina legislature has
passed graduated income tax law.
~
The cost of McKinley's Inauguration
conseryatively estimated, is So, 555, 500.
~
The state levy for the two ensuing
years will be "a 100 of mill lower than
that of the past two years.
49,
Holmes, Duestrow, Walllng and Jack
son are gone. How dismal it must be
for fellow yclept Durrant.
~
1t is stated that the final vote on the
much-talked-of new tariff law will oc-
cur in the House on March 81.
~
Attorney General Boyle, E. G. Little
and eX-Chief Justice David Martin
have formed law partnership in Tope-
ka.
~
Elk COngressman II. j. Hudson has
been appointed as a member of the
board of regents of the agricultural col
lege.
Walling and Jackson, the brutal muir.
derers of Peal Bryan, paid the penalty
on the scaffold at Newport, Kentucky
on Saturday.
Mrs. w. M. Stryker, it is announced
will resign her position as bond clerk in
the state superintendent office on ac-
count of i'll health.
~
In the Corbett- fitzsimmons mill at
Carson City, Nevada, last Wednesday
Fitz knocked the big champion out in
the fourteenth round.
IN
Cy Leland dictates the federal an.
pointments IN Kansas. Senator Baker.
according to the best republican auth
ority of the state, is a political super.
fluffy.
The partnership of Brown & Isley, of
The Klngman Journal, has been djssolv-
ed by mutual agreement. Mr.. Brown
becomes sole owner of the plant and
he will continue to edit first class
Populist paper in Kingman.
*x*
Horace Porter, of New York. has
been named by President Mex lnley for
ambassador to France and John Hay.
OF the District of Columbia, to Great
Britain. The latter succeeds Bayard,
whose foreign policy is open to criticism
~
AT the last moment Walllng and
jackson, the murderers of Pearl BRYAN.
made confession in which they impli.
cate or endeavor to implicate one DR..
wagner, physician of unsound mind
1t is needless to say that the Ycheme
failed to work.
G. E. Lobdell. speaker of the
house of 1895, has bought the Leayen.
worth Standard, democratic paper
and will assume editorial management
as soon as he resigns his seat asamem.
Der of the legislature. The Standard
it is said. will be known as an indie
pendent paper but will have republican
leanings.
-
j. L. Bristow. of Ottawa. Kansas. i,
is announced, has been selected by
President Mckinley for fourth assist
ant postmaster general. Bristow was
ex Governor MorrllPs private secretary
ana an intimate friend to Cy LeIanc
which accounts for his good fortune
His business will be to look after
fourth class postmasters, and all sucf
as aspire to such a position had better
arrange to "Stand in.,'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

THE PopnIist member of the legisia-
ture who voted against the maximum
freight rate bill, the nsury bill and the
bill to enforce the taxation of notes and
mortgages, it is presumed, went home
.at.midnight. If there is any humanity
left in him, he is ashamed and afraid to
look his constituents in the face.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

The initial number of the Higgins
News came to our exchange table last
week. It is edited by Logan White
who has had considerable experience in
journalism and is giving the city good
paper. The citizens of Higgins and
Lipscomb county should support Mr..
White in this commendable enter
prise.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

AN exchange says, very truthfully.
that confidence is the thing that elected
Mckinley and the same article defeated
Corbett. Confidence is very poor ar
tlcle when there is nothing behind it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

FOURTH class postmasters
will be allowed to hold their
positions until their four
years term has expired. This
statement has been authoriz-
ed by Postmaster General
Gary.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

The Populist legislature,
this year, employed So less
persons than did it's republi-
can predecessor of two years
ago.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24
OFFICIAL PAPER OF BARBER co.

AN income tax law is one
of the things McKinley's
message does not recommend.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24
ghs g.merleas auneuufurmtsl.

The Old Reliable AMERICAN NcNcoNFoRMIsT
Is again in the family that gave BIRTH and is cee-
oratng ITS return by more vigorous, bold and out
Journal OF national circulation 1t is edited pub
lished by Prof G. Vincent, who is well known a.
potica speaker in more than 20 states 1t Is Spicy
Dut not iconocastc; bright, but not bitter; logical
and profound but not dry and prosy. In short it 10
Just what every Populist family should read and every
Popust should delight in extending its circulation IN
his locality. Its departments are
NEWS, Is given. and no other beI Populiss
paper gives full Market Reports
REPORTS, great dailes.
PEOPLES NAV saw what he pies a. o1 4
FORCM- worth many times the cost Of
the paper.
Here is found the cream of the
reform thought OF the nation.
The exchange department Il In
EXCHANGE charge of special editor, 30
COLUMN, that a subscription to the NoN-
CosFoRMIsr is equal to taking
wagon load. You get the best
from all in the one.
Amongits regular contributions
are Hon. John Davis, Hon w.
Special A. PETER, Prof. Ridpath, Rev.
Correspondence, Myron Reed and a host Of Others
whose writings sought with
eagerness and read with interest
Itkeeps its readers informed on
the work of Congress. No other
Congressional paper has so high reputation
DOings. as the NoScoSFoRMIsr for
furnishing full information on
public matters.
1t is tine NEWSIEST, BRIGHTEST SPICIEST
and ABLEST Populist paper in the United States,
and it is read in every quarter of the country II a
a six column, page weekly journal of established
reputation and circulation founded in 1879 Subscrip-
ton price, $100 year. Trial trip months 25 ceuf
Send n postal card for san1ple COPY. Address
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24
Wanted An Idea : Ss :ss sss . is!ss

Hrotect your ideas; they may bring You wealth.
Write John WEDDERBURN & CO., Patent Attor-
and list OF two hundred inventions wanted.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-24

G. E. Lobdell. speaker of the
house OF 1895, has bought the Leaven-
worth Standard, a democratic paper.
and Will assume editorial management
as soon as he resigns his seat as mem
Der of the legislature. The Standard.
it is said. will be known as an inde-
pendent paper but will have republican
leanings.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-02-04

it necessary to explain that Register
OF Deeds Better was not required to
pay back $3.50 illegally drawn from
the treasury for registering births
prior to the time he went into Office"
but that he returned ii little over 300
illegally received for registering
births and deaths which occurred
several years ago. 1t is II fine dis
tinction and the difference to the
treasury or to the register Is hardly
perceptible.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-02-04
Fair Committee Meeting--Important

The members Of the committee APP
pointed to solicit subscriptions to he
capital stock Of the Southwestern
Wisconsin Fair association will meet
in the city council room, Mineral
Point, Saturday, February 9Th, at
one o'cioch sharp. 1t is hoped that
every member Will be present, but if
any cannot attend, they should not
fail to send to the secretary, IN time
for the meeting, their subscription
lists, giving names Of subscribers and
number of shares subscribed by each.
This is absolutely necessary for the
transaction Of any business. Follow
ing is the committee:
Geo. &. Cox, john Knight, James
Spensley, p. Allen Jr., Thos Bracken,
Charles Gilman, Joseph Gordon,
w. a. Jones, John Francis, Richard
Jackson, James Jackson, II. :. We'll,
J w. Hutchinson, George Jeuck, n. II.
Snow. John Correll, James Brewer,
James A. Hoare, Stansmore Vivian,
G. w. Mc1lhon, Geo. Crawford, w. III.
Bennett. Joseph GRADER.
q. G. Cox Chairman.
w. II. BENIN EFT, Sec'y.