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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05
THE AMENDED BALLOT LAW.

We have previously given editorial
notice to the Australian Ballot Law as
amended by the legislature, but our re-
marks were confined to the decrease in
the cost of printing and publication.
Besides this tho law makes several 9th
er important changes. We take the
following from the Topeka Advocate
which will give fair idea of the pro-
visions of the new law, which we have
not previously touched upon:
The form of the ballot is changed
considerably. Instead of blank space
under each candidates name on which
the name Of anyone for whom the voter
may desire to vote may be written, one
full blank ticket is placed at the right
Of the ballot. This reduces the size of
the ballot almost one-half. The squares
are changed and placed to the right of
the candidates name instead of to the
left. A line is placed between the tick
cts in order to separate them in such a
way as to enable any voter to readily
see which line of squares are intended
to be marked to vote the ticket he may
desire to vote. Not more than two
judges and one clerk shall belong to the
same political party. One judge and
one clerk are to be first selected from
the party casting the highest vote at
the next preceding election, a judge
and clerk from the party casting the
next highest number, and the remain
ing judge from any party not included
in the above. Little change IS made in
the arrangement of booths, but it is
provided that there must be one for
each go voters.
In order to prevent the practice of
the ''endless chain" system of corrup-
ton and fraud, a new plan is devised.
When a voter enters the polling place
his name is entered on the list opposite
number as is now the case. When a
ballot is given him, his number on the
the poll book is written in one corner
of the ballot. When the ballot is re-
turned by the voter to be deposited in
the box, the judge receiving it ascer-
tains whether its number is the same as
the one opposite that voters name, and
If such is the case, he clips the corner
containing the number off and the bal
lot is deposited. This does not inter-
fere with secret ballot, and it would
seem that it would effectually prevent
the use of the ''endless chain" scheme.
Voters requiring assistance shall be &C.
companied to the booth by two judges
of different parties. Intoxication shall
not constitute disability, and voters
in that condition are not entitled to and
shall not receive assistance.
AT present judges in precincts cast
ing 700 votes are paid the same as
judges in precincts having but twenty
votes. The new law provides that
judges shall receive 50 for the first 25C
ballots counted and 81 for each extra
100 or major fraction thereof. In city
elections the pay shall be $3.50 for the
first $50 ballots and so cents for each
extra 100.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

The fact that national
banks are required to keep a
small reserve fund on hand
does not alter the fact that
they are allowed to issue 90
per cent of the face value of
their U. S. bonds in bank
notes. The idle reserve fund
is greatly overbalanced by
short time loans of deposits.
But this has no bearing on
the question at issue. Our
proposition is that the ma.
tional banks realize interest
doubly on the same invest
ment and are obliged to pay
only l per cent per annum on
the governments money
which they use.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

AMERICA gained her indie
pendence from England once
without an international
agreement and she can do it
again. But in those days
British gold did not rule the
colonies and we had leaders
who did not put self above
their country. In this day
the Arnolds are to the front
and the Washingtons and
Henrys are to the rear. We
ought to get back to the old
leadership.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

A GREAT deal is said in g.
o. p. circles about the recent
advance in the price of wheat.
By the way, how much wheat
has the farmer to sell nova
days? You farmers go to
your bins and take a thor.
ough invoice and tell us what
you have found. 1t is our
opinion that you will find an
unusual vacuity. What doth
it profit a man if his
products are sacrificed on the
the altar of greed and the
prices forced up thereafter
when he has nothing to sell.
Or in other words where can
the producers be benefited if
the price of wheat is high
when the trust has cornered
the stuff, and the masses have
nothing to do but buy the
-four in the meanwhile.
Who'll crack the nut?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

HON. E. T. HACKNEY arrived home
yesterday from his trip with the legis-
lati1e committee on the gulf coast.
The Kansas committee met in Topeka
Tuesday and arranged for an official re-
port to the governor to be draughted.
and Oklahoma were represented on the
coast tour. Before they adjourned they
organized permanently under the title
of 1.-The Gulf and Interstate Transpor-
tation Committee Senator George
Campbell, of Labette county was chos-
en- president of the committee. and r..
B. Forest, of Oklahoma, secretary.
This committee will issue call In a
few days for a western states congress
to meet at Topeka or Wichita in June,
at which accredited delegates from all
the states interested in gulf transporta-
ton. will be present. The committees
investigation and agitation has resulted
in quite fiutter among the railroads,
and while they appear to be unconcern-
ed they are watching developments with
great deal of interest. The result
will undoubtedly be lower freight rates
elise new Interstate railroad. The
coming congress. meeting as 1t does
about harvest time will serve to bring
the agitation up to period when low
rates will be in great demand. and If
something does not give way the rail.
roads will hear something drop. Mr.
Hackney comes back looking as If the
Texans had treated him we'll. He was
absent twenty seven days during which
he visited nearly all the coast points
and the capital of the state. Several
days were spent giving and hearing ties
timony before the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The Texas legislature
was also visited. About week ago he
was in Laredo, on the Mexican line anC
saw corn In silk. Returning to the
north he finds the people still planting
The committee will continue in exist
ence until about the 4th of July wher
it expires by the limit of the statute
creating t.-Wellington Voice.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

IT makes us exceedingly
weary to hear republican ed
itors talk of the rapid and
unparalleled growth of the
country" under republican
laws, when we remember that
those very laws have increas-
ed the percentage of tenants
almost one.half. And this
was done in the palmiest days
of republicanism. The re.
publican party is the cham.
pion of class legislation and
this is the reason we have
millionaires and paupers in
this country.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

LAST week Tom Reed sent
word to a body of laborers
that their petitions would
not be heard until the tariff
bill was disposed of. He
might have added that they
would not be heard then
There is no use in sending
petitions to our aristocratic
congress, they are scarcely
ever read.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

SENATOR PENRosE, of Penn
sylvania, has introduced a
bill to pension the daughters
of Gen. Geo. B. Meade at 800
per month. If Gen. Meade's
daughters deserve a pension,
every other dead soldiers
daughters deserve it. But
the privates never get it.
One hundred dollars per
month for Gen. Meade's
daughters is too much, any.
way.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

GUTHRIE, 0. IT,, was inun-
dated by a flood last Wednes-
day. The dispatches stated
that a wall of water eight feet
came down the river ear.
ly in the morning, the result
of a cloud burst. First re-
ports stated that 100 persons
were drowned but later ones
narrow the losses down to 20.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05
WILL YOU STUDY THE LAND QUESTION

If you will, and desire literature
which will explain the cause and cure
of "hard times" send your name and
address to the undersigned and we will
freely and cbeerfully mail you tracts
and speeches dealing with the subject.
Also send US the name and post office
addresses Of acquaintance to whom
you wish literature sent. Address, j.
III. LaRue. Secretary Kansas Single
Tax League, Box 1872, Kansas City,
han.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

DELEGATE CALLAHAN is do
ing good work for Free Homes
and Oklahoma statehood.
This talk which some repub.
licans are making that those
who voted against Flynn
voted against free homes
is the veriest of rot. Callahan
is doing more effective work
for free homes than Flynn
did, Notwithstanding Gear
Reeds vindictive and arbi-
trary methods.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05
THAT EASTERN TRIP.

Going East, take the Santa Fe Route as far
as Chicago.
Most direct line from the southwest general
ly. and thirty miles the shortest between Mis-
souri, river and Chicago, which insures quick
time and sure connections. Track is straight
and rock ballasted. with very few crossings at
grade.
Vestibued limited expresses, with latest
pattern Pullman and free chair cars. Meals
in dining-cars served la carte.
Inquire of w. o. Horn, agent or address w.
j. Black, G. p. A, A. L. q S. f. Ry., Topeka,
Kas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05
The DingleY bill imposes

The Dingley bill imposes a
duty Of lilo per cent on
sugar. This is 31.8O per
cent higher than the rate i'm.
posed by the present law. If
the Dingley bill becomes a
law the republican politicians
won't carry their two little
sacks of sugar with them
during the next COMPRESSION.
al and presidential cam.
paigns.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

MAYOR HARRISON, of Chica-
go, has repudiated the free
silver element of the demo
cratic party and has appoint
ed gold standard, anti-Bryan
democrats to the more i'm
portant official positions. Har-
rison seems to have been an
object of misplaced conf,
denCe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

If the Dingley republican,
tariff bill becomes a law
barbed wire will cost one cent
per pound more. In fact
most everything the. farmer
needs will be higher in price;
but his products will sell for
the same old price. We have
not yet struck the bottom.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

THERE is less than $50,000,-
900 of gold left in the U. S.
treasury exclusive oftheS10O,-
100000 reserve. It won't be
six months until Mckinley
will be doing just what
Cleveland has been doing
issuing bonds. Abolish the
s100,000,OOo gold reserve and
give us free silver. This will
be a power in the direction
of stopping these outrageous
bond issues.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

THE SILVER Knight propounds and
answers conundrum il tho following
manner:
Why do so many politicians love the
people SO rouch during an election cam
palgn ana love the money powers so
much after the election is over? Be-
cause they see the people during cleo.
ton, and the money powers see them
after election.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

If q national bank note is
nothing more than a check
why is it that it is loaned out
at interest. National bank
notes are money; as much so
as any other form of paper
currency.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

A GREAT deal is said about the government
bonds being nontaxable and yet bear interest
and that national banks loan their notes and
collect interest and thus reap a double har-
vest. There is nothing in this when it is con-
sldered that government bonds are exempt
from taxation whether owned by individuals
or by national banks.-Cresset.
Apply yourself to the question under
discussion. Our contention is that the
national banks draw interest on the
government bonds they have deposited
IN the .. S. treasury and at the same
time use bank notes to the amount of
80 per cent of their bonds. These notes
are loaned out as freely as any other
money and bear as much interest.
Therefore we say that The national
bank draws interest twice on the same
investment. For instance, we will say
that national banker has deposited
$780, in per cent, bonds. This
gives him $4,000 per annum inter
est on bonds. He is allowed to issue 80
per cent of these bonds in bank notes.
He has 100000 to loan at, say 10 per
cent, which gives him So, 900 from this
source. He realizes 900 interest on
$50, 900 when he has a capital of no
more than 100000. He is not taxed at
all on the 100000 and only per cent
on the 1000, and realizes a profit of
$4,000 per annum, minus ordinary
banking expenses. not counting the
profits made from deposits and other
we'll known sources. The question of
individual bondholders is not pertinent
to this subject, but since it has been
broached, we can answer by saying that
the individual is not permitted to loan
in circulating notes, 80 per cent of the
face value of his bonds and therefore is
not the recipient of double interest, or
interest from two distinctively different
sources on the same money at the same
time. We are not taking the position
that the individual holder should not
pay tax; he should. But If it is
wrong for the individual holder to be
exempted it is radically wrong for a
bank to escape taxation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05
SPRING EXCURSIONS TO GREAT SOUTH
WEST

On April and 20, May and IS, 1897. the
Santa Route will run a series of homeseekers'
cheap excursions to principal points in Arkau-
sas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas.
Ticket rate, one fare plus 81 for round trip.
with liberal limits and stop over privileges.
These excursions will enable you to take O
spring outing and see country which offers
rich rewards for well-directed toll
For free literature descriptive of lands i'm the
Great Southwest, address W. J. Black G a,
A. T. & S. +. Ry., Topkeka, Kas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

HE war between Greece
and Turkey is practically at
an end. The Greeks are
steadily losing ground and
there are no hopes for con-
tinuing the war for any con-
siderable length of time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05
OFFICIAL PAPER OF BARBER co.

If the government owned
the railroads car fare would
be one cent for three miles
instead of three cents for one
mile.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

A MAJORITY of the manu-
featuring establishments have
reduced their force of work
men since McKinley's cleo
ton.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

WE understand that Representative
Frank I. Patton still claims Barber
county as his home and place of resi-
dence. If an extra session of the legls
lature is called he expects to represent
Barber county In the House.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

A PRESS dispatch from Louisville.
Kentucky, dated May 3cd, says that
strikes among railroad men and coal
miners are imminent because of Is per
cent cut in wages. How is that for pros
perity? sR
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

The Kansas City stock
yards case, wherein the rea-
sonableness of the rates fixed
by the legislature. is being
inquired into, is still being
heard. A decision is expect
pected within a week.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

GENERAL GRANTS monu-
ment was unveiled in New
York last week. The occa-
sion was attended with impo-
ing ceremonies and many
tributes we're paid to the
dust of the renowned general.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

WHERE does the West come
in for it's share of the benefits
under the provisions of the
Dingley tariff bill, the repub-
lican measure. Will some
good republican please an
swer!
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

The successful pie hunters
are about the only people
who have experienced the re-
vival of prosperity and good
times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

If the Dingley bill becomes
a law carpets and mattings
will be doubled i'll price. Do
you see how the consumer
pays the tax?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

THE Reform Club of New York,
which furnished the gold standard
plate matter and patents free to news
papers during the last campaign, gave
a banquet Saturday night. Addresses
were delivered by Cleveland, Carlisle,
Bynum and Others.-TOpeka Advocate.
The Cresset of this city is one of the
which was 80 graciously
by this Reform Club"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

The Peoples party will not
defend the boodlers in it's
own ranks any quicker than
those belonging to any other
party. Populists do not wear
brass collars.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

The man who states that
Thomas Jefferson demonetiz-
ed silver, states what is I'M
true. Jefferson did nothing
like it; he was a bimetallist.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

The republican papers of
Kansas are defending the
Populist boodlers. They are
being we'll paid for their
space.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

The capitalists who, subscribed so
literally to the Mckinley campaign are
getting it back tenfold, The corpora
ton and monopolies have only to touch
the button. Mckinley and his congress
will do the rest.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

THE country is threatened
with another gigantic bond
issue. How about your Nc
Kinley and prosperity?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

IT is conceded on all sides
that Governor Leedy has
more backbone than any
chief magistrate Kansas ever
had.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

The gold wing of the dem
Ocratic party is organizing to
capture the democratic nomi-
nee in 1900. Grover Cleve-
land is already talked of for
the presidential nomination.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

THE House sustained Speaker Reed
in his refusal to appoint committees.
by vote of So to l23. The republicans
voted sOlldly in favor of sustaining the
speaker, while the democrats were d.
vided. The Populists voted solidIy
against his ruling.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

THE Kentucky senatorial
deadlock has been finally
broken by the election of De
Boo, gold. bug republican.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

THE tax on whiskey is to be increas-
ed and the tax on beer is to be de-
creased. The Dutch are getting in
their work on this congress.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05

PRoTEcTIoN. correctly an
alyzed, is to rob the masses
for the benefit of a favored
few.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05
THAT NATIONAL corrrRnrcr.

Chairman Butter of the Peoples Party
National Committee has refused to
grant the request SO earnestly made by
a great body of tire Peoples party voters
of the nation, to call national confer
ence by which 1t was expected that the
party would become solidly united for
future work. That the national chair
nan is arbitrary and selfish In this &C
ton is well understood and the further
fact is established that Official spoils
have, to say the least, rendered him un-
fit to act in the capacity of chairman of
the national committee.
But there are those who. it seems ARE
bent on holding national conference
whether it is authorized by the national
committee or nOt,and the Reform Press
Association has issued call for such a
gathering at Nashville, Tennessee on
July 4, of this year. Here the question
arises as to what results can spring
from this conference. Not rejecting
on the motives of the Association 1--WE
believe they are purel what good can
be accomplished. A conference held in
this way cannOt,as we understand it, do
more than express individual opinions;
it can resolve, it can discuss, it can re-
quest, but when that is said, all is said.
Nothing that the conference may
choose to do will be binding. The le-
gally constituted committee is the su-
preme authority and il its members do
not serve the people which elected it.,
satisfactorily, the thing tor the rank
and file Of the party to do is to depose
them and choose men who will. This
is an important work which should not
be overlooked at our conventions and
| primaries. One of the discouraging
| features of the Nashville conference ls
that only one faction will attend, and a
| conference, the purpose of which is to
solidify and bind two or more elements,
attended by only one of the elements,
cannot accomplish any effective work.
There can. of course, be no objection to
the Nashville gathering, political meet
ings at any and all times are desirable,
but the fact still remains that no set
tied policy can be agreed upon by this
conference.
But there is one remedy which the OBJ
stinacy of the national chairman cannot
overcome, and that is the voice of the
people themselves. When the primar-
les and conventions are held the people
can determine what the policy of the
party shall be and if each voter consti-
tutes himself a committee of one to dc
his own thinking and his own voting
there will be better work done and a
better policy outlined than any confer
ence can put into effect. In other
words the masses must take the re.
sponslbility upon themselves and the
professional politician and convention
packer should be relegated to the rear
|
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05
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chants of Plains, Ca. say of Chamber
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