Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-12-28
Kansas Editors Opinion Of H AN

One JnlIP InaO partially recOnclles
us to Mr.. Stanley's election is that
we are in fair way to learn how he
stands on the liquor question.
Minneapolis Better Way (Pop.)
Mr.. Stanley says he is willing to learn
from his fusion friends. One thing
he has already learned is not to
monkey with the laws passed by
them.
Junction City Sentinel (Pop): The
people can say we turned q clean,
able, faithful set Of officers out of the
State House, anyway. That is more
than the opposition can say at all
times.
Nebraska Independent (Pop.); For
the last thirty years the Republican
party has been telling US that we had
the best banking law the world ever
saw. Now they say it is no good and
that we must have another ard en-.
tirely different one. Which time did
they lie, or did they lie both times9
Minneapolis Better Way Pop. J:
The assertion of Mr.. Stanley that
none but men OF exceptional moral
qualifications will be appointed to
office sounds very well, until he
coupled on the statement that Mort
Albaugh can have anything he wants.
Wichita Beacon Dem.): The is
suance Of postal checks payable to
bearer Will add to the currency OF the
country, 1t will also enable people
to remit money by mail. At present
currency is so easily detected in a
letter by experts that little is risked
without registration.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.): The
Lord onl y knows whittier We are drift
ing as nation. The sugar trust and
oil trust, damnable as they are, are
bereficent measures compared with
the money trust which President Nc
Kinley asks Congress to create.
Winfield Free Press (Pop): Repub-
lican newspapers are unanimous in
the opinion that the Populist party
ought to disband. That is one very
good reason why it ought not to. A
political enemy never gives honest
advice.
I Wichita Beacon Oem.): Abolish
ing offices before election is easy, but
when Mr.. Stanley comprehends the
poverty of Offices at his disposal, and
counts the army Of applicants, he
will find that it requires backbone to
reduce patronage. 1t is said that
backbone is not abundant at the next
Governor s office.
Parsons Eclipse: The people OF
Kansas will probably have an oppor-
tunity to compare the work of Webb
McNall with that Of some represen-
tative OF an insurance company which
has time and again robbed the peo-
pie OF Kansas, who will be appointed
insurance commissioner, to look after
the welfare of the insurance COM
panies and not that of the people.
Burlington Courier (Pop.): The
fellows who so industriously poked
fun at Governor Leedy's north and
south railroad might turn their at
tention to Longstreet's double track
air line road from Kansas City to the
Pacific coast, to be built by the
national government. Such propo-
sition coming from Republican Off
cial is not to be ignored or ridiculed.
Lebanon Journal (Pop.): Accord
ing to the best Republican statistics
obtainable just now, the people in
the form of tho Peoples party have
died just eight times since 1889. The
man that talks that annual nonsense
should get him parrot and learn it
to repeat; and if he is real busy he
might just as we'll have the parrot do
his voting.
Leavenworth Labor Chronicle (non-
partisan): The Kansas City stock
yards company will do business again
in Kansas. They have leased ten
acres of gcound from the Union Pa
cific railway and will build yards
upon it, and the Republicans claim
that this shows that the company
has gained confidence since the elec-
tion of Stanley, or to put it in plain,
English, the company believes that
the election of Stanley makes it safe
for them to again rob the farmers
and stockmen by charging exorbitaEt
prices for feeding and yarding cattle.
Emporia Times (Pop.): Il would
rum" was Webb McNall g laconic re-
ply when asked If he would accept
the nomination of the allied silver
forces for Governor in 1900. He has
fought good fight and merits the
confidence and esteem Of the people,
There is much of the rough rider