Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-05
BARNEY SHERIDAN MAKES A PLEA
FOR PURE DEMOCRACY.
BOURBON BLUNDERs.
WHY DEMOCRATS SHOULD NOT
TRAIN WITH POPULISTs.
Incidentally Mr.. Sheridan Rips an
Esteemed Contemporary Up the
Back for Accusing Him of
a Crime He Has
l., Confessed.

Topeka, Kas.. April 4.-(Special.) Barney
Sheridan. of the Paola Spirit. in taking up
the tight for a straight Democratic state
ticket in Kansas this year, occasionally
finds 1t necessary to do some skinning. His
latest job Is in dishing up the outfit that
runs the Paola Times, a Pop organ. Be-
cause Barney dared to advocate straight
Democracy, the Times called him a ''polit-
ical prostitute" Barney took exceptions to
this.
Il am a little grayer than I used to be-"
says he, but 1 can hit as hard as ever,
and my head is clearer. I never was licked
by one man at a time but once. and that
was when I was so full I took a redheaded
clerk for a locomotive headlight and tried
to get aboard. 81 the owners and editors
of the Times can each take day about off
from their jobs in the state house, the pen
itentiary, the asylum and in Paola, and
sail in. l will be on hand and help to give
the revival of hostilities an air of old time
religion For every attack there will be
return shots. scattering hair in the WIND,
from Garnet defalcations to the com
merce' of the board of pardons, from
Ypsilante to Yubadam.
"And as to the time-servers who publish
as political prostitutes the men who be-
lieve in and demand straight Democratic
tickets, 1 confidently look forward to the
day when they shall eat their own words'
though they BE as the carcass OF Jezepel'
dung upon the face of the field
Then Editor Sheridan gives some addl-
tional reasons why the Democrats should
do business on their own account this year
instead of in their wives names. .
1.-The Democratic party is against trusts,
says he, while the Populiss party Is IN
favor of pooling all trusts into one mighty
1880. 49, r,,,nfnina1 owner.
ship and operation of all public utilities.
Democracy stands for personal rights and
individual liberty as the ark of the covenant
Of a government by a free people, While
Populism stands for the surrender OF these
rights and liberties into the keeping of a
gigantic social federation Of all the re-
sources and powers of the people. one
would quarantine against and cure the dis
ease that incorporated wealth
Gates to our system of government, the
other would spread the disease to the end
that the present system should be destroyed
and a new system reared: Il system oesot-
ten of a new order of things under Wnlch
every individual becomes a ward OF the ma
tion-a government with at least Two mn
ions of office-holderS, supported Dy TAX
alton.
"Tten, there is another irreconcilable
difference between the Democrats ana fop-
ulists of Kansas as to personal and party
rights. Democrats deny the right or Pop-
ulists to demand that the Democratic party
shall help to elect a PopullSt state ticket
the third time when the Populist party has
not yet helped the Democratic party to
elect the Democratic state ticket the first
time.
II am sorry now that a straight Demo-
cratic ticket was not run in 1886 as In 1881.
1893. 1894 and 1895. Every time a man sub
mits to a thing against his conscience and
his judgment, he rues it ever afterwards.
IN an evil hour the Kansas Democracy
listened to the voice of 'eXpediency'. and
anything to heat the Republicans The
and we set up false gods and worshiped
them, till to-day We are weak when we
should be strong. Only time and right DO
ing will restore the Democrats to their in
heritance. Delays may interfere but the
time Is coming"