Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-31

IGNORANCE is Plutocracy's most effective weapon
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| KEEP it before the people that Uncle Sam has no
more use for gold reserve than he has for diamond
reserve. -
THE road to hell is lined with the prayers of those
who vote different from the way they pray.-W. S.
Morgan.
| w. EUGENE STANLEY, the republican candidate for
governor, says that Chester Long not be elect
ed to congress. f ~
ONLY one insurance company is bucking McNall to
date. And that is tenderfoot that will learn
thing or two before it goes very far
JOHN J. INGALLS, who said the Golden Rule and the
Decalogue have no place in political campaign is
going to take the stump for Stanley
STIR up nest of hornets with long stick and
keep away respectable distance and they will sting
each other. That's just the way the corporations
handle big per cent of the people these days
If an individual should borrow money while he has
plenty to carry business you would think him fool
ish, would you not? Yet the administration is doing
that thing public servants of the government
and you foolish enough to call it craftsmanship.
The Free Silver republicans of Utah have endorsed
free silver, protection, reciprocity and Mckinley.
That's big dose to take. But then. republican can
publican politicians is to manufacture Inconsistencies
Gov. LEEDY and Webb McNall will address a big
meeting at Pratt tomorrow, Sept. lst Those who
hear them will not regret it, These two men have
demonstrated to the corporations that they must obey
the laws of the state strictly must the most
BILE citizen
i HE republican papers and Preston B. Gillett are
disappearing when they say that Gett has never
before been candidate. Gillett was candidate for
judge of district that had been abolished by the leg
isature and he served like the bull that tried to
buck the locomotive off the track.
| No who values free government will take any
stock in the late Anglo Saxon English American ALI
ance fad. 1t required money and blood to free the
colonies from English tyranny and patriotic we'll
Informed American will consent to surrender our in
dependence in this day and age Of the world.
CONGRESS did not intend that the war revenue meas
ure should apply to corporations. And it seems that
the corporations we'll understood this judging from
the regularity with which they saddle their part of
the tax on the people who compelled to patronize
them. But just the the republican party is 60
ing to stand up for the corporations
i The railroads in Kansas have taken on good deal
OF sense. Their heads of departments in Kansas have
been given instructions to treat all campaign commit
tees with absolute impartaltyThe railroads have dis
covered that the Populist party safe" and have
quit embarrassing the republican party with their
over'anxious embarrassing support-Wichita Eagle
! REPUBLICAN papers dare not discuss direct legsla
ton and the iniative and referendum. Half of them
too ignorant to understand the full meaning of the
terms and the other half know that full and honest
discussion would convert great per cent of the be-
nighted members of their party who have become so
prejudced against reform literature that they will
not accept the light
The republicans and democrats of Woods county
fused on a county ticket even after the Populists
nominated Judge Keaton, democrat for delegate to
congress. The democrats given treasurer coun-
ty attorney, surveyor and commissioner The
republicans take representative sheriff clerk register
of deeds probate judge, superintendent public weigh
er coroner and two commissioners The terms of the
agreement that the democrats must support
county ticket 1t is hardly to be supposed that the
rngsers who fixed up the deal will be able to deliver
the goods but it shows how dishonest and unprinc
pied those leaders Instances like this one dis