Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-11-02
KANSAS is ALL RIGHT.

Iuii vote depends the success, OF the
fusion state ticket at the polls on the
Sth. If as many as 800, 900 ro;e.
are cast. Governor Leedy will be re-
elected by about the same plurality
given him two years ago. This is
Is $50 less than the total vote cas-,
for president in 1896, and, as 1t il
estimated the voting population has
increased 10 900, allows for tota
stay-at home vote in excess Of 25 900
For every vote under 800, 600 Govern.
or Leedy will lose two to Stanley's
one. This ia the confidential esti.
mate OF one OF the shrewdest pollti
clans In Kansas.
That unprecedented athy exist,
on both sides is freely admitted. Never
in the unique history of Kansas poll.
tics h,s so little interest been taLen
ID campaign. With q few excep
tons, the meetiDgs have been fizzles
w. Eugene Stanley and j. Ralph
Burton are in luck when they pej
half an audience, End while Govern.
or Leedy, Boy le, Harris, Botkin AID
other fusion speakers have been more
fortunate, yet, in point of at, end lance
ard enthusiasm, their rallies are not
what nigh. be expected for party
leaders IN the heat of a campaign
This indifference is puzzle to the
politicians. 1t is so deep seated that
it's scope can not be measured nor its
cause or effect estimated. The most
logical explanation is that the people
having feasted for eight months on
the sensational events that culmi.
mated in war, the progress of the wal
and its subsequent complications
they are reluctant to return to such a
prosaic diet as Kansas politics affords.
Having seen real soldiers marching
10 war, fambeau parades have no in
teles' fer them. Having been duped
by yellow" dispatches from Mole
St. Nicholas and Jamaica, they refnse
to be stempeded by such bald cim-
paign fakes as the We.more "expo-
sure" The voters are blase.
REPUBLICANS IN BAD SHAPE
In many quarters the seutimen.
prevails, although there is nol lhing
on the surface TO snbstabtiats it, th at
this is republican year. Careful
and conservative estimates by coun-
ties, congressional district aud from
every conceivable standpoint fail to
justify any such a conclusion. The
Republican party this year is abso
lutely without state issue. 1t is
twanging away desperately at hrrp
with only o,e string, and that string
Is the war with Spain, all issue not
even remotely connected with any
question involved in the election OF a
state ticket. On the subject of stock
yards, prohibition, insurance AMI
text books, the party orators and
organs are silent. On the contrary,
the Leeay administration has made
q record that would. under ordinary
circumstances, insure the election Of
the entire ticket by an over W he lining
majority. 1t has accomplished re-
suits. Every party pledge has been
kept. 1t whipped the stock yards in
the legislature and in the courts; tn,
Text Book trust has been defeated
after a hard fight; the arrogant in.
surance companies have been foI ced
to respect and obey the laws of Kan
sas; the opel alton of the onerous
metropolitan police law was sus.
pt nded; successful battles for equi.
table live stock rates and the enforce
ment of the scrip and screen Law
have been waged. II is safe to affirn
that for every voter who has deserted
the fusion ranks by reason of tb,
war recruit has been enlisted by
splendid achievements Of the present
state administration. Thus far hon
oTs are even.
DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE. NO FEAR.
1t is alieged by tie republican tha
the fusion compact this year bstwesn
the democrats and popuIists is half
hearted, and that the democrats, hav-
ing no lei resentation on the ticket
til ke no interest in its success and vii
stay away from the polls. Nothing
could be farther from the truth. The
democrats know that if the fuson ticket
is elected the IN ost desirable places With.
in ibe gift of the administration and
The legislature, including the Off e oi
state printer, are at their disposal
Secretary Pepperill of the Democratic
state committee who has been secre
tary for eight and member of the
committee for fit. en- years, declare.
that never before have the demo
Gratis been so united. Letters ani
reports from all sources are more en-
eouraging than at any time since b,