The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-11-16
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

LILO Low uso0eSOAAAOAAS "a sAAO $1,000
dard, a weekly newspaper published
in Leoti, Kas., has had heart-to-
heart talk with its subscribers, in
which it confesses that, prior to the
change of ownership in the property
last January, the present editor was
a Populist. This confession seems to
have besn necessary by the recent
editorial attitude of the Standard to
the paramount issues of the hour.
After asking the question "Why
did We change our views?" the Stand
ard proceeds to make a reply which
should be circulated in leafet form
throughout the length and breadth of
the fertile but erratic State in which
Populism had it's birth and attained
its highest stage Of development.
eve could see," says the article,
"just as every other Populist can if
he chooses, that to remain in the
Populist party simply means to be
plunged headlong into Democracy,
that we must oppose the present war
simply because the Republicans are
in power, that we must look upon
Aguinaldo as a great patriot like
Washington, that taking country
out from the expressing and tyranni-
cal hand of the cruel government of
Spain and making it a part of the
best government on earth was imperi-
alism, that the protection of Ameri-
can industries and American labor
was failure, and that times are now
worse than when we were under
Democratic rule"
These were conditions under which
the new and enlightened manage
ment of the Standard could not con-
tinue to ally itself with Populism.
"True enough" it remarks, "some
mistake may have been made in the
carrying on of the war. but where is
the man OF party that could have an
initiated a powerful navy with less
loss of life and property than was
done?" And then, with an appreci-
alton of the responsibility which
every right-minded newspaper man.
agement must be prepared to assume,
the Standard adds: "This years
election will affect to a certain extent
the great campaign of next year.
We deem it foolish flor any young
man to oppose policy that will open
up new resources, new opportunities,
and widen the fields of labor"
From this and similar indications
we feel justified in making the pre-
diction that Populism is losing its
hold upon the thoughtful newspaper
editors of Kansas, and that there is
about to be revulsion of public sen
timsnt throughout the State which
will place it once more in the Repub-
lican pyramid. The Kansas farmer
is only beginning to realize that the
expansion policy, for which the Re-
publican party is responsible, is max
lag market for his products which
enables him to do large amount of
expanding on lis own account. It is
becoming difficult to convince him
that party which has within two
years made it possible for him and
his neighbors to lift their mortgages,
buy the best agricultural machinery,
build new houses, furnish them COM
fortably, and made them Independent
of the Eastern money power to such
degree that they are able to offer
financial assistance to Wall Street,
can be as bad as the Populistic calam-
ity shouters are trying to paint it.
For these reasons We do not doubt
that the Leoti Standard will soon
be only one of many newspapers in
the erstwhile bleeding. but now
blooming, State of Kansas which will
have discovered that it can increase
its subscription list by abandoning
Populistic heresies and returning to
the true faith.