Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-05-26
IN UNION Tp. ERE Is sTRF aGTH.


cratic and populist committees have
I got together and united the two party
organ anizations in one, the new demo
cracy. That should be done in Barton
county and every other county in the
State. BARTON COUNTY DEMOCRAT.
This endorsement of the democratic
and populist committees of Franklin
county by the able and experienced
editor of the BARTON COUNTY DEMO
Graf, is fully favored by Us. There
is no question but what the populist
and democratic county committees
not only of Reno county but every
county throughout the Saventh con-
gressional district and as suggested by
our Barton county contemporary that
every county throughout the State at
large would do we'll to follow the ex-
ample of the committees of Franklin
county. We have before US in the
presidential and congressional CAM
paign, economic questions of such
grave importance affecting the veal
| or woe of the great masses of our
entire citizenship that makes it abso.
lutely necessary for the reform forces
to unite their voting strength u nder
one banner at the ballot box. 1t is
practically universally conceded by
the reform forces that whatever is
done to perpstuate the great principles
of justice and lit arty upon which our
government is founded, whatever ls
done to strengthen our American
institutions and whatever is done IN
the enactment and execution of just
and wholesome laws for the benefit of
all the people must be done in a
national way through the democratic
praty. "In union there is strength, p"
in fusion of forces practical ex'
perience in Kansas politics teaches US
that selfishness and petty discord
coming here and there to the surface
in campign work frequently neutralize
and render ineffective the good work
and best efforts of both the democratic
and populist parties. The name s'new
democracy, and adopted by the
Franklin county committees is happy
| solution of the problem where we can
under the direction of one political
orgization make an aggressive and sue
| cessful fight against the republican
party. The new democracy sim ply
means complete endorsement of the
national democratic platform adopted
in Chicago in 1896. The name and
the platform is one upon which every
true reformer, be he popullst or
democrat, can conscientiouslV stand.
1t means determined and aggressive
fight against monopolies and trusts;
it means determined opposition to
the gold standard; it means the elec-
ton of the president and United
States senator's by the direct vote of
!
the people; and it means the passage
of nationa initiative and referedum
law, if we by our ballots place this
new and regenerated democracy in
power in 1900.
Therefore We favor and advise one
political organization to make the
fight in Kansas in this next campign
under the banner of new democracy.
Let the people, let the press and let
the leaders of the democratic, populist
and silver republican parties as now
organized get together in their county,
congressional and state conventions,
and by making just, fair and reason
able concessions, transform the system
of fusion into unit of our political
organization to do battle against re-
publicanism and all the vicious
Legislation In the interest of con-
centrated wealth to which the re-
publican party under the direction OF
Hanna and Leland stand pledged
This action on the part of the fusion
forces will make victory doubly
assured. -Hutchison Democrat.