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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06
GREAT BEND KANSAS, FRIDAY OCTOBER

two years. Mr.. Brodie is cour-
teous and accommodating, has
friends and acquaintance in all
parts of the county who are out
spoken in their liking for the
man. Mr.. BrOdie came off the
farm in Beaver township to take
up his duties as a public servant,
and having the knack of adapta-
bility under all circumstances
which the Irish race is noted for
he fell into his duties like an old
hand at the business, and has
/ served you well.
For CORONER you will find DR..
G. I'll. Koch all right. He has
proven by his ten years residence
in the county in the practice of
medicine that he has all the quail
ifications necessary to enable
him to fill that office with Justice
to all. He is located at Hoising-
ton, in the center of the county,
and is easy to reach from any
locality.
FOR COMMISSIONER, the people
of the 1st commissioner district
have an ideal officer in Matt Dick.
He has served one term, and has
done it well. He is prominently
the kind of a man to look after
the public finances and improve
ments. Thorough in his exam
ination of every item of public
expenditure, let's no influence
swerve him from doing his duty
as he sees it. Matt Dick on the
board of county commissioners
for another three years will be
a guarantee of a thorough, bust
ness administration in county
affairs.
Reader, you cannot gainsay a
single thing we have herein stat
ed in behalf of the candidates on
the democrat and peoples party
tickets. You know them to be
the FACTS in such proportion as
you know the men and their acts.
Knowing these facts, it is your
duty to yourselves, your neigh
bors and friends, to speak a good
word in behalf of each and every
one of the candidates we have
named, and to give them consist
ent and loyal support on cleo
tiOn day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06
Are You a Hunter

Are You A Hunter?
BrlEg your game to US and get the
highest market price for same.
MCNOwN s. HAYES.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06
A False Accusation.

The Tribune OF last week in
trying to boost it's republican
candidates to office says of one
of them:
''He finds that the people are giving
more attention this year than in ordi-
nary off years to political issues. They
do not feel like voting for men who
would rather see the flag pulled down
at Manila than to see it float there in
triumph. This is the issue between the
two parties. and men who love their
country don't care to vote for men who
are rejoicing when the rebels kill our
soldiers. :"
In the above paragraph the
Tribune would have it's readers
believe that the candidates on
the democrat ticket "are reiOic-
ing when the rebels kill our sol
diers," and that they are unpat-
riotic. The editor knows better,
and you, reader, know better.
He knOws-and dare not deny it
that each and every one of the
democrat and populist candi-
dates are as patriotic, as honor
able, as loyal to the flag of our
country as any man in the land,
that they do NOT rejoice at see
ing our soldiers killed; do NOT
want to see the American flag
anywhere except in triumph; do
not permit any man to hold
more love of country, love OF
liberty, right and justice, than
they do. Knowing this as does
Judge Townsley, it is little, sniff
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

fling, contemplate and criminal
i'll him to try and make his read
ers believe otherwise. He would
not dare tell Messrs. Klein, Luce,
Brodie, Lutschg, Dick, or Koch
to their faces that they are what
he says they are in his paper; if
he did there would be a vacancy
In the Great Bend postofice and
another soul to shovel coal in
hades.
We had hoped that fowl char
ges and dishonest representa-
tions would be avoided in this
campaign, but it seems that the
old saying, that s'you can't teach
an old dog new tricks" is too
true, and that the Tribune edi-
tor and the republican candidate
he quotes, are determined to re-
sort to the old method of false
accusations, Misrepresentation
and unfair dealing.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

THE republicans always claim
the colored vote, solid, in this
county. They never give the
negro an office, seldom permit
him to get into their conventions,
but still brag that they get the
colored vote, and always will
Last week some of the ''strikers"
the fellows who make a buSi-
ness of starting and circulating
all sorts of reports that are in
tended to injure candidates of
the opposing parties-started
the report that d. G.. Luse, demo-
cratic candidate for sheriff, had
"gone on Granville Twins bond. :"
This they industriously circulat-
ed in German neighborhOOds,
and where they thought it would
prejudice voters against Mr..
Luse; forgetting the fact that
the bond in question would, and
does, show the statement to be
a lie out of whole cloth. They
forgot also Cor else did not care
for) the fact that in attaching
odium to such an act as going
upon the bond of a negro, they
were slurring every negro voter
in the land, by making it appear
that Mr.. Luse had done the
wrong thing by going security
for a cOlOred man. Irwin has
not been proven a criminal; Mr..
Luse did not go on his bond; the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

EDITOR O'BLENIss of the Claf-
lin Clarion ("Carrion" Joe Cooke
calls IT'D seems to have been Sc
lected by the republican man
ayers in this county to do the
dirty work of the campaign. He
never gets out an issue that does
not contain some slurring, un-
gentlemanly comment on the
democrat and pOpulist ticket or
the candidates thereon. Last
week he made a cowardly and
uncalled for attack upon Fred
Lutschg, candidate for county
clerk, in which he knowingly and
grossly misrepresented Mr..
Lutschg in the hope of prejudic-
ing the public against him. The
"Carrion'' distributor will learn,
possibly, that a decent political
opposition is more effective than
a campaign of misrepresentation
and abuse. The time has passed
in this county when voters will
be influenced by that old-time
method of somerepublican work
ers. The majority of men of all
parties desire to see fairness and
honesty in politics, and they will
not permit such little, swapping
and snarling attacks to swerve
them from their duty. Fred
Lutschg is far above his traduc-
er, n Intelligence, manliness and
integrity, and the people will un-
questionably rebuke the Clarion
editor at the polls.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06
GOOD, COMPETENT MEN.

Such me are the ones you,
reader, want to serve you in the
county Offices for the next two
years-or at any time for that
matter. And such men you will
find named on the democratic
ticket at the head of this column.
Most of the voters of this county
know them personally, and no
man knows a thing against any
one of them that would reflect
upon their honor, integrity or
ability to properly fill the offices
to which they aspire.
For COUNTY TREASURER, you
find an eminently well qualified
man in Henry j. Klein. You've
had abundant evidence to the
fact that he will make a careful
and courteous custodian of the
county tax rolls and funds, as he
has served the people of Barton
county as register of deeds in for
mer years. He is a good ac-
countant, being at present cash
ier of the First National bank, of
this city. He will always be
found at his post of duty, and
will take up the duties OF treas
urer where Mr.. BOsse will leave
off with a full understanding of
the responsibility and require
ments of the office. Mr.. Klein
speaks the German language as
fnently as the English, and in
this county where SO many of the
staunch farmers are German a
knowledge of that language is
almost a necessity in the county
treasurer's office, where all go to
do business several times each
year.
For SHERIFF., a Wide-awake,
fearless, quick and active man is
required. d. c.. Luse is such a
man. He has been a resident of
Barton county for many years,
and has a most thorough knowl-
edge OF every part of it, besides
an extensive acquaintance with
the people, their habits and sur
rOundings. Mr.. Luse, although
a democrat, has been hOnored by
being elected time and again by
the citizens of strongly repub-
lican ward in this republican city
as a member of the board of ed
ucation. This was because our
people know that whatever he
undertakes to do he DOES IT, and
does it for the best interests of
the people he serves. Mr.. Luse
was the democrat and peoples
party candidate for sheriff two
years ago, and came within but
a few votes of being elected Overa
man running for the second term.
For COUNTY CLERK, there is no
young man better qualified for
the position than Fred Lutschg.
He has a thorough education,
holding the highest grade certif-
cate as a school teacher, and is
a good penman and an accurate
m a b EN- atician-qualifications
that are very necessary in per-
forming the clerical duties of a
county clerk. Mr.. Lutschg is an
old resident of the county, and
has taught school in many dist
riots; he is a deep student; not
given to show or ostentation; is
a young man whom you like the
better the longer you know him.
He is a German scholar also, and
speaks that language fuentlyi
He is of Swiss parentage, and
possesses all the well known and
sturdy qualities of that race, be-
ing earnest, energetic and thor
ough in anything he undertakes.
For REGISTER OF DEEDS, Ell
mer S. Brodie is candidate for
election to the second term, and
having made a most excellent
officer for one term will be con
sidered as entitled to another
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

See my stock, hich contains all the
latest, neatest and up 20 date goods
for fall and winter suits. 1 know l
can please you,
J. q. REIN, Tailor.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

'THE verdict in November this
year has a direct and powerful
influence on the verdict next No
vember," says the Hoisington
Dispatch, republican. The Dis
patch is correct in that state
ment. And when the verdict is
given by the election of the en-
tire Democratic ticket we hope
the Dispatch will not crawfish
on the statement and say lit
was only a local affair" or ''the
county election had no bearings
on national issues" The yer
dict of Barton county voters will
be for all that our flag stands
for-Gberty, and equality before
man and God, and freedom of
political and religious thought
and action wherever it may
wave. We cannot conceive that
the people of Barton county will
give a verdict in favor of that
imperialism, contraction of cur
rency, perpetuation of trusts, de-
basing OF labor and centraliza-
tion of power which the success
OF the republican party would
imply. We do not fear the ver-
dict.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

JERRY SIMPSON was invited to
speak before a gathering of al
most exclusively republicans,
down at Wichita recently. Jerr y
used some plain language in de
nouncing the policy of the pres
ent republican administration,
and the republican crowd got
mad when it heard the truth; not
only got mad, but got ungentle-
manly and hOoted at the speak
er. Jerry let them boot a while,
then proceeded with his speech.
The occasion is made a great
deal of by the republican papers;
facts remain that Jerry was ad-
dressing a republican crowd and
it. did not want to hear its ad-
ministration shown up in the
plain blunt manner that Jerry is
noted for.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

statements peddled out by the
petty ''heelers" are without an
lota of foundation, and we be-
lieve will react with telling effect
upon the fellows who circulated
them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

"ANARCHrsT" Clemens, of Tope-
ka, is going back to the republi-
cans. With PETER, Mrs. Lease
and Clemens out of the pOpulist
party and safe on Cy Leland S
bosom, the populists of Kansas
will have a much better name.
The aXniety of those people to
become republicans reminds OF a
measly cur dog who has been un-
mercifully licked by his master
for straying away, and whines
and grOvels at that masters feet
in abiect terror. The republican
press has lambasted those three
people most vigorously, doubt
less knowing then, as we do now,
that they were republicans at
heart and would come back if
sufficiently abused, as they now
are doing.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.

For County Treasurer,
HENRY ]. KLEIN.
For Sheriff,
D. G. LUSE.
For County Clerk,
FRED M. LUTSCHG.
For Register of Deeds,
ELMER s. BRODlE.
For Coroner,
DR.. G. L. KOCH.
For Commissioner 1st District.
MATT DICK.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

''WHo talks politics?" asks the
Register. Certainly not the Reg
lister. 1t talks balderdash. If it
talked ''politics" it would be such
a surprise to its readers that
they might be induced to come
to the papers relief and help
protect it from being "swiped'
by its ''old friends of % years
standing y
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-10-06

ONE year ago 10 bushels of
corn would buy 100 pounds of
barbed wire. Today it will take
y bushels to buy that amount
OF wire. One year ago 10 bushels
OF corn would buy a keg of nails;
today it will require 20 bushels.
Wire year ago was s.. %; now
$3.50; nails have doubled in
price; lumber has gone "out OF
sight, farm implements are
away up. Has the price of your
wheat, corn, cattle, hogs, or any
other product doubled in the last
year OF Mckinley prosperity"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31

o ationalized the railways. Austria
liza has patlonalized her railways. It
ally has nationalizsd her railways.
france has nationalixed her system
OF railways. And all the world over
that same prin ciple 10 going on, and
the people Of those countries would
not hear for q moment of the de-nA
Naturalization Of those railways and
turning them over to the control OF
companies.
Mr.. Mclean then dwslt at some
length upon the tendency of corpora
tons generally to usurp power and
pointed to their success IN this diree-
;isn IN he United States, saying the
Government. should endeavor to pr
vent monopolies getting such control
of Canada.
II We are to learn anything from
history he continued is that we ough,
to avoid creating these great monop'
oliss and giving these immense fran
chises to them, and we ought to keep
them for the people alone.
The people of the United States
are simply overburdened by the su-
premacy of the great corporations
there. They do not know how Il
get rid of them. They control tht
Legislatures, they control the grea
m j ,rity Of the press. They art
bound up together. They have or
gained great trusts and they ar
simply bleeding the people white
The same thing will happen in thi
country if we do not check it in time
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31
To CurtaiI the Peoples Power.

The worst evil that could come to
this state would be that one politi-
cal party, under the control of
clique Of INSCRIPTIONS and ambi-
tious politicians, should gain supre-
macy over it, with the power to
make their supremacy ornament"
The danger of this evil is the issue
of the coming campaign. People
must reserve the power to punish
unfaithful servants in public office.
They cannot do that if these servants
are bench men of q political gang
that is stronger than the people
The election law passed by the last
Legislature, especially in order to
force the sta.e to swallow the dis
franchising constitutional amend
ment, and which itso.f will be an inn
portaDt issue IL the campaingn, is q
measure that no honest political
party, with faith in the peopl.-the
white people, if you please, for they
have IN ajority ID this state of q
hundr: thousand votes over TIL ne
groes-would think of passing. But
it was not the Democratic party that
concOcted the election law nor
the Constitutional Amendment
it was the democratic managers
OF the last campaign in this state, a
band of politicians that aim to make
their snpremacy-"white" supre-
macy, they call it-permanent, so
that no effort Of the people at the
ballot box can disloge them.-Ashe-
vile Gazette( Dem
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31
500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
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been able to cure in ali its stages and
that iSCatarrh. Halls Catarrt Cure
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surfaces OF the system, thereby de-
storyiDg the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patient strength By
building up the constitution aud as
sisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietOrs have 80 much faith in its
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monials.
Address +. J. CHENNEY, Toledo, O
Sold by druggists. 75c.
Halls Pills are the best.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31
mn, y,sr OF MACHINE DE oCRACY'

Because the Asheville Gazette,
Democratic paper, has dared to OPP
nose and denounee the infamous
Simmons bull pen election law, the
News aud Observer and other bull
pen organs have tried to read the
Gazette out OF the party. The Omar
lotte Observer is a pronounced gold
paper, and bitter opponent OF Dry
an, yet the News and Observer mas
never tried to read that paper out OF
the party. II did not do it in $780,
when the Charlotte Observer was
caught in conspiracy 10 try to de-
feat Bryan and turn the State over
to Mckinley, while pretending 10
support Bryan. Is it possible that
stealing votes and stufhng oalio'
boxes is to DO the test OF Democracy
II will be as truly as Simmons and
his machine run il.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31
ts,T A QUESTION or COLOR

The strongest point which the pro
motors of the Constitutional Amend
ment have been making is the claim
that the amendment if ratified Will
not disfranchise a single white map;
hut that il will disfranchlse the ne
proes. AS this is the impression
thew are anxious to become fixed In
the public mind, they should lose no
time in calling in some OF their
writers and speakers who try to up
hold the fairness of the amendment
nv declaring that there is nothing
discriminative about 1t as FAR as
color is concerned Mr.. f. W. Pou,
for instance, in a speech recently
delivered at Constitutional
amendment gathering" is reported
in the press to have said.
Ii does not discriminate against
Grace, color, or previous condition
of servitude." Ii does discriminate
against incompetency, upftness and
Ipexpefience in public affairs. Many
of the Northern States have discrl-
minated against those very things.
Such laws hive been held constl-
rational ther,s why not heref
Then acgSrdiug to Mr.. Pou the
Democracy who framed and are
urging The amendment do not object
to the color If the voter, they SIMPLY
object to "incompeteney unhtnes'
and inexperienco in public AFFAIRS
And when We consider that after
1908 the amendment tests apply tt
white as well as black it would bt
interesting Just at this time to know
by what standard Mr.. Pou and the
other Democratic politicians woult
Judge competency fitness and ex
perience. II as Mr.. Pou says they
do not object to color. we do no
think we misjudge them when w
says that in their opinion the towr
darkey who has a little education
and would vote the Democratic tickle
would be considered less inexperi
eneed and more competent TO cast |
ballot than the white man who pre-
ferred to vote some other ticket.
Is this what MIR. Pou meansP
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31
Rather n Good X IKE on.

Mr.. p. J. Moran, in an article in the
Atlanta Constitution, says: "As an
Illustration of the manner in which
the farmers of the country have lost
heretofore, it is only necessary to re-
peat statement recently made by
Mr.. Hester, eff New Orleans, that out
of an annual cotton receipt of one mil
lion three hundred th0usanu bales in
that city over 81 thousand bales
were made up out Of samples which
had been ruGhlessly plucked from the
bales by the men who handled them
which should have gone into the
parishes of Louisiana" Not the least
merit of the American Cotton Com
pany's Roundup bale is that besides
it's other economies it prevents this
unjust tribute from being levied on
the farmer.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31

Story Of a Slave.

To be bound hand anu .oot for years
by the chains of disease is rte worst
form of slavery George y. Williams.
of Manchester. Mich, tells how such a
slave was made free. He saws: MY
wife has been SO bel iless for five years
that she could not turn over in bed
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This supreme remedy for female dis
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ancholy, headache, backaohe, fainting
and dizzy spells. This miracle work
ing medicine is godsend 60 sickly,
weakly, udown people. Every bot
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by all druggists.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31
A DANGEROUS ELECTION LAW.

We do not believe that if the Dem
ocratic machine knew the amend
ment would take the ''niggger" out
of politics, it would favor it, or
would vote it. Let it be as it may,
the only hope for the machine, is in
the Bull pen election law. There is
more danger in the whites havir 2
their rights taken from them by the
election law, than can possibly be-
fall thu "nigger" or any other party
by the passing of the amendment.
Take the "nigger" out Of politics,
and give the white man free, fair
chance at the ballot box. and North
Carolina is anti D -mocratlc. We
do not believe honest people will
endorse the acts of that machine, if
you could remove the Trigger" and
they could for once be governed by
reason and the principles of Chris
tianity. Let every white man de-
clare in his heart political and re-
ligious liberty. This is a sound and
divine platform and one for which
any man could declines Mercury.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31
Remark BILE r seue.

Mrs. Michael Curfsin, Piainfield, Ill.
m axes the statement, that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she
was treated. for a month by her family
physician, but grew worse. He told
her she was hopeless victim of con-
sumption and that no. medicine could
cure her. Her druggist suggested DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton she bought bottle and TO Der
delight found herself benefited from
first dose. She continued its use and
after taking six bottles, found herself
sound and we'll; now does her own
Homework, and is as we'll as she ever
was-Free trial bottles of this Great
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cents and $l.OO. Every Sottle guaran-
teed.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-31

To Control All Americs.. Factories
C.pital, 15O.OOO,OO0.
FALL RIVER, Mass Au gust %.
Nelson Green is here today, re-
presenting syndicate of New
Workers, who seek control OF all
the cotton-mills OF the country,
on capitalization OF $3.50, 000,OOO
Bankers who were in session here
this morning with Mr.. Green were
told that local banking interest
would not suffer by a trust such az
he prosposed, for local management
and local banking would be part Of
the plan.