Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-06-27
THE FALSE AND THE TRUE.

THE FALSE AND THE TRUE.
The Populist state committee has is
sued the following address:
The Republican party of this state
will make its campaign this year on
the tissues" of prosperity and Pa
triotism." They are claiming credit
for the sunshine and the rain, the
great wheat harvest and the corn
prospect, the famines and the wars
abroad, the treasures in the earth, the
salt in the sea and the fish that dwell
in the waters thereof. The breeZes
blow only by their sufferance, land even
the corn is compelled to hustle in or
der to grow without their benediction.
The flag of our country has been pre-
empted by our spell-binders, and the
eagle scream has been drowned in the
wild clamor and shouts for the offices
and the appropriations. Theirs is
the only true brand of patriotism; all
others are base limitations.
Mare Mannah, the administration
Poo Bah, holds the great American
eagle by the throat, throttling her pro-
tests, while an army of small-bore
politicians pluck from her rarest feath-
ers to plume their dung-hill cackler,
and try again to make it pass current
as the Bird of Freedom.
The fusion forces of Kansas have
this to say regarding all this hoi-pol-
loi of political rot; that there is a
wide difference between the Great
Rainmaker and the Republican party;
that the country will take notice that
it was a good antitrust Drawn that
sowed the wheat and planted the corn
in the broad acres of the state and
good oldfashioned free silver brains
are going to see that the crop margins
go into the pockets of the producer
Descendants of the Irish patriots,
brothers of the Russia-ridden Swede
and cousins of Dom Paul Kruger are
thick in Kansas and they will be heard
from in November, speaking with the
ballot their condemnation of the for
eign policy of the administration.
The allied forces of Kansas yield to
none in their love of home and coun-
try. The old flag and all it stands for
are first in their hearts, and in the
future as in the past, they will be found
fighting where the cause of liberty
grows weak and strong arm is need
ed to hold high the banner of freedom
They have ever shown the truest pa
triotism, the highest self-sacrifice.
1t has recently appeared that the Re-
publican campaign of rant and subter-
fuge would be inaugurated on the 4th
of July, and it was their intention to
try to work into the celebrations OF
that day the idea that patriotism con
sists in supporting the administration
thus confounding the administration
of our government with the govern
ment itself. They expect to work the
lingo" program thus inaugurated
drought the campaign.
In order to counteract and combat
this scheme to monopolize the patriot
ism of our nation as they have ouI
Industries, your state committee calls
upon you to take your proper place il
the lead of all patriotic demonstration:
on Independence day. On that day
thousands of people will attend the
national Democratic convention ~
Kansas City: Let those who can no
go, see that the huZzahs which gree
the nomination of our matchless lead
er, William Jennings Bryan,ar echoed
in every corner of the state from tn,
lips of our people. Let each one dc
his best to make the day, not one o
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true patriotism when we may brusl
up the banners of '76, thick with tn,
dust of plutocratic rule and carry then
once more with the spirit of the ole
days, when country was more to ever,
one than gold and the flag meant lib
erty and life to every creature tina
sought shelter beneath it's folds.
Let us, who still cling to the tradi
tons of our fathers, who still thinl
that the flag means more than goot
chance to rob, take our proper place
in the observance of the day, the tru
meaning of which seems to be gettin:
so misty to the Republican party. LIE
there be no mistake in our position, 81
that the thinking, patriotic people o
our state will next November bury un
der an avalanche of ballots the hypo
critical administration which has vic
lated every sacred tenet of our repuh
lie and so utterly betrayed the trus
of the American people. Z
JOHN II. CURBAN, Secretary.
TAYLOR RIDDLE, Chairman.