Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-05
Political Aftermath.

Kansas City Times.
The New York Freeman's Journal,
the opinions of the eastern
and southern press on the relult of
the national election, says:
"We may be mistaken in our COLI
clusicns from the result and We
sincerely hope that time will prove
that we are-but we believe that the
American people have, Intentionally
or unintentiopally, made a new and
radical departure from the doctrines
on which this republic was founded
and from the traditions that have
been heretofore held as sacred. The
principle enunciated in the Declara-
ton of Independence, and of which
the flag has heretofore been the SYM
bol, that the just powers of govern
ment derive from the consent of the
governed,.has been repudiated. The
principle on which the founders of
the republic justified their revolt
against the sovereignty of England
has been condemned. Imperialism
has been indorsed. AS certain
as the tides will continue to ebb and
flow, or time continue to count the
days, the strong enough man will
come The acknowledgment will
hasten his coming, inspire his ambi-
ton and be his justification. Angus
tus Caesar had not more favorable
popular acknowledgment when he
began to make the funeral arrange
ments for the Roman republic"
In view of the attitude of political
Pecksniffs now cavorting upon the
public stage and masquerading as
would be savlors of the democratic
party, these noble sentiments are re-
assuring. Loyalty to principle re-
gardless of punishment or reward ls
not dead in the hearts of the men
who voted as they believed and are
now-in the face of overwhelming
odds-vehemently reasserting, under
the cloud of temporary defeat, the
truths that make political defeat
holy.
The Times stated, long before the
election, that Carter was a sacrifice
on the altar of republican politics
and that his release would follow the
election, no matter how it went
We claimed the Infamous ship sub
sidy bill would be shaken in the faces
of the people after. elaetion; that the
armor plate contracts would be let al
an enormous advance on the real
value of the article; that the Hay
Pauncefote rider would be kept on
the Nicaragua canal measure in or
der to defeat that measure in the in
terest of the railroads; that political
and military and naval place would
be made for horde of administration
tools; that the trusts would be more
in evidence than ever; that imperial
ism was unconstitutional, and that
the reelection cf Mckinley would be
the condemnation of the principle fol
which our forefathers
Fired the shot heard round the world. :"
All of these things were probable
then and are true now. Shall we
join the ignoble crew who deserted
the party in its hour of need and over
its defeat erect alse gods and bow tc
them? Not while the sense of man.
hood is dear to a true democrat car
such thing he. Defeated by the
volatile thing, the whim of a great
people, we have faith to believe thai
reaction will set in, in view of the
truth of these wrongs we have cited
and that the full enormity of the
political crimes Of the republican
party will, by degrees, be apparent
to the people, and that then "the
strong enough man will ,me," the
Washington of the twentieth century
and though We are doomed by popu
lar vote to linger four years longer
in the grasp of set of political free
hooters, the deferred hope will render
realization sweeter when greed sur.
renders to principle, and real free.
dom assumes peaceful sway in the
land.
For right Is right, since God is God
And right the dav must win.''