Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-12
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by Writer"
Any we'll bred man never speaks Of
his dough.
Foolish is the boy who strikes fol
higher wages and hires elsewhere.
Well! Who received the benift of
free marriage license at the Fair?
Zine place down there" said the
boy to the chimney-sweep. Eyes,
he said as be came up, cit scots
every body"
Girls, when he begins to come in
at the back door, stand around in the
kitchen and be troublesome, measure
him for the harness.
Mebby the big prices for wheat just
afore election might make Mack and
Ted think they were goin to ''get
there" But Suckers don't always
bite.
Wheat drilling is almost finished
in this locality; the fields are in good
condition, and if this favorble season
which prevails now, combined with
the large acreage, the prospects are
there may be another large crop IN
1901.
We are all sincerely thankful to
know that the short combat between
diptheria and medical science is ended
and the latter has triumphed. But
still there has been several deaths in
the neigh borhood. Diptheria is q
contagious and deadly disease; It's
symptom being so very deceilful tina,
the people are not seriously alarmed ,
consequently the case is errevocably
gone before medical aid is summoned.
For this reason too it is attributed
the cause of so many deaths.
Election day! It will soon be
here-2S days after this date and 9
short suspense and we will know who
the people have chosen to guide the
nation. With all the agitating issues
have not aroused great deal of ex
element. The two chief contestants
are the same men who scrapped in
'96. The republican party met early
in the season and renominated the
president, insisted that he should be
the man that should stand at the
helm. The democrats renamed their
old hero OF 90, the idol of the hour
and again the courageous Nebraskan
will stem the stormy political current
toward the presidential chair, con
deming the formation of trusts, de
ploring expansion aud Imperialism
denouncing militarism; and these
with. IA issues have Ger and o'el
again been paraded to the view 6
the nation. Mr.. Bryan has don.
we'll to exhibit his ability as an orator
and he should receive no censure fol-
this work He has indeed attained ,
far famed reputation as an orator
But to persuade the multitude o
$4,000, 900 or 1000. 900 voters t.
turn their train of thought int.
another channel really ought to be &
difficult matter The people of t.,
United States are intelligent; they
read all kinds of m ndern literature
newspapers and books and the ma
TONS history is not obscure. Th,
political history of the nation ha
been preserved; crowns and crosses o
fortune are indelibly stamped upol
the pages OF that history; everyda,
has its night, every rose has its thorn
and glad are we to say every eros
has it's crown. This ia believed to b,
characteristic of life. The peopl
. know that if Mr.. Mckinley is relec
ed he will never be an emperor no
this couatry an empire, they know
, Mr.. Bryan will be elected that it vii
: NOT be a death knell to the welfare g
the nation. To say that present ap
t parent prosperity is due to the pres
/ ent administration is absured; {
brand them with the responsibilit
for all evils this nation has falle
heir to is equivalent to the policy {
an ANARCHIST. This is ''a governmer
!, of the people by the people, for tb
people" and when great question
left to the decision of people the
, alone should solve it. Ard they viii