Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-08-31


factors which affect most largely the
prosperity of the country, than in any
decade since
The cost of government has largely
increased under republican rule The
expenditures per capita for the last year
respectively of the administrations
given, taken from the reports of the sec
rotary of the trasury, are as follows:
In 1860. under Buchanan. S2Ol
In 1893 under Harrison $577
In 1897 under Cleveland So. To-
In 1901 under Mckinley $685.
In 1904, under Roosevelt $40
''The republicans now claim great con-
sistency in their attitude upon the cur
rency question and the president in his
recent speech of acceptance said that
they know what they mean when they
speak of stable currency, the same
thing from year to year. and yet in the
platforms of their party in 1884 1888 and
1892 they favored the double standard
of value. In the platform of 1888 they
said the republican party is in favor Of
the use of both gold and silver as money
and condemns the policy of the demo-
NAoI1C dIIOH LII us S1IOI Is "
demonetize silver
Some Bouquets for Parker.
Il congratulate your committee and
the constituency it represents in the
selection by the delegates to the national
convention of the nominee for the presi-
dency. He is man of courage yet pru-
dent; of high ideals, yet without pre-
tense; of the most wholesome respect
for the constitution and the majesty of
the laws under it and sacred regard for
their limitations; of the keenest sense
of justice. which would rebel against
compromising wrong to an individual
or to a nation: positive in conviction,
yet of few words; strong in mental and
moral attributes and yet withaI model:
possessed of a sturdy constitution and
magnificent manhood and yet temperate
in his actions and dignifed in his de-
meanor
ct is not the orator or man of letters
but the man of reserve force, of sound
Judgment. of conservative method and
steadiness of purpose, whom the people
have called to the Office of the presi-
dency, notably in the contests between
Jefferson and Burr. Jackson ard Clay
Lincoln and Douglas, Grant and Greeley!
Cleveland and Blaine.
Dire predictions were made by our
political opponents of what would hap
pen at the ST. Louis convention but they
misudged the temper of the party and
the people. While there had been differ
ences in preceding campaigns. at st.
Louis they were all harmoniZed and a
common ground was found upon which
all could stand and do battle for demo-
cratic principles. A platform was adopt
ed by unaniomus vote. embracing the
issues of the day and presenting to the
people declaration of principles which
in the language of the times is sane safe
and sound.
Sees Chance of Victory.
with candidate whose personality
appeals to the good sense and sound
judgment of the American people. plat
form whose principles are for the great
est good to the greatest number and a
reunited party earnest for the restora-
ton of good and economical government
we should succeed. and the principles of
democracy again triumph.
II beg my countrymen as they value
their liberty to guard with great care
the sacred right of local self-govern-
ment and to watch with a jealous eye the
tendency of the times to centralize power
in the hands of the few
'Mr. Chairman. it is an added pleasure
to receive this notification at your hands.
You have been conservative and cour-
ageous as leader of our party in the
house of representatives. a position
which few men have filed with the
signal ability that you have displayed.
ut will be my pleasure and duty at a
time not far hence to accept more for
mally in writing the nomination which
you have rendered in such graceful and
complimentary terms and to give my
views upon some of the important uues-
tions now commanding the attention az
. the country.'