Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-10-05
PRINCIPLES,
NOT PARTY.
8arrls' Appeal To Thomas County
Voters.
REMARKS ON PARTISANSHIP,

Colonel Harris has continued to have
exceptionally good meetings. Out in
Thomas county he spoke at Colby
last Thursday and one third Of the
voters in the county left their farm
work to come and hear him His
address on this occasion was along
the line of partisanship, and we quote
the following:
Ignorance is the mother CT bigotry
in both politics and religion. In.
telligence necessarily tends to liberty,
and the discrimination between good
and bad Of political parties or creeds.
This is an age of enlightenment.
Newspapers, books and the rapid
dissemination of intelligence never
had such marked effect upon pub
lie sentiment in every direction. The
increase of liberal thought is manifest
on every hand. Nations no longer
regard each other as common enc
mics. Men worthy to be called
statesmen in all political parties are
found more and more on a common
ground for patriotic effort.
In the church, denominations are
rapidly conveying to the great Gen.
trail thoughts common to all. In the
great Western country OF ours all of
more marked prominence than in old
countries.
The winning of the West and
building of homes in an undeveloped
country requires an application of
higher and broader thought than
ispoSsible in the older countries where
men are prone to live and think as
did their grandsires. Two years ago
Missouri presented a marked illustra.
ton in politics Of discrimination by
voters not blinded by party preju.
dices. AT the same election a Re.
publican President, a Democratic
governor and a Republican attorney
general were all elected because they
were men Of the same pattern and
type Of thought. They were men
absolutely incapable of being made
tools by greedy corporations or of
being diverted from the straight and
narrow way of public duty.
BIGoTs RoOSEvELT'S ENEMIES.
Mr.. Roosevelt in following his own
thoughts and wishes has found his
bltterest enemies and strongest op-
position in the party blgots of the
Republican party who believe that
the party should serve their special
interests. He pushed his ideas as
far as it was possible without pre-
clpltating an open war. The bigotry
is not the result Of ignorance, but Of
vicious, corrupt and selfish purposes
and should never be followed mol
sustained by the masses Of the party
In every line except politics Kan.
sas has been marked clearly by it:
liberal sentiment and the time is
surely coming that in the domain o.
politics they will exercise discrimina
ton between the good and the bad
no matter what may be the part,
label. The party collar and chair
will be- buried along with the blood,
shirt, and hatred and prejudice will
cease to be handed down from fathe
to son as doctrine unworthy of
new and intelligent and proglessiv,
commonwealth.
We do not appeal to the people o
such state because our platform
principles or candidates ale Demo
cratic, but we do appeal to then
because we believe that this platform
and these candidates represent pur
poses to be carried into action whicI
will elevate the material and politica
interests of a great state.
The intelligent and honest sent
ment Of the state has PRACTICAL,
repudiated the inane and stupi
platform foisted upon the Republ
cans BY legerdemain and subtl
trickery at Topeka. The attempt t
revise and correct that platform an
to inject into it some semblance q
vitality is apparent on every hand.