Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-30

on the different ranges are reported,
and seem to be doing as we'll as could be
hoped for. The loco weed, which has
been quite an eyesore during the past
two years has entirely disappeared the
streams are all filled with water, and all
that is necessary now for success in this
particular business for the coming year
is to avoid prairie fires, which, from the
heavy coating of grass, are to be feared,
and which great pains should be taken
by all to prevent, w.
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Kicking Bird" the versatile CORES
pendent Of til: Kansas City Times, in
his last letter on Kansas politics, has
the following Of general interest:
with the final falling of the autumn
leaves, the departing statesmen wend
their way to the political Mecca, and
the birds of passage wing their flight
from the north and from the south, from
the east and from the west. Some go
with bright hopes and buoyed with
bright anticipationS, those who have
two or six years credentials. Those
whose terms expire in 1885, and have
the good or i'll success of the coming
session on which to build their fortunes,
look with greater tremer and trerida-
tion upon the fates of the coming Win
ter. The Kansas statesmen will go with
varying vicissitudes and alternating
hopes and fears Of what the winter will
be. Plumb goes to Washington the most
fortunate man of all the delegation, the
richest, one of the youngest and strong
est, with splendid physique if he Will
care for his bodily health, and just en-
tering upon second six years lease of
senatorial power. He is cautious with
all his dash and pluck, and i'll his case,
with his methods and the thousaI d
irons he always has in the fire, caution
is more needed than with either of tie
other members of the delegation, lest
some of the irons get burned. The
luckiest man of the delegation is Ander-
son. The gods seem to be with him. Is
sues are created or arise just at the
right time to help Anderson. His OBJ
jective point is seat in the senate. The
anti-monopoly wave struck Anderson
just i'll the right time. If he can make
this the prominent issue, the leading
factor in next fall s canvass, instead of
prohibition, he will swell his forces in the
Legislature and largely draw from St.
John, who will push prohibition. To
capture the senatorial baggage, ingalls,
will need TO invest largely i'll ensan-
guined garments. He should supply
himself with large invoice of this SAIL
guineous under clothing this winter. If
the democrats will fool them selves into
repeating the traditional blunders of
which so much is said and written, and
If they can be induced to burn school
house or two, or kill few ringers" i'll
some part of the southern states, the
remoter the better, they will play splen-
didly into Ingalls, hands. The cam
paign will be hot, and the caloric can be
wonderfully increased by a bountiful
supply Of bronZed veStings. Haskell
returns with disabled and demoralized
regretted and grieved, shattered con-
stitution, and health, it is feared, great
ly impaired. His old complaint, Bright's
disease, clings 10 him and shadows I'M
pleasant forebodings. His congression-
al career has been phenomenally sue
cessful. With the health and strength
that he had when a young giant and
Othello at 20, Haskell would this session
be the leader on the republican side.
This is position seldom achieved by
man at his age, representing a state
so young and so far west as Kansas.
Robson is no longer in the house to
browbeat and belch and below submits
sion and silence into dominant party.
Robinson, the sleek and silver-tenged
and eminently respectable member from
Massachusetts will not be there to pour
oil upon the troubled waters, drag up
drowned honor by the locks,'' and
wrench victory from defeat. The but.
terfly Butterworth and the sonorous
Burroughs whose lengthy words of
laundering sound" have so long and so
often resounded through the chambers
Of the house rave been swamped by the
tidal wave. Kiefer has been plucked as
brand from the burning, but the ex
| speaker is unpopular with his party.
Kelley is too old to longer lead his par
t., and his mantle has fallen upon Has
kell; but it is hardly .presumable that
his health will suffer him to assume the
| prerogatives of the coveted leadership
of his partyin the house. The only
member certain of reelection is Judge
Peters, and he is not absolutely certain
of getting there for the first term. Col
onel Sam. Wood has gone on to file a
claim against Juge Peters taking a seat.
As the law now stands he could not be
admitted. The law Of last winter, it
woul seem, was framed to carry out
the spirit of the constitution, the dis
barring of judges from the political
held. 1t Is a protest against the viola
ton OF the state constitution, as Colo
mel Wood claims. The colonel bases
his faith upon constitutions and demo-
cratic majorities. There is a widely
circulated report that Colonel Wood, be-
fore his departure, invested in a new
change OF linen and laid in a fine sup
ply of clothing. The report lacks con-
firmation. Should it be true it will
somewhat detract from his merit in the
future OF being the Henry Clay Dean
of Kansas.
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