Barbour County index., 1884-08-15
Democratic DoinRs.


Barber county has democratic major
ity of from 80 to 100 votes, and there
is determination to wake things up
this season in n manner heretofore un-
heard Of in this county. Heretofore
there has been little attention paid to
politics, not enough, in fact, for the
good of the county; but the new popu-
latiOn that has come I'm since last fall,
are having an influence among the old
time democrats. A fair estimate Of
the political complexion Of the new
corners, place them at democrats TO g
republicans. When il is estimated that
the population of the county has doub-
led since Mach 1, 1883, it can be seen
that there is every prospect Of success
for the democrats in November.
With only few hours notice a num-
Der of democrats assembled in the In
DEN Office last Friday evening and
agreed on forming a Cleveland and
Hendricks club, ana so well has this
movement been received that already a
large number of persons having signifed
their willingness 10 become members.
a call has been circulated, and already
about 2O0 names have been signed to
the bylaws. And the good work will
be continued. Following are the
BYLAWS.
FIRST. This club shall be known as the
CLEVELAND ASD HENDRICKs CLUB or BARBER
COUNTY KANSAS.
SECOND. Tho membership shall be confined
/ to legal voters OF Barber County who favor the
| election OF Grover Cleveland aud Thomas ~
Hendricks to tho positions OF President aud
VicSPresident Of tho United States.
THIRD. The officers OF this club shall be n
President, 1--we Vico-Prcsidents, one from
each municipal township in the county, u
1 Secretary And Treasurer who shall perform
the duties usually required OF such officers.
! FoUErH. The central headquarters OF this
| club shall bc I'm Medicine Lodge though
| branches of the organization may be establish
| ed I'm any portion of the county when ten or
more members desire II, and when any branch
| is established, all the necessary officers may TO
| elected.
FIFTH. Persons desiring to become mem
bcrs may DO 80 10y signing these bylaws, and
each member shall be entitled to a vote OH
all matters concerning the business of the
/ club.
| SIXTH. The election Of officers shall DO
| held AT club headquarters Friday evening, Au-
| gust l5, 1884.
Tonight, Friday, the first election of
officers will occur, and it is hoped there
will be 4 good attendance of members.
SATURDAYS CONVENTION.
a mass meeting of the democracy of
Barber county was held last Saturday
afternoon at the court house, III pur-
suance to call of the executive COM
mittee. 1t was for the purpose of
sending a delegate and an alternate
TO the Topeka convention and for
the election of delegates to the congaes-
sional and senatorial conventions when
ever they may be held
Judge O'Bryan presided and f. 2.
Caruthers was elected secretary on mo-
tion of Judge McCandless.
AS delegate to the the Topeka conven-
tion from Barber county +. T.. Caruth-
ers was elected, and Geo. n. Sanderson
was elected as alternate.
COmanche county being attached to
Barber county rs samunicipal township,
and entitled TO a vote in the state con-
vention, IT was decided that the demo-
cracy assembled had the privilege of Sc
lecting the delegate, and accordingly
Mortimer Strong was elected and a. Il.
Mckinney was named as his alternate.
The delegates elected to the congress
sional convention are: ID. y. McCand-
less, T. A. McClearey, L. p. Caruthers,
b. Lacey, NJ. Strong, I. l.. O'Bryan
and s. X. w. Field.
To the senatorial convention: Geo.
\. Sanderson, T. L. O'Bryan, S. X. W.
Field, t. A. McCleary, G. w. Hendrick-
son, e. G. Sparks and b. Lacey.
The attention of democrats present
was directed to the organization of a
Cleveland and Hendricks club. All
present expressed approval of the effort
to get up such an organization. The