Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-16
Our Club.

We're busted agin. / think our
leaders will have to 60 through a surgi-
cal operation in order to get few ideas
into their heads. We managed in a
quiet sort of a way to have the demo-
cratic ticket suit US.
We don't have much trouble with
them, we compromise the matter, we
name the men and they label the ticket.
If the combination is successful
they get they glory and we get the
whisky, very satisfactory arrangement
for US. But with the Republicans its
different. In order to succeed with
them VIC have to scheme. 1t requires
brains-an article rather scarce with
us-we thought we had the Rcpubli-
can central committee snaked and we
did but our members there didn't have
any sense and they let two or three Re-
publicans get away with them. The
first mistake was having more delegates
from the country than there was from
Dodge; but: our members sat there like
stoughton bottles and never seen what
they was doing until it was too late.
Then they innocently (0 provided that
the judges of the primary should keep
poll books and the names of all voting
should be entered and that the poll
books should be brought to the conven-
ton and whole string of other rules
and regulations the strict observance of
any one of which was enough to down
us, but our members didn't seem to see
it. After the committee adjourned, we
seen that we got our foot in it and went
to work to capture the convention. If
We could secure the twenty-one dele
gates from this township with the liber-
al use of money We might secure enough
outside with the proxy from Howell to
run the thing. So the night before the
primary was to be held we met, and de-
cided to change the time from 2 o'clock
/ to IL clock but for fear we should
not secure the judges we didn' tlet any
body know that the time was changed.
So at noon we opened the polls, hired a
democrat as one of the clerks and went
to work. But the thing did mt work
well. The Republicans wouldn't vote
with us, but when two clock came they
had the brazen impotence to open an
other poll, and although we raked the
dives, fshed the swill barrels, run in the
tramps, vagabonds, coons, democrats,
non residents, minors and everything
else we could get, when night came
they had about as many votes as we had
and every one of them were legal Re-
publican voters. The result was they
contested our delegation, and when the
convention met, the man we depended
on weakened and they secured the or
ganization against US. We made gal
liant fight before the committee on Gre
dentials to have our delegates seated
but notwithstanding the eloquence of
Borton, the frantic, appesls of the proxy
from Howell the insults of the gang,
we were routed horse foot and dragoon
kicked neck and heels OUT of the con-
ventiOn and the whole business has gone
to the demnition bowwows 1t took
US some little time to recover from the
dazed condition caused by our hasty
exit and before we took time to think
we attempted to take charge of the
Democratic party but they said hold on
there, we can get along without your
help. Go back to your own crowd, VIC
won't have you. So We are fired out
Of the Republican camp and refused
admission to the Democratic. What will
we do? z.