Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
A SQUARE DEAL DEMANDED

Three members of the committee for
this congressi nal district gave two
days notice that a meeting OF The com
IN .Itee would be held at Klrwin on last
Tuesday and he member for this cOun-
ty received no notice. We are led to
believe that the meeting was rather of a
Star { hanber order, inaSmucb as no
report OF its proceedings has appeared
in the daily .pape as yet. A SQUARE
deal, gentlemen, is all the people in this
portion Of the district want.
There is no question but the notice
given was very limited, but that was
part of the programme. After Judge
Hollis friends had secured al the prox-
les obtainable, they called the meeting
before their principals could interfere
with instructions. That they had Sc
Gu ed these proxies before the meeting
was called, Is self-evident tact as the
time between the call and the meeting
was too short to have accomplished that
result. 1t was essentially a meeting Uf
proxies, only two of the original com
mittee being present. 1t was not. how
ever, ''Star-Cham ber'' meeting, al
McNaIi, of Smith county, to make IT,
one by tie introduction OF resolution
to exclude all but The committee
Hays City StaraSentinet.
The foregoing is a specimen of the
stl ats to which the Hanback, forces are
put to for stock in trade, The facts ale
that the holt men had nothing to do
with that call any further than AFTER it
had been fixed up by The Hanback, men
they gave it ali The publicity in their
power, In the first place the Hanback,
men had cOnc0cted scheme 10 get Il
lew OF the con mittee together without
notice, but VIII en- that game was bio, ked
the hexL best hing was to issue a call
With the shortest possible notice, and
thus they hoped to hold the proxies
that they feare d might be changed ii d
longer time was given, Their fears
were we'll founded, as the time, sh Jrt a.
1t wa', was sufficient that several OF the
little .IOkers found their proxies super
coded aid several of the would be prOx.
les stood around with hands in pOcket>,
and their little games, one of which
was to get lot of pretended delega e.
admitted from the unorganized coun
ties as they thought sufficient to hold
balance of power, and at the same
time strengthen the hands of the i'm
ported land off, ers.
Another one was to multiply conven,
tons and Impossible, weary the people
out and at last catch them mapping aid
capture the game. AS an evidence of
this, witness the frantic efforts of MIR.
Pilkenton, by the use of all the arts OF
parliamentary lac les TO get a separate
convention TO nominate the two district
delegai es. One after another IF thee
cups upset, and we don't blame them
for getting on their ear q little, and it
will do no harm; there is plenty of
time to get down.
We acknowledged that the time for
the cali was short, yet short as it was it
seemed to be sufficient to get every
postmaster, almost every Hanback, edit
or and three of the six U. s. land Off
GERS on the ground together with an
almost innumerable host of Hanback,
strikers, his interest ought to have been
protected; and it was, if all they want
ed is square deal.
But we tear very much whether that
is what they want. There are halt
dozen fat officers in this district every
one of whom would feel their holt loos-
ening somewhat with a home man in
Congress, instead of an imported gent
like themselves.
We think it about time that the East
ern part of the state were given TO un-
derstand that he West are getting tired
of having them dictate who shall fill
our offices.