Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-07-21
LAST SATURDAYS OUTRAGE.

LAST SATURDAYS OUTRAGE.
The republicans of Trego county hold cau6uses
next Saturday for the purpose of selecting delaeatee
q, the county convention, which meets at
Sept lst, to nominate county onoers. WAlle
there IL great dissatisfaction among me refuDiis
at the manner of calling the convennon, muca OF
the calamity of such an unheam OF proceeding can
be avoided every member OF the party ia1Ase 70
his duty, The party has learned something nom
the experience of the past: 1t cannot, therefore,
rer,nit itself to be packed and anned IN Caucus or
convention by few for any ndlVlduai IN oppos,-
ton to majority of the republicans OF the county.
It has been demonstrated that nomansnoo y tne
renubIicans OF Trego county does not necessarily
mean an election. In fact the party has several
times suffered defeat under very favorable CIR,
cumstances Then it Is folly and the poorest KIND
of political sense for men who have ofsen conHou-
ed county conventions by wire pulling and fraud, to
attempt to force any mans nomination onto tne
republicans of the county, who does not carry WIN
him the elements of party unity harmony ana vlceofy
as well as fitness for the position to which ne aspres
It Is Door place to heal sores during the neat OF
a cannpaign If they cannot be cured during the
calm Intervening between campaigns, the republic
chances for victory and its opportunity for good by
probing afresh old sores and converting itsen INTO
a sanftarium for the relief Of political scabs.-
("Repubican," T.
In cutting the rot out of the above
bunch of bile, we disclaim an intention
of charging the stuff against Shepard.
He is merely the putty-like tool OF few
skunkisk schemers whose notions OF po-
litical prophecies, as far as their meager
talent goes, tally precisely with those OF
the balIot-box suffers in the Southern
states. The policy of both is to rule or
ruin.
The article above is complete tissue
of villainous lies Where cowardice pre-
vents the making of specific statements,
vile innuendo is substituted. We are
gravely told by that sheet that the meth
cd of calling the county conventions was
an "unheard-of proceeding" 1t was. eh?
Shepard's bosses knew better, or they are
even bigger fools than we have credited
them with being. For instance, on Sat
nrday, July II, 1886. the Republicans in
the different townships of Trego county
held caucuses, and selected delegates to
the county judicial convention which had
been called for July "a, 1886; and to the
regular county convention which was to
be held on August % of the same year.
This action on the part of the county
central committee in assigning to last
Saturdays caucuses the selection of dele
gates to two county conventions is SINH
lar in every material feature to the action
of the county central committee in the
summer of 1886. The fellows who have
been leading the fight against Tilton's
friends this summer were sin that deal"
two years ago. The ibeling OF the
county central committee and its able
chairman at this time is of sameness
with the mo precedent" babble.
The talk of Shepard's bosses about
''party unity" Fitness" political scabs, :"
etc, means that party unity is wanted
under their control, or to sheol with it!
that fitness has no recognition outside of
their ranks! and that political scabs are
those who do not train with them! and
so on. This is all very nice from their
standpoint. And what is their stand
point? It is this: W. s. Tilton has, ever
since before the organization of Trego
county, upheld the standard of the Re-
publican party, letting pass. without no.
tice, for the sake of party harmony, many
insults to his friends and himself. Not
one of our close-corporation enemies in
Wa-Keeney can show any such a record
of extended, faithful party service. The
most of them have during this time bolted
the party nominations once or oftener,
and we know what we are talking about.
Why. then, this wholesale denunciation
of us, and through us, of our friends
throughout the county,? The question is
easily answered: These schemers for alb
solute party control-no division for
them, mind you-believed. from our &C.
tions in the past that they could not,
with all their capacity in that direction,
Islander us sufficiently to give us q
thought of resenting their insults and
their crimes against decency. His bosses
make Shepard talk of "wire-pulling and
fraud" There is not in this county
sane man who does not know now, If he
did not before, that wire-pulling and
fraud are the stock in trade of that out
fit. Their work against us had been
prosecuted slyly for months. Without
our wanting to 60 to the presidential
state convention at Wichita in May last.
tiloes tsliows forced the issue by attempt
ing to peck against US the delegation
from this township to the county conven.
ton. They Slipped cog" The coun.
try delegations, with the aid of few
friends in the delegation from this town.
ship, sent us to Wichita without serious
opposition. And we had done NO work
anywhere for this result. This frightened
the opposition, and they proceeded to
work the county to change, by any posi-
bic means, what the knew to be the views
OF at least two-thirds of the Republicans
OF the county concerning u.s.
And thew claim that Tilton and h;e