Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-11-03


a'so authorized to select two delegates tt
the gubernatorial convention at Topeka
This, Mr.. Nelson proceeded to do, naming
none but friends of the ring outfit to e
on guard! As matter of ring decency
the outfit then proceeded to elect, by
meager majorities, sixteen delegates
from this township to the county conven.
ton of September 1, guarding SO care.
fully against selecting single friend OF
1ilton's as to bunch twelve of the sixteen
up in Wa-Keeney.
TEE THIRD EPOCH.
The Third Epoch has been on ever
since July IA to the present writing. 1t
includes the county convention, recently
alluded to, and which was held a little
after July Is, to send three delegates to
Colby for John A. Nelson and two dele
gates to Topeka for s. J. Osborn. That
is to say, Nelson selected his three dele
gates-Lee Monroe, Cowick and Blair;
and Osborn was against A. W. Smith, the
friend of the farmer, for governor, and
Osborn himself and George Shepard
went to the state convention. It would
seem that the work of ring oppression
the principle of one faction controlling
every MiMg-had now been carried
about far enough. But, no! The
county ticket was to be nomi-
mated on September l. The slate
which had, with the exception of one
name, been fixed up as far back as in
May, must be maintained unsullied until
the arrival of the day for the ring to give
it to the people with orders to vote i.
The nursing was SO well done that not a
crack was made in the slate. The first of
September came, and with it convention
which, in failing to be represented by re-
spectacle proportion of the delegates and
by reason of the ashen faces of the leading
delegates present, deserves to be ranked
as the puniest Republican convention
ever held in Kansas. The action of its
nominees in failing ever since to come
out and make straight, manly party
fight brands that convention as an emas-
culate hybrid, incapable of bearing
hearty issue. Its posterity wage cam
paign upon no fixed principles. They
will beg for vote anywhere they find it.
regardless of its party af1inities. Their
campaign has been the most degrading
ever known in Trego county.
Now word to those who wish to be
straight Republicans: Are those ring
sters your kind of straight Republicans?
Have we not demonstrated their IN
worthiness to be classed as a decent fac
tor in politics?
Is it your notion that an element which
is shamefully unfair in its political
methods is entitled to be called straight
Our own Republicanism is not to be
questioned. 1t simply is of too elevated
an order to permit us to support the dirty
schemes of little ring outfit which have
too little use for the party to try to take
care of it. We have labored necessarily
for the Republican party. We are ready
to do so yet. For once, we have deter
mined to have something to say in defn-
ing the party. We have done right.
Every lover of the right in this county
knows it!
He who votes for the ring ticket next
Tuesday aids to make a bad state of
affairs infinitely worse. He votes to ex-
tend the arbitrary power of Osborn, Blair
and the rest of the ring outfit in Wa
Keeney. In the name of political purity,
in the name of good county government,
in the name Of common decency,
OOH'k do III