Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-09
The Sharon Meeting.

republican speaking, as 1 was anxious
to hear what excuses they had to offer
for the delay Of those good times they
promised last fall, and of course they
had the necessary ''gall'' for the occa-
sion. There were four lawyers and a
What is It, Name 1t and Take It," or
you may take it as soon as the republi-
can party gets through with it; they are
using it. They are using 1t tor a sort
of decoy duck at present, and by the
way, l do not think they will get many
union labor ducks to come to it on .ac-
count OF it's peculiar quack, which gives
it away, for when they come near to it
they cannot help but see that it is a
fraud and nothing but decoy to lead
them into trap. They had name for
1t, tOo-they called 1t Mobley; yes, Mr..
Mobley if you please.
The first speaker was the elegant Mr..
Long. He devoted most of his time to
coaxing the union labor voters to come
over and help us whip those bad demo-
Gratis, out of those three good county
officers they have robbed the republican
party of. He showed them how near
alike were the platforms of both parties
1.-THE union labor men, Of course, could
see that on the money question, on the
railroad question, on the land question.
on the telegraph question, in fact on all
those questions that are dividing the
rich and the poor into two hostile arm
les that will eventually shake this con-
tlnent with a death struggle. l am
satisfied that if the leaders of the union
labor party had been there they would
have thrown down their arms and sur
rendered at once. And then to hear him
tell about the antitrust law that the
last legislature passed; and yet it takes
bushel of corn or oats to get pound
of sugar; in fact the trust fellows do
not seem to have heard of this law yet;
and that law reducing the rate of inter
est to SIX and ten per cent, and vet we
have to pay two per cent at the bank.
oh, well, maybe the banks have not
heard of that law either And you
ought to have heard him tell what the
republican party was going to do for the
old sOldier-how in a little time this
surplus, this irrepressible surplus, that
has gwen all our great statesmen so
much worry. is going to be unloaded
into the pockets of the old soldiers, and
that right away. At this point, some
lady in the audience wanted to know
what about Tanner. This seemed to
hit him below the belt; but Of course
he had confidence in Harrison. Harri-
son was arepublican and would as soon
as he could fix it up with those bankers
that had loaned sixty-twO millions of
this surplus and at two per cent. per
cent. per month. AS seen as matters
could be arranged things would 60 on
again, and in the meantime don't any
OF you old soldiers die and miss getting
your pension.
And then he told US what a bad man
that VanLaningham was-how he had
earned some twelve thousand dollars in
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Harper county, ny cIose attention to
his business, and had gone over to
Clark county and taken advantage of
this best banking system the world ever
saw, and loaned this money out at two
per cent. per month. Well, of course,
Mr.. Long could not do that for he paid
his money out for board--or mostly for
board.
And then, Mr.. S. L.. Overstreet made
his bow. Sam did not say much; he
said something about some notable |
events that had transpired during the
past year, but to my mind he missed
two very important ones, viz. : The at
tempt of the republican party to blow
up the union labor party and the four
teen thousand eight hundred dollars |
that republican county treasurer was
short in his accounts; but Sam proba- |
bly, had forgotten them.
The next speaker was G. NJ. Martin |
who was introduced as a union labor |
man! a good many in the audience
seemed to repudiate this by groaninp
and other demonstrations. thought |
could detect kind of pleading under. |
tone in his talk. thought as he stood |
there fronting some of his old comrades
in the political battles of the past that |
he felt little like Benedict Arnold
must have felt when he met his coun.
trymen face to face in a foreign land |
and whenever he would repudiate his
old beliefs of the past, he would asser,
his right of freedom to do so. So let us
grant him the right and leave him alone
with his thoughts.
And then came T. A. McNeaI. Tom
was funny and witty and as usual toIe |
about the bow-legged man and the gir
and her fellow. and,he also told how
Sheriff Stevens made the oonn+-
80 Surned and tried to prove ii
Dy wal. Rouse, who said that the coun
" had paid for nearly all the coal he
burned, and that he GRouse) had stop
ped 1t by making a kick Stevens
ought to make kick about the count,
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