Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-30
Haxelton Happenings.

Inc democratic primary to nominate
q township ticket for Hazelton town.
ship, is set for Wednesday evening, Oct.
SOth. at the old school house in Hazel
ton 1t O'Clock, p. m. And this leads
US to remark that the high tariff party
in Barber county is getting scared over
the probable result OF the 5th of Noyem-
Der. While they are travelling in droyes
over the county they are learning that
the men who have been voting for the
3. o. p. are doing more solid thinking
this fall and are inquisitiye enough to
ask where the big prices are they were
promised last fall. They don't seem to
fear the party lash, and then some peo-
pie seem to think that the Medicine
Lodge ring have run the party about as
long as is to the interest OF the county.
In fact 1t begins to look as though the
fellows that paid the taxes proposed to
do some of the voting this fall whether
the ring succeeds or not. In speaking
OF j. W. DObson being a prohibitionist
has led some Of the Hazelton voters to
call attention to the time DobsOn made
speech in Hazelton over the success of
the bond election in Blaine township.
DIR. Cloud was kind enough to help Jim
mount the stand on that occasion. But
Jim was not running for sheriff at that
time, and then he may not have been
drunk but just a little overcome with
enthusiasm. Still some people thought
he had been drinking freely. .Farrow
Brothers, druggists, had q whiskey bill
of nearly $50 charged up against the r.
r. cOmmitte that helped get bonds for
the Fort Scott road and DobsOn was
one Of the most active members of the
committee, but still they tell us that
DobsOn is prohibitiOnist. We are per-
fectly willing that they give Dobson all
the credit that is due him, but when a
man will for a moment pretend that
Jim DObson is prohibitiOnist. he eth
or don't know Dobson or he has been
imposed upon or he mas but little regard
for the truth. We don't believe there
is truthful man living who knows
Jim DObson that can point to a single
act OF his life to prove him even favor
able to enforcing the prohibition law as
it is. If he was prohibitiOnist, why
did he ut close the saloons in Kiowa
during his two years as mayor of that
city and not allow them to run open day
and night by simply paying an occupa-
ton tax. Please tell US something reas-
enable and don't try TO bolster up can
didate with such trash. The American
people are not pack of fools, and are
not going to be led off with trashy stuff
like that. Now if DObson is, big, brave,
generOus-hearted, true friend, kind
husband and father, careful and safe
business man, for the Lord sake tell it.
Tell all the good you can for HIM, for he
needs it, but don't eyer again intimate
that he is prohibitionist it makes us
tird, awful tired Since the report has
got out that Mr.. Peck and Mr.. Rouse
have been drawing more salary than
the law allowed them. the voters are no
longer hating between two opinions,
but have decided that a change is abso-
lutely necessary. We heard man say
last Monday that he had always been a
Peck man, but since he had learned that
Peck had found time to run for office
instead of making his July statement,
he was row for Gordon for treasurer.
1--WE arenOt sure that w. T.. Rouse
could manage to live outside of the
courthouse. but we are anxious to see
him try it just once-either that or give
him life lease so that there Will be no
moro trouble over the matter A re-
publican in Kiowa says that if Dobson
is elected sheriff Mike O'Shea will be
under sheriff. Wonder what the prohi-
bitionists think of THAR W. C. A.