Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-27
Will THEY BII,E2

Wichita News-Beacon: I'VE have
goL these alliance fellows on the hip
now, remarked d local republican pol
lLlclan this morning, as he dropped into
The county building to dry his umbrella.
'HoW Is thatT" asked another OF the
SaIne order.
why, these IdiOtic farmers who be-
long To the alliance have adopted TeSO-
IuJIOns III their sub alliances not To at
tend Lh6 republican political meetings
This TALL, aud tell you 1T looked pretty
serious Tor us, until the gang al IOpe-
ka came TO our relief. Gentlemen, It's
no use talking, Bill Higgins and Ben
simpson are the SllckeSJ politicians III
The state to-day, and II Jim HalloWell
Is elected it Will be through their ma
nlpulatlOnS.
Nv hen Lne fact became known that
The farmers Intended ignoring the re-
publican meetings. Jim telt pretty blue,
and d number OF others throughout the
slate were i'll the same condition, but
1t didn't take Bill Higgins long to de-
wise "a scheme TO rope III the farmers.
You see, Kansas Is made up In popula-
uOn OF old soldiers, 50 Bill goes 10 work
and inaugurateS series OF reunions
Or Camp-tres. The object of this is to
! attending reunion Of old soldiers, and
then spring our best republican speak
ers on them, taking care not to let any
one who Is i'll sympathy with the ALI
| ance movement address them.
This sort OF campaign will be
thoroughly worked in the Seventh dis
| trlct, and opens this week down at Cor
! bin, a small town near Caldwell. 1t
has been advertised as a campfire, but
In reality it is nothing more than big
republican camp-meeting. The speak
erS for the occasion are Governor Hum
! phrey, Secretary of State, Bill Higgins,
| State Auditor, Tim Mccarthy and Jim
Hallowell, and the way they will pump
republicanism into the old hay-seeds
| Will be astonishing.
These big alliance picnicS the farm
ers have been holding must be counter
acted in some manner, and the present
scheme / think will do it to a queens
taste, and you can safely bet that the
boys who are in the deal will see that nc
alliance speaker is permitted to address
the people at any OF these campireS
Ingalls, and Plumb will both take &
hand in this campaign Just as soon a!
the senate adjourns, for it is only by
this means that we can get the farmers
out to hear us, for there is no use send
ing local speakers out to the country
school houses to speak to empty
benches, but under the guise of a reun
ion of the old soldiers we can hoOdwinl
them into attending our political meet
Ings. Should this scheme fail, hOWey
er, we will have to ''fry the fat out o
those eastern manufacturers for suffi
cient money to buy the election Of on
republican congressman in this state.
THEY DIDN'T BITE.
There was disguised look on TIL
faces Of Governor Humphrey and Stat
Auditor Mccarthy when they arrived il
the city and put up at the MetrOpole las
night. The look was a sort of miXtur
of disappointment and disgust, for the
had just returned from the republican
camp meeting at Corbin, in Sumne
county. This meeting had been eXten
sIvely billed as an old soldiers reunion
and campfire, and special rates had bee
secured over the various railroads. l
was republican scheme to hoodwinl
the farmers and get them to atten
what they supposed to be reunion O
old soldiers, but which in reality wa
but republican POLITICAL camp-meet
ing, at which Governor Humphrey, Sec
rotary Bill Higgins, State Auditor Nc
Carthy and James II. Hallowell were I
air their oratorical abilitiesip eulogizin
the e. o. p. When the governor and Ill
party arrived at the camp grounds yes
terday, they we're expecting to be greet
ed by multitude of happy, eXpectan
faces, so their surprise can be imagine
when they found the grounds deserte,
excepting a few people here ant
there. a couple of discons0late lemon
ade vendors, who had paid high pric
for the privilege of running thei
stands, were cursing the luck that sen
them there, while a watermelon vende
who was taxed dollar a day for tn
privilege of selling his malaria breed
ers, was vainly trying to dispose OF hi
over-ripe melons.
"'Where are the people?' asked tn
governor.
What people?' asked an old piec
of human briCa-bac, with bunch o
~hiskers under his ehia like the bear
of a biI,n," GOAT.
The farmers Who were to be pres
ent to hear us talk reri'eo the gov
ernor.
~ kakilate there'll be whole pas
sci of town folks down here this after
noon, but low the farmers is kin,
o. scarce an you won't get many o
them to attend this kind of politica
meetin', said the old man
The passed. of town folks can't
down as predicted, but the enthusiasm
Of the speakers was at very low ebb
and filed with disgust at the failure o
the scheme to hoOdwink the allianc'
members into attending republican
campaign meeting. Governor Hum
phrev and State Auditor Mccarthy Gu
short their visit and left on the frs
train. and. as stated in morning pape
this morning. they returned from Sum
ner county soon than they anticipated
Yes, good deal sooner This is {