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


Call on Cook s. Palmer for farm and
CITY loans. %
III. D. Records is still confined to his
room by his spralned knee.
New Boots and Shoes at Books the
best line in town. 8
The Barber County Herald made its
appearance last Saturday evening. 1t
was a big improvement on the Kiowa
Herald
The Coldwater Review has apparent
ly not made up its mind whose name to
put up for congress. The Review will
get around all right in a few days. Any
body against the man who is pledged
to vote for ingalls,.
The Charles Martin family, who have
lived in the north end of town for the
past ten months, started yesterday
morning for their new home in the
Indian Territory. Their daughter,
Mrs. Lula Stanley, went with them.
We print elsewhere couple of ex-
tracts from Missouri papers to show
the standing of Mr.. DeGeer at his old
home. He did not leave home under a
cloud. His record here needs no expla-
nation. He is one of the people, iden-
titled with their best interests, and will
make prosecuting attorney of whom
Barber county will be proud.
1t is getting dangerous to be safe"
when letter-writing is concerned. One
republican leader in this city is SAID to
have written to a supposed republican
leader in the south part of the county:
Come in and let's talk the matter
over. If we don't do something we are
gone. The alliance is too strong for
u.s." The gentleman who received the
letter is an alliance wheel-horse.
A gentleman dropped in to see us Sat-
urday evening and handed us So, with
the remark: ''Send the paper one year
to --- and then keep the 81 to pay
for six months subscription to eight
poor men who ought to have the paper
and can't pay for It," We asked him
to make out list Of names. He said:
mo, you send the papers; you know
who needs them better than | do" Is
it any wonder that the INDEX list is
growing when such things as this hap
pen? If any man in the county is I'M
able to pay for the paper, and wants it,
let him send us his name, and he will
get 1t free for six months. 1t is already
paid for. When men stand together
and work together, with brain, muscle
and money, they cannot be defeated.
The Harper Enterprise, which has
Mr.. McMahon'S name at its masthead.
says: Nv. 5. Denton, of Barber county,
is one of the democrats of the seventh
congressional district who lifted his
voice and cast his vote against the cow
ardly action of that convention in sur
rendering to the enemy. Mr.. Denton
is good talker and hard fighter and
the Enterprise would respectfully NOM
mate him tor congress from the big
seventh district. We do not care
whether we get second to that motion
or not, he is our man." If you so thor
oughly endorse Nh. Denton, why don't
you endorse his acts? Mr.. Denton nom
mated Mr.. Mckay for judge, yet you
are not supporting Mckay. He was as
much nominated as was McMahon.
The INDEX does not propose to make
any fight against the republican county
ticket, nor against democratic county
ticket if one should be nominated We
are doing what we can to elect the ALI
ance ticket, and we irmly believe that
ticket will be successful. We know
that large majority of the democrats
of the county are opposed to putting up
a county ticket. and if a ticket is put
up, it will simply be as a tail to some
body's political kite. The democrats
could not elect their best man last year.
when the party was solid, and they can
not hope to elect anybody this year,
when one-half of their voters are mem
berS OF the Alliance, and will vote the
Alliance ticket from top to bottom.
Many of the strongest democrats in the
city, who do not belong to the Alliance,
have told us that they intended voting
the Alliance ticket, without regard to
whether their party put up ticket or
not. 1t is rather doubtful as to wheth-
er democrats can be found who will ac-
cept the nominations, knowing that
they will be put up for slaughter. A
long and expensive campaign and then
defeat and rldicule await the nominees.
The Alliance is working for the two
main objects which western people de-
mand-a reduction of the tariff and free
coinage of silver. You had better take
half loaf than to have no bread.
Every thinking man ought to be able to
choose quickly between the Alliance
and its enemies, the corporations. We
believe they cah aaQ viii.
In years of big crops and general
prosperity the advantages of Barber
county over surrounding counties can
hardly be noticed. But III times of
drouth and general depression, when
every little thing counts, her advan-
tages loom up like painted barn door.
We don't depend on wheat or corn
alone. We have wheat and corn, and
plenty of both; but we have cattle, hogs.
horses. We have sorghum for sugar
purposes, aaa sorghum for feed. We
have started the infant industry of rails
ing beets for sugar making purposes.
The infant grew from acres last year
to 100 acres this year, and the present
indications are that it will almost reach
perfection next year. W. haye another
infant industry in the gypsum mill.
which takes the unyalued gypsum from
the ground, ard by scientific processes,
turns it into valuable articles. This
product IS rapidly winning favor in the
larOp pitiQC oasf 90 coon Nc 1913