Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-13
OUR TICKET.

OOh 4 1OhE4.
The Farmers Alliance of Barber
county presents to the electors for their
suffrage county ticket of which no or.
ganizatlon, political or otherwise, need
be ashamed. Its selection was not &C
complished by the use of money whisky
cigars or political chicanery. The voice
of the delegates who selected the nom
inees was the voice of the people. No
dark-lantern caucus Matched up these
nominees; no political wire-pullers or
paid henchmen put up jobs that select
ed delegates; there were no conteSting
delegations; no precinct or district was
represented in the convention by letter,
by nonresident or by self-appointed
proxy. The conventions representa-
ton was fixed independent of the vote
cast for any faYOrite partisan or party;
it is independent of town influence, and
there was no unfairness charged
against the committee that arranged
the basis of representation. So the pre-
liminarIes were all right-the founda-
ton was built on a solid rock, and
not on sand.
The individuals on the ticket are
representative Barber county citizens.
Each one is property owner; each one
is loyal, law-abiding, and industrious
citizen. There is not a communist on
the ticket; not one of the nominees
is a socialist or anarchist. Two of the
number have been trusted and honOred
in Official position, one being the most
popular man III the republican party
and the other occupying similar posi-
ton in the democratic party. Neither
has done aught to disqualify him from
again holding office, unless it be an un-
pardOnable offense to enlist in a cause
that has for its sole object the better.
ment of the condition of the masses.
Frank w. HickOx, the nominee fol
representative, has passed the three
score-and-ten mile post, but his years
of usefulness will be many, yet. He i!
hale and hearty, with bright and cul
tivated intellect; he is versed in the
ways of the world, and can not bt
charged with want of knowledge or lacE
of experience. He is and has been
since bOyhood, a tOiler and a producer
and he understands the wants of the
class who demand his service as law
maker. He lived for years in Moni
teau county, Missouri, and everyone
who knew him there will bear witness
that he was known always as the FRIEND
of the poor, father to the orphan, ;
stay for the weak, and an advocate TO
the oppressed. He is pledged to vot
against John J. ingalls,, whose service
as Kansas senator have been declares
not worth one hundred and thirty cent
during his eighteen years of mis-repre
sentation. Col. Hickox resides on farm
four miles east of Medicine Lodge
Until this year, he has always been al
active republican.
George W. Stevens, nominee for pro
bate judge, was sheriff of Barber coun
ty during the years of 1888 and 1885
having been elected as a democrat. IL
filled the Office creditably, and his part
hOnored him with a denomination
That he was not reelected was no dis
credit to him, the dominant party hayine
clear majority of ut least three hun
dred in the county. 1t will be differen
this year. In Judge Stevens is com
bined justice and equity to such an ex
tent that in his court the rich and tn
poor will alike be assured of thei
rights the widow and the orphan vii
be cared for, and when the machlner
of his tribunal shall be called on t,
deal with deep and complicated ques
tions, as it frequently will be, in tn
absence of the district judge, he will b.
found a wise and upright judge. He i
engaged III live stock raising and farm
ing; owns large tract OF land fv
miles northeast of town and is a GOO;
citizen.
III. S. Lands is the man who ha
brought the public school system O
Barber county out of disorder; he ha
built up the most successful normal in
stitute in southwest Kansas; he ha
systematiZed the finances of the schoo
districts; he has given all of his time t.
what formerly was considered the mos
insignificant Office in tie county. II
is our candidate for clerk of the distric
court. He was raised and educated il
Pennsylvania, but has lived in Barbe
county about ten years, engaged il
farming aud stock raising, his farm be
ing south of here, III Moore township
lie is the president of the county ALI
ance, and was chosen without dissent
ing voice as candidate for district clerk
lie is an excellent penman, carefu
accountant and in every way as we
qualified as any man in Barber county
Lyman w. DeGeer, the candidate fO
county attorney, lives on a farm i
Deerhead township. He has neve
practiced law in this county, though b
had a right to do so, holding a certif
cate from one of the most distinguish
jurists of Missouri, Judge Broaddu,
MIR. DeGeer would go in the office we
equipped to battle for the interests c
the county, for he has never been com
plicated with any of the shrewd pract
TONERS of the bar, and therefore h
would not have to ask or grant favor
against the interest of the county. II
is a sober and temperate man, an
would not likely fall, even under grea
temptation. He is an honest man, an
could not be bribed to wink at non-eI
forcement of law. Being industrior
and studious, he would soon master tt
details of his Office, and make sob.
and better county attorney than I'll
county has had at any time during Il
past ten years.
J. O. Hahn, as county superintent
ent of public instruction, would brin