Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-02

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ing Gardner two of the three votes of
Valley. Mr.. Sample moved to amend
by adopting the majority report COM
| plete. The amendment was ruled out
of order by the chair.
He then moved to strike out of the
minority report the reference to Round
up, Dry Creek and Valley.
Mr.. Long then made statement of
| the evidence before the committee on
credentials.
Mr.. Berry, Of Dry Creek, SAID the
primary there was held as they had
always been; that he had attended re-
publican meetings here when he was
the only man who had attended the
primary. He and the Dry Creek repub-
! licans were not dependent on anybody
| for Office, and he intlmated that they
did not have to vote the republican tick
ct unless they wanted to.
Mr.. Long continued and claimed that
the credentials of Valley directed the
delegates present to cast the vote of the
precinct. Mr.. Gardner wanted to vote
two votes and only allow Marshall one.
A proxy TO Gardner signed by the
absent delegate, hurry, was presented,
but that did not alter the case.
This proxy was secured Saturday
afternoon by Editor and Postmaster
Axline driving to Isabel, after O'Clock.
Edwards had started after 5 O'Clock to
get the same proxy, but he only got as
| far as Sand creek when he met Axline
and so he returned home
Mr.. Long showed up the Roundup
case and said that the credentials and
the chairman's signature were in Sam
PIES writing; that the evidence showed
that SAMPLE and dudley and Pucket.
democrat, and few boys, had held
the primary in wheat field, not in the
school house and across the river from
the usual place of voting.
He SAID the Ellis men were setting a
very bad example and placing the in
terests of the party in Barber county in
jeopardy. The majority of the commit
tee had first decided TO throw out Round
up and then reconsidered.
Mr.. Campbell, OF the committee ex-
planned: The opposition Edwards mem
had been before the committee and
cross-questioned the witnesses. Mr.
Overstreet and others had FUSED every
effort to defeat the wishes of the farm
ing community" Strong pressure was
made to choke off every man not in SYM
pathy with Medicine Lodge or who had
alliance principles.
Mr.. Dement,, of Cedar. an Ellis man,
thought there was gag being attempt
ed on the farmers; it was no mans
! business whether they were alliance
members or not. Longs big flourish
speeches was to cut the farmers out of
representation. The effort to hold the
convention over until Monday was to
beat the farmers. He believed Over
street to be in the plot and the sooner
the republican party and Long went
down the better. The farmers had been
bulldoZed by the committee in fixing
the basis of representation for this con-
vention, Medicine Lodge being given
the unheard-Of representation of q
delegates; the schemers could only
carry the day by taking the Long vote
as the basis.
Mr.. McGregor, one of the central
committee, declared that Medicine
Lodge did not manipulate the committee
or fix the basis; Mr.. Noble, the chair
man. didnot offer any suggestions, even;
he, himself a farmer, had offered the
resolution taking the Long vote for a
basis and Oscar Lindley, another farm
er, had seconded the motion; all the
committeeman present who fixed the
basis were farmers; he had always
fought Medicine Lodge.
Mr.. Sample replying to Mr.. Longs
charges of fraud in getting up Ellis
delegates, thought it came in very bad
grace from the senator after the cam
paign he, the senator, had made last
fall, after the Coldwater convention-in
both of which he, Mr.. Sample, took part
| He called attention to the McAdOo
township credentials when Street Jones,
the delegate, admitted to having signed
his own credentials in the harvest field.
Why not throw them out? In Nippe-
walla township (Roundup) there were
few republicans, not dozen. He
Sample, represented a farmer Scott
Cummins, of Canema, and only one
republican and one democrat were
present at the primary that elected Cum
Minis; and his principal went before the
committee absolutely without creden-
tials and was admitted Why not
throw him out? Deerhead did not haye
even semblance of a convention, and
yet the delegates from there were ad-
mitted. He also said that the judicial
convention and the primaries were call
ed at time when the farmers were IN
the field busy with the Dountiful crops
that an all-wise Providence had given
them, working to make up for the mis-
fortunes that had been visited on them
during the past few years. He called
attention to the fact that every lawyer,
except himself, and every representa-
tive of loan company in this city were
now working against the gentleman
whose claims he, Mr.. Sample, was
championing.
Mr.. Grigsby. of Elm Mills, said the
central committee had not been infiu-
enced by Medicine Lodge in fixing the
basis of representation.
Mr.. OYerstreet again counselled har-
mony, and did not want the bad feeling
that appeared to be arising. to go be-
yond the walls of the building he want
ed everybody to wake up Sunday morn
ing with a peaceful and happy mind.
He took up the farmer question. and
compared the two factions, claiming
fhat his sida .lr,r