Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-16

j. p. Hall, Reub. Lake,
b. w. Key, Dr. j. d. Karr.
JUDICIAL CONVENTION.
w. C. Afford, d. L Pierce,
L. +. Shannon, b. f. Teal,
Peter Ruffing, T. G. Molloy,
w. o. Whitehead, Oscar Throckmorton
Frank Haynes, o. p. 7. Ewch,
w. A. Karr, r. ID. Herold.
/. W. Stout, A. j. Jones,
j. w. Hall, X. McAllister
The committee recommended, and
the convention adopted the recommend
aLion, that the delegates to the several
conventions be permitted to appoint
their own proxies, and the delegates
and proxies present in the conventions
were authorized to cast the entire vote
of the county.
The committee on resolutions, or,
rather, Committeeman Stout and Hall.
reported the resolutions below, Com
mitteeman Karr declining to sign the
report, though he failed to put in a mi
nority report: *
RESOLUTIONS.
The democratic party of Barber county, Kan
fear of successful contradiction, assert
1st. The administration of county affairs by
the republican party, during the past sixteen
years. has been little better than highway rob-
berry, it having saddled a debt of third of
million dollars on the people. with nothing but
a courthouse and few ordinary bridges to
show where the expenditures were made.
I'd. The republican majority, by electing to
office incOmDatanf or dishonest mon or both
has been the means of the county losing thous-
ands Of dollars, at least $4,000 of which was
openly and boldly acknowledged, and the only
explanation the taxpayers could get out of
their servants was to beasked what are you
going to do about it?'
Sd. By classifying census returns an Juggling
with figures, at least three county officers have
drawn from the county treasury, and retained
| salaries larger than were allowed by law, and
have refused, and still refuse to return to the
treasury the money illegally taken.
4th. The law requires that an annual state
ment CT the financial condition of the county
! shall be published and yet the Taxpayers have
never been permitted to see such statement,
and no effort has ever been made to punish the
| officer for failure to prepare and publish this
financial exhibit.
9Th. The rate of taxation is permitted to re-
main high that there exists in the county
treasury an average daily balance of So, 900,
when this money should be in the pockets of
the Taxpayers.
Therefore, the democratic party of Barber
county, being in favor of reform in all branch
es of government, national, state and county,
| demands a complete oYerhauling of county
| finances, a strict settlement of all balances
due by any former ofiee-holder, publication
of the exact financial condition of the county
and reduction in the rate of taxation to the
actual demands of the county government
economically administered.
The democracy of Barber county is in favor
of reforms outside of county affairs, and here
by declares for the following
The Australian system OF voting;
The free and unlimited coinage of silver;
The enforcement of the law to prevent usury:
The repeal of the national banking law, ant
the issue of all currency direct by the govern
ment, in sufficient quantities to meet the de
mands of trade
The abolition of trusts and combines
A constitutional amendment to regulate tn,
issue of articles of incorporation to alleged
companies, whose existence is confined to tn,
paper on which the articles are written, ant
whose liability AID capital stock are as unstabl,
ds luO IdDIIC vi IL sCuOOI Upy ufSdI0.
We are opposed to the alien ownership o.
land to the present system of tarif robbery
to the control of one legislative branch of gov
eminent by millionaire senators to the out
rageous rulings of a despotic speaker of tn
house of representatives to the system nov
praeticed by the republican majority in con
gress of unseating duly elected members o
congress; and we are especially opposed to tn
| nfaV1 I lie ~,
vice for his state, in congress, has been to kee
alive sectional issues, calculated to divide tn
, people of the north and SOUTH and proven
that united brotherhood for which all goo
citizens so deYoutly wish
We are opposed to paeernal government
as proposed by the republican majority. an
we denounce, as outrageous, the proposes
Lodge elections BILL which would have tn
polls presided over by armed soldiers. specis
deputy marshals and other federal machinery
calculated to prevent free Americans frou
controlling their own elections in the manne
, guaranteed to them by the constitution,
We helie{e the cishl ut petition slonla neEe
4 be denied and. therefore, when respectabl
number of electors ask that they may be pei
mitted to vote on the repeal or adoption of an
part of the organic law their request s,.ou,
be granted, and the individual or. party tina
refuses to hear such petition, is unworthy O
confidence or power.
Resolved, by the democratic party OF Barbe
county, assembled in mass convention, this
we are in favor of the nomination of stPaigh
democratic ticket, upon platform of demo
cratic principles, from state officers down, an
: including all county offices.
l: W. STOUT, Chm'n.
j. E. HALL. il.