Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-01

rel, an old soldier from Harper county,
''who had stopped minnies." Hisspeech
was scathing review of the treatment
OF the old soldier. compared with the
treatment of the bondholder. He ask
ed all the old soldiers to stand solid for
Simpson and the straight ticket. 1t
was good speech and he was cheered
heartily.
All day long the crowd had been ask
ing, where is Simpson," 1t was
known that he spoke at Coldwater Fri
day night, and 1t was feared he would
not be able to get here, and if he did
get here it would be after a drive all
night. No one had seen him or heard
from him. When Mr.. Funk stepped
forward and said he wanted to intro
duce the next congressman from this
district-Jerry Simpson-the crowd was
for a second paralyzed, and then arose
the most spontaneous utburst of cheer
ing ever heard IN the county. 1t did
them good, and they kept at it. How
his heart must have swelled with pride
as ne looked into the eyes of his neigh
bors, and heard them send up three
loud, long. hearty cheers of welcome. If
there was anarchy in that welcome, God
pity this county!
Jerry's speech cannot be outlined.
No synopsis could give an idea of what
he said, or how he said it. He cut down
everything IN front of him, and knock
ed the old parties into pieces. He
played with Prince Hal" as a cat
would play with mouse. 1t was cruel,
yet it was fascinating, and the vast au-
dience listened with the utmost atten-
ton, and as they saw the quick wit, the
sharp repartee, the convincing logic.
they laughed and cheered and yelled
and clapped their hands in enthusiast
tic delight. Jerry's voice was strong.
his command of language inexhaust-
able, his memory Is like printed book,
his anecdotes are neatly fitted into his
argument, and we can sincerely say
that he made one of the best political
speeches we have heard in twenty years.
His style is more like that of Carl
Schurtz than any one else we can re-
member. AT the close of his speech he
received three rouslng cheers, and was
congratulated by everybody who could
get to him.
Mr.. Gleason, of this county, was the
70 in
manner, how 400 million dollars were
redeemed and burned; how 1900 fail
ures followed that year, aggregating
$500 ,000,0 600, the amount burned up. If
shrinkage of the circulating medium
Was good, then these failures must also
have been good for the country.
Geo. w. Mckay was introduced as
1.-THE next judge of our district court. -
He made short and sensible talk. pre-
dieting victory for the Peoples ticket;
fired broadside into Ingalls,; said the
people were awake to their own neces-
sites, and would never consent to have
the decalOgue and golden rule banished
from political campaign, though the
opposition party seemed determined to
do so. His 20-minutes speech was well
received
Col. Hickox was the next speaker, and
made short and forclble talk.
II. S. Lands was loudly called for,
and made ten-minute talk, which
was cheered at almost every period. He
struck the alliance gait and kept it up.
The alliance hOnors itself in honoring
Harry Lands.
l.. w. DeGeer came next, and made
a good impression. He said he had
been told that money would be lavishly
used in this campaign, to corrupt voters,
and he would, if elected, make it quite
hot for all corruptionists and law-break-
erS.
Mr.. j. o. Hahn next made a short
talk of ten minutes and Mr.. Funk an
nounced night meeting at the orera
house, and the great crowd was adjourn
ed.
There were about 4 1000 people on the
ground at noon. We heard the crowd
estimated all the way from 500 to 5000.
We did not see drunken person dur
ing the day. The best of order was
kept. Though hundreds OF people were
disappointed in not getting taste of
barbecued beef, they all took it good
naturally, and all were glad to see
crowd that could eat five beeves in five
minutes.
We will speak of the night meeting
in another place,
Sugar Mill Notes.
A carload of sugar and car load OF
syrup were shipped out Monday. There
is about one carload of sugar on hand,
ready for shipment, and another car
load in the wagons ready for the CEN
trifugals.
Up to this date the mill has cut cane
"a days. 1t is thought the balance of
the crop of cane can be cut In 25
days more.
The cane is not coming in as fast as
the mill can handle it. One cause is
that since the rain there are many
shoots, which are not ripe.
An elevator has been put up in the
east end of the mill, which is great
help in raising and lowering sugar, etc.
The silo hole is about 100 feet long,
Is feet deep, and 16 wide. 1t is one
third full of cane leaves. 1t will be