Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
How She Did It.

The last part of the editorial in the
DEMOCRAT is very 'small potatoes. u
but we will try to answer it. How to
become delegate? Well, you just go
to the convention, possibly somebody
will think of you and place your name
in nomination.; then if the convention
has confidence in your honesty, ability
and integrity, you will get votes enough
to elect YOU Otherwise the number of
votes will be small. That is the way
affairs are managed in the alliance.
Those who put up jobs or work schemes
and seek the Office get left. The allI-
ance people Lave no confidence In such.
Mrs. Mccormick, in the Beacon.
Just SO. POSSIBLY somebody will
think of you and place your name in
nomination" But possibly that
somebody would not have thought of
you had you not had the doctor to get
that somebody to one side and put the
brilliant thought into his head. And
s'possibly" you would not have ''got
votes enough to elect you" had not the
whole thing been rushed through before
the alliance ladies who were working
hard down stairs to get dinner ready
for you and the rest of the convention
had an inkling of what was going on.
POSSIBLY" you think it is ''all in the
family" and the vulgar public, the com
mon, slow thinking but hard working
farmers and farmers wives were never
''onto" the little game; but ''possibly''
you are mistaken.
"Those who pnt up jobs or work
schemes and seek the Office get left"
Yes, generally; and the time is not far
distant when you can speak from per-
sonal experience. Up to the present
writing, however, you have worked the
thing pretty smoothly, and with the
assistance Of the Beacon you may be
able to continue knocking the rersim-
mons.
Zone woman in it!' What ignOr-
ANGEL If the editor can spare aquarter
and will go around and patronize an
alliance dinner. he will see one or two
hundred earnest women doing what
ever their hands find to do with all
their might.
Well, we have spent several quarters
for dinners served by alliance ladies,
and got value received in good, whole
some victauls; such as farmers
wives always set before hungry
men. But there you were not
always ''in it," Mrs McCor-
mick, if there were any little confabs
of 70 ho1d t,x,
would-be political manipulators the
world over, there you was the lone
woman in it." When the Barton county
delegates to the congressional conven-
ton were asked to present DR.. McCor-
mick's name for the nomination 'poss-
IDLY" you were the lone woman in it. !"
We have not learned of there having
been any other women sin it." Then,
again, at the state convention later on,
when good Barton county brother, a
man with large heart put of few years
between him and the great beyond was
persuaded to nominate candidate for
state school superintendent, you was
the lone woman in it, once more.
Our information on all these matters
is as reliable as the sun itself, and we
are therefore not writing Fiction"
We had hoped that you would give
the story of these ''small potatoes" in
your own graphic style, as you could
have added many interesting points
that we have omitted. If we find,
however, that our readers are clam
orous for the full history of your politi-
cal exploits we will have to give it,
unpleasant though the task may be.