Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-08
COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

The county central committee of the
Peoples party met at the courthouse
last Saturday morning at IL O'Clock.
5. S. Funk, chairman, called the meet
ing to order, and w. G.. Musgrove was
elected secretary. Minutes of proceed
ing meeting read and approved. Roll
of townships called, and nearly every
township found to be represented.
Clay McGrath moved TO elect three
central committeeman from each town
ship at the primary election, instead of
at the county convention. Carried.
1t was agreed that all persons who
would support the nominees of the con-
vention be invited to take part in the
selection of delegates.
The time and place for the county
nominating convention, and for the
primaries was then taken up, and after
some discussion it was agreed to call
the township primaries for Saturday
the first day of August, and the county
convention for Monday the third day
of August.
1t was moved and carried that the
committeeman from each township be
authorized to recommend that the town
ship ticket be nominated at the time of
holding the township primary.
a committee was appointed to pre-
pare an address to the people, and re-
ported the following which was unani-
mOusly adopted:
AN ADDRESS,
We. the representatives of the peoples party
of Barber county. hereby invite all persons
who are friendly to our movement; who are
interested in our mutual welfare, and who are
opposed to any system of political jobbery
which recognizes the buying of votes as legit-
| innate campaigning, and who are opposed to
extravaganza in government, county, state and
national affairs, as exemplihed by the late
"Billion Dollar" congress, to unite equally
with us in holding primary meetings
| for selecting delegates to our county NOM
| mating convention.
Webeleve in the principles enunciated blythe
Cincinnati conference.-the believe that not only
| the farmers but also the laborers and mecban-
| les of this country have political and social
! rights which have been long rejected by the
| law-making powers, until the servants have
| come to regard themselves as the masters.
| We believe that the interests of the wage
| workers and of the business men of the com
| munity identical, and so believing we
challenge the unbiased judgment of this peO-
pie in verificatlOn of this statement, and ask
their cooperation and support for these inter
| ests. Believing that corporate monopoly and
organized capital, in their various forms, are
making more serious encrOachments upon our
rights and liberties each year, We believe the
only way we can successfully reDel these en-
croachments is by united action, and that
there is no prospect, so long as we cling to the
methods heretofore prevailing in practical pol
itics.
We believe that The election Of last year has
been already of great advantage to the
people, as it has shown our servants that we
still retain the power. and though we have
been slow to act, their expressions have goad
ed us to the performance of a long neglected
political duty.
We believe that the politics of the past has
long been governed by rings; that the best
men have nearly always been pushed aside tC
make room for strikers on account of sup
posed political influence; and thus believing
we invite all persons having the good of the
community at heart to help us relegate these
old political hacks to that obscurity which viii
be so becoming to them.
We demand an economical administration OF
county affairs. and faithful accounting fol
all money passing through the hands of oul
officials; we demand strict and impartial en-
forcement of all laws on our statute books.