Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION

The republican convention to elect
delegates to Topeka, Kinsley, Hutchin-
son and Kingman was held in Great
Bend last Saturday. The convention
was called to order at 11:30, and r. G.
Bailey made temporary chairman and
M. B. Fits and Ira III. Clarke secretar-
les. Committees were appointed and
an adjournment had until 1:3O p. m.
AT 1:30 the convention was again
called TO order. and the committee on
permanent organization reported, for
permanent chairman the childlike and
bland Col. wash. Sowards, the chair
man of the state resubmission conven-
tion Of 1890, and erstwhiIe kicker of
great ability. The Col. was very mild
in demeanor, conservative in his rulings
and apparently hopeful that the boys
would forgive and forget. He made a
modest little speech upon taking the
chair, saying, among other things, that
he wanted to see the republicans ''take
the calamity howlers by the seat OF
their pants and wipe the earth with
'em; wipe the state clear of the filth
that them fellers had smeared on it,"
and he thought the best way to do it
would be to down Jerry Simpson"
The committee on resolutions report
ed the following
RESOLUTIONS:
The republicans of Barton county in
convention assembled, reafirm their
adhearance to the principles of repub-
icanism which have been the safety Of
the people, and pledge anew their fidel-
ity to the platform of the national re-
publican convention of 1888.
ReSolUed, That we endorse the wise
and beneicent administration of Pres
ident Harrison and point with pride to
the results of his statesmanlike ability
as shown In the meeting of the great
questions of the day.
ReSOtred, That we are in favor OF
honest money whereby both the credit
or and debtor may each receive their
just dues.
ioesoIued, That we point with pride to
the honest. able conduct of state affairs
under the supervision of republican Of
hcialS for SO many years, and condemn
the partisan spirit which has sought to
publish our commonwealth to the world
as bankrupt.
1t will be noticed that they "pOint
with pride" to the state administration
but have not the sand to even mention
the prohibitory law; are in favor of
'honest money! but don't seem to
know what to call it.
The next thing in the regular order
of business was the selection of seven
delegates and alternates to the Kinsley
convention, but the program was va
ried little. The Hon. Morg. was
afraid to trust to the convention to
seleet delegates to the state convention
for he knew there might be some dele
gates selected who could not be brought
to stomach his candidacy for secretary
of state; so resolution was offered to
permit him to select his own delegates.
Some of the delegates who had come a
long distance raised a kick; they could
not see why they should have been call
ed down here simply to ratify the ac-
tion of the boss. Lieutenant Clayton
saw no harm i'll giving the boss his own
sweet will in the matter. He thought
Barton county republicans should do
like the republicans of certain county
west of us (meaning Pawnee) which
has been dominating the politics of
this part of the state" Bro. Clark of
the Dispatch, who had made plea for
the regular order of business, here
hastened to show his allegiance to
Morg. The regular order was suspend
ed and Morg. given his own way of
course. Prof. E. B. Smith, candidate
for state sEperintendent, was included
in this deal, but the boss selected the
delegation. 1t was noticeable that
only about half the delegates voted aye
to the resolution giving the boss the
convention; while the other half de-
clined to vote either way-for har.
mony's sake evidently. One gentleman
present, who is very observant. remark
ed that it was "a most Christ-like con-
vention.'
The regular order being again taken
up, Corporal Nimocks attempted tG
carry out the plans of the slate-makers
by offering a motion that one man be
selected by the chair from each town
ship and ward to be a committee tt
report names of delegates to the con
vention. Mr.. Banta entered protest
saying it was mot republican to cal
men in from all over the county ano
then have a select few to tell then
what they wanted" Capt. Peck alst
kicked against 1.-THE delegation being
packed" he wanted no one-sided
packed convention in hisn.' After /;
little maneuvering on the part of thos,
who wanted to fix things, they saw
they could not make it this time, as i,
the Hon. Morg's. case, and the dele
gates were selected by ballot, as fol
lows:
Kinsley. May 3-Delegates: 8 r. A
Bidleman, F. 81. Hitchcock, T. j. Ross
T. G. Brown, A. M. Button, w. J. Nc
Greevey and M. E. Gilmore. Alternates
Levi Gum. Ira III. Clarke. w. r. Peck