The Globe-republican., 1892-08-12
VICTORY FOR Petition.
the Com bi ned Forces OF Dem0crat.
ic EusBOniSts Routed by the
Duck Creek statesman.

City next Tuesday. Formerly such a
meeting as this would be tame affair
but the boys have been hitting Mary
/ Ellen Lease all over the country with
silver dollars until the peoples party
money bins are filled to overlooking,
while the combination on electoral and
state ticket renders the Cleveland cam
paign fund available for Kansas, and a
generous pile of this combined wealth
has been apportioned to Ford County.
which made this affair intensely inter-
esting. j. NJ. Bell has been selected TO
take charge of the commissary depart
ment as disbursing agent. while Bro.
VOORHEES, is to act as first assistant. No
man in Ford county is better fitted than
J. N. Bell for this important duty. He
is quiet and unpretentiOus, yet cunning
as "A fox. Money placed under his con-
troll will not be needlessly squandered
where Individual party services can be
secured by appealing to party zeal. Mr..
Bell will not waste good money upon
such. neither will he foOlishly divide
with those who have no political intiu-
ence.
This committee meeting was the first
occasion for his using his diplomatic
skill. and showed the work of Il master
mind. An energetic emissary was hired
and sent all over the county TO secure
proxies from the members of the central
committee in the rural districts. MEM
duced to favor it by some mysterious
hints of Doodle were quietly sent up to
the court house at an early hour on the
appointed day. The plan conceived
by Mr.. Bell was the audacity of genius.
1t was no less an undertaking than to
relegate to the rear the foremost demo-
crat of Western Kansas. one whose name
has for years been 4 household word in
every hamlet in the land; who has he
roicaly borne the banner of democracy
on the state ticket when success was
hopeless; who has carried her signet of
authority to the great national cOnven-
ton. and helped place Cleveland i'll the
presidential chair: who has represented
Ford county in Democratic national,
state, congressional aud senatorial con-
veutions, when no one else would do so
because there was nothing in 1t but to
keep alive the smouldering embers of
democracy until the tide should turn and
give the long suffering unwashed an
other possibility of filling their moss
covered frames with the spOils of victO-
~. This did the Honorable William
Tetillon al his own expense and with
lavish waste of his valuable time. But
now that Mrs. Leases silver dollars and
the glittering golden tributes from the
Cleveland gold bugs in the east are
about to be scattered broadcast among
the faithful in this state, the battle
SCARED chieftain who has borne the heat
and burdens of the day until his pow is
becoming frosty from unreq uited toll,
is to be turned dOwned. 1t was an her.
culean task. but for time victory
seemed to hover over Mr.. Bells banner.
Like Il wise genera, he remained in the
background while the impetuOus John
Martin and the pugnacious Thos. French
the Skillful j. NJ. kirkpatrick, and old
man eloquent W. III. LyBrand, were
sent ahead to act rs eXecutioners. armed
with such proxies as had been gathered
from far and near over the entire cOun-
ty.
Their proposed victim was not on
hand when the opposition assembled,
and they improved the time by counsel
ing together us the most effectual means
of doing him up. Just as they had ev-
erything ready to shear the locks from
this modern Sampson, a Gathering of
many feet was heard upon the stairs.
the door was flung open and in marched
W. +. Petition at the head of compa-
ny of democrats whose sturdy hearts
could not be won by Mr.. Bells bland
ishing sophistry. nor hired by fusion
gold. The great leader wore look of
serene confidence which caused the as
Sembled fusion hordes to quake with APP
prehension. There was that in the bat
tle-scarred visage which made them hes
itate 10 commence the ruthless work of
destruction they had planned so care
fully. Before this embarrassment had
subsidized Mr.. Petition himself took the
offensive and called for proceedings to
begin. Then the fusionists rallied all
their power for supreme effort. j. NJ.
kirkpatrick began the attack in mild
and cautious manner. He said person
ally he admired and even revered Mr..
PetillOn but that promipent democrats