Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-30
That Wonderful Campaign!

what Is the use of the republican press keep
ing up its soldering over Chester Long? He
was beaten badly, beaten and the people fully
realize that fact. All that may now be said
cannot in any way change the deservedly sit
ting down on that he got, into a victory; the
farther away from the scene of the conflict the
papers are published and the less the publish
ers know about the real merits of the two men
Simpson and Long-the moro loudly do they
speak in praise of Mr.. Long. And it also may
be truthfully said that in this congressional
district where the true characters of the men
were least known, Mr.. Longs vote was much
better than in those counties where both men
had become wellknown TO the people.
Take for instance Barber and Harper coun-
ties. In Barber county both men had lived
about the same length of time-the vote stood
Simpson, 1851, Long, 967, giving Mr.. Simpson
the fine majority in the home county of these
$40, beating his record of two years ago when
he ran against Hallowell. In Harper county
where they were better known than any other
county in the district, except Barber. Mr.
Simpsons plurality was over 600. This ought to
each men living at distance, who have but
little opportunity Of understanding their rela-
merits; that the vile SANDERS heaped upon
Mr.. Simpson were without fOundati IN. And
1t ought to teach men another thing, and that
Is that Mr. Long has been dreadfully oYer-rat-
ed.
Mr.. Long is accredited by republican papers
with having made a remarkable canvas, when
In fact. he was the candidate by proxy, the
railroads and corporation Of the state stand
ing behind HIM and employing every expedi-
ent within their power to forwad his their
interests. Witness dollar rate and passenger
coaches from Anthony to Hutchinson, when
Foraker and others spoke there in Longs in
terest and dollar and eighty-lhree cent rate
and box cars between the same points when
Simpson and Judge Martin held their great
meeting at Hutchinson.
Witness passes galore to all who would
attend Longs meetings and the crowds were
largely made up of imported men and women
children were not being barred-Witness
the discharge of railroad men on nearly every
section in the district the day after the
election-Query; Why were these men held
until they had voted and then peremptiorly
discharged. Witness the concentration of
railroad men at Wellington Mulvane and
other points on the night preceding the
election to be addressed by rabid opponents
of Mr.. Simpson. the nam line of the Southern
Kansas. under the control of the Santa Fe
carving a coachload from Attica and points
west.
Witness government officials from points
in the Indian Territory going home" to vote
In Wellington. Witness all this and then talk
about reduced majority and wonderful
campaign. No man has ever fought against
greater odds than did Mr. Simpson and if all
extraneous influence had been barred in
decency, his majority would have been ten
thousand.
We are pointed to Mr.. Simpson decreased
majority. Do these gentlemen know that
Simpsons vote was two thousand larger than
two years ago? Why, in view of this. his
decreased majority? Filling up alt railroad
section gangs thirty days before election,
voting them, and discharging them-importa-
ton of voters in free Kansas: coercing the
railroad vote of the entire district so far as it
could be done. and resorting to every means
known to modern politics. The Santa Fe has
proven itself stronger than the G. o. p in
this state. Did Mr.. Long sign the agreement,
rumor says he did at Newton?