Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-21
Stand Up for Kansas.


Kansas" simply means Vote the re-
publican ticket. Let US examine the
material they offer as basis. Let re-
publicans speak. On the oath of Octo.
Der, 1870, there was held in Leayen.
worth the biggest republican mass meet
ing ever known in the city. George It.
Anthony was at that time candidate
Ior governor. The following resoIu-
tlons were adopted:
resolved, By the republicans at Leav-
ehWorth, In mass meeting assembled:
believing in strict adherence to our
promises OF reform within the party,
we regard it as the duty of every repub-
mean TO cast his vote against corrupt
ana dishonest men wherever they may
De round, an no matter ON which tick
o' 'uev Ne nominated.
Knowing George L. Anthony, the re-
publican nominee for governor of Kan
sas, to be man who is corrupt, dishon-
est and unworthy of the confidence OF
support of the people of this state, we
hereby utterly repudiate him as our
candidate, and appeal to our fellow re
publicans in all parts of Kansas to cast
their ballots against him.
The disgrace which has been brought
upon our party and state within the
past two years by the malfeasance of a
dishonest state treasurer, is warning
which we should heed. and we earnest
ly entreat the honest voters of Kansas
to consider we'll the consequences be-
fore they place in the governors chair
man whose character is worse than
ever Lappin's was.
That committee of republicans ap-
pointed by this meeting, be instructed
to prepare an address to the voters Of
Kansas setting forth in full the reasons
why we believe this man should not be
elected governor of the state, and that
the affidavits, records, and other proofs
of his dishonest and corrupt practices
be embodied in the same in order that
the public may see and know that we
are justified In the course we are per-
suing.
That all republican papers il: Kansas
which believe in reform within the par
ty, and desire to save the state from
further disgrace through dishonest Of
ficials, be requested to publish these
resolutions.
The committee appointed in accord
ance with the above resolutions, pre-
pared and published an address, from
which we take the following:
In accordance with the foregoing res
olutions, we hereby lay before the pub
lie the accompanying statement of
facts, establishing everything we affirm
by documentary evidence which can
not be questioned, and for the whole of
which we ask the careful and unim-
passiOned perusal of every republican
voter in Kansas. We are personally
acquainted with George Il. Anthony.
We know his record as citizen and
soldier. We know him to be bad man,
unworthy of confidence and support of
the people Of Kansas, and one whose
election to the government would be
disgrace to the state. We believe his
by the republican party was
a great mistake.
We prefer the following list of grave
charges against George T. Anthony,
and for proofs sustaining each particu-
laar charge we refer to accompanying
documents.
The documents herewith presented
convict George T. Anthony of
First-Detrauding his creditors. Rep
resenting himself as solvent when he
was bankrupt. Obtaining goods from
innocent parties through such false rep
resentation, selling the same and keep.
ing the proceeds; for which an unsatis-
fled judgment now stands against him
in the district court of LeaYenworth
county for oyer $4,000. (See document
No. TO-
Second-Defrauding the school fund
of the state of New York by failing to
pay over money belonging to said fund,
entrusted to his hand as loan COM
missioner in said state, for which an un-
satisfied judgment now stands against
him and his sureties IN the supreme
court of the state of New York. tSee
document No. 81
Misunderstanding his creditors and
eVading the payment of his honest
debts, by putting all the property liable
to execution in his Wife's name. (See
the records of Leavenworth county,
Fourth-False swearing, by publicly
stating under oath that the property
now in his wife's name, was bought
with the proceeds of the sale of proper.
ty, real and personal, which she owned
before he married her. (See document
No. 81
Fifth-Holding the most lucrative
federal Office in Kansas for eight con-
secutive years without devoting one
cent of the salary thereof to the pay
ment of his honest debts. (Refer to
George L. Anthony
SiXth-Cowardice as an officer in the
army, and cruel and tyranical treat
ment of the men under his command.
(See document No. Az
notwithstanding private soldiers
In the union army by taking several
thousand dollars of funds belonging to
the men OF his company and appr0pri-
ating the same to his own use. tSee
documents Nos. 2 and ~
Notwithstanding the friends OF a
dead soldier by taking SIS contributed
by the men of his company for the pur-
pose of embalming the body of de-
ceased comrade, and appropriating the
same 10 his own use, leaving the boys
father to pay the I'LL: (See documents
Nos. 2, and A.
Ninth-Publicly uttering a falseho65
by denying the charge in the above
count (eighth) and exhibiting to the