Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-15
Last Hours Of the Peoples House.

Editor Advouate:-On Tuesday morn.
ing the closing ceremonies of the PEG
pie mouse we're held. Ii had been ar
ranged that al 10 O'Clock the represent
atIvcS were 10 enter the Douglass
house. Soon after they met. In
promptu talk. greeting. resolves and
consultations prevailed till the room was
one buzz of voices. Those who report
it was IA melancholy affair were either
not present or cannot perceive the diff
ference in the resolve of unconquered
heroes and the detection of almless
leaders who wonder where they are
at"
When the g2vel was raped by Duns-
more. all was order and close attention
Resolutions and thanks TO officers and
assistants were plenty. The ever pre-
sent and active Ben Rich was given
charge of the journal ana documents.
The vigilant and brave sergeant-at-
arms responded to thanks, eloquent but
pathetic: II have learned one lesson
that | had never before known. have
faced the smoke If cannon, the glitter
of bayoneis, the carnage of hundred
battle fields; but when our opponents
and the gang they brought into this
city insulted, tainted and threatened
men whom | revere, it then took more
courage, more resolution not TO fight
than to do it under all the varied ex-
element of the battlefield"
The fiat members were cOnSOled by
the thought that they were onlv left to
rest by the Wayside. They had fought
good fight, had stood the ordeal like
old guards; neither Douglass or his
hammer or the drunken thugs imported
by Sheriff Wilkerson had harmed them.
But now Horizons big gun has left
hem behind. just for few DAYS. Two
Years will soon pass. The people of
he state will rally to help us put You
again in the front ranks Together we
will march on to the day of final victory.
Such were the utterances. Men anx-
IOuS to say their say spoke terse and
brief. DunsmOre' gavel was kept &C
tive. At last Garrison of Barber,
moved:
That with malice toward none. with
charity to all, We go without pledge,
hammer or gun; we go as citizens loval
10 the executive and judicial depart
mentS Of our state government: we will
90 as representatives of the people of
our state, whose energies have made
our state lovely and beautiful. whose
arms have covered it with towns and
cities and made it a jeweltn ournation-
III dladem. These people of our state
win JCH CFCtJ hlOD2. We gu Us
men eyer contending for the principles
in which we believe"
This was instantly adopted. Even
the visitors responded ave and joined in
The vigorous cheers that greeted its
unanimous adoption.
Two minute speeches were then al
lowed. One member looked to the
speaker, eyed the clock as if it was his
special enemy, then turning to the
house with an eloquence and pathos
worthy of one of the early fathers, he
gave his battle cry: "We'll shake the
star-spangled banner aloft; we'll shake
the shakes from the wage slaves of our
country. as our fathers shook them
from off the chattel slaves; we will vet
with the help of the people all over
this broad land come out victorious.
We will triumph IN the final struggle
against all legaIiZed wrongs"
Ten minutes before 10 O'Clock. Speak
or Dunsmorp declared the proceedings
at an end. Members were invited to
march behind the sergeant alarms,
who bore alOft the star-spangled ban
ner ''Stand together. act together. |
vote together" was the concluding in
juncrnn. The gavel fell. DunsmOre
and Rich headed the procession. The |
doors of the other house were left open |
Flag. members and visitors all entered. |
and what some facetiOusly call the |
II ortcn house started business.
JOHN RADFORn.