The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-02
JCDGE BARRETT,
M.n Who Has Lived to Make Bitter Enemies
Respect HIM.

Two years ago when Judge S. L. Bar
rett was running for the Office of register
of deeds he had more partisan enemies
than any other man on the ticket. Thirty
years OF devotion and loyalty to the faith
that was in him made these enemies and
the opposition press and opposition politi-
Clans waged a most relentless and unscru-
pulOus warfare upon him from the day the
campaign opened till it closed and all be-
cause he was an intense believer in Repub-
lican prinniples. Two years have gone by
and today Judge Barrett has not a
word uttered against his character either
public or private. GA the contrary his
most bitter enemies of two years ago are
among his best friends today, aud it is not
exaggeration to predict that he will get
more Democratic votes than any man on
the Republican ticket, and not few
assert that he will get more Democratic
votes than the Demo- Pop candidate who is
running against him. His official record
has given the lie to the statements made
by the opposition two years ago and in
the annals OF Sedgwick county a brighter
record has not been made by any official.
Everybody vino has had dealing with
him pronounce him gentleman in all
respects, for in official life his greatest
traits have been courtesy, kindness and
an intensity obligng disposition. His
liberality since he has been in the Office is
characteristic, and it is not too much to
say that during the last two years his
purse has been open more frequently to
the demands of charity than that of any
other man in town. Nobody desiring any
contribution for public or private enter
prise has ever opened his hand before
Judge Barrett in vain.
If there is any other man in Sedgwick
county more entitled to the favor
able consideration of the people at
the polls than Judge Barrett the
writer would like to know him. His
career has been remarkable one. When
he was but IA years old he shouldered
gun and on the suburbs of Richmond, O..
he bid goodby to all his friends and went
to the war-left his school and his books
to participate in that great struggle In
which freedom and liberty and Union
were imperiled, Although boy he fought
like a man on every battlefield and when
pitted against the stout and rugged south
ern girulla he neither asked quarter, on
the score of being boy, or gave it. Pa
triotism gave him the nerve OF a man and
when he climbed up to the mouth of
rebel cannon at Bentinville he felt
like a giant and fought like one.
The cannon exploded and tore one of his
legs away; he still fought. aud before he
yielded from loss of blood on the breast
works of the enemy. he was pierced by five
bullets and remained exposed for twenty
six hours without attention from physi-
clans. These wounds would kill any aver
age man, but God pitied the brave boy and
spared him his life.
When the war ended he went to school
again and in few years he had acquired
an education that enabled him to become
a first-clsss school teacher. and thus equip
ped he bent his steps towards the west and
has lived either in Nebraska or Kansas
ever since.
Such is the man who asks your further
confidence for two years more as register
of deeds. Is it possible that such q man
can be defeated in Kansas? 1t is not.