Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-30
THE COUNTY DELEGATES CHOSEN.
A Large Attendance-Harmony and Enthusi
asm PrevaiI-ResoIutions of Sympathy
for Jerry in his illness.

The delegate convention of the peo-
pies party of Barber county met last
Saturday, at Medicine Lodge, with q
good attendance. S. S. Funk was
chosen chairman Of the meeting and
Leon E. Beals, secretary.
The following central committeeman
from the different townships were re-
ported, the chairman, secretary and
treasurer being IN the order below.
Kiowa, j. +. Lee.
Sharon, VIM. Brown, L. w. Storey,
j. L. Pelton
HaZelton, Z. T. l.. Burns.
Cedar, Chas. Ware, l.. NJ. Pressnal,
j. A. Lester.
Mingona, James Garten, Howard
Parker, Frank Staubus.
Moore, Reese Clark.
Nippewalla, r. D. Gaddie, e. Bev-
ans. II. c. Mccoy.
Elwood, Robert Smith.
Eagle, A. j. Trotter, Josh Jones,
G. W. Frisby.
Lake City, Govan Mills, Willard
Stewart, N. Warnstaff.
Valley, A. j. Roessier, VIM. Rogers,
Bert Roby.
Elm Mills, Joseph Heady, W. H.
Slack, Jno. Chadwick.
McAdoo, D. F. McAdoo, c. w.
Wilson. j. w. McAdoo.
Turkey, Thos. Butcher, J. p. Massey
G.. r. w alker.
Deerhead, j. w. DeGeer.
Aetna, Sam Mosshart.
Sun City, n. G. Rowley.
Delegates to the state convention
were chosen as follows: VIM. Brown.
j. w. Wyer, Charley Currie, Andrew
Roessler, &. j. Skeen.
The congressional delegates chosen
were B. B. Daugherty, Noah Warnstaff,
VIM. Murphy, r. D. Gaddie, and Otis
Deavee.
AS the call has not been made for the
judicial convention, or the apportion-
ment fixed, nineteen delegates were
chosen with the proviso that in case
there were too many, the delegates
chosen, should decide among them
selves which of their number shall vote
as delegates, and provided further that
this manner of selection should be SUBJ
ject to the approval of the judicial COM
mittee. Those chosen were l.. NJ.
Pressnal, VIM. Maddox, Burd Lacy,
Charley BeYans, S. S. Funk, M. E..
Naughton, G. r. Walker, j. o. Warren,
R. V. Bloom, Luther McElwain, G. w.
Frisby, C. w. Wilson, Sam Mosshart,
l.. w. Storey, Clark Hudson, Tom Ro-
by, VIM. Ward, j. w. DeGeer, and Ed
German. 1t was moved and carried as
the sense of the meeting that the judi
cial convention be held at Attica, and
that both counties Join hands to make
it one of the rousing meetings of the
campaign.
The following resolution was pre-
sented and adopted, after which the
convention adjourned.
Resolved by the peoples party In delegate
convention assembled this Goth day of May,
1ss4-That we recognize in the Hon. Jerry
Simpson, our present representative from the
Seventh congressional district, a man of srpe-
rior ability as q legislator and Il tireless work.
er in the reform movement. And we believe
1t to be no more than just recognition of his
past services to the people of the district as
well as to the county at large. to continue him
In MS present position for another term, and
that the delegates to the congressional con-
vention be and hereby are instructed to cast
the vote Of this county for the Hon. Jerry
Simpson for congress.
The central committee met imme-
diately after. and organized by electing
S. S. Funk, chairman and August
Schmidt, secretary. They then ad-
journed subject to the call of the chair
man.
During the session of the central
committee, the following resolution
relative to Simpsons present unfortu-
nate illness, was unanimously adopted:
Be it resolved. That it is with feelings of
profound sorrow that we learn of the sickness
and suffering of our representative in con-
gress, the Hon. Jerry Simpson, and we feel
that his absence from the councils of the par
ty at this time on account of big physical ina.
bility to be present at our conventions and in
his place in the house of representatives is
not only personal loss to US, his old friends
and neighbors, but a loss to the whole people,
We therefore tender to him our sincere
sympathy in this his hour of trial and beg to
assure him and the people Of the 18th district
that we have not lost faith in his honesty, in
tegrity and ability to sustain the standard of
the peoples cause against the influences of
Wall Street and single gold standard and we
earnestly hope for his speedy recovery, that
he may again carry the cause of Justice for
the toilers of this country to victory at the
| ballot box and confusion and dismay to the
camp of the enemy,