People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-12
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Oxford Eegister.
Location was the winning factor
to the Republican convention.
Plenty of the boys are looking for
something soft to lay down on"
Resolve us no resolutions. Har.
mony, my lords; harmony, harmony
harmony.
If the Voice doesn't wake the ech-
oes, now, we're poor gu Sser. 1t
is entitled to the right-of-way.
As usual, Wellington stayed by
her standard Of generosity and al
lowed the country to have coroner.
Is it any wonder the people out
side Of the "ring district" want to a.
dopt the primary election scheme Of
nominating candidates.
Oxford Republicans may as well
stay away from Wellington conven-
tons. If they cannst secure nomi.
nation in twenty five years, the case
is hopeless. a..
J. w. Riggs met too many "untor-
tunate obligations of long standing"
People in this section must learn to
curb their aspirations until We'll
lington has been served.
Candidates like Bailey, Hardman
and Downing, Ewing, Carson, Riggs
and Williams, who would not "bend
the knee to royality"-or were given
an opportunity-wete left founder
ing in the bog.
The writer has attended a good
many conventions, but never one
where the after glow was so streaked
with dissatisfaction; where there was
so many distinct conflicting interetS.
The committee will have work to do
this fall, and its first and hardest work
must be done among its own people.
From a personal letter from Geo.
w. Bailey we take the liberty ofpub-
fishing an extract or two:
am inclined to the opinion that
the rank and file of the parties is to
blame for the unwholesOme condition
of politics. When some wire-puller
through chicanery and trickery de-
featS the desires of majority of a con-
venticn, which has been and will be
done again and again, if instead Of
hurrahing and lauding such disrepu-
table fellows aSshrewd pOliticiansand
Schemers, we would with no uncertain
sound give them to understand that
that kind of business would no longer
be tolerated, then different state of
affairs would soon obtain. -
In the main Mr.. Bailey is unques-
tionably right. There is no excuse
for boiling the nominations of half
way fairly conducted convention.
But how to effectually place the seal
of condemnation upon the "ring-
work." or trickery, or what-you-call.
it, other than at the polls2 There is
no remedy for the evil in oratory;
none in denunciation. The punish
ment Of defeat is the only kind that
touches the heart and conscience"
of the politician. !
After organization, a motion was
made for committee on resolutions
by H. A. Lopez, but Judge Ray had
"felt the pulse" Of the delegates and
asserted that they thought best not
to monkey with the buzz-saw-in the
interests Of Harmony with a big h),
The motion was withdrawn. Not a
doubt in the world that seventh
tenths Of the delegates were in favor
of resolutions-a statement Of prin-
ciples-but there seemed to, be, no.
orators among them. None who
cared to risk the ''horse laugh" by
attempting flights oforatory to which
they were not accustomed. So they
sat still and let Judge Ray pat rings
in thier noses T. -a.,te o' e.. ..s
1t was a cowardly thing to do.
The coming battle must be fought
on candidates. and not principles.
When asked his position on leading
questions of the day, our candidate
must say, eve have no opinions.
Next year we will tell you, where we
stand. lust now We are-well, We
are after the offices!" Out upon
such httleness.
Tom Hubbard proposed a resolu-
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