Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-25

Inasmuch as there are quite num-
Der of cities yet left in which no dem
ocratic free-silver convention has been
held, and it being highly desirable that
everybody should know how to conduct
one Of these innocent affairs, we hereby
publish recipe which has been tried
by a number of the best political cooks
in the country, and which may be re-
lied on to furnish you pleasant polit-
ical pudding g-warranted to sit lightly
on the stomach, and guaranteed to Gre
ate no internal discomforts.
1st. Secure a lot of free passes over
the railroads, good to fetch as we'll as
to carry. Have these passes distributed
by some great and good newspaper
which advocates free-silver and sup
ports the men who vote against it.
End. Secure the attendance of lot
OF senatorial fossils who may be safely
relied on not to do anything rash
men whose easy movements will not
Jostle the moss on their backs, and to
whom the passing of a ringing reso-
lution," or two, seems the climax OF
political daring.
Harris of Tennessee may be counted
on. He's safe. He won't do anything
rash. He will vote for a resolution
demanding" the instantaneous coinage
of silver. Will meet you next week
and vote for another one, if you want
1t. Will meet you next year, and vote
for another one. No matter how strong
CPQrp
Harris. He is warranted not to be
afraid of any resolution the English
language can hold. After voting for
the resolution, Harris will then go to
sleep.
Sd. Invite some brilliant orator who
can reasonably be expected to have in
| f1uence enough to carry his own vote
and let this orator come to the conven-
tion loaded with speech against Cleve-
land.
The bitterer this speech is, the bet
ter. 1t doesn't hurt Cleveland, and il
immensely relieves the free-silverites
A speech of this character is well-nigf
equivalent to the reopening of the mint!
to silver.
4th. Invite Lon Livingston to attend
so that the moral character Of the as
such high level that no carping criti
will be encouraged to make disparagin.
| remarks.
5th. Read letter from Billy Bryan
to the effect that There is net room
enough in this country for two repub
lican parties" This somewhat care
worn and fatigued statement of Billy
is an eminently true saying, and it
gloss cannot altogether be rubbed Of
by the disagreeable fact that the tw
republican parties are still in our midst
and that Billy continues to belong t
one of them.
9Th. Read a letter from Hon. Rich
ard Bland stating that he has now go
to the forks of the road, and has sa
down on his coat tails a leetle to tn
democratic side of the fork.
7th. Introduce some resolution
about the "crime of 1873" Make 'eI
hot. 1t will please the boys. Intimat
that you will hurt somebody if some
thing amt done to help the country
Bounce Carlisle. Bounce Sherman
Bounce Rothschild. Bounce Wall stree
Invite Dan Voorhees, to help you abus
the Shylocks. Say nothing against til
democrats who in 1898 shut the mint
to silver.
Put the world on notice that tn
down-trodden people are relatives {
yours and that you are going to max
it a personal matter if the John Shei
man policies are not cast overheard
But avoid all unpleasant reference
the democrats who closed the minis
! 1893. Some of them will be presen
= and it would be bad manners to PEI
senate them.
Sth. Tip wink to the gold-bu
? democrats; they will understand tt
! wink to mean that you are not {
:. madly mad as you seem to be, but tha
: on the contrary. there are indication
: of well-defined method in your ma,
: ness.
Let it gradually ooze out of you th'