Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-07

AT the appointed hour the conven.
tion re-assembled and got down to bus
mess. The report of the the commit
tee on credentials was received and
adopted and the committee discharged.
Three precincts-Aetna. Sun City and
Elm Mills-were not represented,
though the delegats from Elm Mills
| arrived later.
The committee on permanent organ
iZatlon recommended the names of H.
S. Lands and j. y. Hahn for chairman
and secretary of the convention and
upon motion the report was adopted
and the committee discharged.
The report of the committee on order
of business recommended that the con-
vention proceed to nominate ticket in
the following order:
Sheriff
Coroner
Surveyor
Register of Deeds
Clerk.
Treasurer.
Then came the report of the COM
mittee on resolutions as follows:
We, the undersigned committee on resolu-
lions, beg leave to report the following:
RESOLVED, That we renew our allegiance to
the Omaha platform, but at the same time we
| recognize the fact that in the present condi-
| ton of political agitation and under the
pressing necessities of the hour, that plank
| OF our platform which demands the free and
| unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to
l is the one around which the coming politi-
| cal battle must be fought, and we further
consider that the plank demanding the aboli-
tion of national banks and the substitution
of postal savings banks, should be Joined with
it in rallying our forces for a valiant stand
| for monetary and industrial reform; and
while this falls campaign is more or less To-
cal in its nature,we consider it in part. a prep
aration for the battle of 1895 on the lines
herein set forth
We srraign the present state adminlstra-
| ton for it's wilful neglect of every promise
| made to the people of this state; for its ma
| licious partizan and groundless investiga-
| lions at a cost Of tens of thousands Of dollars
wrung from an already tax burdehed popu-
lace; for its criminal violation of existing
law, In creating without cause deficiencies TO
| be provided for by future legislatures; for its
payment of private and personal obligations
| out of the public monies; for ITS refusal to in.
vestigate grave charges against it's own mem
| bers made by prominent men and journals
within its own ranks, and we assert that the
high functions of government is being pros
I tituted by the present administration to the
base purpose of building up the managers of
| the republican party Of this state.
| w. q. BALLARD
NJ. F. STEWART,
WIN. BROWN,
L. G. Corr.
@. W. ELLIS.
AT the close Of the reading by the
secretary it was plainly seen that the
resolutions met the unanimous ap-
proyal of the convention and every
delegate was sure to make his voice
heard in voting for their adoption. The
peoples party is never afraid to show
where 1t is att on the issues of the
| day.
Nominations for sheriff were now
declared In order and Immediately a
delegate in the person OF Burd Lacy
was on his feet and in a few fitting
remarks .. Mills, the present, incum.
bent, was placed i'll nomination. The
Chair called for other nominations
but everyone knew that Tonk was the
man that was wanted in the sheriff's
Office, and accordingly . motion tc
suspend the rules and make Mr.. Mills
the unanimous choice of the conven-
ton by reclamation, prevailed.
For Coroner. DR.. Downtain, of Kiowa
was placed in nomination by L. z. COT
of that place, and DR.. j. T. Cushen
berry, of Medicine Lodge. was nominal.
ed by VIM. Brown, Of Sharon. Or
motion, nominations were closed and
the convention proceeded to ballot al
the close Of which the secretary an
nounced the following result:
| Downtain. q
CuShenberv. ..... s:
Cushenbery, having a majority of the
votes cast, was declared the choice oil
the convention. A motion by Mr.. Gof
to make Mr.. Cushenberyas nomination
unanimous was carried.
Nominations Tor surveyor was thu
next on the program. For awhile il
looked as though, to put it in the words
of the chairman, the convention was
up stump" and could not find a can.
dldate for this place, but the seeming
difficulty was soon overcome wher
John McGregor sent forth the name Of
Noah Chenoweth, a man of known
ability and reputation in that vocation
Tor the place. Mr.. e. tried to evade
but the convention got the start of hin
and he was nominated unanimously by
reclamation before he could find anoth
er candidate.
For register of deeds, the name of C
w. Wilson of McAdoo, was presented
to the convention by VIM. McAdoo
No other name coming before the con
vention, the rules were suspended anl
Mr.. Wilson was nominated by accia
nation.
| For county clerk, John Wyer put II
nomination r. D. Gaddie and Johr
McGregor, in an appropriate speech
seconded the nomination. He states
| to the convention that, while Mr.. Cad