Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-18
Ed. Sample Reads the Riot Act
He Stirs the Bugs into Confusion. Says he is 16 to
Man and is Opposed to "Buncombe." Wants the
Resolution to Something He wants
it Understood he is Straddler.
SEVENTH DISTRICT RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.

The first shock that unnerved the boss
es came like a peal of thunder from
Ed Sample, the foremost republican
worker in this county. He arose and
demanded that the secretary read the
resolutions again. This rather tickled
the secretary and he grasped the docu-
ment, tuned up bis melodious voice and
began thusly: Platform of the Sew
enth" !! Horrors! the delegates threw
| up their heads in amaZement, but Har
~ soon got switched on the right track
and his Evolutionary powers soon salts
| fed Samples demand. Mr.. Sample
| then arose, addressed the chairman
and moved to amend the resolutions by
! striking out the printed part" the
Seventh district resolutions, also that
| resolution which endorses the state
| administration. This created excite
ment and confusion throughout the
entire room. Axllne, Nixon, ct. al,
sQulrmed in their places as though an
acute case of collie was raging in the
abdomen; perhaps if they would have
retained presence of mind they might
have headed off a second but before
they could regain their senses E. T.
Noble, of McAdoO, seconded the mo-
ton. This was too much for Lutte. the
pressure was too great. Were his gold
| bug ideas to be ignored by his own par
tY and his policy condemned by such
an emphatic rebuke? No. He would
do all in his power to avoid such ca
tastrophe. He sprang to his feet and,
in his colored arrangement, moved as
a substitute" for Mr.. Samples mo-
ton, that the report of the committee
| be adopted. This smart dodge by the
| Cresset man kindled fire under Eds
collar and he promptly told the chair
man that Axline's scheme to shut off
| debate would not work Willie be was in
| the room, that he proposed to talk on
this question, and that all would under
stand him before he got through. Ed then
called for copy of the resolutions ana
, denounced the instrument before him
as buncombe and said the committee
was seeking to straddle the paramount
! Issue before the American people to-
day. He said he didn't want 70 be a
| party in adopting a set of resolutions
that some man ran for congress on last
year, that he wanted resolutions that
meant something instead of nothing,
that he was in favor of the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to and that
If the resolutions say anything on that
| question he wanted l6 to clause in
serted. Then he read that part which
says "We believe by wise legislation"
etc. after which he said he believes
that also, that he preferred to express
himself in the language of Mark Twain,
ANY damn fool knows that" but he
wanted to know what that ''wise legIs-
lation" is. He entertained his audi
| ence in this manner for about Is min
utes and was frequently applauded,
meanwhile Axline didn't know where
be was att and a sigh of relief escaped
him when Ed. finished his remarks.
A. l.. Noble then took the floor and
said that personally he was a free coin
age, Is to l man, but the other mem
bers OF the committee were afraid that
at this time and he is willing at all
times to bow to the majority. He is q
, republican first and free silver man
afterward.
The next to express himself was Lew
Bragg who never reads anything but
the Cresset (if he can read at ALL sale
he was not a gold monometallist Meth
er was he silver monometallist. lie
r believed that free coinage at is to
: would be good thing if it could bt
done but he didn't think it could bt
done. OF course he is very ignoran
man and is too stupid to learn. Hi
D case is hopeless. He never heard wha
silver was doing before it was demon
etized.
: Vernon Lyle became utterly dis
D | gusted while the fracas was going OF
r and moved that the thing be lat
r on the table" prolonged Laughter.
No further remarks being desired
: Samples amendment was put to vot
and defeated by large majority, abou
! half the number not voting. Befor
motion was made to adopt the repor
= of the committee, Mr.. Sample mad
another effort and moved to lay tn
Il report on the table which met wit
!. a second, was put before the house AM
y lost Axline then moved to adopt TIL
report which motion prevailed an
Lutte and his cohorts were again rest
d ing with ease.
The main fight was now over and tn
d machine was again put in operation
u Nominations for register of deeds wer
called for and Geo. G. Smith was non
re mated by reclamation. His name wa
presented by w. r. Julian.
Is For clerk there were too candidate
re d. o. Edwards, of Hazelton. and Z.
lie Davis. of Sharon. Horney was tran:
n, ferred on the slate. owing to the fat
ne that there were two many candidate
ed for clerk and none for treasurer 4
lie this point Haberlein left the chair ar
be n. Multer. of Kiowa, presided. Ever
re one squared himself for another specs
n. from Haberlein for they knew it W