Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14


Dave Overmyer is forciable speaker
and always draws q large audience.
He addressed an enthusiastic meeting
at the Salina opera house last week
Dan WagstaR, a former Republican,
who had always been local leader in
his party, occupied place on the stage
and is giving his support to the silver
ticket this year.
The middle-of-tne-road Popultsts
have floating In the breeze the finest
and most costly banner ever seen in
Topeka The Topeka State Journal
says it was presented by the Republi-
can state central committee.
1t advocates the single gold stand
ard today, but on August IL, 1898 the
Ell Dorado Republican said: "This
gold conspiracy has cost this country a
billion of dollars in that it has cut
down prices of farm products to that
amount; and the people have made up
their minds that they will not stand it
any longer"
Rev. Brant of Ft. SEQ tt has accepted
the nomination of the prohibition par
ty for governor Of Kansas.
Watson will be in Topeka October 16
and will speak there. He will pro-
badly make four speeches in Kansas.
Usage county lacks several hundred
| votes of being in the doubtful list and
the cause of silver is safe In the hands
of its voters
Z. w. Turner who has been cam
paigning the state and has made
speeches in Is counties puts the Bryan
majority at 10000. He says that in
every county where he has been he
finds from so to 500 former Republic
cans who are going to vote for Bryan
and 90 per cent of them will vote for
all the Populist state ticket
j. W. Leedy and Webb McNall cam
paigned together in Osborne county
last week. They drew to Osborne
City the biggest gathering of the sea-
| son.
OF all the state ticket j. D. Botkin,
candidate for Congressman-at- large, is
making the most vigorous campaign.
Since August 25th he has travelled 2,00O
miles, over $50 of which was in bug
gy. He has canvassed some of the
most thinly settled portions of Kansas
and has had to put up with all kinds Of
accommodations, sleeping in sod
houses, etc He has made over fifty
speeches and finds silver Republicans
every where who will vote the ticket
from top to bottom.
| Rev. J. E. Fesler, a minister in the
Methodist church at Fit. Scott is MAX
ing silver speeches and is said to be
very able advocate of the cause
Thomas B. Reed will come west but
will not strike Kansas. He perhaps
don't care to waste his breath in a
hopeless state.
The people never turned ont before
to political meetings as they do this
year. The reports of the meetings
where candidates on our state ticket
speak always tell of big crowds,
usually the largest ever seen in the
particular localities mentioned. The
Democrats and free silver Republicans
swell the Populists crowds greatly.
Captain Joe Waters who is stumping
the state for silver is not disappoint-
ed Office seeker. He has never been a
candidate for Office in his life and SAYS
when he dies he wants his wife to put
on his head stone: Here lies my be
loved husband Joe, who never wanted
whisky or Office
The Troy Chief has always been a
Republican paper and is so today but
it can tell the truth as the following
extract shows: 1.-THE late legislature
was the most reckless, the most worth
less, the most scandalous of any body
ever sat in Kansas We would add
the most corrupt, but we have no
proof of it, except appearances. How
VAC AOpuOiiCdA par W Call 20 OeIOre
the people and ask for continued con-
| f:dence on the record of that iegisla-
ture, we cannot imagine"
The Republicans could make no use
of Ben Clover and let him drop He is
now working on the Topeka democrat,
! Col Tomlinson's paper.
Albert Griffin and J. r. Rosseter had
the honor of addressing the biggest
political gathering ever assembled in
oswego. There were fully 5000 peo-
pie assembled, women and mems silver.
j clubs in uniform, three Aambeau clubs,
| three drum corps and brass bands A
large picture of Bryan was carried by
four old soldiers and company of
! nearly 100 old soldiers followed with
banner
Most OF the men employed on The
Republican state committee are draw
ing salaries from the state The chair.
man, Jim Simpson, IS drawing salary
of $1,000 year US railroad commiss-
Toner; the secretary. Joe Barstow, gets
a salary OF s., 600 Us private secretary to