Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-20
ABOUT OUR CONGRESSMAN.

ABOUT OUR CONGRESSMAN.
From the Phillfpsburg Dispatch.
When word was received in this
city last Friday that n. B. Mccormick
had received the populist nomination
for congress, there were not one-halt
of the people who would believe it.
While he has been standing candi-
date before one party or another fol
the last twenty years, yet nobody had
even presumed to associate his aspira-
tions with that of a congressman.
His friends who have lived with him
for the last quarter of a century,
really think that his early education
along the lines necessary to qualify
and equip one for the important and
responsible duties of member in
congress, had been more or less neg
lected, and so it was that his friends
received the first news of his nominal
tion with more or less uncertainty as
to it's truthfulness. The first report
was, however, confirmed in due time,
and whatever his friends and neigh
bors may think, the fact is that he is
the candidate of the populist party of
the big Sixth district, and the people
of the district will be compelled to
decide whether he or Judge Ellis, of
Beloit, shall represent us in the halls
of the national congress for the next
two years.
The people of Phillips county all
know Mr.. Mccormick better than we
do, so that it will not be necessary for
US to tell them who he is. For the
benefit of thoseSiving outside of the
county, and who may desire to know
something of the populist candidate
for congress, we will say that Mr..
Mccormick is a man 40 years of age,
and is the head of one of the finest
families in Phillips county. His
family consists of a wife, four sons
and three daughters, all of whom are
living at home except one son who is
married and living in the city. Mr..
Mccormick has been a resident of
Phillips county for twenty years,
eighteen of which he has resided in
this city. Prior to his coming to the
city to live, he made his home on a
farm near the city. In the early
settlement of the county Mr.. McCor-
mick filled the responsible position of
justice of the peace and we hear his
services in that office well spoken of.
He has been constantly in the prac-
tice of law since being raised" from
the high office of justice of the peace.
Since his very earliest settlement in
this county Mr.. Mccormick has ex-
hibited a perfect mania for office. and
has been a candidate for something
nearly every year since he came to the
county. When he first came to the
county he was democrat and filled
the lucrative position of secretary of
the county central committee for that
party, and when it became pretty GER
tain that he could never get anything
in that party, he very soon espoused
the cause of the republican party and
became one of the most active and
enthusiastic republicans in the
county. His great ambition seemed
to be to fill the Office of county at
torney, but when he could not have
this ambition gratified in the repub
lican party after frequent attempts
he took advantage of the first oppor
tunity and Joined the populist party
and true to his time-honored custom
was the first candidate of that party
for county attorney, and as was Gus
tomary in this part of the state il
those days, he was elected. Tw,
years later he was reelected. SERVING
the people of Phillips county fou
years in this office, and our early edu
cation in the art of telling the trutl
and our years of practice in that pro
fession compel us to say that Mr.. Nc
Cormick made a very good officer. H
was not an avowed candidate for
third term, yet it was well understood,
that he would be glad to accept
third term, but the convention woult
not consider such a proposition for
minute.
He was next a candidate for the ap
pOintment as one of the populis
judges of the appellate court, blu
failed. Since that time, while it la
has been well understood that h
would be a candidate for somethiny
this year, yet it had not been full