Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-23
Tapscatt, . Democrat selected by the
Populists heads the ticket.

Populists heads the ticket.
DR.. johnson heads the ticket of the
combined silver forces in Chase county.
O. o. Outcalt in Coffey county; T. j.
Armstrong, Edwin Taylor and C. B.
Hewlitts in Wyandotte county; and
Felix O'Neil in Brown county.
The Republicans of the Sixth dis
trict have difficulty in getting crowd
to listen to Ellis, their candidate for
congress. As an experiment they adj
vertised Webb McNall to speak at
Reamsville and drew big crowd. At
the same time McNall was out making
speeches for Bryan and the Populist
state ticket.
Highland, a town in Cy Leland's
county, is dangerous place for silver
men. A threat had been made that no
Bryan man could speak in that town
| and get away alive. E. W. Elliott
went there one night last week aud
organized Bryan club, but was as
saulted before he got out Of town, and
had his friends not come to his rescue
he might not have got away alive.
j. B. Watkins, one of the wealthiest
bankers in Lawrence. has come out for
Bryan and silver. He says he does not
want to have to foreclose mortgages,
real estate is not what he wants. He
would sooner see the farmers have a
chance to pay the interest and princi
pal and keep their homes.
Elder Brant of the Fort Scott district
wont keep still. Politicians have tried
every means to induce him to hold his
peace till after the election, but he
wont do it. On last Sunday he preach.
ed sermon in the Methodist church
and scored the state administration
worse than at any time before and
said he would keep it up until after
the election
The movement which is said to be on
foot to put Watson electors on the
state ticket by petition is not making
much Roadway. 1t is hard to find ten
goldbug Populists in the state who
would be willing to help elect McKin,
ley by allowing their names to be used
on the ticket.
The Populist party central commit
tee of jefferson county-Willetts' home
county-passed without dissenting
vote, resolution condemning WilIetts
for attempting to get up a separate
electoral ticket in this state. The res
olution says that Willetts, while max,
ing a pretense of working for Tom
Watson, is really working in the inter-
est of Mckinley. The resolution fur.
ther states that Willetts' present &C.
| ton is contrary to sentiments express,
ed by him in a July speech, when he
hartily endorsed the action of the Abb.
| lene convention.
| The Democratic judicial convention
which met at Topeka on the 18th nom
mated for judge of the court of ap,
| peals j. P. Human who is the present
nominee of the Peoples party
Oberlin had big silver parade the
other day when J. d. Botkin spoke
there. In the parade there were four
| tramps, fixed for the occasion. They
were in charge of a boss who, every
few minutes, made them hurrah fos
| Mckinley.
Leedy spoke in Topeka on the even
ing of the 10th. He drew a good audi
ence and made splendid impression.
William Price, of Everest, who was
elected as Republican two years ago
to the legislature from the Fortieth
district. and went as delegate to the
Republican county convention at Hia.
watha Aug. 81, is now making speeches
for Bryan and silver. The British gold
plank was too much for him.
Senator PETER and Albert Griffin
spoke to about 5000 people in Beloit at
a recent rally.
Twelve per cent of the Bryan club at
Kirwin left the Republican ranks to
join that organization. A poll of the
state would probably find at least 12
per cent of last years Republicans
now on the rolls of Bryan clubs.
A Republican speaker by the name
of Schonecker is trying to get some
notoriety by saying that Bryan said in
Nebraska speech that free coinage
would bring ruin and panic on this
country. He made the statement al
st. Marys but when asked by man in
the audience to state when and where
Bryan had said that, he could not tell
w. A. Harris, state senator: r
Graves and Horace Keefer, representa-,
tives, are the Populist portion of the
fusion ticket agreed on in Leaven,
worth.
Minneapolis McKinleylte reports
to the Topeka dailies a club of 3oo
gold bugs, including among its mem,
bers several Popul;sts and Democrats
and says that all the Democrats in the
county will vote for Mckinley. A sill
yer Republican investigates the matte,
and cuts the 900 list down TO rs. finds
| four Democrats in the county who vii,
vote for Mckinley and 100 Repu blican.
| who will vote for BRYAN