Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-08-12

from Coffey county amid great applause
and wild cheering.
THE BALLOTS.
LIST 2ni 3rd
Harris. .....-................19 1i 2023 1S4
King Observation-Disclosures ...... 12O 1O4 "a
Leedy .......... ............... 50 81 152
Campbell..... ......... ID II II
Munger. ...........-... -.-..-..-.. % 10
Before the fourth was half taken
Leedy had a majority and the rules
were suspended and the stampede
above recounted was enacted.
The defeated candidates, after Mr..
Leedy was nominated, made short
speeches in which they pledged their
undivided support to the new Moses.
After the first ballot was taken, the
several candidates made short talks, all
good ones, but Leedy's seemed to cap
ture the delegates and this is said to
have been largely responsible for his
speedy victory.
The following day A. NJ. Harvey was
nominated ror lieutenant governor,
Frank Doster for chief justice and J.
y. Botkin for congressman-at -large.
Ed Little was candidate before the
convention and had strong following
but Botkin was nominated by good
majority. Harry Lands put Botkin in
nomination and we are told his nomi-
mating speech had strong effect in the
winners favor. Little is the famous
man from Abilene who, though former
ly republican. refused to abide by the
st. Louis platform and VIM. Mckinley,
and his speech made before the state
convention last Thursday was received
with great applause. Mr.. Little de-
clares himself to be a populist and his
defeat for this nomination will not
cause him to retract a single declara-
tiOn he has made.
After this much of the nominating
work was completed the matter of nam
ing presidential electors was taken up.
A committee of five which had preYI-
ously been appointed to act with like
committee appointed by the democratic
convention at Hutchinson on August 4,
recommended that the electors selected
by the Hutchinson convention be en-
dorsed and that both conventions here
by instruct the electors, in event of
their election, to cast their votes for
VIM. j. Bryan for president and in
| choosing between Watson and Sewall
| for vice president, to vote for the one
| having the highest number of votes in
the electoral college, excluding Kansas.
The report was received and adopted
and the democrats Immediately nomin-
ated the Peoples party state ticket.
| The remaining portion Of the work
was completed on Thursday night. The
nominees are as follows: For secretary
of state, w. +. Bush, of Jewell; for
treasurer, w. H. Hefflebower, of Mi
anna; for attorney general, l.. G. Boyle,
of Bourbon; for auditor, w. II. Morris,
of Cherokee; for superintendent of
public instruction, VIM. Stryker, of
Barton. All were nominated on the
first ballot except Bush, for secretary
of state, which required three ballots
for choice. Lyman Naugle. editor OF
the Wellington Voice and II. n. Boyd
of Republic county, were candidates.
The ticket is one which all loyal citi
zens of Kansas can and will enthuslas
tically support. 1t is composed of mel
chosen from among the common people
and, If elected, the men composing the
Peoples party ticket will guard the in.
terest of Kansas and her people.
The platform is one which will be en-
dorsed by all people of the state and its
, demands are timely and essential t
the welfare of the people. 1t follows
We. the delegates. representative of the
Peoples Party, IN state convention assem-
bled. hereby affirm our allegiance to tho can
didates and the principles enunciated in the
platform adopted by the national convention
assembled in st. Louis. July -, 1896.
We congratulate the people of the state o.
Kansas that since the Peoples Party has beer
factor in state legislation we have procured
the enactment of redemption law, the val
ued policy law. the Australian ballot, the Law
prohibiting the making of gold contracts, thu
law reducing the interest on tax sale certiti
, Gates and ahrogating the March penalty OF
delinquent taxes; the Law requiring th'
weekly payment of wages and the miners
screen law; also the laws establishing ,
Grand Army museum and exempting the
Grand Army property from taxation.
: We condemn the republican house of rep
resentatives for failing and refusing to pass
: the bills sent to them from the Populist sen
ate, which provided for the taxation of foreign
Judgments the reduction OF the legal rate o.
interest and providing penalty for usury
placing credits upon an equality with othei
property for the purposes OF taxation. tht
anti-Pinkerton las, the exemption of the
personal earnings of wage workers and the
maximum freight rate law.
We condemn the present republican state
administration for using public funds and
property as the private perqpisites Of office
holders, for permitting its appointees to hold
up their clerks for a percentage OF their sala-
ries. for its conduct of the state institutions