Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-17


tees made the following report:
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Your committee on organization
would respectfully recommend Mr.. H.
G. Walker for permanent chairman and
Mr.. Noah ChenoWeth as permanent
secretary.
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
We, your committee on order of bus
mess respectfully submit the following
report:
l. That the convention proceed to
select two delegates to attend the ap-
pellate court convention at Wichita on
June 23rd for the purposeing of nOmi-
mating candidate for judge of the
court of appeals of the central division,
southern department..
2. Adjournment.
3. Converting of central committee.
RESOLUTIONS.
After asking for few minutes time,
the committee on resolutions made the
following report:
Whereas, The unparalleled depression ex
years is conceded by all political organizations
and ca CHI of the old and hitherto strong politi-
cal parties, there has been the most vehement
protestation against the policy of virtual con-
fscation pursued by the agents of the people
and in each of these parties large sections
have declared time and again the higher law
of allegiance to country and humanity, rather
than to mere party, and
Whereas, Every indication now points to the
time-old evasion of real issues and the build
ing ofplatforms capable of any and every con-
struction.
Therefore Resolved, That we reafirm the
grand principles laid down by the Omaha plat.
form.
Resolved, That we favor the free and I'M
limited and Independent coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to l, and such other financial
legislation as Will bring life and activity to the
paralyzed trade and commerce of the country
and that, too, without taxing the poor and
producing sections Of the country to bounty
the rich and non-producing.
Resolved, That we denounce the present
republican state administration as the most
wasteful. extravagant and partisan the state
has ever known.
we challenge all men to compare the per-
sonal characters, official acts and congression-
LOCOIOS VI Lue phSU anu present congress-
men of this district, asserting that the present
congressman has neither received nor merited
the distinction conferred upon bis predecessor
the Hon. Jerry Simpson. And we assert that
Mr.. Simpson as man and as congressman has
been of the people, for the people and by the
people.
Resolved, That our delegates to the appellate
judicial convention be instructed to support
Hon. A. w. Dennlson for the nomination for
judge of the central division of the southern
department of the appellate court.
II. S. Lands,
ED. BLAICH, SCom.
c. w. WILSON,
The reports of the several commit
tees were received and the committee
discharged.
Nominations for delegates were then
declared in order and the following
names were placed before the conven-
ton: III. s. Lands, G. F. Ware, VIM.
Brown. Mr.. Brown withdrew and
Messrs. Lands and Ware were made
the unanimous choice of the conven-
ton.
A motion to adjourn was then made
and seconded, but at this time VIM.
Brown wished to introduce a resolu-
ton. The point of order was raised on
the ground that a motion to adjourn
was before the house and the chair
sustained Mr.. Blaich, of KioWa, who
arose to the question. The motion to
adjourn was then voted upon by pre-
cincts and the motion was lost by
vote of SAL to 27t. Mr.. Brown again
introduced his resolution and the point
of order was again raised by several.
After considerable debate pro and con,
the matter was brought to an abrupt
closely motion to adjourn prevailing.
The point Of orderwas based on the con-
tention that the time for amending the
resolutions, was at the time of or before
the adoption of the report Of the COM
mlttee on resolutions. The matter was
trivial affair and is only an evidence
that honest men sometimes differ.
Otherwise the convention was harmon
ious and enthusiastic. Considering
that it was only delegate convention
to select delegates to 10 more than one
convention it was very we'll attended.
This is the proper spirit. We like to
see all the members of the party take
interest in the different conventions.
COMMITTEE MEETING.
After the convention adjourned, the
central committee convened and set
the date on which delegates to the con-
gressional. state and senatorial conven-
lions are to be held-the date being
fixed for Saturday, the 18th day of July.
The primaries were ordered to be held
on Thursday, the 9th day of July. On
account of the convention falling on
the second Saturday in July, the next
regular central committee meeting will
be held on the 3rd Saturday in that
month. The COMMITTEES then adjourn
ed until the next regular meeting.
Last Thursday we had nearly half
inch of precipitation but the subse-
quent winds have absorbed most of the