Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07
popuL,sT STAFF POLITICS.

and jackson countless; J. j. Lambert,
representative Lincoln county; c. w.
Eckman, representative Osborn coun-
ty; Samuel Earnest, representative,
Atkinson county; w. NJ. Metzler, rep
Sheridan county.
The sons of their fathers, the New
York senator's and other evangelists
which the Republicans have imported
to this state to do political missioCery
work among the deluded silver people
of Kansas all proved to be handicapped
by the want of information. They
should have been imported early in the
spring so that they might have ac-
quired little knowledge by the time
the campaign opened up.
The Greensburg Signel, the only
paper in Kiowa county, has two editors
and advocates both bimstallism and
single gold standard. The matter of
political complexion is on separate
pages and is a good way to present
both sides and serve an economical end
at the same time.
The Kansas State Bankers associ-
alton held their ninth annual meeting
in Topeka last week. There was moth
ing political about the meeting except
hat it was meeting of bankers and
of course the political situation was
discussed and cussed
When the Trades and Labor assem-
bly, arranged their labor day program
for the Topeka carnival they asked the
Populist and Republican state central
committees to each furnish speaker.
The Populist committee furnished j.
Crosby who spoke first. He was howled
off the stage by the old soldiers when
introduced Populist doctrine in his
speech, but Marion Bro sins the Re
publican speaker was allowed to
speak for an hour aud a half without
being interrupted.
Horton like every other town in the
state, has its prominent Republicans
who refused to follow the procession
when under the leadership of Wall
Street At a meeting last week w. w.
Price, the present Republican repre-
sentative from that district, presided
and introduced as the speaker of the
evening John S. Hopkins, prominent
citizen of that town and a life long
Republican standing high in the coun-
ellis of the party. Aud yet we hear
talks of Kansas going for Mckinley.
Mrs. Ellis. wife of the Republican
candidate for congress in the sixth
district, has pror Used 300 ladies of Be-
lott a tea party if her husband is elect
ed. The whole campaign is exhibiting
so much of the spirit of independence
that prevailed the Boston Tea Party of
historic fame that it is feared Mrs.
Ellis friends will have to take tea at
home.
Doster was greeted by two bands
and 5000 people when he spoke at
Winfield. The Arkansas City silver
club, 300 strong. helped to swell the
throng.
Frank X. Forr est, who used to be
called the boy orator but who is now
dubbed the Bryan of Jewell county. is
doing good campaign work this fall in
the sixth district.
w. w. Stewards of Great Bend, life
long Republican has taken the stump
for Bryan and silver. In recent
speech he said: They say l am boil
ter simply because, after going to bed
at night a silver man ] did not wake
up the next morning shouting for gold
like the majority of the Republicans
in this section. However everyone
knows that the ma jority of Republi-
cans in this state were for silver be-
fore the st. Louis convention and
! therefore l claim facts will support
the assertion that it has been the gold
Republicans that have bolted and not
l."
T. L. Irish and Rev Fleharty held a
joint debate in Riley on the finance
question. The silver people are well
pleased with the way Rev. F1eharty
handled his opponent and the subject.
Governor Leedy and Dave Overmeyer
campaigned together last week and
had several good meetings Leedy
grows in favor with the people every
day.
Kansas will GO 10000 for Mckinley.
Dick Blue says so and he ought to
know. If Kansas goes for Blue it will
go for Mckinley, sure. But the in
dications are that Bryan will get near
ly as many votes as both of them.
A prot racted discussion between the
Horton Headlight aud Commercial as
to how many Republicans in Horton
had joined the BRYAN club ended bv
the Commercial making this proposi4
ton: ''Wind is very cheap-especially
the mouthings that are payed TOR with
corporation money from Wall street.
The Commercial will put up SIS to go
to the school fund, if there are not the
names of 20 Republicans on the Hor
ton Bryan club if the Headlight man
Wallace county Populists have NOM