Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-04-14
CENTRAL COMMITTEES RESOLUTIONS,

The meeting of the Peoples PARTY
central committee which was held in
this city on Saturday was well attend.
ed and the business transacted was of
an important nature. The following
resolutions were introduced, discussed
and adopted:
Whereas, The Barber County INDEX
was established for the purpose of pro-
mitigating Popullst Principles as de.
ciared from time to time in Its conven-
lions. notably those of st. Louis, Ocala
and Omaha; and, whereas one of those
declarations is clearly opposed to cor
porate dominance in public matters;
and, whereas certain parties are at
tempting at this time, by the Wrecklpg
method $50 much in vogue in Wall
street) to bring the standing and credit
of the Barber County INDEX into dis
repute and to control It's politics and
use up its profits by means of a receIy-
ership for the same. and thereby event
ually forcing it to be sold by order of
court, to be sold for what it will bring;
| and, whereas the only motive that can
be discerned in the whole matter seems
to be the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF certain am
bilious persons who desire to build
| themselves up without taking into con-
sheraton the welfare of all the people,
the principles promulgated by the Pop
| ulist party, nor the we'll understood
agreement by which the Barber County
INDEX Company was called into exist
| ence; and
Whereas it is an automatic principle
that self defense is tho tlrst law of ex.
| lstence; and, whereas a true POpuiist ia
an adherent to principles and not a
blind follower or worshipper of self
| sufficient and INSCRIPTIONS WOuldbe
| leaders, therefore be it,
| Resolved: That we have full conf
dence in the financial stability of the
Barber County INDEX.
| Resolved, further, that its present
condition of perfect solvency has large
ly been brought about by the present
managers of said concern and that 1t is
the duty of every true PopulIst to sup
| port the Barber County INDEX in the
| fight it is making for POpullst princi-
Piles; and be it further resolved, that II
is especially the duty of Populist Off
| Gals to give the INDEX Company all
favors at their disposal.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
committee that the county printing be
| given to the papers representing the
party in power aud such others as have
been of assistance to said party.
Resolved, That we request Governor
Leedy to call an extra session of the
| Legislature to pass maximum freight
rate law as soon as he has definitely
| learned that majority of that body
will support such measure, otherwise
this committee is opposed to an extra
session.
| Resolved, That we endorse Governor
Leedy's veto of the makeshift known
as the Harris or senate bill.
All of the foregoing resolutions, eX-
ceptlng the first, were unanimously
adopted. Two votes were cast against
its adoption. These were cast by w.
B. Springer, OF Nippawalla township,
and b. l.. Daugherty, of Sharon. Mr..
Daugherty explained his vote by say
ing that he did not wish to be under
stood as not being in accord with the
sentiment expressed in the resolution,
but that his reason for voting mo" was
that he feared it would occasion furth-
er harm and prevent a possible compro-
mise. Mr.. Springer opposed it because
he believed it was not proper matter
for the central committee to pass upon.
! The remaining committeeman, howev-
er, thought it was matter which, If
carried to the extent to which certain
parties have intimated it would be, the
party would not only be disrupted 10
Barber county, but the only Populist
paper in the county would be absorbed.
The remaining resolutions are equal.
ly important and timely. 1t is the con-
sensus of opinion that the committees
work on Saturday was better than any
previous work the committee has done
| for several years.