Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-29
THE following morsel is taken from

HE following mOrsel is taken from
last week s Cresset:
John W. Wyer stood all right with the Popu.
lists until he refused to give the INDEX the
county printing at full legal rates last spring
AS soon as he insisted on saving the tax payers
from that corporation the gang that had &C.
cured control of the paper began setting UT
pegs to defeat him. They finally, through
combining on G. S. Heskett for register OF
deeds and j. b. McGinnis for commissioner
with the help from Kiowa township, succeed.
ed in their design. 1t was a smooth Job. but
was very unfair and against every claim of
Populist principle.
Nothing that the CreSset could have
said could have been more false. Many
POpulists openly stated, long before
the county printing matter came uu
last spring, that Mr.. Wyer's renomina.
ton would be a mistake. 1t is true
that great many did not approve of
his course in ignoring his own party
paper and entering into combination
with the editor of the Cresset and Com.
missioner Rankin-the republican con
missiOner-to bring this paper into f.
nancial embarrassment. but this was
not the only reason why he was defeat
ed. That he was defeated because he
did not give the INDEX the county
printing at legal rates is rank lie:
The editor of the Cresset knows that he
brands himself notorious liar every
time he makes such a statement. No
one who was authorized to speak for
the INDEX asked Mr.. Wyer to award
us the contract at a greater rate than
60 per cent. This rate was agreed up-
on by both Commissioners Walker and
Wyer some weeks before the April
meeting of the Board, but for some
reason Wyer suddenly disregarded this
agreement afterwards. We do not
know whom the Cresset means by the
gang" but if it means majority of
those who are interested in the INDEX
and majority of the Populists of the
second district, then we will concede
that the gang" defeated Mr.. Wyer:
but we shall still insist that other rea-
sons besides the county printing matter
were urged for the nomination of q
new man. The Cresset IS way off again
when it attaches blames to either c. s.
Heskett or j. b. McGinnis for Mr.. Wv
er's defeat. Other candidates, beside.
MIR. McGjnnis we're asked to accept the
nomination but they refused, and Mr.,
McGinnis accepted only because it was
the wish Of his closest friends and near.
est neighbors, as well as others, that he
should. AS for Mr.. Heskett, we are
oIlte positive that he was not putting
up Job on John Wyer or anybody
else. He was a delegate from Moore
township; that township desired
Mr.. McGinnis' nomination, and it was
his duty to recognize his townships
wishes in the matter, even though MIR.
Wyer had been his best friend. There
was no sacrifice of principle and moth.
ing unfair in the nomination of j. B.
McGinnis. If the majority of the Pop.
ulists OF the Second district thought
that John Wyer was a weak man, or if
they thought that his record was not
such that nomination was due him.
they had right to name new man.
And we think it as much John Wyer's
duty to support the Populist ticket this
fall, as it is the duty of any other Pop
ulist who was defeated for a nomina-
ton in Populist convention.