Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-09-16

who never SWerVtC from caSCihg
republican vote;'' thought if Barton
county should have candidate There
were rs''-Nimocks had had
enough: seemed to imply that there
were none but Nimocks who wanted
to run their heads against stone
WALL
J. w. A. Ccoke-the sachem Of ''in'
dependent" (?) politics-thought the
| $50, 900 paid Clarke was we'll spent.
Some colored brother whose
name we could not learn wanted
s'some man whom REPUBLICANS could
stay by-did not seem to take we'll to
the ''independent'' dodge.
G. A. Swartz was not in favor of
any instructions whatever, and moved
to strike out that part of the majority
report referring to instructions, which
motion prevailed by a vote of 106 to
2s.
G.. L. Chapman and D. a. Banta
were then placed in nomination for
chairman of the county committee.
Banta was elected by vote of rs to
Chapman's 81.
Upon motion the rules were sus
pended and Dick Bosse was nominated
for treasurer, If. B. Fits for county
clerk and l.. 2. Aber for sheriff, by
acclaim alton.
u. Z. Freybe rger and f. IL.
Hitchcock were placed in nomination
for register OF deeds. An informal
ballot was taken, resulting: Fry
berger ga, Hitchcock II, G. E. Dodge
8. A motion was made to make the
informal ballot formal-but the motion
got lost in the Wrangle that followed
when a delegate from the country
made the statement that Mr.. Fry
berger said last fall that "John
Sherman was the meanest man in
the United States, and ought to have
been hung long ago."
Mr.. Fryberger asked to state whether
or not chad said it. He replied that
he had not; that he had always been a
republican, although there was time
last fall when his mind was not fully
made up on the silver question; was
reading both sides carefully, and If he
decided the free coinage idea was right
would not hesitate to espouse the cause;
however he had voted the republican
ticket, (taken the gold cure as it were.)
Then Johnnie Harris, who eats,
drinks, swears, and prays by the re-
publican party, said that in the presence
of himself, ]. D. Mitchell, John Ever
EFT, and Mr.. Briggs, last fall, Mr.. Fry
berger had SAID that SHERMAN was the
biggest rascal unhung," and he, Harris,
wanted to know where Fryberger stood.
In reply Fryberger SAID he did not
regard John Sherman as the republican
party; that he might have made state
ment something like that with qualifi.
cation ''if," ''if Sherman did or said so
and so, he ought to be hung" etc.
John Everesn a sound populist and
enthusiastic silver man, was in the
room, and as his name was mentioned,
he being friend and neighbor of Mr..
Fryberger, wanted to say a word.
Some delegates demanded the roll call
and others wanted to hear Evere tt.
1t was put to a motion and decided
that Everett be heard. He said at the
time stated.that few of the neighbors
were discussing some populist literature
wherein Sherman was charged with
doing so and so, and that Mr.. Fryber-
ger had said ''lf Sherman did so he
ought to be hung" The majority OF
the delegates evidently thought Fry
berger had been guilty of rank heresy
in even saying it with an if, for when
the formal ballot was taken they nailed
him to the cross by giving Hitchcock
IS, and Fryberger 81, thus nominating
Hitchcock.
Then the rules were again suspended
and by acclamatlon S. A. Newcomt
was nominated for surveyor and S. ].
Shaw for coroner.
AZ ILLS punt euo tnouheS duu pdTIO'
business began. n, E. Norris moved
tart Nimocks be allowed to select the
delegates to the Judicial convention
Independent Mr.. Cooke moved t
amend that they be elected by accli
nation. Dick Ewalt moved to a.
mend, that the chair appoint one mar
from each commissioner district as
committee to present the names to the
convention for delegates. Nimock'
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