Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-16
COMMITTEE MEETING.

he following resolutions were passed.
rhe first received two negative votes:
hey were cast 10y j. r. Fair, of Sharon
township and r. NJ. Smith of Elwooj.
The latter were passed by unanimous
vote. The central committee ordered
The resolutions published and that a
copy of those pertaining to Messrs.
Lewelling and Titus be sent to Cover
nor Leedy and Senators Titus and Lew
cling:
WHEREAS, the time is at hand in
which it behooves the Populists of Bar
Der county in opening the campaign
of 1897 to give out no uncertain sound
upon questions affecting the prosperity
and happiness of the common people,
be 1T resolved that it is the sense of the
central committee of the Peoples party
of Barber county in regular meeting as
sembled, that no truth was ever estab-
lished by compromise with error and
no principle of justice ana equity en-
forced by compromise with wrong, and
it therefore follows that all true Popu-
lists who desire the welfare and bappl-
ness of the whole people should stand
by the landmarks Of the party as laid
down in It's national platforms from time
to time so long as they are in harmony
with what is right and just and will, if
enacted into law, mete out equal and
exact justice to rich and poor alike,
and place the burden Of taxation upon
the wealth of the people and not upon
the necessity of the individual.
We therefore call upon the Populists
Of Barber county to cut loose from all
entangling alliances with other politi-
cal parties for the purpose of temper
AIRY success, for this is only attained by
surrender of principle.
We believe our cause is just and
righteous, and we believe that truth
crashed to earth shall rise again." and
if we as party ever shall succeed in
the grand effort of ENGRAVING our dec
laration of principles upon the statutes
of state and nation, 1t will only be done
first by consistently advocating these
principles until the people are educated
to thorough understanding of them,
and secondly in showing our faith IN
them ourselves, by refusing to go
awhoring after the fleshpots of fusion.
Whereas, Senator l.. D. Lewelling
made three successive campaigns on a
platform having as one of its planks a
maximum freight rate law, and,
Whereas, he vigorously opposed this
measure at the recent session of the
legislature-the only time that he was
given an opportunity to demonstrate
his fidelity to the cause he was chosen
to represent, and,
Whereas the defeat of the maximum
freight rate bill is largely due to his
hostility to the same, and,
Whereas Mr.. dwellings name has
been connected with various Doodle
scandals during the legislative session,
and,
Whereas be has been directly charg-
ed, under oath, of having made propo-
sitions of bribery by which he and 9TH
ers were to be benefited, in coDsidera-
ton of their votes and influence upon
certain measures, by Hon. II. S. Lam
dis and Senator A. J. Titus, and,
Whereas there is no reason to doubt
the testimony of Messrs. Titus and
Lands on this subject, and
Whereas MI. Lewelling' friends have
frequently pleaded with him to deny the
charges which were made against him,
but he refuses to do so and by so doing
admits the charges to be true, and,
Whereas man of such character is
unfit to hold any kind of a position of
public trust,
Therefore be 1t Resolved, that we,
the Populists of Barber county through
their central committee, urge and
request Governor j. w. Leedy to re-
move the said L. d. LewelIing from
the Board of Railroad Commissioners.
and to appoint in his stead a Populist
who has not betrayed and who will not
betray the people of his state by selling
out to the corporations.
Resolved. further, that we condemn
and denounce Mr.. dwellings course
IN opposing the maximum freight rate
bill and that we have nothing but con-
tempt for HIM and his associates who
betrayed and sold out their constituent
cy, and,
BE it further Resolved, that we COM
mend the action of our honorable. able
and upright senator, A. j. Titus, in
fearlessly exposing the boodIers who
disgraced the legislature and we pledge
him our united support in his effort in
bringing about pure and honest admin
iStration of government.
Resolved, that 1t is the belief and
opinion of this committee that had it
not been for the keen sense of honor
and duty of Senator Titus the public
would never have been informed of the
corrupt methods that were dominating
many of our legislators and we con-
denim all accusations against his per-
sonal character as being wholly and
maliciously false.
Resolved that we have the utmost
confidence in Senator Titus; we call
the attention of the people of the 37th
senatorial district to the fact that his
senatorial record is without single
flaw. that his vote was ALWAYS cast II,