Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-29
he was very foolish to enter the race.

\ convention. However it resulted liz
another complete victory for Axllne, ct
al, and the old soldiers and most OF
the country precincts found themselves
much in the shape of an inflated foot
ball after it had gone through thresh
ing machine. The contestants In thi:
| instance were Elias C. Davis, of Shar
on, and Christian Keller, of Elwood
Mr.. Davis was placed in nomination By
Capt. j. d. Fair in a touching speech
The Captain invoked the eloquence of a
Demosthenes that he might tell of the
virtues of the apostle, Elias, but he
could not command it. but he did give
him quite good puff. He was imme
diately followed by Col. Booher of the
same township, who also stated that he
could use Demothenes' tongue for a
few moments in giving Elias just praise
Col. Booher made strong talk for Mr.
Davis both as an old soldier and as a
Christian gentleman, and it looked as
though the combined efforts of Capt
FAIR, Col. Booher, the old soldiers and
the men from the country would beat
the Medicine Lodge gang, but it was
not so. The Medicine Lodge fellows
and their allies were not looking for an
old soldier nor Christian man at that
time; they wanted Christian Keller. land
he was put in nomination by one Will
gus without any attempt at flowery or
atory. Let the ballot speak:
DAVIS. .-....... .............. IS
AACllCI ~
Mr.. Davis ran we'll until he struck
Medicine Lodge when Is votes were re-
corded against him. The Medicine
Lodge republicans never fail to EN-.
brace the opportunity of showing Elias
what they think of him. What they
can't accomplish at the conventions
they invariably accomplish at the polls.
From now On every thing was quiet.
The country fellows had learned to take
their medicine without kicking and F.
B. Chaplin was nominated for treasurer,
j. 2. Wallace for surveyor and DR..
Moore for coroner. G.. NJ. Martin
coroner and the Medicine Lodge fellows
raised a laugh. DR.. Burney, however,
was on hand and he was smart enough
to see that G. M. was trying to get a
joke on him aud he promptly declined.
The faithful were now ready to hear
Chester and the eX-cOngressman strut
ted to the fore. He talked very much
about wheat and silver. 1t was the u.s.
ual g. o. p. speech and nothing new was
offered. Mr.. Long quoted from Bryan
and Simpson, but the quotations were
SO garbled that they could not be taken
by any sane man. 70 pick out a SEN
tence and make it stand alone without
constituting it along with what precedes
and follows is very unfair. But Long
wanted to be funny and he knew that
the convention was composed of set
of fellows who were ready to drink in
anything he could give them. He laud-
ed the Dingley bill and spoke volumes
for Gear" Reed. He said Speaker
Reed put the tariff bill through by CO.
ercion and that it was the right course
to pursue. Everything that is done
should be done by coercion, no matter
what the people thought about it. He
closed by making some funny remarks
about the recent legislature and had a
great deal of disgust to express for the
Populist boodlers but not one word did
he echo in condemnation OF republican
boodlerS. He forgot to mention that a
few Populist boodlers entered into a
combination with lot of republican
boodlers and defeated the wishes of the
people. Mr.. Long, of course, magnified
the shortcomings of the legislature
and was careful not to mention the fact
that. Notwithstanding that some of the
Populists sold out, the work of the leg
islature was better than any of It's pred
ecessors for many years.
After Mr.. Long finished his speech
the convention adjourned. The dele
gates from the second commissioner
district met and organized by electing
w. C. DeMint. OF Cedar, chairman, and
G. Keller, candidate for register of
deeds, secretary. The convention nom
mated Geo. Nay, of Kiowa, by accla.
nation.
The Medicine Lodge delegation met
in one of the jury rooms and nominated
the following ticket. The ticket was
nominated behind closed doors, hence
we cannot say as to whether or not
there were any opposing candidates:
IIuSlto. 81 . III. Mccoy
CLERK. &c. a. Hubbard
treasurer. ...,-... w aldrOn Chase
Justice of the Peace. %. G. Howe
Constables...S F. Wilson, II. A. Tedrow
Road Overseers--
District /. Jos. Wiley
District q b. f. Wadsworth
District 3. .... Isaiah Hewitt
District f.. George Stewart
District 5....... Marion Crawford
OBSERVATIONS.
If Axline's reputation as the boss OF
Barber county republicanism was ever
In doubt it is now established.
Messrs. Huffaker and Booher got
their uSuai rebuke