Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-17
state News
Four inches of rain fell at Newto
August Sth.

St8tO NCWB.
Four inches of rain fell at Newton
August 9Th.
There is not single corporation
lawyer on the Popuiist state ticket.
Half of the Republican nominees are
lawy ers who are employed by CORPORA
tons.
W E. Hobbs, member of the
school board at Fl Scott. has been
asked to resign for accepting com
missions" on contract work for the
board.
A Kansas boy writing from Camp
Merritt says that lot of the boys
have solid girls, and he is willing to
gamble that at least one hundred OF
them are engaged.-LeUisburg Her.
aid.
The Wellington Voice reports
Marin Snyder, aged Is, murdered
by foot-pad and robbed with three
others ell of whom resids in Michi-
gan he was waiting for train to
take them to the Dakota harvest
| fields.
Topeka, Kan. The young negroes
of the north side organized to whip
negro soldiers who paid attention u
the young women of that locality.
They waited until about 1 o'clock III
the morning and whipped them in de-
tail. Many soldiers had to wade a.
cross the river to get away.
The dissatisfied Democrats of Kan
sas held conference in Topeka last
week at which resolution was adopt
ed declaring that it was the sense OF
the assembled Democrats that theiI
best efforts should be devoted to the
defeat of the Populist ticket this year.
The conference was not largely attend
ed and there were few if any faces
among the number Pr asent which have
been seen In regulaf Democratic coun-
ellis since the re organic ,tion of tht
party. The attendance was largel,
of that class which never has favored
any measure or policy which was moi
irst stamped with approval by the Re.
publican party managers of the state
The proposition to nominate straigh.
Democratic ticket was not at all gent
orally favored.
The following paragraph>has appear
ed in nearly every Republican papel
in the state: "The Populist Legislature
of 1897 veted down a resolution to
submit TO the people a constitutions
amendment providing for the inltia
tive and referendum. The language
used in each case is exactly tn same
and indie ties that concerted effort i.
being made to make it appear that thu
Populist party actually voted dowI
one of the reforms which l. has de
manded since its organization. TIL
statement is at variance with the facts
Such resolution was considered b,
the legislature and was passed by tn
senate, receiving in that body twenty
nine votes, each Populist and ever
Democrat having voted for 1t.
having passed the senate by two
third vote was transmitted to tn
house where it failed to pass by vot
of seventy-six to fourty one. A two
third maj )rity is required in bot
houses to submit a constitutions
amendment to the people. The Pop
INSISTS not having that much strength
in the house were unable to submit
the resolution. An analysis of tn
vote shows that two Populists wer
absent, one of being in a hospital a
which place he died a few month
later. Every Democrat in the hous
except Tapscott voted for the resolu
ton and in addition thereto Hack
bush, William and Vogelesang, all Re
publicans, voted for it, If both of tn
Populists who were absent togethe
with Tapscott and the three Republic
ans had all voted for the resolution
would have still lacked five votes o
the const tutional two-thirds vote
which is required.