Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-26
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Few Facts Concerning the Peoples
Party of Kansas.


campaign handbook has been issued.
The people know that the present
state administ ra ton has made an adj
mirable record and want to learn
more about it.
Attorney General Boyle is speaking
TO enormous crowds everywhere. He
has held scarcely a meeting this year
which has not been atte4il.ed by at
least twice as many people as are in
| the habit of turning out to Repub-
llcan meetings.
Scarcely Il day passes in which
some prominent colored man does not
| announce his determine ton to bolt
the Republican ticket this year and
vote for Governor Leedy and his as
sociates. The revolt among this class
of voters is growing rather than di
minishing.
The Twenty-frst Kansas arrived at
Fort LeavenwCrth last week. This
regiment brought home eighty-six
sick men and had to leave some in
the camp hospital as they were not
in fit condition to Zoe moved. The reg
iment made fine appearance and
has wen Il gCOu name for the state
wherever it has been.
There is no danger of the silver
forces of Kansas running out of cam
paign orators when such men as Jo-
seph q. Waters of Topeka are being
continually added to the ranks. Mr..
Waters was formerly general attor-
ney for the Santa Fe railroad and is
one of the best lawyers in the state.
lie is making speeches for Governor
Leedy.
One of the best known daily news
paper men in the state, a man who
is regarded as a good judge of polit-
ical contests, believed at the opening
of the campaign that Stanley could
not be defeated. During the last two
weeks he has travelled over the state
considerably and he now reports tina
in his Judgment Governor Leedy and
the entire state ticket will be re-
elected.
The people of the entire nation are
wondering when the Republican adj
ministration expects to give some in
timatiOn of its determination to re-
peal the revenue tax imposed for war
purposes. The opinion is freely ex-
pressed that in view OF the fact that
the Dingley bill is producing INSULT
cient revenue to run the government
that it is the intention of the admin
istration to retain this tax indefinite
ly to prevent a deficiency from occur
ring.
The Republicans have become so
alarmed over the revolt among the
I0k
ing w. B. Townsend that if the ticket
wins they will appoint him as assis-
tant state auditor. Townsend is the
man who was defeated for the nomi-
nation for auditor at the Republican
state convention because the politi-
clans said that the colored voters
would be all right any way. Their
opinion of this matter seems to have
undergone a change.
The Washington Post-Register, one
of the oldest and strongest Republi-
can papers in the state, has pulled
down the entire Republican state
ticket as we'll as the local ticket. Mr.
Veatch, the editor, is an old party
wheel horse and has been considered
for the Republican nomination fol-
loss of this paper together with the
inevitable expose of boss methods will
surely lose Washington county fol-
the Republicans this year.
Sena tor Harris has returned from
the east where he went to care fo1
his sick soldier son. The latter il
getting better and it is believed tina
he will Ibe well in a short time. Sen
ator Harris is another man who i
, being branded as uIsloyal because h
refused to vote for war bonds, but h,
showed his loyalty by giving his onl.
son to the government service. AS
result he has seen his boy for hour
at a time lying on what seemed to b
his dea thbed with little or no pros
pect of living more than a few hours
Sergeant Harris was in the First Dis
trict of Columbia Volunteers, an,
was at the battle of Santiago wher
he made a record of which any sol
der might be justly proud.
G. C. Clemens says that Webb Nc
Nall may be a thief and a scoundre
as Republican papers allege but tina
if the people should act in the mat
ter as Lincoln did when the delega
ton from a ministerial association
waited on him and urged that Ger
Grant be removed because he dram.
whisky. After listening patiently TO
some time Lincoln inquired whethe
they knew what particular brand @
, whisky Grant was in the habit o
: drinking. Of course they did no
know. Lincoln said that he was yer
sorry because he would be glad t
buy barrel for each of his general
if he could find out what kind Gran
used. Clemens adds that if it rs
fact that NIcNall is thief and
scoundrel that the people are no,
properly informed as to the particr
: lar brand of a scoundrel that the
: need in that office.
{ The fellows who are criticizin
n Congressman Botlzin ON the groun
: that he was an obstructionist in col
gress when war matters were unde
i consideration should be ashamed {
t themselves. He gave his own SON I
Y the service and as a result he IS mo
z so sick that it is a question whethe
a he will live. He has given his fu
L share to carry on the war even if /
has not seen fit to vote for bono
: which would saddle a perpetual del
. on rot only his own children br
those of the entire country. In gil