Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-09-25
LORTON DAY.
The Republicans Of Barber County,
SIN Convention Assembled" Carry
out the Program Formulated
in the Cresset Office Almost
A Year Ago.

Our friend. Otis LortoE. publisher of
the Cresset, has reached the goal of his
ambition and is apparently well salts
fed with himself and his surroundings.
He is now 'candldate'' in the full
sense of the word. He has the sweet
privilege of running for office and his
fOndast dreams are An unQuestioned
reality. The nomination was made on
Saturday and it came without the least
sign of opposition. The convention
was not very lively. Aetna, Deerhead.
HaZelton. Lochard, Sun City and Tur-
key Greek precincts had no representa-
tive and most of the other townships
were represented by one lone delegate
from each. Medicine Lodge, however.
was on hand in full force ready for any
unexpected emergency.
Judge IL. n. Lester, of Lake CITY.
was chairman of the convention, aud
IL. E. Glenn. of kiOwa, was secretary.
The manipulatOrs were slow in getting
the wheels of destiny into operation
but after considerable button hole work
a committee OH resolutions was ap
pointed and a report was made The
resolutions consisted i'm paying tribute
TO the memory of President MCKINLEY
and AN endorsement of the Stanley ad
ministration. The special printer law
which was responsible fer the gather
ing was not touched. The men who su.
perintended that part of it wisely con-
cluded that the less SAID about it, the
better. One of the delegates was heard
TO remark that too much had been said
already and the republican leaders will
regret that they ever imposed such q
dlstasfeful measure on the people of
Barber county.
When nominations for county print
er were finally called for, there was a
deep silence for about five minutes.
There was systematic elbow work. nod
ding of heads, goo goo eyes, signs and
gesticulatiOns of all manners and sorts.
1t was difficult to raise anyone. But
the spell was broken and Sam Griffin.
after six different and distinct efforts.
got up and nominated "Mr. Otis Lor.
ton There were no other nominations
and the Judge declared Mr.. Lorton the
unanimous choice of the convention, -
A new central committee was then
announced by delegations and the con-
ventlOn adjourned.
What happened afterwards is mat
ter of conjecture. 1t was announced
that the delegates of the third district
would meet in the court room and
nominate a candidate for commissioner.
the central committee would meet in
the county attorneys office and elect
its officers, and the Medicine Lodge
delegation would meet in TIE jury room
and nominate township ticket.
We suppose all these meetings took
place, but it wasn't our privilege to be
present at any of them. We were most
interested in the commissioner conven.
ton and put in about half an hour
hunting for it but we couldn't find it.
1t was rather small anyway. Two men
constituted it. They were Judge Lester
of Lake City, and &. l.. Grigsby of Nc
Adoo. One was chairman and t'other
was secretary. 1t is said that the con
vention was deadlocked from the Jump.
Mr.. Grigsby was for Uncle Dan Pierce
and Judge Lester was for the Hon. D.
ID. HOstetter. Finally they agreed on
j. w. DeGeer. of Deerhead, a new man,
and it was made unanimous"
The committee was organized by the
election of E. H. Nixon, chairman; ID.
K. Streeter, secretary; c. G. WIlgus,
treasurer
The following township ticket was
nominated:
Trustee, j. r. Mccoy.
Clerk, G. A. Hubbard.
Treasurer, Waldron Chase.
Justice of the Peace, }. l.. Brady.
Constables, j. H. Owen, Tom Kenney.
Road Overseers: District No. 1-Jo.
seph Wiley; District No. Mart Up.
degratf; District No. 81. U. Romig;
District No. 4-John lift.
There was no opposition except in
the nomination of trustee. F. NJ. Lu-
kens was candidate but only received
one or two votes. Mr.. Mccoy was not
candidate but it was case In which
a name had to be sprung to beat Lu.
kens. E. II. Nixon, l.. NJ. AxIine and
Otis Lotion claim the credit for get
ting Mr.. Luken's scalp.
ECHOES.
The editor of the Kiowa News did
not answer present"