Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-06-04
The Slate.

The republican machine has things
almost completed and nominations are
practically settled except probably in .
few instances. The ticket as tar rs
slated, is as follows:
Representative-E.H III. Nixon.
County Attorney. N. Tincher.
County Clerk-C. w. Wilson.
Treasurer-G. A. Bucklin.
Register of Deeds-W. L. Bragg.
County Superintendent-P. l.. Lake.
Probate Judge-C. S. Gleason III he
will accept)
Clerk of the District Court-Del
Buck.
Sheriff.. Nj. Lane.
The fate of all the candidates hahgs
on the contest for representative. The
tactics of Cy Leland in the state con-
vention have been adopted here. No
lodging or squlrming will be tolerated.
Those who expect favors from the ma
chine must give It their hearty support
and they have been so notified.
Sam Griffin and his friends still
claim that he will be nominated for
representative but Nixon and his fol-
lowers do not seem in the least disturb.
ed by such wild-claims.
Ed Sample has some warm friends
| who pretend to believe that he will run
| Policy Tincher hard race for county
attorney but Tincher and his friends
| n O hot OF cfnru
Policy was endangered q few weeks
ago when he halted between Nixon and
Griffin but when he climbed into the
Nixon band wagon, all was we'll In
that, his beloved camp.
In the sheriff contest the machine
was not satisfied with any Of the candi.
dates in and around Medicine Lodge,
and they sent special messenger to
Kiowa to trot out candidate and they
jumped up Frank Lane.
The situation on the probate judge
issue is little complexed. The ma.
chine candidate is e. S. Gleason, of
Hazelton, but he has not fully decided
to accept 1t. Judge Lester, of Lake
City, is an active candidate, but they
will not listen to his nomination unless
things should develop that they need
him for trading purposes to save the
chief and his most tried and trusted
tools. John Shannon and w. II. Col
Inns, of this city, are both candidates
John is out of it because he can always
be relied on without any kind of a re-
ward and Mr.. Collins will not be toler'
ated because he has habit of doina
his own thinking.
The Medicine Lodge delegation viii
be divided by agreement, between Nix
on and Griffin and they will be turned
loose to 60 as they please on the Other
candidates until the critical time, wher
enough of them will be lined up fol
the slate to nominate.
Dick Wilson will have no opposition
for clerk. That was settled month";
ago when it was arranged for him t.
take charge of the clerks Office as dep
uty.
On the question of commissioner
they are not settled. Their inclination
IS to renominate Hugh Rankin but b.
always costs them so much to pull hin
through that they are trying to ge
Frank Chaplin or n. 3. Marshall +
make the race. Hugh is perfectly sat
isfactory to them but very weak, an
since there will be other tavorites o.
the ticket they fear they could not Civ
the commissioner all the time and cas-
the occasion would demand. They fig
ure that either ChaplD or Marshal
could hold the party vote, which in thi
district Is all that is necessary to elect
This forecast, Of course, is on tn
supposition that the machine will be j
complete control of the convention.
, If the rank and file should accident
ally take hand things might be differ
. ent, but such an event borders YER
closely on the dark shore of Impossibi
ity.