Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-10-29
CANDIDATES AND ISSUES.
Brief Account of the Independent Candidates and
Their Position on Public Questions

under w. G. Jones. and distinguished
himself a. . successful. fearless and
steady efdser and filled the position
with credit when others failed For in
those days it meant something to be
. u. 3. Marshal in western Kansas.
In 1893 he moved TO Pratt county and
lived on farm six miles north Of Isa-
bel until 1893 when he came to Medicine
Lodge 10 engage in the livery business
Mr.. Haun has always been public
spirited citizen and IL ever ready to
lend his help to advance the interests
Of the community This is the first time
he has been 4 candidate in Barber
county. The only pledge he has to
make is that he will do his duty faith
fully and fesrisssly IL elected.
NIKE s. GRAY
Mike S Gray, independent candidate
for county clerk, was horn at Bloom.
field. Indiana. July IS. 1875. He came
to Kansas In 1895, stopping first to take
clerical position in Wichita. He
worked in that city two years and in the
fall of 1897 he came to Kiowa where he
now resides. He worked with several
of the business firms in that city and
gradually worked his Way up until
now he is stOcknolder in the extern
sive j. w. Metz Mercantile Co, one of
the largest concerns in the state. 1t
took some hard knocks and great
struggle to attain this height in the
business world for man who
started empty handed, but Mr.. GRAY
is solid chunk Of energy and industry
from the ground up and knows no such a
word as fail in his vocabulary. He is
a thorough business man and knows
how to handle Office work with neatness
and dispatch. When you go into the
booth and make the mark in the
square at the right of his name YOU
will never need to say that you are
ashamed of it.
A w SMITH
Allen w. Smith is a candidate for a
second term for clerk of the district
cour,, on the independent ticket. HIS
work during the past term has been so
good and so satisfactory that he should
be re- elected with an overwhelming
majority. For the first time the Office
is on paying basis. 1t used to be
necessary To draw on the county conc
missioners to sustain 1t, but since Mr..
Smith took hold of lit not only pays its
expense, but yields handsome surplus
n % IN
born in Galloway county Mo, Dec 2,
1858. lie went to Chicago in 1878 where
be clerked in a store two years, and
in the spring of 1880 he landed on Bar
Der county soil and has been attached
to the county ever since in spite of the
reverses that come and go in new
and unsettled country. During his res.
ldence here he has divided his time be-
tween the mercantile business and
farming. In 1899 he conducted gro
Gerry store in this city, but after six
month fire broke out in the bloc k
in which his store was located and
be lost his entire stock with but little
insurance. This involved him deeply
in debt, but he pledged the payment
of every cent of it and his word was
made good, though he had to do it by
daily labor. Two years ago he was
elected to the office he now fills, in
spite of most bitter fight made by
his political opponents. II was assert
ed then that he was not competent to
take care Of the Office but two years of
his work has proved these assertions to
be false. Mr. Smith has good busi-
ness education and ranks. high as
gentleman and citizen A vote for him
Will be the proper thing.
GEO. w. NELSON.
George w. Nelson, independent can
didate for register of deeds, was born
at Philadelphia, Pa. June %, 1857. At
the age of 15, he removed with his par.
ents to Illinois where he grew to man.
hood. He was postmaster of his town
several years which of itself shows the
confidence his neighbors in that state
held him in. Mr.. Nelson and family
came to Barber county in 1853 and
settled on farm in Cedar township
where he still lives. He IS one Of our
most substantial farmers and is honor.
ed by all his neighbors for his personal
w0rfh ua has hoon tructoo IF Ho6ar