Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-04
A Roast on Senator Noftzger.

| 1n0 AutnOny h6ptlDIl can nASn 4
much use for Senator Nofizger's con
gressioral candidacy. Itgives him q
column OF free adye rtlsing in a
recent number and it isn't very desir
able either.
We reproduce the article In full
Coming from his homo paper OF like
political faith it signifies more thar,
it otherwise would and may be OF inter.
est to the Senator'S Barber county
friends:
ITO be, or not to be- a candidate
for the seventh district congressional
nomination Is q question hard to SET
| tie in Senator Noftzgers mind. He
first thoght he would, then he
thought he wouldn't. Then having
changed his vote to the Affirmative. he
next day moved to reconsider. The
demands OF the people that he be q
candidate not being audible at Tope-
ka. he came home q couple of weeks
since, and drew up number OF petit.
tions to himself to run for the nomi
nation. His representatives, taking
advantage of the general disposition of
humanity to sign papers without read
ing them, have secured q wonderful
assortment of names. Probably not
over ten percent knew the full purport
OF the papers signed. which not only
ask the Senator to run for the con.
erosion 81 nomination but pledges the
signer to work and vote fer him il
nominated. Just what the men will
do II they happen to present the petl-
ton to the senator when in a declining
mood, is not clear. In all seriousr ess.
the petition and its outcome is simply
An evidence of the machine politics
which made Republicanism by word
and reprOach IN 1890, and which
wrecked populism. It brings home
the methods which threw down Ed
Hoch, one Of the most deserving men
in the state, at the crack of the ma
chine whip; it puts US in touch with
the machine that at Topeka has insti-
tuted one of tie most barefaced rob.
berries of state funds in the history of
the commonwealth, to pay political
obligations. The petition was pre-.
sented and was very generally signed
by che men who take part IN the pri-
maries, attend conventions and are
made delegates. The convention will be
called and the delegates will find their
whole duty will consist IN adopting
resolutions written or dictated BY the
Senator. and authorizing him to ap-
point his Own delegates and alternates
to the Congressional Convention It
Is easy to say what the resolutions
will consist Of and equally easy to say
what they will not contain. While
they will pay a glowing tribute TO the
Senator's stanch Republication, no
word will be said Of his publicly SUD.
porting and privately knitting candi.
dates on Lis own ticket in every cam.
paign. No word will be said of his
agreement to run for city marshal in
Anthony, and then resign. that the
Mayor might appoint, and of the
antics he cut before high heaven be-
fore he could be pried loose from the
job. The resolutions will contain no
enomlums Of the three hours speech at
Medicine Lodge introducing Senator
Burton for fifteen minutes talk. 1t
may even be doubted II any reference
Will be made to his famous tactical
loop in the campaign of 1900, when he
ran as Baker man, and developed. |
under supposed defeat into friend of
Burton. and when counted in, meta. /
morphised into Baker man again. |
No charge of sectionalism can be made |
against the senator in such q conven. |
u on, because he gave three good Jobs
to Anthony and none to Harper--he
intended to take care of Harper. but
the jobs gave out before he had pro-
vided for his Topeka and Missouri
friends. How much simpler and bet.
ter 1t would be, II in place OF holding
the machine convention. and authoriz-
Ing lot of delegates whose sole indi.
would consist in being
counted, il Chairman Denton would
furnish the Senator with credentials
int this wise: Introducing Senator
Noftzger who is hereby authorized to
represent or misrepresent Harper
county in any way he may see fit. He
has the support Of the leading Popu.
paper in the county.
and also a0veral Ranuhlicon. ooroo -