Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-11-02
A Brief Review of Their Home Life.
The Issues Involved in this
Campaign.

goes DelOIe lHe people OF DdIOeI
county before the election of 1904
and regardless of how it may ter
inmate the publishers feel that
they have performed their whole
duty as newspaper without doing
the least injustice to opposing
candidates. It has never been our
privilege to support better ticket
than the one the Democratic party
has nominated in the state of Kan.
sas and Barber county this year,
and if the voters fail to elect these
men they are only injuring them
selves.
For representative, Hon. O. P.
T. Ewell of Kiowa is the candl-
date. Mr.. Ewell has lived in
Barber county since the early Sos
and has mingled with our people SO
long that his removal would make
things seem unnatural. He is ex-
tensively engaged in the live stock
business, a calling to which he has
devoted his attention since coming
to the county. He is thorough in
his business and consequently sue
cessful His influence among those
with whom he is brought into con-
tact is great and an acquaintance
with him means that you must
have unqualified respect and con-
hdence in him. There is no man
who can say that Oliver Ewell is
not man of the highest honor and
integrity. He has never engaged in
any questionable work in his life,
neither politically or otherwise,
but is ever the same cordial, honest,
obliging genial man day after day.
He combines the qualities of ability
and affinity among men so es-
sential to representative and his
election would be an assurance that
Barber county would once more be
represented In the legislature in
way that it has not been since the
days of Col. Garrison. We have sent
hgureheads to Topeka long enough;
let it be a man this time. Vote
for O. P T. Ewell.
For Sheriff, w. H. Haun of this
city is d candidate to succeed him
self. He has served the county as
sheriff nearly two years and has
made a good officer. He has made
some enemies during that time
and is only like other sheriffs in
that respect. The amount of bus
iness transacted in the Office, and
the many different people with
whom a sheriff must deal makes it
impossible to please everybody and
hence Mr.. Haun, like his pred
ecessors, has some enemies. But
he has always performed his duty
as he saw it. He is outspoken
and never minces words. If he be-
lieves thing is right he says so
without acting the hypocrite. He
doesn't believe that man to be
successful must wear a different
face TO suit every man, but while
he is positive in his convictions he
does not try to force his opinions
on others but IS ever ready to ac-
cord the same right to others he
asks for himself. Mr.. Haun's
honesty and integrity have never
been doubted. He comes from a
sturdy, industrious family and has
made his own way through life from
his early boyhood. He has lived
in Barber county since 1896 and
| during most of the time has been
engaged in the livery bushes until
elected to the office of sheriff two
years ago. As an officer he has
captured every prisoner for whom
a warrant has been placed in his
hands and no prisoner ever escaped
while in his charge. He is the
only sheriff the county ever had
who can claim such arecord. His
opponents try to make the point OF
extravaganza against him but that
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