Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-09-14

ruled the Doctor but that didn't
stop Mr.. Stewards boom. Mark
Blankenship of Turkey Creek who
was delegate, nominated him for
sure. This put a serious aspect on
the situation and it was upSto Sam
to decline, which he did. The chair
man then suggested a rising vote
to make Nick's nomination
unanimous. Three delegates, how
ever, who are not in the habit of
being led around by the nose, re-
fused to arise. and that stopped the
rising vote" fever. From this
time on, things went smoothly until
sheriff was reached. G. w. Wilson
for clerk, w, L. Bragg for recorder,
c. S. Gleason for probate Judge,
w. T. Wheat for surveyor, DR.. c.
w. Longenecker for coroner,
Samuel Griffin for county attorney,
P. L. Lake for county superintend-
ent, and Frank !. Warren for
treasurer were all nominated by
acclamation. There were no nomi-
mating speeches in any case except
that of county superintendent.
Judge Lester made an eloquent
plea in favor of Lake for a fourth
term. Said he was the only good
man for the place and was liked by
the school ma'ams. The Judge
was heartily applauded.
Then came the sheriff play. G.
A. Bucklin of Elm Mills nominated
Charley Adams in a neat and able
speech. G. B. Brandon of Medi-
cine Lodge made speech in favor
of Tom Kenney. The~ roll was
called and Adams received 38votes
and Kenney received 81. Adam S
nomination was then made unani-
nous. We were very sorry to see
Mr.. Kenney defeated, but we are
| quite confident that he will get
there all right when he is a candi-
date in 1906. If he doesn nothing
can prevent his nomination in 1908.
G.. B. Kinkaid who got some valu-
able experience two years ago, was
wiser than Tom this year. He
scented danger from afar and did
not permit his name to go before
the convention. Most of his
strength went to Adams. Two
years ago Tom found the cyclone
cellar before the storm arrived but
this time he braved the elements
against our advice, and the result
is that it will now require about
two years for him to gather all oi
himself up for the next skirmish
Whatever. else may be said, from
the standpoint of party service
Mr.. Kenney really deserved the
nomination.
For clerk of the district court G.
B. Brandon made another effort
He named S. w. Ireland. Thi:
gave Judge Lester "license" to
again appear upon the scene. He
made an effective appeal for Clark
Rackley and it won. The Judge
told a story about a democrat in his
former county. The democrat was z
good fellow but didn't know much
but anyway he condemned some
thing the commissioners had done
as the "G-dangest incision ever
perpetrated on the American peo-
| pie" Judge Lester thought, in
view of Rackley's service to the
party and the reward that had
been given others in second nom
ination, the phrase would be appli-
cable in this instance if Mr.. Rack
ley were turned down. The roll
was called and Ireland was sacri-
| feed TO the tune of 28 to III, and il
could have been made worse than
that had it been necessary. Three
townships that had given Mr.. Ire
land an outright promise failed to
/ deliver before fhe convention
was called to order Capt. Titus
told Steve that the game of politics
is the coldest blooded one
that mortal man ever went up
against, and Steve now sees where
the Captain was right. Of course,
it was folly for Steve to tackle it.
The machine had that farmed out
long before he thought about being
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