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

exceedingly thankful but had some
troubles to tell. He went on to
review his career and tell of the
sacrifice he has to make to take the
Office; is better qualified now to
fill the Office than he was when he
filled it; was hardly competent
then but did not admit it, but is
now. willing to do so. The new
central committee was then record
ed and the convention adjourned.
COMMISSIONERS CONVENTION.
The second and third commits
sioner districts got together and
nominated H. Kaufman of Kiowa
for commissioner in the second and
VIM. Shuts of Turkey Creek in the
third district. They had a hard
time to find man in the third, and
after offering it to ]. w. DeGeer,
frank Buck, Mark Blankenship and
several others, they took advantage
of Mr.. Shuts in his absence and
hung it onto him. 1t was stated
that Shuts will decline but since
he suits the Medicine Lodge ring
he will probably be prevailed upon
to stand.
TOWNSHIP TICKET.
Trustee-E. A. Miller.
Treasurer-Geo. w. Horney.
ClerkzG. F. Guthrie.
Iustices-W T. Collins and w.
A. Myers.
Constables-Joe Owen and G. !.
B. Brandon.
Road Overseers-District I, To-
seph Wiley; district 2, no nomina
ton; district 3, Homer Wheat; dis
trict 4, A. c. Lauby; district 5,John
MacGregor.
The new central committee was
organized by the election of H. H.
Case of Medicine Lodge, chairman,
D. r. Streeter, Kiowa, secretary
and F. ]. Wadsworth, Medicine
Lodge, assistant secretary.
Senator Long then entertained
the people who cared to hear him
with speech.
REMARKS:
E. H. Nixon hiked out on. the
day of the convention in order to
avoid trouble on the sheriff and
district clerk propositions. Wise
hike.
| lust before the commissioner
conventions were to assemble
Senator Long was called. He sug-
gested that the conventions first
complete their work. Chairman
Tincher responded: ''Do you
think they'll stay to hear you,
Senator? The "shot" created quite
a laughter and it was Longs turn
to treat.
Tom Kenney has a just grievance
against Kiowa. Two years ago
when Frank Lane of that city was
a candidate for sheriff, he wanted
some help from a Medicine Lodge
man. Tom was the only man who
was willing to do it. He quit a
| good job to ride over the county
with Mr.. Lane when no other Med
icine Lodge republican nor even
his colleagues on the ticket felt like
giving him pleasant look. There
fore Kiowa was under obligations
to him. They paid the debt by
giving him half of the delegation.
The entire vote of that delegation
would have nominated him. The
| job was put up by the Medicine
Lodge machine, who never were
sincere in their support of Mr.. Ken
ney. They had to do some fine
work so that Tom couldn't trace
them. Hence they used Kiowa for
their cats paw.
| The draft on Policy Tincher
didn't work The rabbit was in
his neck to stay and Sam Griffin
was finally persuaded. This was
a scheme of Nixon's to line up the
Griffin following.
Ed Miller who was nominated
for township trustee was not a re-
publican more than 48 hours prior
to his nomination. Ed will make
a good officer, if elected, but we
are sorry that he has let down the
/ bars to unfavorable comment. Per
sonally Ed is fine man, but he
has made very serious mistake
politically.
John MacGregor for road over
seer! What do you think of that?
The pops did a whole lot better by
the Col. than that.
Some Olsen. Longs friends didn't
like the manner in which the chair