Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-02
WIN. A. HARRIS ACCEPTS.
Heads the Democratic State Ticket
Strong Men Selected to Fill the
Other Places.

ed the follow ing state ticeet at
their convention in Topeka last
Wednesday:
Governor. William A. Harris. Leavenworth
county.
Lieutenant governor. Hugh P. Farrelly.
Neosho county.
Secretary of state. Hugh c. Ahlborn. Smith
county.
Sta5e auditor William Bowen. Atchison
county.
Attorney general. David Overmyer Shaw
nee county.
Treasurer. Patrick Gormln, Bourbo II
county.
Superintendent of public instruction. A. J..
Carney. Cloud county.
Justice of supreme court. (SiX years term)
David \. Dale Sedgwick county.
Justice OF supreme court. (six years -term)
a NJ. Jackson, Cowley county,
Justice of supreme court. Qour years term).
w. 5. Glass. Marshall county.
Justice of fsupreme court. (four years term),
Laurens Hawn, Leavenworth county.
Railroad commissioners, s. James Humph-
rey of Geary county. Harry Mcmillan of
Ottawa county. c. A. Cooper of Rice county.
Insurance commissioner. J. W. Morphy.
Russell county.
State printer. William p FEEDER. Barton
county.
Ex-senator Harris has been the
choice of Kansas democrats for
governor for many years but he
could not be induced to accept the
nomination until this year, and
even up to a day before the con-
vention this year, there was little
hope that he would accept it. He
was attending to private business
in Chicago and could be reached
only by wire. The convention
kept pouring kilograms into him
so thick and fast that he finally
surrendered upon condition that
Hon. H. P. Farrelly and Hon.
David Ovcrn'ycr also accept a place
on the ticket, and, of course, re-
gardlesS Of their desire in the mat
ter the men named had to yield or
quit urging Mr.. Harris and they
yielded pleasantly.
The platform is an exceptional
ly strong one. There is nothing of
a vitriolic nature in it. 1t merely
recites some political history, un.
wells republican hypocrisy in that
party'S pretended semi-reform and
asserts what is plainly and accept
ably true-that the tariff is bar
rier to the prosperity of the people
and has been so recognized by the
late President Mckinley as we'll as
President Roosevelt|both of whom
have been elected on high pro-
tective platform.
Probably the two strongest
planks in the platform are the ones
which stand for the unequivocal
enforcement of all laws and the
adoption of the initiative and ref
erendum, which of themselves
should command the support OF
every good citizen.
The following planks in the
platform appear to us to be especi-
ally timely and wholesome and
worthy of the candid consideration
of the people Of Kansas:
We make no war upon material prosperity
nor the benefciaries thereof. so long as they
recognize the dominion of the peoples gov
ernment. but we do declare for the right
rigorous. faithful and efficient exercise oi
governmental powers to the end that the
domination of the mighty over the many
shall cease. and that the feeble as we'll as the
forceful. the poor as well as the powerful
shall be equal before the law.
We declare i'm favor of the initiative and
referendum to the end that local self govern
ment may be realized and the government
brought close to the people in all matters o.
Importance.
Wherever there is gross disparity between
the assessed taxable valuations of railroad
telephone and telegraph properties and pri
vate properties we specifically insist tha
the property of railroads. telephones ant
telegraph corporations in Kansas pay its fai
proportion of the burden of public expenses
We insist that 1t is not only the duty of th'
individual. but OF the official as well. TO ODE.
the law. We demand the enforcement of al
laws. not only those prohibiting the sale o
intoxicating liquors. but the law making it
felony to commit larceny from the stat
treasury and all other laws ON the state stat
ute books, and we demand that the law re
quiring the governor to inspect and count tn
funds in the state treasury. and report it
condition. bs complied with.
We declare that we are not enemies bu
frielfds. OF the railroad companies We ar
proud OF their efficiency as mediums of trans
portation. and rejoice in their mechanics