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BARBER COUNTY INDEX. PAINTER & HERR Editors and IiuslncRs Managers. WEDNESDAY JUNE 10,1806. OFFICIAL. PAPER OF BARBER CO. APPELLATE COURT CONVENTION. A delegate convention of the Peoples party of ttio Central Division of the Southern De partment of the appellate court of Kanmis la hereby called to meet In the city of Wichita on Tueaduy, Juno 'Si. 1MKS, at 11 o'clock a. m.. for the puroe of nominating a candidate for Judjre of f-aid division. Th liania of representation in said conven tion shall tie the name as that of the state conventlcn held in Ilutt-liinon on March IX, L'pon Raid basis the different counties composing said division will be entitled to the following number of delegates: finrbi-r 2 Kingman 3 Hutler 5 Lyon li ChaM? 2 Marlon 4 Tow ley MePberson 4 Crcenwood 4 j Keno 6 Harper It Sedgwick H Harvey i Sumner Total (II It Is recommended that the County Central Committees of the several counties call the County Convention to select delegates to this convention at Hiicli times us they deem ex pedient Hy order of the Central Committee of the Kansas Court of Appeals for the Central Di vision of the Southern Department. W. . BiDiu.E, Chairman. It. A. Sankkv, Secretary. CALL FOB COUNTY CONVENTION. A delegate convention of the Peoples party of Berber county Is hereby called to assemble at the courthouse in Medicine Lodge on SATUKDAV, Jl'NE mtf, 1SW, at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of selecting two ) delegate to attend the appellate court convention which will be held at Wichita on June !rd. It Is rceommonlei that the primaries In the different townships be held on Thursday, June lltli, ut such places as may bo deemed proper, or a the committees of the respective precincts may provide. Tlie basis of apportionment of delegates is one to every 10 votes or fraction thereof based on the vote for governor on the Peoples party ticket at the election in ISiH, and one delegate at large from each precinct, as follows: Aetna 2 Cedar li Dcerhead :) j Turkey ;j lry Creek 2 Elm Mills 3 Klwood 4 lla.elton 4 Kiowa . i Lake City 2 Med. Lodge 11 Mingona 4 Moore 5 j McAdoo 4 Hound up ft I Sharon 7 un City 2 Valley ;i Lockard : Necessary to choice i'i. Hy order of County Cen'.ral committee. K. V. ( ant, Chairman. O.ATTON IIekk. Sec'y. POLITICAL CALENDAR. Kcpnblican National Convention, St. Louis, Juno Id. Democratic National Convention, Chicago, July 7. Populist and Silver National Convention, St. Louis, July 22. Populist State Convention, Abilene, Au gust .1. Democrat Ic State Convention, Hutchinson, August 4. Populist Seventh District Congressional Convention, Lamed, August s. Populist Appellate Court Convention, Cen tral Division, Southern Department, Wichita. June Havk you hoard from Ore gon: Will free silver republi cans vote for Goldbugs Blue, Calderhead and Long? Tiik redeemers have ex hausted the contingent funds. More evidence of a "business administration." If the silver democrats carry the day at Chicago, the administration element will go to the republican party. Eitjieu Chester I. Long is too ignorant to represent the people of this district or he is controlled by the Wall street lobby. Tiik Advocate says that the management of the insane asylum is so corrupt that Gov. Morrill has actually call ed attention to some of its blunders and violation of laws. . And now the fact has come to light that Luclen Baker paid "Farmer" Smith $3,500 to keep out of the senatorial race. Let's see; Morrill $3, 500; Baker $3,500; total $7, 000. Next! Tiik Peoples party is the only party that is not divid ed against itself on the silver question. All Populists are in favor of the free and un limited coinage of gold and silver at the existing ratio of lGto 1. How much capital lias come into the state since the Unit ed States supreme court up held monopolistic greed in the equity redemption act? How much have our eastern friends invested since, that time? How much will they invest? Echo answers, tlhow much." Law haa made gold as valuable as it is and law 13 what has depreciated silver. Theuk is nothing so ridiculously sil ly as to sink the nation into debt to keep up the 5100,000.000 gold reserve. The vast majority of the human family are nothing more than slaves; and yet they persist in voting yokes on their necks. The report comes from Portland, Oregon that ex-Governor I'enuoyer, Populist, was elected Mayor of that city by a large majority. The exception clause on the green back was the same to paper currency as the demonetization act was to silver. The bondholder prolited by both of these acts. In times of war and peril the green back piloted the nation through; but no sooner than peace had reigned it was assassinated in cold blood in the interest of the gold gamblers. Among our Populist exchanges we have noticed numerous suggestive state tickets published and the name of Rev. J. D. Boikin appears on them all as the candidate for Congressman-at-large. The Populists of Oregon have elect ed both congressman and have a re spectable number of their kind in the state legislature. This is enough to cause the average redeemer of this state to take a duck Gt. Senator Gear, of Iowa, is another one of those fellows who was a free silver man in 1800 but has subsequent ly "changed his mind." It is very no ticeable, also, that these fallows find it profitable to chance their minds. The free silver democrats came out victorious at Topeka last Wednesday. John Martin, David Overmyer, J. 1). McCleverty, James McKinstry, J. II. Atwood and Frank Bacon were select ed as delegates at large. Hon. T. P. Wilson, of Kiowa, was made an alter nate from the Seventh district. Coin basis is a villainous scheme hatched by the capitalistic incubator. The circulating medium should be bas ed on the same thing that U. S. bonds are based on, i. e., the government's credit. As Elder Bjtkiu said, we want a currency redeemable in the la borer's labor and the farmer's produce. 11 AitiiY 13one, who it is said uses his free railroad passes so often that he wears out the pasteboards every three months, poiuts the finger of shame at Jerry Botkin ror using a clergyman's half-fare permit. Such talk as that causes the fool killer to lean on his club .nd reflect. "Kansas Notes" in Kansas City Star. Chester Long was right in on the deal to al'ow himself $100 per month extra to hire a clerk to stay in Wash ington during vacation. Chester voted for this measure and inaugurated lies about Jerry Simpson selling docu ments and garden seeds. Chester is a daisy! Keep your eye on him. Ask him why he did this when he swings around the circle this fall... Immedi ately after the election of Chester I. Long to congress the Voice made ap plication to him to be put on the list for a copy of the Congressional Record in order that we might "keep proper tab on him." Ho wrote ns that if it were possible he would accommodate us. It seems to have been impossible but we have gathered enough scraps of his record to make it very tiresome for him during the coming campaign. Wellington Voice. The Topeka Capital of June 7th, in glaring double-column head lines con tains the information that out of nine teen republican delegates to the na tional convention, seventeen stand un equivocally for the single gold stand ard. The Capital publishes the state ments of these men in its issue of June 7th, and there is no uncertainty of tone in the answers. If Kansas sends a gold standard delegation to the nation al republican convention, what else can be expected of other states. So far as the Capital's inquiry has gone. Marsh Murdock is the only delegate that fav ors bimetallism and be is about ready to flop over. One of the others to whom the Capital directed an inquiry has not yet answered. Where is the re publican who has any authority for believing that his party, even In Kan sas, is not the party of gold-bugs? Judge McKay's purported interview with a Beacon reporter which appeared in the Wichita Beacon early last week, and subsequently reproduced in the Kansas City Star, Topeka Capital and other metropolitan papers, has brought forth different opinions from different men. We are not prepared to say that the interview as published in these pa pers was true or false, Dut we do know that men are very apt to be misquoted by the daily papers and we know, also, that the Judge has been misquoted be fore. However, if the report be true, no harm is done. Every man is enti tled to his opinion and has the right to express it. Of course others have an equal right to differ aud all may be honest in what they do. It is our opin ion that Barber county will send a dele gation to Lamed in favor of Simpson and in our opinion he will be nominat ed on August Sth. We draw this con clusion from the fact that Ex-Governor Lewelling declines to become a candi date, he being the only man except Simpson, spoken of as available timber. If Mr. Simpson is nominated he will receive cheerful, earnest and effective support from Judge McKay and those who are now censuring him will learn that they have been doing so without cause. Whatever the Judge does, be is actuated by unselfish motives and is always found in doing that which in his juugment will result in the most good for the cause without regard to personal favoritism. Let every popu list In the Seventh district express him self as to his preference and let the majority rule. KRABSTER WEST'S LETTER. A Foreigner's View of Washington So cietySilver Democrats Jubi lant Uoldbngs mast bay Them John Sher man's Break, Special Correspondence. "You Reformers are all foolish, said the vivacious and remarkably pretty wife of a member 'f the French lega tion to me at dinner to which I had been invited. Don't runaway with the impression that I or the other Reform ers in Washington waltz through life to the accompaniment of French cook ing, society smiles and champagne frappe! Not a bit of It; when the Re former is not watching the old parties' gang and collecting proofs ot their cor ruption, he is watching the mail, for a remittance and collecting free lunches. However, my nostess had read my book Grover on a Tramp.'and had expressed a desire to see the man who had dared to ridicule the fat man who is the nominal leader of Washington society. so I was dinning at her house. Myneighbor the at taole who informed me that all Reformers wese foolish had prefaced the remaik with the whisper ed information that Mrs. Sentator B., my hostess, had invited her especially to meet me, and had promised her the pleasure of studying a two legged crank. As I had rejoined that I feared that she would turn my bead, and thus make part of me a crank, she became very fritndly, and gave me her opinion of the political and social world of Wash ington. "You Reformers are all foolish,"said she, "because you hope to persuade the people to be sensible. You publish newspapers, you make speeches, the complaining people cheer you and ac knowledge your honesty of purpose and correctness of view, but the man with the money renders all your efforts nugatory as soon as he 'opens his bar rel,' as you Americans say. Still, mon brave, I admire Reformers, and I do despise most of the leading men of this government." "They strike me as being insincere. chacum faire Thomme d'importance (each assumes an air of importance) which in most of them is ridiculous; they have no idea of statesmanship; their motto is expedience, and I much fear that few are proof against a bribe, whether of money or position; their disregard of the wishes of the people upon the financial question, if shown bv the French chamber, would cause a revolution in my dear France. Your society, poof! You have many gentle men and ladies, but the leaders of your Washington society make me whai you call tired; they have much money, but little manners, and think that lavish expenditure can hide their ignor ance mediocrity. N'importe, 1 like to read of vou reformers, you are honest. Mr. Peffer, they make fun of him, but he keeps on sawing wood, as you say, and he will investigate these parvenus, who sell bonds and grow rich. Mr. Tillman, he reminds me of Gambetta, and Mr. Stewart, he is like that grand old Mr. Gladstone." I am afraid that I must confess my self no prophet insofar as the demo cratic party is concerned. At present it appears certain that the silver forces will have a handsome majority in the Chicago convention, and the silver democrats here boldly declare that they will drive Cleveland, Carlisle and their invertebrate pie-eaters into the republican ranks. Will they do so? Private John Allen, a representative from Mississippi, said this week: "We've got the goldbugs whipped if they don't buy us up." There's the rub. Cleveland is fuming with rage, and officials are day and night on the go between the White House and Wall street. It remains to be seen if the democratic masses can be sold out again; if not, they must nominate a man acceptable to the Populists, and that they are hardly likely to do. Some Senators have lately developed much unconscious humor. The Senate was discussing an amend ment to the fortification bill relating to a new torpedo. According to the description of the weapon, it was to be guided by a man until within a short distance of the threatened warship, and then it was to be directed by him upon its deadly mission. "But who is to protect the man?" asked some inquisitive senator. "Humanity would protect a man from being shot while ho is in the wat er," replied Senator Perkins, in all se riousness. The eminently peaceful view of mod em warfare was greeted with laughter and the torpedo amendment was not placed in the bill. Tne Butler bill taking from the pres ident the right to issue bonds has pas sed the Senate. In a speech opposing it. Senator Elkins solemnly stated that the fat man should be allowed to issue bonds to raise revenue. His mind must resemble that of a gallant colonel in Washington who lives by borrowing money, and who, ween he has been suc cessful in hU incursions into the pock ets of his acquaintances informs his friends that be has earned a good sala ry. Representative Howard, of Alabama, is trying to have Grover impeached. As the House is controlled by Reed and his republican goldbugs, he might as well ask a gang of robbers to be good and give their chief up to justice. John Sherman has put his foot in his mouth, to use a homely but expressive phrase. While opposing the Butler bill before mentioned, he said: "I would rather vote for a tax on any thing; I would take the last shirt off the backs of the people of the United States rather than to violate the public faith of the government" (i. e. rather than have my Wall and Lombard street friends deprived of a chance to raid the treasury and get more bonds). ( In order to test the author of Hard Times, the silver men made three propositions. Two of these proposi tions, one for an internal revenue tax on articles manufactured from iron, steel, wool, silk, etc., and the other for an import duty of 10 cents a pound on tea, were naturally negatived. The third proposed source of income was a tax of a dollar a barrel upon beer. That scared Sherman, for he knows that the German voters will no more tolerate an increased tax on beer than the American farmer will willingly give up bis last shirt; so John backed down aud stultified himself, much to the amusement of the reformers. The project of building a new palace for the president is much talked of, and if the reform forces do not gain control of the government next March, it is almost certain that $2,000,000 will be taken from those who live in log houses and scrimped cottages and ex pended upon the erection of a palace in which official society may sprawl and foreign princes and nobility be en tertained. "Thus we may see how the world wags." Brabstku West. CANNOT BE FOOLED- The McKinleyites are reported to in tend dodging a straight gold standard plank. They can adopt any kind of a plank they please, but they will not fool any sliver man. Mr. McKinley has been vouched for by John Sher man, J. Pierpont Morgan, H. II. Kohl saat and many other dyed-in-the-wool goldbugs, as a man after their own heart. His record in the Ohio cam paigns places him unqualifiedly on the gold side. He will, if elected, be mere ly the representative of the trusts and the money power. The only purpose which his friends have in view in talk ing of some kind of a straddle plank is to deceive the West. They rats the in telligence ot the West so low as to think that it can be played with, but the West is sick and tired of being de ceived and it will vote against McKin ley or any other goldbug, though he pretended to make a straddle ns wide as that of the Colossus of Rhodes. Denver News. The republican national convention occurs next Tuesday, the 16th. Every thing points to McKinley and a gold bug straddle platform. A lot ot west ern republicans will then have to step out of the party or take back what they have said. The gold standard plate matter which appears in some of the southern Kansas press is furnished free to the pa pers by the Sound Currency league of New York. Wich ita Eagle (Rep). Stevens county has passed resolutions endorsing the candidacy of Hon. John W. Leedy for the populist nom ination for governor. Leedy would certainly make a win ning candidate. The Populists of the Sixth congressional district have nominated N. B. McCormick for congressman. This is the only district in the state now represented by a populist congressman. The present in cumbent is Wm. Baker. Speaking of "hired edi tors," we would rather be hired by some of the best cit izen's of Barber county than by a goldbug millionaire of New York City. While the remuneration is not near so great it is far more honora ble. It required twenty-seven ballots to settle the contest in the Sixth .district, but now that is over all Populists have expressed their willingness to pull their coats and work for the nominee, McCormick, from now until the night of November 3,' 1896. There is is no man in the United States who is more persistent in uncovering the bloody shirt than is John J. Ingalls. If he were sent to the senate again he would do nothing but repeat his rec ord fight the ex-confederates and "skin democrats." He would fall in with such old scoundrels as John Sher man and help to rob the peo ple of this nation. If it required an annual outlay of $100.00 to instfre a family against any serious consequences from an attack of bowel complaint during the year, there are many who would feel it their duty to pay it; that they could not af ford to risk their lives, and those of their family for such an amount. Any one can get this insurance for 25 cents, that being the price of a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy. In almost every neighborhood some one has died from an attack of bowel complaint before medicine could be procured or a physi cian summoned. Oue or two doses of this remedy will cure any ordinary case. It never fails. Can you afford to take the risk for so small an amount? For sale by J. R. Young Drug Co. THE JUNE ARENA. m. u a uuu ii.nt.iMA uicua us 10m vol ume, appearing in a new dress, and being printed by Skinner, Bartlett & Co. It is an unusually strong number, opening with a brilliant paper by Rev. Samuel Barrows, D. D., the distin guished editor of the ."Christian Reg ister" of Boston, on "The First Pagan Critic of Christian Faith and His An ticipation of Modern Thought." Justice Walter Clark, LL. D. of the Supreme Bench of North Caolina, con tributes an instructive and delightful paper on Mexico, the interest of which is enhanced by several excellent il lustratlonb, including a recent portrait of the President of the Mexican Re public. The President of theMercantile National Bank of New York contri butes "A Proposed Platform for Amer ican Independents for 189B," which il lustrates how strongly the silver move ment is taking hold of Eastern finan ciers no less than the mass of voters in the South and West. Recently Jay Cook, the veteran banker, who floated the government bonds in 1S61, at the time of our sorest need, came out bold ly for free silver. Mr. St. John who has made finance a study for more than twenty years, and who is presi dent of a bank having a capital of $1, 000,000, Is no less pronounced on this subject. Another paper of special merit, on "Bimetallism," appears in this number by A. J. Utley. It is able and from a silver point of view very convincing. Prof. Parsons of Boston University Law School continues his masterly pa pers ou the "Government Control of Telegraph," a series of careful papers hitherto unapproached in authoritative character. Mr. B. O. Flower, the editor of the Arena, writes in a most captivating manner of Whittier, considering him in the aspect of a "Poet of Freedom," and giving many of Whittier 's most stirring lines. A fine portrait of the (Quaker Poet forms a frontispiece to this number. The Editor also dis cusses somewhat at length in his edi torials, the message of Whittier to men and women of to-day, and the proposed platform of Mr. St. John. Another in teresting feature of this issue is Mr. Eltweed Pomeroy's illustrated paper on the "Direct Legislation Movement and Its Leaders." Students of the higher metaphysical thought of our time will be deeply in terested in Horatio W. Dresser's paper entitled "The Mental Cure in its Rela tion to Modern Thought." Will Allen Dromgoole continues her powerful se rial of "Tennessee Life," and Mrs. Cal vin Kryder Reifsnider's "Psychical Romance," which opened a few months since, is prefaced by a digest of the preceding chapters. It is also profuse ly illustrated with exceptionally fine drawings. These are by no means the full quo ta of the strong attractions of this bril liant number of America's great pro gressive, reformative and liberal view. 30 First Published in Tbe Barber County Imlex May 27, 189ti. SHERIFF'S SALE. State of Kansas, County of Barber, ss. Vincent Smith, plaintiff, V8. James C. Garten an 1 Sarati E. Garten, defend ants. BY virtuo of an order of sale issued out of theDistrict Court of Barber county Kan sas. In the above entitled action, and to me di rected, I will on Monday, the 2atb Day of June, 1896, at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the front door or the eourthouse insaid county, offer for sale, at public auction, and sell, without appraisement, to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, to satisfy said order of sale, all the right, title and inter est whatsoever of the above named defend nats, and each of them, and of all persons claiming: under them, in and to the following described tract, piece and parcel of land, lying and situate in said county of Barber, to-wit: The southeast quarter of section 28, town ship 31, south of range 13, west. Together with all and singular tbe tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertain ing. Given under my hand, at my office in the city of Medicine Lodge, in said county, this 2Hth day of May, o, Milm. Sheriff. I. P. Campbell., Attorney for plaintiff. B. S. KaufTman. 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