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The FORD CO. GLOBE, Established 1877. consolidated, 1889.
The FORD CO. REPUBLICAN, " 1886. 1
DODGE CITY. KANSAS. THURSDAY. DEC. 5, 1895.
TWENTIETH YEAR. VOL. XIX. NO. 8.
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OLD SANTA GLAUS'
HEADQUARTERS
-HOLIDAY'S, lSQ5-e,
it Gwinner's City Bakery,
The largest Exhibit ever given
by Old Santa in Dodge City.
HEADQUARTERS
At Gwinner's City Bakery,
Bring the LittlelFolks andlet
Them Seelthe Show.
HOLIDAY
GOODS.
Iron Wagons, Tin Wagons,
Hobby Horses, Shoofly Horses,
Iron Troins, Wooden Trains,
The best Drums and Horns,
Fiddles and Oriental Harps,
Music Fluted Balls, Bugles.
Guns for the little boys,
Musical Toys of every kind.
Building and A. B. C. Blocks,
All other kinds Toy Blocks,
Foot Balls, Kubber Balls,
Tool Chests, Toy Hatchets,
HOLIDAY
GOODS.
LARGE LINE DOLL CABS,
Fine Line Kid Body Dolls,
Fine Line Dressed Dolls,
Large Line Britanica Tea Sets,
Large line China Toy Tea Sete,
GENTS' CUPS AND SAUCERS.
Ladies' Cups and Saucers,
Fine Assortment Iron Banks,
Large Assotment of Games,
Ladies' Handsome Work Boxes
Ladies' Parlor Writing Desks,
HOLIDAY
GOODS.
Steam Engines, Musical Tops,
Fire Engines that whistle.
Self Running Locomotives,
Boys' Nice' Christmas Books.
Girls' Nice Chribtmas Books.
Solid four wheel Iron Wagons,
Boys' solid Iron Wheelbarrows,
Two-wheel Wooden Carts,
FOR THE BABIES.
Fine Line Rubber Goods,
Large Line of Tin Rattles
Squeaking Rubber Dolls,
Double-Headed dressed Dolls.
CANDY
DEPT.
Our Confectionery Department
is complete in every way. We
have added the latest improved
machinery,- and our Candy
Factory is the best in the west.
Our Candies are all home-made
and are fresh, pure and health
ful. Will make several bar
rels for Holiday trade, and will
give School Teachers and Sun
day Schools the benefit of
Special Prices. Come see our
SWEETS.
We always have on hand a
Full line Fresh Taffies.
Full line Buttercup mixed.
Full line Boston Chip.
Full line Fruit Candies.'
Full line Peanut Candy.
Full line Butter Scotch.
Full line Hoarhound stick.
Eull line Hoarhound Drop.
Full line mixed Candies.
Finest Bon Bons market affords
FRUITS NUTS.
We keep in stock the largest
and freshest line of Nuts and
Tropical Fruits ever catried in
the west, at prices lower than
ever heard of before.
TCtRjS 'rMBmtZHVJS .
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THE CONTEST
Of the Soldiers' Home Vote.
The contest of the votes cast by the
inmates of the State Soldiers' Home,
lias been formally entered in the Pro
bate Court. Judge Burson has ap
pointed as associate judges, E. D.
Swan and D. P. BagMn; . and has set
the 19th of December as the day on
which the contest shall begin. The
contest in this court will lasta hun
dred days or more, as it will be ne
cessary to make witnesses of the 160
voters of Grandview township. This
means an expense of several hundred
dollars.
In the contest by G. H. Lawrence
against J. H. Leidigh, for the office
of County Clerk, the bond for costs
filed contains the names of W. F. Pe
tillon. S. Galland, John Eelsev and
G. H. Lawrence. The bond is fixed
at $1,500 Petition qualifies for $500.
He swears that he is worth this sum
above all -just claims and liabilities
Bra Petition's friends congratulate
him on his sudden acquisition to
wealth.but trust it will not be eaten np
by expense in a fruitless contest. S.
Galland swears that he is worth $1000
above all legal claims. Doc's name
is the only responsible name on the
bond. Kelsey and Lawrence do not
qualify as to any amount
In the contest by L. P. Horton vs.
Nic Mayrath, for the office of County
Commissioner, the bond for costs is
fixed at $1,500; G. Doolittle, L.P.
Horton qualify to the amount of the
bond.
The petition contains the names of
ninety-eight soldiers at the Home who
are alleged to be "guilty of mal con
duct," in voting at Grandview pre
cinct. These men voted without a
challenge, and their ballots were ac
oepted and deposited as legal votes.
They have committed no crime and
ar& not amenable to any law for the
alleged offense of voting.
In the taking of evidence before
the,Probate Court it will be necessary
to seunmon jsach voter, who will be
psrtc oath m to his right to vote and
for whom he voted. The expense of
attendance at the Probate ooort muet
be bone by the parties who are mak
if the contest. The
moned to testify how he voted and as
to his qualifications as a voter, will be
paid as witnesses are paid in other
cases or courts; but when served with
a notice by the Sheriff to appear as a
witpess in the Probate court, the old
soldier must demand his feeB in ad
vance fpr each day's attendance and
mileage. He can refuse to attend the
court unless these expenses are paid
in advance. .Unless the witness does
this he may be under the necessity of
waiting for his fees until the court con
realize on Petition's bond. Whatever
cash is raised by subscription to pros
ecute this contest will not be suffici
ent to pay lawyers' fees, let alone oth
er fees; and the lawyers have the first
whack at the cash.
This contest is a harder thing than
the promoters imagined when they
started out with it; and they will find
expense and vexatious delay all along
the line; and they will be glad to drop
it before the violets bloom in the
spring.
Sat
The Ford County Leader says re
ferring to the soldiers at the Home
'So one wants to deprive tbem of the right
to vote, bat we want them to go the voting
precincts where they voted prior to becom
ing inmates of the Home."
This would be a hardship as well as
an injustice. Through want of means
and on account of infirmities, many
of these old soldiers would be preven
ted from going to a former place of
residence. Many of them, perhaps
all, abandoned their former homes
when they entered the Soldiers' Home.
They have, too, actually lost their res
idence at their former homes, whre
they sold everything, not expecting to
return.9 Should they go to a former
home to vote they would be met with
the legal reqnirments and be obliged
to swear that they have been a resi
dent of the county or precinct for 30
days preceding the election. They
are thus practically disfranchised,
having no established legal residence,
unless they are permitted to vote in
the precinct where the Home is situ
ated. We have "some cases in point,
where at the last election, an old
soldier.' an inmate of the Hone, waa
obliged to swear in his vote, that he
was a legal voter in the precinct in
which he offered to vote.
01 oowts, the Leader learned to
gal light and gentleman of profound
legal acumen, will say these condi
tions establish nothing and involve no
legal phase, but it does certainly fix
ah embarrassing state of affairs as to
the old soldier's legal home.
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The profundity of onr Democratic
contemporary is also brought into re
quisition on the legal character of the
Soldiers' Home vote. Having eaten
17 pounds of Thanksgiving turkey in
connection with copious draughts of
bug juice, the compeer of Hill and
Glick sallies forth in the domain of
spectacular legal decisions and prac
tical political tactics. The sage of
Duck creek says
"Every election for the past four or live years
have been decided by this Home vote."
And its disinterestedness in the af
fairs of the Home is shown in this
extremely partisan view:
'These men have no interest whatever In
the af airs of this county, and the tricky Re
publican politicians who can secure these
votes is assured of his election."
'A quoted paragraph in the Demo
crat reads as follows:
"The paiticipatlon of an nnccnoerned bo
dy of men In the control,. through the ballot
box, of municipal affairs la whose conduct
thev have no further Interest, and from the
management of which by the officers their
ballots might elect they sustain no injury."
The above sentence is not intelligi
ble "about as clear as mud," as the
expression goes and if it was not
written by the editor with a congested
stomach, "full of bug juice and tur
key," some lawyer may have. clipped
it from a brief on on election fraud;
or the paragraph may have become
tangled in the dizziness of the com
positor or the confusion of the proof
reader. It will lake something worse
than that to scare the old soldier.
But the Demucratsays
"This is the strongest argument that caa
be made against their vote."
The Democrat further states
"It Is not the purpose of the contestors to
disfranchise the old soldiers, ant to have
them vote at their legal resideace, which is
the place aad. county they came from, where
they are stlU legal residents and voters nnder
thecoBSCltutton. and aef in Ford eouty.
where they have no Interest whatsoever, and
where they come within tfceatisehtof against
which that proviso of the eeaetltatkm is
aimed."
Of course the old soldier plays the
"mischief" with the remocrate, not
excepting the time when they "aimed"
the "constitution" at the old etWier
when he had hia gun pointed at the
enesay of the constitution.
It ktssaM old story. Wehwre
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been hearing it for years; and we pre
sume we shall always hear it so long
as the Democratic purty lives and
there is an old soldier for the party to
fight.
SCRAPS OF EARLY HISTORY.
BY THE EDITOR.
A temperance lecture, in the 70s,
was a novel proceeding, and we have
lately read some newspaper accounts
of a lecture on temperance, about the
time Bat llasterson was sheriff. Of
course, the description of this lecture
was as much sensational as the lurid
fiction of the writer could well por
tray; and yet the imagination could
do justice to the reality. At the time
in question, Dodge City had sixteen
saloons and a few dance halls; but
every saloon was not a dance hall, yet
every dance hall had a saloon. We
desire to say that there was no more
drinking by the inhabitants than
there was in other towns of an equal
population with a less number of sa
loons. Drunkenness was no more
common among the actual residents
than 'one would find in other saloon
towns the size of Dodge City. We
have commented on this condition in
times past; and yet there was a woful
lack of temperance sentiment
With its accustomed liberality the
gang element allowed a free expres
sion.pi sentiment, though it may not
have agreed with their opinions. The
courtesy extended to strangers was
cordial though it may have been ex
tremely rude. The incident we refer
to Would have shared different treat
ment had it been under different aus
pices. Rev. Amos McGosh, from a
Missouri town, strolled in the city.
one day, on his way to the mountains
for the benefit of his health. He
thought he saw a chance to do a little
missionary work and at the same time
repiteush his disappearing 'reserve
j funeV The character of Dodge waa
suckles to invite a reform and an es
thetic taste could hardly refrain from
layipjg hold and throttling the mon
stttof tech frightful mein a the de-
jnon of sin in this city, way back.
MeUpsb oonBded hie purpose to a
.weajesigly clerical appearing person,
D. Jffwost, whose he met on a
eV TheesgeiMdrvid8linf.
ed the temperance advocate that the
town oracle was the proper one to see
in regard to matters of this kind; and
directed his attention to a neat ap
pearing sign over a humble doorway,
which read, "M. W. Sutton, attorney
at law." Mike scraped up on ac
quaintance with his Missouri visitor,
and was glad to accommodate him,
but his 'friend Bat Masterson would
get up a meeting for him. The pre
liminaries were arranged and the en
tire sheriffs posse was guaranteed to
preserve order at the meeting and to
protect the speaker. Flaming hand
bills announced a temperance lecture
in Odd Fellows' hall, a rickety con
cern with a back stairway. The hall
was crowded long before tho'lecturer
arrived. The meeting was organized
with Bat Masterson in the chair; and
Bat warned the audience against ma
king a disturbance under pain of
death. He was prepared for any
emergency having equipped himself
with two guns. The lecturer waa in
troduced, and was soon dwelling on
the folly snd sin of intemperance.
Bobby Gill, a disreputable character
and "back capper," sitting in the back
(part of the hall, interrupted the lee
lurer by calling him some name not
chaste or polite. The chairman re
sented the insinuation, when a shot
from a pistol came close to hie ears,
and the lecturer ducked his head be
hind the stand. Bat, in returning
once doctrine was premature for this
city, and it was attended with disas
trous results; but if Mike desired he
would stay and preach a funeral ser
mon over Bobby McGill's grave. No,
Mike replied, they had a man on a
regular salary who attended to that
business.
A temperance lecturer edified a
street crowd one night in front of a
saloon and was given a peaceable
hearing for a short time, when the
mischievous propensity found expres
sion in a display of corrupt nitro
genous substances and other harmless
missies, not so much as tokens of dis
respect to the speaker but the gang
knew no other way of assent or dis
sent. Similar tricks were placed on
their best friends. Showers of eggs,
potatoes, or whatever came handy,
were frequently hurled atone and an
other sometimes with harmful effects.
The many stories of Dodge's char
acteristics many times had founda
tions of fact, but they were highly
embellished in turgid rhetoric and
i fanciful hyperbole, and looked really
heartrending in print. But the mind
gloats in exaggeration and the public
appetite must be appeased; like the
carnivorous appetite of the blood
thirsty villian, who "killed a man for
breakfast every morning," and had a
passion for more. Some of these
vivid stories are once in a while re-
lurid
time.
brightness in the ravages of
to be conttnuedI
the fire, shot a few holee through thef vived, and they lose nothing of their
speaker s plug hat; and called out to
take the dead man away and author
ized the speaker to proceed, that he
would have quiet if be had to kill
every man in the ball. A dead calm
spread over the room, and while the
fumes of powder yet permeated the
room and the speaker was still suffer
ing from the shock, the limp form of
Bobby McGill, as it was being drag
ged head first down the stairway, the
feet making a flip-flap on the steps,
conveyed an intelligence louder than
words that temperance was a dead
issue in Dodge City, and that the boys
loved sport as well as they did liquor.
McGosh was too much overcome to
proceed, and requested the chairman
to escort him to his room in the Great
Western hotel.
McGosh told Mike the next morn
ing, as ha escorted has to the train,
ththproe.wJgatioa of the
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to Dodge City.
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