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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

CANDIDATES and politicians generally
have begun to congregate at Topeka for
the State convention, which will be held
in that city next Wednesday. The can
didates for Governor are, Adams of
Manhattan, Guthrie of Topeka, Cobb
of Wyandotte, Geo. T. Anthony of
Leavenworth, Bassett of Lawrence, and
st. John of Olathe. The candidates
for Lieutenant Governor are also quite
numerous, and no one of them seems
to have any great strength over
the others. Francis, of course, will be
nominated for State Treasurer without
opposition, and Wilder, State Auditor
and Cavanaugh, Secretary of State. will
doubtless be nominated for reelection.
For Attorney-General and Superinten-
dent of Public instruction it is difficult
to decide who are the most prominent
candidates. As the convention is to be
followed by grand ratification meeting
the probabilities are that it will be
more largely attended than any conven.
ton ever held in the State.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

A delegate convention of the Republicans OF
the State OF Kansas will be held in Representative
Hall, in the city Of Topeka, on Wednesday, the
18th day of August, A. ID. 1876, at the hour Of
P M, for the purpose Of nominating candidates
for the following Offices to-wit:
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary Of
State, Auditor Of State, Treasurer Of State, At
torney General, Superintendent Of Public In
struction, One Associate Justice OF the Supreme
Court, Five Presidential Electors, and A State
Central Committee.
All counties entitled to representation in the
House Of representatives for 1856, and no others,
will be entitled to representation in this conven-
ton, as follows, to wit: Two delegates from
each representative district.
1t is recommended that the primary meetings
for the purpose of eecting delegates to the State
Convention herein called TO be held on Saturday,
the 5th day of August, Mt snch hour as may be
designated by the Central Committee Of each
representative district or in the event that there
Is no such committee or that it shall fail to act,
by the Central Committee of the county.
1t is also recommended that In addition TO the
delegates herein provided for one alternate be
elected for each delegate.
No person will be entitled to o seat or vote in
the convention by virtue Of holding the proxy Of
any of the delegates elected.
JOHN GUTHRIE, Chairman.
J. JAY BECK, Secretary.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
HASKELL AND GOVDIN.

The Democrats and malcontents have
Of late been expressing themselves as
Jubilant because of the assumed fact that
Haskell has complicated himself on the
finance question. If Haskell is compli-
Gated, how is it with Judge Goodln? 1t
strikes us forcibly that Mr.. Goodin is
somewhat lame in the same direction !
Already the Tilden Democrats have
nominated and endorsed him, and the
Peter COopers swear they will not vote
for him. Unless he does not move
square on that issue, then the Tildenites
will fly the track. Plainly, there has
been a row in one of the Goodin Conven-
tions, and more are brewing. The hards
and softs will no more work together
than oil and water. The impending dis.
agreement destroyes every hope Of sue
cess Goodin and his friends could rea.
sonably have entertained. Let all the
opposition to the Republican party in
this District be united and HARMONIOUS
and the prospect of defeating Mr.. Has.
kell would be gloomy indeed. Divided
and the last vestige Of hope disappears.
do not be worried about Mr.. Hsskell's
complications" but put your own house
in order.-Paola Spirit.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
TlLDEN ENDORSED THE RIGHT OF
SECESSION.

On the 18th day of October, 1860
Samuel j. Tilden published letter OF
pamphlet, addressed to Hon. VIM. Kent
then candidate for election Oh the Dem
Ocratic ticket for the State of New York
in which may he found the following
paragraph:
The single, slender conventional tie
which holds the State in confederation
has no strength compared with the com.
pacted, INTERVENING fbers which bind
the atoms of humane society into one
formation of national growth.
The masters of political science who
constructed our system preserved the
State government as bulwarks for the
freedom of individuals and localities
against oppression from centralized pow
er. They recognized no right of consti-
tutional secession, but they left revolution
organized ,rhen it should be demanded by the
public opinion of a state; left it ,cith po,cer
to snap The tie Of confederation as a nation
might break treaty and to repel eoertion as
a nation might repei invasion. They caused
US to depend, in great measure, upon the
public opinion Of the States, in order to
maintain confederate union. They
intend to make it necessary for US, in
every reasonable extent, to respect pub.
lie opinion.
As rule Of right and duty for the
construction and execution of the Con-
stitution. the theory maintained by Mr..
Seward, and too extensively accepted, is
entirely fallacious, as no contract govern
ing complicated transactions or relations
between men, and applying permanently
through the changes inevitably in hui
man affairs, can be effectual if either
party intends to be bound by it is at lib
erty to construe or execute its provisions
in a spirit of hostility to the substantial
objects of these provisions. Especially is
this true Of a compact of confederation be.
t,ceen the States, ,cherc there can be no CON-
.,on arbiter invested Nth authorities and
pocers equally capable oith those phioh
courts possess bet,ceen indiriduals for deter
mining and enforcing a. just construction and
Of the instrument.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

THERE will be a Republican ratifica-
ton meeting at Topeka on the 18th Of
August, following the Republican state
convention, and it is the intention Of
those having the matter in charge to
make it the biggest political meeting
ever held in the State. Arrangements
have been made with the different rail-
roads in the State for reduced "a ties,
tickets good from the 18th to the 18th
inst. Carl Schurz and Bob Ingersoll,
together with all the principal Republi.
can speakers in the State, are expected
to be present. The campaign in this
State will doubtless be opened with o
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

CONGRESS will probably adjourn next
Monday. A large number from the
House and some from the Senate have
already gone home to take part in the
political campaigns in their respective
States. There are good many appro-
priations about which the House and
Senate have failed to agree ard a good
many persons working for the govern
'ment will soon be thrown out of employ
ment on account Of no provisions having
been made whereby they could receive
their pay. They did agree however, not
to reduce their own pay, and made pro-
visions for drawing their money. You
bet.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

The Republican Central Committee
of Indiana have nominated Gen. Har-
rison for Governor in the place Of Orth,
who declined making the race. His
nomination is satisfactory to the Repub.
licans of the State. He would have been
nominated in the first place but that he
refused to accept it. He is a grandson of
President Harrison and the Republicans
expect to elect him by q majority equal
to that given by that State to his grand
father thirty-six years ago, when the
rallying cry was 'Tippecanoe and Tyler
too"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
SENATORIAL CONVENTION.

A delegate convention of the Republicans OF
the 18th Senatorial District, consisting of Allen
and Anderson counties, will be held at lola on
the cath day Of August, 1876, at 40 clock 2 \ ,
for the purpose of nominating . candidate for
Senator from said District. The townships COM
posing said District entitled to representation
as follows:
ALLEN CoUNTY:-Geneva township, i; Deer
Creek. /; Usage, /; MsrmatOh; I; Elm, 1; lola,
,; Elsnore, 1; Salem, l; Humboldt, 2; Cottage
Grove, 1.
ANDERsoN CoUNrY:-Walker township, /;
Lincoln, 1; Rich, 1; Ozark, 1; Indian Creek, !;
Reeder, 1; Washington, 1; Jackson, l; Putnam,
l; Monroe, .. -.
1t is recommended that the several townships
1876, at from TO O'Clock p. n. All Republic
cans are cordially invited to participate.
By order of the Republican Senatorial Central
Committee, .J.T- LANrKR, Chairman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
INDEPENDENT REFORM CONVENTION.

L
We publish below the comments of thu
Kansas Fdrmeron the late Stsse Reform
Conventions held at Topeka. The edito'
Of that paper is one of the leaders Of ths
Reform movement in this State and wa.
. delegate in the convention:
On Thursday, July 9th, the indie
pendent Reform Convention of Kansas
assembled in Topeka TO nominate State
ticket. We give elsewhere the result Of
the Convention and the platform adopt
ed. We closely observed the action Of
the Convention, a. . delegate, from the
hour it convened, to the moment of its
adjournment, and we frankly confess to
being considerably disappointed in the
spirit which prevailed and the results
which will in all probability follow the
action of the Convention. From the first
to the Last the Convention was in the
hands of Q half dozen political pipe lay
ers of the Second Congressional District,
who dictated the course of the body in
the especial interest of that District.
We regret to have to say, that it was es-
pecially evident that these managing
members were more DESTROYS of placing
a ticket in the field which would meet
the approval and ratification of the
approaching Democratic Convention,
than one which would be sustained upon
its own merits and in accord with the
principles of the National convention at
Indianapolis. If the coalition with the
Tilden and Hendricks party of Kansas is
secured which was urged, by the Con.
trolling politicians of the Independent
Convention. as essential to success, the
issue resolves itself back to question of
power between the two great parties, and
the Independent Reform party of Kansas
becomes simply the minority support of
the Democratic party to assist them to
power.
If there is no distinct difference be-
tween the Independent Reform party OF
Kansas to-day and the Democratic party,
if there is no essential difference in the
principles advocated by these two par
ties, as we, with thousands of Others have
believed, there then remains no particu-
lar reason for the existence of the third
party.
We believe there are more vital diff
ferences in principle, between the indie
pendent Reform party of Kansas to-day
and the Democratic party, than there are
the Republican and Democratic
parties, and we hal hoped to see no sur
render of these differences, no pandering
to secure Democratic votes for the sake
Of "the loaves and the fishes" If the
politicians expect to deliver
the Independent Reform party ofKansas
to the Democracy. they will discover
when it is too late, that the bill of sale
does not include the voters who propose
to stand by the nominations and princi-
pies of the indianapolis Convention.
Success is what we are after, bellows
the political huckster. Aye, so it is, If
that success comes without surrender of
the principles of the organization. Men
who are unwilling to stand with the mi
nority, who are unwilling to serve in the
ranks of the Independent Reform party
IF Kansas a. the voters Of 1910 stood by
The Liberal Party. should seek the stron-
ger parties where the prospects for "fod-
Ter" are more encouraging.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

GEN. FUTILE, Of lows, who was at one
tine the Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor of that State, has left the Demo.
cratic party and declared himself fol
Hayes and Wheeler. His speech giving
his reasons for sadoing has called out the
yilest personal abuse from the Democrat.
&c press. Having been life long Demo
crat Gen. tlethoroughly understands
that party and he touches them on their
sore spots. His speech is an excellent
campaign document. and already over
100000 copies Of it has been sold.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

HOBBS KERRY, one of the train rob
bers, has been captured and taken to
Sedalia, Mo-, and upon positive assn.
rance of an entire immunity, has Imsde
confession in reference to the robbery
of the train near Sedalia some time last
month. He says those engaged in the
matter besides himself were Clel Miller,
Frank and Jesse James, Cole and Bruce
Younger, Charles Pitt and VIM. Chad
we'll.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

No NEWS of importance this week
from the commands. Of Gems. Crook and
Terry. Theyeze not strong enough 70
operate separately and it appears diff
cult for them 70 get their forces together.
The number Of the hostile Indians is
said to be steadily increasing, recruits
arriving from British America and from
Minnesota, and it is quite probable that
the present campaign will be q prolonged
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
GENERAL NEWS.

The Centennial grounds comprise 46t
acres.
The "bloody shirt" has Hamburg EN-
broidery.
| An invisible eclipse will be seen Sep
TENDER Sd.
Gen. Banks will pay allegiance to Haye,
and Wheeler.
Five German Republican clubs have
been organized in New Orleans.
| California Republicans count their
majority in that State, at 1900.
Tilden and Hendricks have been in.
vesting largely in adhesive plaster
Alexander 81. Stephens has recovered,
and is able to do his ream of foolscap
every day.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Young is in Hartford
on business connected with the publica
ton of her new book.
1t is claimed in Utah that that Terri
| tory will turn out mineral products this
year of the value of 81, 100000.
The United States Mint at Philadel.
phia turned out during the month of
July, 1922, $50 pieces, valued At 1885,
$50.
Mr.. John Quincy Adams Is 90 deeply
affected by the recent loss of his two
children that he refuses to take any in.
terest in politics.
Two reasons why Gov. Hayes should
be preferred to Gov. Tilden he is ten
years younger and has served his State
and nation thirteen years longer.
1t would be as we'll perhaps, to call
this document message, for il is about
as long as an ordinary Presidential mes,
sage. 1t elsborates Mr.. Tilden's we'll
known views upon the money question,
though his treatment of the resumption
feature is sophistical and insincere, and
will not gain him friends either at the
east or west.-Las0resce Journal.
Charles A. Dana, in his speech At the
New York Democratic ratification meet
ing, said some handsome things about
Mr.. Tilden, and yet he didn't do q we'll |
by him Is he did by Tweed . few years |
ago. TWAS Dana who proposed mon.
ument to commemorate the distinguished |
services which the Boss had rendered |
70 the metropolis. Naturally enough,
Dana is now . reformer of the Tilden
brand.-Atchison Champion. -
The history of our great impeachment
trials is history Of successive failures.
impeachment does not seem 70 impesch.
The acquittal of Gen. Belknap initiates,
% far - the mere result is concerned.
the precedent set when John Randolph i
brought about the impeachment Of
5smue! Chase, . signer of the declaration |
y Independence and . Judge of the
United States Supreme Court, who was
,cqultted BY majority vote on FIVE Of
ne eight charges, and renewed when
resident johnson escaped conviction BY
single vote.-MeW Eqrk H13yne. K
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

KANSAS furnished the firstlot ofapples
of this years growth to the Centennial.
They were grown by Joab league, Of
Bourbon county, and like the agricultur-
nj specimens sent from this State re-
ceived highly flattering notices from the
Philadelphia papers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
services.

ExcURsIoF trains from the Eastern
States are coming into our State every
week. Hard times and failures in crops
in some parts Of the middle Ststes will
start heavy emigration West this fall,
and Kansas will receive q very large
portion Of it. No State in the Union
offers such inducements to persons seek
ing cheap homes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

TnDEN's lawyers have filed an answer
tn the suit in equity begun against him
by the st. Louis, Alton and Terra Haute
railroad company. The answer denies
the charges Of fraud and embezzlement
against Tilden, and sets up that the large
sums appropriated by him were for legal
services
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

THE wheat crop throughout the coun-
try has been harvested. The season has
been very favorable both for growing and
harvesting the crop, and 50 far as can
now be ascertained it is more than an
average one in quantity and quality.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

RECENT dispatches from Sioux City,
Iowa, and St. Paul, Mimi, report the
grasshoppers as having all left Northern
Nebraska and South-w western Minnesota,
and the damage done by them is said to
have been overestimated
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

BOOTH Of California having refused to
make the race az candidate for Vice
President on the greenback ticket with
the venerable Peter Cooper, Sam Carey
of Ohio has been preferred the nomina-
ton and of course has accepted.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

THOSE long delayed letters Of Tilden
and Hendricks haye been written at
last, and the Democratic House has
voted to repeal the resumption act; still
the Democrats are not all happy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

SINCE Gov. Hayes is nominated by the
Republicans for President the New York
Sxn has been traducing him; but before
his nomination, in an editorial of May
9th, 1876, it said: Governor Hayes is
q man of talent; he is . gentleman he
Is rich and independent; he served with
credit as . soldier in the war, and his
record as Governor Of Ohio is without .
flaw or spot"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

EDWIN FIVE is to be Blaine's sncces-
sor in Congress for the uaexpired term.
Blaine was present At the convention and
made speech.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

Taken together, the letters are the
6oldest and baldest attempts to deceive
the American people ever made by can.
didates for the two highest Offices. Taken
singly, the letters are full of insincerities
and outrigh: falsity.-Mew York Mai.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

The camp meeting for Fort Scott dis
trlct will commence August 10Th on
Mine creek, near Pleasanton. Presiding
Elder ID. P. Mitchell will have charge. :.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

The Senatorial race is becoming inter
esting, and, as the candidate is conceded
to our county, some of our best men are
aspiring for the nomination.
In the list 10 DR.. J. H. Whitford, an
old-time Republican, who is always
found with his shoulder to the wheel,
whether he is victorious or defeated in
his own aspirations. DR.. Whitford has
represented this county twice in the
lower house of our State Legislature, and
has honored his constituents and himself
on each occasion. He is an able and
practical legislator.
The Doctor is engaged somewhat in
presenting his claim to the people, and
those not acquainted with him, in both
Allen and Anderson counties, will find
him . gentleman ofculture, and genial
social companion, whose presence At To.
peka would be felt for good BY his con-
satuents, and whose record would be
clear Of charges of bargained sale.
His nomination would be eminentlv
satisfactory to the Republicans of this
county, and the Plnmdealer could run
his name tn the masthead with hearty
good will.-GarneH PldindeaLer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

The States of Kentucky and Ala
bams have gone Democrotic by large
majorities.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

KILL the Indians, and after that treat
them kindly, is policy that seems to be
popular with Western people.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
SENATORIAL CANDIDATES.

Hon. John T. Lanter, of this city, will
be a candidate before the Senatorial
convention which meets at lola on the
24th inst, for the nomination as Senator
from this district.
Mr.. Lanter is gentleman who has
been connected with the business and
politics of Anderson county almost from
its first settlement, and has always been
found true to our interests. He has rep
resented this county in the Legislature
and no man can be sent from this die.
trict who will WELD larger influence in
the councils of the State. He is a man
of extensive acquaintance as we'll as of
ability.
Mr.. LIS standing as a practical bust.
ness man is shown by his continued ser
vice as a member of the board of trus-
tees of the State Insane Asylum for
years. and, last winter, when the differ.
ent State charitable institutions were
under one management, we
find him one of the newly appointed
board, of which he was elected treasurer.
This mark of confidence from the State
as we'll as his fellow members
Of the board. should count in his favor
by the people.
The race is "free for ALL" and the po-
sition will be worthily filed by either of
the candidates Gcrnett
Ptdindedlcr.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
No. 90. Farm Of16S

acres one and one-half miles southeast Of
lola.-7O acres in cultivation, all but
about two acres fenced, over one half
mile stone fence, Elm Creek runs through
1t, plenty Of timber for firewood, posts
and rails. Two story frame house 1889
and addition 14x22, box stable, smoke
house, buggy shed, 25 or 80 hearing apple
and cherry trees, good we'll.
Price SIS per acre.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
WATER,
BUILDING, FENCING
AND FUEL.

One Of the special advantages which
this county possesses over the treeless
plains Of Western Kansas is found in
it's timber, coal and stone. The average
width Of timber belts is half . mile OF
more, and the quality is excellent, fur
nisLing reasonable supply for all prac.
tical purposes, rs is shown by the fact
that the price of good hard wood in the
towns seldom exceeds $3.50 per cord. In
the eastern and less timbered portion OF
the county coal of fair quality is mined
in quantities sufficient for domestic
purposes, and will no doubt be devel-
oPed rs the wants of the county require.
For building and fencing stone Of an
excellent quality abounds in many local.
titles, yet ~ disposed as to interfere but
little with the cultivation of the soil.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12

No. lO5. + acz,es.---
Three and onehalf miles southvsst. 30
acres in cultivation and fenqsd, balance
in simber-Principally black walnut.
Price, $l2 per acre; cash.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
The Leavenvorth Appeal, Demo
cratic reform paper, has suspended.

TILDEN'sIetter suits both the hard and
soft money Democrats in this vicinity.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
No. 1O7.. II farns of60

acres, about eight miles west Of lola
New house lSx3ll feet, good cellar under
the whole. enclosed b4 enfy partially
finished.) Hedge growing ali asquna
the 50, apple orchard Of 100 tress il
years old and another Of 800 trees No
Gently planted. 500 peach trees in bear.
ing, all choice fruit.
Price $500 cash,