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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

A SPRY OLD MAN.-In view of the expensive
ness of the trip, and high rates Of railroad fare
to Philadelphia and return, Daddy Isaac Hays, OF
BIgelow township, who had intended TO visit the
Centennial Exhibition, has given up the idea of
doing so. lie is now in his 93d year, and is the
sire of many children, grand children and great
grand children. The old gentleman is hale and
hearty, and is living with his third wife, and is
raising young family Of Hays his youngest
child having been born last SIMMER. His resi-
dence is near the banks of the Big Tarkio, about
four miles southwest of BiselOw.-HOH County
Sentinel.
He must be extraordinary, as well as spry, if
he is the sire of his grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

A HINT.-In less than one month, the 18th
Volume of the Chief will close. There is due us
on subscription alone, (saying nothing of adver-
tising and job work,) over $500. For more than
year past, knowing the terrible condition OF
the times, and that even the best men were COM
PEELED to go on credit, we have given all our pat
rons their own leisure, never urging payment of
subscriptions. Under these circumstances, as a
necessary consequence, we have incurred debts,
and others have been compelled to wait upon us.
This has been trying to our feelings, for we
would rather kick man, any day, than be in
debt to him. We make these observations pre-
liminary to suggesting that it would be glori-
GUS thing if every subscriber, the very first thing
after harvest, would send the printer the amount
due him. Even years pay in advance would
not be taken as an insult. We say after harvest
because nobody expects to have money before
harvest, and the prospect ahead is good. Hoping
that all may have abundant crops, and get good
prices for them, and that all may remember this
hint, We remain yours, till death.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

q There is Club of Republican Reformers
IN New York, whose object is to purify the par
", and they proclaim Bristow as the only man
that is worthy of nomination for President. A
prominent member of this Club is Knahan Corn
wallis. This fellow is an unnaaturalized English
man, who publishes paper in New York called
.ne Aio'oH devoted to British news and British
interests In politics and business, this paper
- auYOca'es the interests of England, whenever
.ney come In conflict with those of America. In
when America is celebrating the
Centennial of her Independence of England. it
is not good time for unnaturaIized Epglish-
men to dictate who the Republicans shall nomi-
nate for President. The influence of the Corn
wallis family has not improved in this country,
in the last hundred years.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

n Regarding one of the persons lately sent
to the penitentiary for defrauding the Govern
ment, it is said that be cannot secure a pardon
without the Recommendation of the District At
torney, and that the latter will not recommend
pardon, because the person convicted was too
intimate with the District Attorneys wife. 1t
is pretty hard, if the only way to keep some men
away from other mems wives, is to send them to
the penitentiary. That District Attorney is in
as bad a way as another fellow we once beard Of,
who caught a neighbor trespassing upon his
rights Says he: 81 was so mad at him, didn't
speak to him for six weeks" "Mein Gott, vot
peoples! 7" =
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18
Euhibi,io. Of k.n... Prodve.,.
STATE BOARD OF CENTENNIAL MANAGERS,
OFFICE OF SECRETARY,

10,
OFFICE OF SECRETARY,
Topeka, April 81, 1876.
At recent meeting of this Board it was decid-
ed to arrange for the collection of fruits vegeta-
bles and grains, in their season, during the COM
ing summer, for exhibition at Philadelphia 1t
is especially desirable to obtain Vegetables of ex-
traordinary growth, apples pears, peaches, and
grains threshed and IN the stalk. If fruit-grow-
ers farmers and gardeners will give little care
and attention to this matter, the Kansas Exposi-
tion building at Philadelphia will contain an at
tractive and varied display which will he of in
calculable value to the State, in calling public at
tention to the very best evidences of the adapt
ability of her soil and climate for the production
of these important products.
When the proper time comes for gathering
these articles, suitable persons, designated for
that purpose, will visit the citizens of such conn
ties as shall in the meantime indicate to this Office
that they have meritorious specimens to furnish
Due credit will be given in every instance to the
grower and locality, and the producer when re-
quired, will be paid for the collections SO furn-
ished.
The hearty cooperation of the people of the
State is earnestly solicited. The display at Phil
adelphia will be conspicuous success or failure
Invaluable OF disastrous to the hest interests
OF the State just in proportion and to the extent
this hearty cooperation OF lethargy shall prevail
BY order of the Board of Managers
ALFRED GRAY,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

n COnfdentially, hasn't the st. Joe Ga,
sette made big failure in its fight with the I'm
ion printersf Since that time, the Gazette has
been awfully slim in reading matter, with col
umns of advertisements doubled. For few
days past, our Office has been daily invaded by a
lot of the raggedest, seediest, hardest looking
bats We have saan- They come by ones,
twos and threes, and all tell the same story-that
they came out TO get employment on the st. Joe
Gazette, when that Office split the quill with the
Union printers. Some report from as far away
as Cairo, Ill. They failed to get work on the
Gazette, and are wandering about the country
strapped, and sponging their way on country
printers.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

R- The Sabetha 4drdRce is sorry to see such
papers as the Champion and the Chief belittle
themselves by urging Bristow's birthplace and
marriage relations as arguments against his nom-
ination. If that is belittling ourself this is just
the crisis for belittlng. The Republican party,
and the country through it, cannot afford any
doubtful ventures now. What has Bristow ever
done for the party or the country, to entitle him
to the Presidency He has no transcendent
ability, and he is not the only honest man in
America. If the Whig party had belittled itself
before accepting Tyler, and the Republican party
before accepting johnson, by investigating their
education, antecedents, sympathies, family ties,
and all the little circumstances by which they
were likely to be influenced, the parties and the
country would have escaped much sorrow.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

PRESIDENTIAL ELEcToRs-Several papers are
agitating the question of nominating candidates
for Presidential Electors, at the approaching
Convention. As the subject is not mentioned in
the call, they think the matter should be agitat-
ed. As it was not mentioned, the best plan is
to let it 60. There must be another Convention,
later in the season, to nominate a State ticket,
and then will be the proper time to nominate
Electors. 1t is a duty that should be done af-
ter it is known who is the candidate for Presi-
dent. That is matter of uncertainty, and no.
body knows what issues may arise or what up
heavals in politics may grow out of the nomina-
tions or platforms. Better know who are the
candidates and who are in favor of them, before
selecting an Electoral ticket
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18
BristOw Enthusiasm.

1t is amusing to see how the little ring OF ele-
pbautipe sheets which have taken the contract
to manufacture Bristow thunder, puff away to
make it appear that he is just carrying every
thing Inv storm. News comes that some South
ern State has elected delegation three-fourtbs
of whom are in favor of Morton, and the balance
divided between Blaine and Bristow. They make
it appear that the remainder are equally divided
between the two, when perhaps it stands dozen
for Blaine to / or two for Bristow. Another
State has refused to instruct, but the delegates
are known to be mostly in favor of Bristow. If
State has instructed positively for Blaine, they
have intelligence that several Of the delegates
are secretly in favor of Bristow, in spite of in
structions. If Blaine and Morton are reported to
be the favorite candidates in State these pa
pers are sure to add that Bristow is gaining
strength rapidly-usually giving some Demo
cratic authority as evidence. If some are elected
delegates who think for themselves, and refuse
to be counted as belonging to anybody, these pa
pers have reliable information that their prefer
ence is known to be decidedly for Brstow-they
have been heard to express their belief that Bris-
tow is an honest man, or that Bristow would
make good President, or occupied a seat beside
ner party. And this is the sum total of the Bris-
tow enthusiasm. large majority of the Dele
gates thus far chosen are known TO be Blaine
and MOrton-Blaine leading. Kentucky is for
BristOw, and aside from that State, his delegates
are few and scattering. His friends calculate up
on his receiving large accessions from delegates
instructed to vote for some other candidate on
the first ballot, whom it is not expected to nomi-
nate. But from such delegates, Blaine will gain
more than any other candidate. Bristow's back
ers also hope to stir up rivalry between Blaine,
Morton and Conkling to such a state of bitter
ness, that each will favor Bristow rather than
permit one of the rivals to be nominated. The
prospect now is that Blaine will have by far the
largest vote on the first ballot. Morton and
Conkling will poll their full strength on the first
ballot. After the first ballot, Blaine will gain
more votes than any other. If Blaine's nomina-
ton is impossible, it looks as if Gov. Hayes would
be the winning man. He wouldn't be bad to
take; but under all the circumstances, the coun
try just now needs Blaine for President.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

DIR. BuNPs.-Dr Bumps, who was last week
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, in
the Court at Rockport, Mo-, committed suicide
in Jail, by taking poison. He left very long
and badly written document behind, in which
he protested his innocence, declared that his
conviction was the result of conspiracy and of
perjury, and gave left-handed blessing to a
number Of persons, whom he charged with hay-
ing conspired to ruin him, and would conspire
70 make his Imprisonment as hard as possible,
II he went to the penitentiary. Among these
persons, were Adam Klippel, of the Sentinel, Sam
stuckey, and County Attorney Limbird. He
pronounced them thieves, liars, and murderers
of the innocent.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18
nemocra,ic Platform, 1875.

WHEREAS The Republican party "has seen
proper. in this Centennial year, TO tear away the
plasters from the green and bleeding wounds oil
,be LATE civil war and has seen proper TO justify
This conduct in the light of history ;; and (Cox)
wurpr.s There is .'no precedent IN history
and no canon in political philosophy which the
Republican party has not outraged and (CoNl
WUFREAs. The history of the Republican par
tv has been the history of spoliation and murder,
death, and tyranny in the South since looS anu
WHEREAS, That party is not true, was not
true during the war; has not been true since the
war. and is not true today; and (Coxl
WHEREAS, That party mas -Vioiated an iaw :,
pledges of the fathers, melted raids upon the op
pressed people of the South, and multiplied inh-
delties till like the stars of heaven or the sands
of the seashore, they are without number; there
fore, be it (HilD
ResoIred, That the right of secession, though
not expressed in the Constitution, Is a reserved
right-Geo. E. Pugh.
Resolred That martyrs owe no apology to ty-
rants, and while we are ready to make every sac.
rifice to the Union, secession, however defeated
and opposed, will confess no sin 70 fanatcism,
however bigoted and exacting.-Hill.
Resolred That the grace and magnanimity Of
the Republican party is exhibited IN the master
ensIaved, in intelligence disfranchised, in soce-
ty disordered in States subverted, in legislatures
ulsperseu.-f1lI.
Resolyea, That in Robert E. Lee, who now
sleeps in death, was embodied one of the nOblest
Americans who ever trOd his soil, and no dishon-
or can ever, by implication or expression, be
thrown on his grave, that the Democratic party
is not bound by all the memories Of the past to
rise and repel.-Tucker.
ResOlred That whatever horrors had existed at
Andersonville, not one of them could be attribu-
ted to a single act of the Confederate govern
ment, and that every one of them grew out of
necessity, and that necessity was fastened upon
the Confederates by Federal power, and the Fed
eral government was directly responsible for all
the untold horrors of the wsr.-Hill.
Resolred, That on Grant and Stanton rest the
blood of our honOred dead, who died prisoners
of war, aud history will hold them and the Gov
ernment responsible for every death in Ander
sOnvlle.-Grand Rapids Democrat.
Resolred, That under the leadership of the ex-
rebel Hill, our oppressed eouLtrymen would be-
come band of patriotic brothers, aud, instead
of strife and bloodshed, we would have peace,
harmony and prosperity.-Kalamazoo Gazette.
Resolred, That it should be the aim of the DEM
ocratic party-''in the future in the past"-tO
hasten the "good time coming" when the names
of Grant and Sherman and Sheridan, and Lee
and Jackson and Breckinridge-yea, of the mar
tyred Lincoln and the now insuted Jefferson
Davis-will be read with common pride and COM
mon respect by the American youth, and when
the last shall be honOred as much the first
Jones, of fKentucky.-7oledo Blade.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

ABOUT lNsTRUcTING.-The Atchison Champion
insists that the Kansas delegates should be in
structed to vote for Blaine, and that men are
working to be elected as delegates for the pur-
pose of supporting somebody else. We have
spoken in favor of electing only those who are
known to be certain for Blaine, and it would
suit us to a dot TO have them instructed, or even
placed under bond TO vote for Blaine but with
Trustworthy men, this would he superfiuous. If
the Champion knows whereof it speaks, let it
take measures to make known the names of
those men who are seeking to betray the Repub-
icans of Kansas. But if a cut and dried delega-
ton has already been fixed up by few of the
favored and pampered ones, and an attempt is
now being made to rush it through on the high
pressure plan, by casting suspicion upon other
candidates, it will not win. There are good,
true Republicans in Kansas who have never fat
tened at the public crib nor monopolized the
posts of honor. We ask that they have a chance
now. Do not throw out this dark intimation,
and hold back names, thereby leaving an open
ing to make it cover any man who happens to
stand in the way of the "roysl line"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

vERMiS AT vANcoUyER.-We notice that the
miserable drunkard, gambler, dead-beat and
scallawag, W. H. Smallwood, has arrived at his
little Land Office. We observe that his fame
has preceded him, as little paper published at
Vancouver gives him a send-of, copied from the
Chief; and we infer, from some remarks in the
paper, that Smallwood has been squirming un-
der it, The people of that locality will discover,
in a brief time, that he is low-iung, dirty dog,
and will be led to ask why such a creature was
sent all the way from Kansas to fill an Office out
there. The reason is, that the people of Kansas
would not tolerate his appointment to an Office
in this State and as he had demands upon the
ehuckie-head who occupies one of the Senatorial
seats from Kansas, the debt had to be paid by
imposing him upon strangers. But he had
spoDged and borrowed all his Kansas friends
poor, including members of Congress, and some
disposition had to be made of him, or he would
have bankrupted them all. The people of Wash
ington Territory can form an idea of the immense
bonanza the State of Kansas possesses in Senator
Harvey, by the sweet-scented thing he has sent
them, as one of his especial favorites.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

a There are three papers in Kansas, with =
combined circulation of $50 copies, that seem 70
be burdened down with all the honesty and v;r-
tue there is in the State. The editor of one of
them commits the act of adultery at least three
nights in every week; another is printed on ma
terial that was stolen; the third is edited by a
nan who Left Georgia between two days, be-
cause he was too tender.hearted to say goodbye
to his creditors, and who has been before the
Courts on charge of whipping his wife, Kan
sas ought not to bear the uame of Rotten Com
monwealth," as long as she has such jewels in
her bosom.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

II The Wathena Reporter announces its read.
iness to do the County printing for the balance
of the year for 500. The County Commissioners
long ago decided that it would be dear to have
the County printing done in the Reporter for
nothing. Those public strumpets who 90 around
hawking their services cheap, are the ones that
are most stunned. The Reporters patronage in
DoniPhan County has dwindled down so nearly
TO point that its immaculate publisher has
been compelled to canvass the city of st. Joseph
for pport-whieh is heavy on the St. Joseph
advertisers, if they pay anything for their adyer-
tlsements, or expect that they are read by more
than very small handful of persons
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

~ The Bristow Gas Manufacturing Company
composed of three or four high-horse editors, are
just now publishing long and labored articles to
prove Brstow's genuine and unadulterated Re-
publicanism. 1t may be that he is But is il
not little singular that none of the papers vol
unteer to prove that Blaine, Morton or Hayes is
a sound Republican 1t was clearly proven,
years ago, that John Tyler was worthy of the
confidence of the Wings, and that Andy johnson
was a true-blue Union Republican. Where there
is no doubt, no proof is necessary. If a man
wanted to get good wife, he would hardly take
one who had established her virtue by newspa-
per proof Bristow probably did swear at his
rebel dady-in-law, and tell him to go to hell with
his property. What of thati Benedict Arnold
lost leg fighting for American Independence.
But before the contest was decided, he did not
dare to come and weep over the grave of that
leg.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

~ The Seneca Courier remarks that Court comes
only twice year. Wen bet there's young lady in
about wathena who cOuld-f she would-tesfy that it
comes week and all day Sundays-but if she can't she
porter.
She knows well enough, as do all the citizens
of Wathena, where he goes the other nights He
sneaks through the alley, climbs over the wood
pile, and invades the privacy of a married mans
home. Sometimes, under the pressure of circum-
stances, he holds his services in the clubhouse.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18
Sherif's Sale.
STATE OF KANSAS, (S,
nONTpfIAN EOI-NTY .

SGArE ScAIrI.s SF COMM AAnsAs sss.
In the District Court Donphan County State of
Amanda Hall Plaintiff.
Jonathan Rigby ct al. Defendants.
NOTICE is hereby given that will, on the 10Th day
II Of May A. d. ls76, at the hour Of two O'Clock
p NJ of said day the north door of the Court House
in the City of Troy in Doniphan County State of Kansas
offer for sale public auction. for cash. the following
seribed real estate wit Commencing at the southeast
of the north quarter of section tweDtysx t26
in township four a. of range twenty 2 east thence
running north the line of said quarter sixty (6O
rods thence running west to the bank of East Brush
Creek thence up said East Brush Greek the north line
OF said quarters thence running said north line
the northwest of said quarter; thence running
south the line of said quarter West Brush
Greek; thence running down sand West Brush Creek
the south line of said quarter thence said south
line to the place of beginnings containing hundred and
twenty-sx tla6l less in DOnphan County
State OF Kansas Taken the property of Jonathan Rig
by and offered for sale to the highest bidder for cash.
satisfy certain judgments and of record in the
District Court for Doniphan County the of
in which Amanda Hall is plaintiff and Jonathan Rig
by and others defendants.
Appraised at the of 81 800.
Given under my hand this 20th day of April A. d.
THOMAS j. VANDERSLICE,
Sheriff Of Doniphan County.
April a. ls16-5w. Prs fee, $3.50.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

" In the Dawes trial, at Jefferson City,
among the telegrams produced in evidence, was
one from Senator Ingalls, to Dawes, which read
I" He declines to interfere;" and another from Adj
Ter to person in Atchison, asking very earnest
ly when Senator ingalls, was expected home.
Those whiskey fellows have deal of business
with Senator Ingalls,, somehow. The Champion
had better so to work correcting more "mis-
fakaS
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

e The Wyandotte Gasette is opposed to Col
Cobb as a candidate for Governor, and Mr.. Cook
as candidate for Congress-both citizens of
Wyandotte. The editor Of the Gazette is entirely
too pure for this gross, human world-or else,
(as we have long suspected he is out of whack
in his upper story.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

II When Senator Morton finished his great
speech, in reply to the rebels who wanted to in
vestigate his expenditures in carrying on the
war, he was so completely exhausted that he
was confined to his room for several days. If
that exhausts him, how could he survive a sin
gle month as Presidenti Now, there is Blaine,
who could fight a whole house full of rebels for
a week, take bull by the tail and sling him
over the Capitol by way of recreation, and only
ertons
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

9 If ever we succeed in stealing a printing
Office by means of technical qubblers of law, you
bet we'll 60 for the reelection of the person un-
der whose rulings We made the rifle; and well
just tear any man to pieces who presumes to in
sinuate that any other person has right to run
for the Office
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

II Judge Hubbard's strikers have good deal
to say about C. W. Johnson's attack upon him at
Seneca, and the hummer of the st. Joseph Herald
was even employed to write up the affair. They
never fail to carry the impression that johnson is
candidate for Hnbbard's place, and that this
was why the attack was made. johnson is not a
candidate for Judge, so that this sympathy dodge
fails. Mr.. Perry is candidate, but it will be
hard to show that he had any hand in the Seneca
hnsiness n
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-05-18

If chosen President, Mr.. Blaine's administra-
ton would be Que of the most able and success
full in the history of the Government. He wonld
prove practical, comprehensive, sagacious
statesman, thus showing how utterly mistaken
nave been the comments of a special class of
critics that he is a consummate master of noI;t.
zeal tactics, an able parliamentarian, but no
statesman Fortunate will it be for the country
and for the Republican party if he becomes the
next national lexeeutive.-ReaRebec Journal