The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-11-24

answered, I" Yes, I have-e5O0." The
girl handed him the roll of bills. He
counted them, glanced at her, and Of
fered her 20 cents. With look of dis.
dain she brushed him aside and went or
her way. But the man with micr0sc0p.
ic soul was not crestfallen. He had
saved his 20 cents as well as his $500.
The Woman in Politics.
The charge that women can not edit,
satisfactorily, political papers in cam.
paign times is disproved by Western
journal Just received. The paper is
managed in most of its leading depart.
ments by lady, and she shows conclu.
sively that she is just as com.
petent to pitch into the enemy as she il
to praise the other side of the establish
ment. Nay, more; she has facilities fol
discovering the enemy's weak points
which perhaps the opposite sex can
hardly hope to reach.
"We have rod in pickle for John
Maxon, the candidate of the unscrupu.
lous opposition for Supervisor" She
says with forcible directness. "This
person is by no means the pink of pro-
priety that many persons suppose him
to be. He is very well to. do so far as
money is concerned, but he is the very
soul of stinginess, if the soul may be
mentioned in such a connection. Mrs
Maxon is by no means q strong woman,
as our readers know. Yet her parsimO.
NOUS husband refuses her the absolute
necessity of hired help. She does all
her own work, including the care of SIX
small children and we charge it home
to the teeth of her good-for-nOthing hus-
band that she was seen in the backyard
only yesterday, bare-armed, and clad
only in a soiled calico dress, in the
bleak winds peculiar to the latter part
of October, engaged in the mental duty
known to an Intelligent public as boil
ing SOAP" ~5
It seems to us that this has the true
ring. 1t is as good campaign matter Is
the average masculine editor of even
the old time could produce, and it has
the additional freshness of being more
domestic in its truth-dealing tendencies
than any thing the ordinary man has
yet presented.
"There are grave rumors," says the
lady in another destructive article, 'not
remotely connected with the black and
blue which for some days have adorned
the small eyes of Joseph Candy, the
candidate Of the opposition for County
Clerk. 1t is not the purpose of this pa
per to pry into domestic affairs, but it is
within its province to inquire as to those
matters which by an unfor-
tunate nomination have become part
of the politics of this county. We bold
ly charge, in that view of the situation,
that Mr.. Candy received his injuries
from a fall down the cellar-stairs; that
he had previously been drinking deeply
of forbidden beverages; that he had
turned with uplifted hand against his
wife, and that that lady
pushed him! We do not charge that
she intended the injuries the push Gre
ated-far from it. She is deeply
woman, and this hand would
perish of voluntary paralysis before it
would add a fingers weight to her woe.
But she did endeavor to protect herself,
and her worthless husband did fall from
this endeavor and the liquor he had
drank combined, with the results that
are already before the confiding public
Now, can it be expected that men in
their sober senses will vote for such per-
sons, such inebriates, as this Candy?
No, a thousand times no?'
The lady's paper is filled with capt.
tails, small-capitals, exclamation-points,
italics, very many italics indeed, and all
the evidences of intense earnestness;
and the paragraphsinsistingth thepec-
pie shall vote for her candidates, evil
IDENTIFY written with the idea that they
do it if not reminded of it many
times, are almost beyond computation.
{" Vote for Smith" she says, and there
ends her argument in that instance.
&c Vote for. Ferguson!" etc., etc. and SO
the enthusiasm goes up all over the page
in the most convincing manner.
"One word about the bastard in nom-
ination by the enemy for the Office of
School Commissioner" she says in her
pointed way. "What was this social
ed gentleman doing in the stairway of
Bloomer Hall last Sunday night? The
public is interested in this question,
Let the person interested answer it if he
darei"
Again she remarks. "We have in
dubitable evidence that the candidate
of the opposition for County Judge was
seen in the Sixth Ward last Monday
night, in close conjunction with people
of very loose character, circulating
like water and arguing for
his cause like a pot-house politician.
Let the opposition put that in their pipe
and smoke it, G.Et5 u sf-
But it is not all anathema. The lady
shows that she can be as graceful and
gentle and loving as she is severe and
ave have rarely met with
a more graceful or winning gentleman"
she says in another place, ethan Mr..
G. Montgomery Jones, our able ard
candidate for the high Office of
School Commissioner. His form is so
nobly developed that it suggests the art
of the woodman in every movement. and
ut the same time it is so toned to the
of life as to be as graceful
and gentle as the gentle swaying of the
magnificent maple under the soothing
breezes of the sweet May wind. His
dress is faultless. 1t gives no evidence
of superior tailorship, perhaps, for Mr..
Jones is not fastidious person; but it
fits the form as if it had grown there,
and we think the latter should have the
credit of it. Mr.. Jones parts his hair
with great precision in the middle, and
the masses projecting from either side
of the dividing line have gentle wave
which we are convinced is not the result
Of curling tongs. His mustache is worn
as Napoleon was wont to wear his; and