The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-06-20

S0hoiudtcs NC Couiu uOt canvass Inc
counties and cities along the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers in low water.
i The total reduction of the public deb,
under Republican management has been
1923. 249. 1924. The Democratic plat.
form very naturally views that kind OF
thing with alarm.
If the OkOlona (Miss.) States misrepre.
sents the opinions of the Southern people,
why is it that the associate editor of that
paper was selectet to deliver the addres.
before the Mississippi Press Association
Watterson, of the Louisville Courier.
Journal, whistles down brakes on the
Thurman track, and asks the Democratic
ranks to close up under Bayard's lead and
pass the appropriation bills, and 60 to the
country.
Col. A. J. Keller, the ex.Confederaae
editor Of the Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche,
writes from Washington that the calam-
tiles of the yellow fever plague are almost
equaled by the follies and crimes of
Democratic leaders.
50 the Democrats in Congress have
postponed the Silver bill SO that thew
can say to the east: ave didn't meddie
with the currency" and to the west, awe
tc'A NEEDLE with the currency next year. F"
Duplicity is their trump card
The Charleston Ne1cs and Courier saws
the South cannot evade responsibility for
the course of the majority in Congress,
and declares that it is useless for the
Southern Democrats to say that it was not
a fight of their making.
1t was only in 1873 that Ewing an.
nounced his conviction that the "Demo.
cratic party is not a fit instrument of
reform in American politics." He will
be surprised on election day to see how
many Ohio citizens agree with him.
Mrs. Elizsbeth Thompson, a benevo-
lent lady of large means, is circulating a
tract which shows that the people of the
United States payover 800, 900, 900 a
year for spirituous and fermented liz uors.
and only s95, SOC, 600 for education and
$4,000, 0GO for religion.
As straw, the vote 70 President on the
Kansas editorial excursion train, last ev-
ening is significant. There were $50
persons all told, on the train of whom
rs were for Grant, 10 for Blaine, 10 for
Sherman, s for Conkling, 4 for Tilden, 2
for Thurman, and l for Hendricks.
The New York Public concludes that
the volume of legitimate business last
month, excluding all kinds of specula-
ton. exceed that of May. 1873, by nearly
or quite e-qurater. In almost every
department an increase is shown, and
business is improving as rapidly as is
wholesome.
Speaker Randall beams on Senator
Thurman with new variation of "You
will be damned if you do and you'll he
damned if you don't" He says if Ew-
ing goes down Thurman is lost, and if Ew-
ing wins Thurman will be heard of no
more forever. Mr.. Randall, it is needless
to remark. is a Tilden man-Lafer- Ocean.
Young ladies' in Ohio are getting par
ticular when they will not allow even an
Angel to XII them without getting mad
The Cleveland Leader gives the history
thus: "Adam Angel. of Center Valley,
kissed Ella Thompson against her will,
and the lady wants damages. in Adams
sin remarks Josh Billings, we all j'ine
in"
According to C. W. Johnson, there
will I've a let up, in week or so, in the
storms. Kansas could take little
drought, just now, without erumbling
The tornado business has left an I'M
pleasant apprehension behind it. and
the average Kansas man now takes to
the cellar as soon as he sees the peak of
black cloud peeping above tire horizon.
-Afchison Champion.
Nothing more clearly shows the dam.
age which has fallen upon the prospects
of the Democratic party than the lack of
interest which is now shown in discus
sions concerning the probable candidate
of that party for President next year.
So long as he is to be beaten anyway.
nobody cares who he may be. There is
no lack of interest in the speculations
about the Republican candidate.
Proctor Knots apology for Democrat
ic action struck the New York Herald in
such a way as to call out the following
ain mercy to our readers we print only
an abstract of this dull, heavy, and clum-
silly written document. 1t might be good
policy for the Republican press to lay it
before their readers in full, since it is so
dry and tedious that whatever of argu. |
ment it contains could produce no i'm
preston"
In his address at the decoration of the |
graves of the rebel dead at Frederick,
Nd, Congressman J. e. S. Blackburn
said: "The stern arbitrament of the sword |
vas given against us, nor is there in this
broad land to-day one who would seek to /!
assert again by arms the principles for
which these lives were given" Mr. Black
burn is one of the men who is seeking to
assert "the principles" referred to by
legislation.
There is prospect that the Confeder-
ate Congress. which has been laboring to
revive the lost cause, will adjourn with
the cause still lost, and lost in disgrace.
The attempt to provide facilities where
by any State may nullify the jurisdiction
of the national goyernmenthas failed, and
there is much intestinal recriminatinn of
charges of responsibility for getting the
party into such a predicament.-Leav-
enrorth Times.
Jefferson Davis has opened his mouth
once more, and spoken only a halfdozen
lines vet he has, as usual, shown himself
to be an un-egenerate Bourbon and an ex-
otter of Southern bitterness against the
Union. He was present at a meeting of