The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-09-24
where the Chief stands.

Where the Chief Stands.
"For unblushing hypocrisy and cast
iron cheek commend us to the" head
man of the temperance organization
in lola. "Since the temperance amend
ment was submitted to the people, and
public attention has been called to it,
the insane efforts of the' chief mogul
to prescribe all who for good reasons
failed to support st. John for renomi-
nation "has been laughable to both
Sides" "But the real sympathies" OF
this man shave all along been well
known to be with the opposition. Tenn
perance men never for moment ex-
pected to see" mogul Ego back on his
old friends and cronies. It is an old
adage that "a man is known by the
company he keeps.'" And no one
Expected this man to support st. John
after he was nominated. He will sup
port anti-amendment Ross.
"But no one would seriously object
to" the mogul supporting either side
he wishes, did he do so in an honest,
open and manly way. But the course"
he has pursued in the past forbids the
thought that he could be manly or
honest in his support of Ross. An
open and avowed supporter of st.
John prior to his nomination, even
writing to and receiving letters from
him, covertly at work among temper
lance Republicans, declaring that all
opposed to his nomination were in
fiuenced by their desire to injure the
amendment, and now after his nomi-
nation refusing to support him, and
even supporting man who is OPP
posed to the amendment, "strikes the
candid and honest observer as being
inconsistent, to say the least of it, and
createsa vivid impression that he is
no friend of the temperance cause"
1--WE have only to recall his course in
reference to ST. John. It is well known
that" he "has all along" favored st.
John, and solely because of his we'll
known temperance record and views.
Take this extract from his article in
the Independent of July 2Sth:
"No objection can be assigned by any
enemy of Coo. st. John to his re-elec-
ton, except his aoell-EnoUa temper
ance record and vieaOs. This objection
is openly urged everywhere by the
| whisky men. Urged on by their
hatred, they have endeavored, time
and again, to mite all their strength
upon this man or that man, the man
in every case being opposed to the
amendment. It is great card with
the whisky crowd that a man opposed
to the amendment shall be nominated
for Governor by the Republican con-
vention. They think that if they can
bring this about that it will have a
strong tendency to discourage and de-
moralize the friends Of temperance
and thereby render it possible to de-
feat the amendment"
Now we find him refusing to sup
port a man who will carry out the
amendment, and declaring his inten-
ton to vote for anti-amendment Ross,
and 'endeavoring in his feeble way to
help along the" Ross "boom."
GAS to what induced" this man to
take the stand he does as indicated by
the foregoing extract, let the people
put this and that together, and they
will have no difficulty in determining"
that, as he has stated, it would posi-
bly, interfere with his future political
ambition. "In conclusion let me say
to the temperance people of this county
be not deceived" but insist that he
"comes out squarely and puts himself
Enthusiastically on the record in favor
of the amendment"-and st. John.
All words quoted in the above arti-
ele were written by the chief of the
temperance organization, attacking
the editor of this paper July %. 1880,
or before st. Johns nomination. Now
he supports a man who can nullify
the amendment if elected, and re-
fuses to vote for st. John. Do the
temperance people endorse such fence
straddling?.