The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-31

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Ed. Register: Those LaHarpe fell
lows are still advocating their place
for the county seat, and it is little
strange that none of them will tell the
exact truth. "An Elector" aims, it
would seem, to carry his point by blus-
ter, slush and-well, are not there
some mis-statements? Cheeky az he
is, he seems to be ashamed to sign his
name to what he writes, hence his
communication is unworthy of notice.
Last week James p. Price came to
the front. He started out as though
he intended to be honest, but when he
came down to the location of LaHarpe
the truth did not suit him, so he just
stretched the truth two miles and said
"LaIIarpe is the geographical center
of the county," suppose Mr.. Price
congratulates himself that one La
Harpe advocate came within two miles
of the truth.
Mr.. Editor, isn'ti tsupremely cheeky
for little one-horse place like La
Harpe to assume to be the county seat
because it happens to be few miles
nearer the center of the county than
lola is? LaHarpe is some five years
old and has had railroad all that
time, aud vet there are only four fami-
lies living in the place, so learn. AT
that rate it would take it about four
hundred years to come up to the size
lola is now. If LaHarps was live,
business, go-ahead town like Moran or
Bronson it might not be so cheeky for
it to aspire to be the county seat. but
as it is-well it is simply contemplate.
Mr.Price speaks of the inaccessibility
of lola. Well lola has as good if not a
little better roads leading into the city
than any other place in the county.
The creeks north, east and south of
town and the river on the west are all
spanned by good, substantial bridges.
Then, lola has two railroads crossing
each other at right angles-the only
such place in the county. Talk about
the "inaccessibility" Of lola. Bah,
Mr.. Price, Bah! lola is more accessi-
BILE to a large majority of the people of
Allen county than is LaHarpe. Note
that, Mr.. Price. The cry for central
location is one that little weak town
that happers to be near the center is
always raising. But the LalIarpe fell
lows don't want the county seat to go
to the center of the county, for that
would leave LaHarpe out. The truth
is, Mr.. Editor, lola is near enough the
center of the county to be quite con-
venient to large majority of the peO-
pie of the county.
Mr.. Price would seem to be very So
licitous about the welfare of the farm
ers of the eastern part of the county.
Now it is not those farmers that are
raising the county seat racket, it is La
Harpe and Humboldt. 1T is not best
for Humboldt that the county seat be
moved to LaHarpe, for possibly it
might build up another rival town and
cut off some of Humboldt's eastern
trade. Besides lola is considerably
more easy of access to Humboldt than
LaHarpe is. But then Humboldt
longs for little sweet revenge on lola
because lola is q rival town and "once
upon a time" took the county seat
away from Humboldt. And then La
Harpe wants the county seat so that
the little place can for once experience
a boom and raise the price OF corner
lots so a very few men can make lit
tie money at some others expense.
Now Mr.. Editor that is just about
the size of this whole county seat NOV
ing business. H. c. WINCHEsTER.
Carlyle, Kan, Dec. 3, 1856.