The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-03

! the Union soldiers when they were at
| lacking that city that "CharlestOn i
only half mile from hell" The re-
ports of the last few days rather tend
| to confirm that idea.
The resignation of Mr.. Simpson as
postmaster has been the cause of an
immense amount of running to and fro
on the part of the lola contingent OF
, the Great Unwashed. Petitions and
remonstrances have followed each 9TH
er i'm tumultuOus confusion, one declar-
ing that the Aforementioned applicant
was a democrat. q gentleman and a
Christian, and the other declaring with
equal force that the same afOremen-
toned gentleman was carpet Dagger,
dead beat, fraud, incompetent, irrel-
evant and generally uncomfortable.
Even the high winds of Wednesday
and Thursday were not sufficient to
clear the air of lurid and sulphurOus
declarations that somebody must be
''dOwned," and somebody must "stand
from under" and somebody would
''hear something DROP" And US all
of these things are likely to happen,
and as all of these somebody's" are
democrats, the REGISTER, and other
republicans with pure hearts and clear
cOnsciences, looks on with the utmost
complacency. We are prepared for
the worst and can say with equal
heartiness, $50 it bear! Go it mani"
Seriously, however, what this cOmmu-
nifty wants is a good postmaster. This
community is more DESTROYS that the
business of its postoffice should be done
promptly and cOurteOusly, than it is
that any man or set of men should be
"dOwned." The REGISTER does not
feel called upon to take hand in this
fight; but it does feel called upon to
remind the politicians who are run
ming it that it must be settled 80 as to
come someway near. complying with
the wishes of the people. 1t is the peO-
pie after all that own the pOstoffice,
and not the democratic politicians; and
the people in the end will come NIGH
w near having it run as they want
it and by whom they want it.
Mr.. John s. Martin called on US
Tuesday, having just returned from Fit.
Scott where he had talked with U. 5.
District Attornsy, w. e. Perry,
and informed US that there was no
longer any question that suit would be
brought by the United States to set
aside the NJ. X. and T. patent to the
even sections of land in this county.
Mr.. Perry told him that his orders
were positive and that as soon as the
preliminary work could be done, the
suit would be brought and that the in
dividual owners of the land would be
made parties to it, along with the rail-
road company. We hope our readers
will reflect moment what that means.
1t means that nearly a million dollars
worth Of Allen county property is to be
brought into litigation; it means that
nearly $4,000 acres of Allen county
land Is to be deprecated in value by
reason of the cloud cast OIL hitherto
title; it means that two
or three hundred Of our citizens are to
be put to trouble and expense to defend
homes upon which they have spent
years of labor and much money; it
means that the reviving prosperity of
our county is to be checked and that |
its increase in population and wealth |
Is to be retarded perhaps for years; all
these things and many more that we
have not the patience to enumerate,
are what that announcement means. |
Tho REGISTER has already character
led it as an uuspeakable outrage,
and the more it is considered in all its |
bearings the moro outrageous it ap-
peare. AS the powers have decreed 1t,
however, there seems to be nothing |
eft but to submit aud make what
Effort we can to have justice done, ard