The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15

the family, Masters Theodore aud Har.
ry, were victimized after the same
fashion, a large number of their young
friends running in on them all "unbe-
knownst." All of which goes to show
that there is nothing of the snOb OF
the toady about the people of lola ;
they think just as much of 4 plain man
rs they do Of q postmaster!
The witnesses from Geneva township
who were summoned to appear in the
county attorneys office, refused to
give their testimony in the Court
House, saying that they did not pro-
pose to risk their lives in a condemned
building. The proceedings were con-
seauently adjourned to Judge Talcott's
office. This action on the part of these
witnesses was perfectly justifiable and
is only foreruaRer of what may be
expected when the regular term of
Court cOnvenes in November. In
view of this fact County AttOrDy
Amos, we. understand, has addressed a
letter to the chairman of the Board of
Commissioners asking him to call a
meeting of the Board to prov ide anOth-
er building for holding court. His re-
quest will doubtless be complied with I.
If some of our readers-judging the
REGISTER by other papers-have been
inclined to believe that we are indiffer-
ent to the success of the county ticket
because we have not slandered and be-
Titled and insulted the candidates on
the democratic ticket, we beg them to
change their mind. The REGISTER
very earnestly desires the success of
the entire republican ticket. 1t be-
lieves that every man on it is fully
qualified to fill the office to which he
aspires. And it believes furthermore
that the entire ticket will be elected.
But while all this is true, we do not
believe that all the candidates on the
democratic ticket are rascally and in-
competent. They are all personal
friends of ours and we know them all
to be honorable and capable. Why
should we abuse and insult them and
lie about them simply because they are
candidates of "a party to which we do
not belong? We want the republican
candidates elected because they repre-
sent republican principles and are just
as competent as their democratic OppO-
nents, and we believe the people Of the
county will elect them for the same
reasons, and not because they believe
their opponents to be idiots and scala
ways.
1t is with the utmost regret that the
REGISTER again finds itself called up
on to chronicle the fact that number
of the boys about town-substantially
the same ones that were placed under
arrest two weeks agO-were again on
last Saturday night guilty of such con-
duct that they were arrested for dis
turbing the peace. On Monday MORN
ing they appeared before the Justice of
the Peace, plead guilty to charge
that we will not pOllute our pages with
copying, and paid their fine and costs,
in each case to $3.50. We
had hoped that their experience of two
weeks ago would have served as a
warning to the boys. But so far from
that the fact that they escap-
ed then without punishment
seems to have emboldened them
to go to yet further excuses, their con-
duct last Saturday night being dis
gushing and disgraceful beyond express
sion. We refrain even yet from pub
fishing their names as to do 30 would
pain innocent people much more than
it would the ones named. The boys
cannot expect, however, that this cour- |
tesy will be extended to them indefi- |
nitely. Two weeks ago we gave them
a column of good advice. To-day We
can put it all in one word, "Quit"