The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-18

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know nothing to Mr.. Matthews dis.
credit; but the people are very likely
to take the Herald's advice and -
any man who runs for sheriff on free
whiskey platform.
Miss Mary E. Chamberlain's name
Is candidate for Register of Deeds. ID
doubtless there for the same reason
that Flynn's is.-because the conven.
tons have got in the habit Of. 1t.
Miss Chamberlain also has . good
position In the Humboldt schools
which she has not yet resigned.
At this point the convention evident
ly ran out of Democratic timber and
% had to go over into the Union La
boz. woods and borrow Q stick to put
Into the treasury hole. Mr.. Power
has been . good citizen Of Allen coan.
ty for many years. He used to be q
Republican and was elected to the
Legislature once or twice II We re.
member rightly. Afterwards-"what
private griefs he may have had, alas,
we know not. that made him dc
it,"-he LEFT the Republican party and
went of after strange gods. He VA
"reformer" we believe, when the
Grange movement brought that word
to the front, but he must not have
worked at 1t very b ard for when the
smoke cleared away he was found in
the Democratic ranks-a back.sliding
that caused his friends much grief.
He never seemed to be much at ease
with the company he was in, but
when he finally did move it was from
bad to worse, from Democracy to Un-
on Laborism. At least It was an.
nounced that he had made such q
move, but 1t seems that he only got
one foot into that camp for the Demo
Gratis are still hanging onto the other.
1t requires an unusually agile political
acrobat to advocate two parties with
antipodal principles At one and the
same time, but Mr.. Powers variegat.
ed experience will probably make
him rs successful In that task - any
body could be.
Cyrus Mccarthy, the genial &C.,"
Of one Of our popular hardware firms.
is another borrowing from the Union
Labor camp. II there is one thing
icy" cares less about than another 1t
Ii politics; and IL there IL one thing he
knows less about than another IL is
surveying. So his interest In the
hardware business is not for sale. He
consented to 20 on the ticket for the
same reason that DR.. French did, be.
cause 1t was less trouble thar it would
have been to resign and the result
will be the same.
Did you ever notice that when the
Democratic party once elects . man to
an ONCE they keep on nominating
him for that Office or some other one
rs long as he lives? Nine years ago
by some kind of scratch they elected
Hiram Lieurance commissioner Of the
Third District, and 90 as regular as
the term has come around they have
nominated him again. Just AZ they
have had Miss Chamberlain name
on every ticket 81 nee che happened to
be elected three years ago. Just a.
they would nominate Grover Cleve.
land again for the Presidency II the
convention were to be held tomorrow.
There lie something positively pathetic
In the way they hang to . man who
has once squeezed into Office. But the
signs are wrong again for Brother
Lieurance this year. Nine, years
10 long enough for one township
to hold the commissionership and it
will follow Horace Greely's advice
and "go west"
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So much for the work Of the Demo-
cratic convention. Summing it up
briefly 1t resulted in this: A mediocre
ticket on free whiskey platform.
We shall have more to say Of both
hereafter.
p. s. Since the above was in type
we learn that Mr.. Flynn hae declined
to make the race for county clerk. We
remember now that the last time we
saw Flynn we took q good look at him
and then said softly 10 ourself,
'There is a man with a mighty long
and level head"
THAT BEEF CLUB.
Mr.. EDIToR.-We do not wish you
or your readers 70 think that "Dia-
mond" is selfish, but we have waited