The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-11-01

Louis Hobart.
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Prohibition or resubmiesion isn't an
issue this year but it will be next.
And don't you know that the election
of single man in this county on the
Democratic free whiskey platform will
give that crowd encouragement and
place it in a position to make harder
fight next year? Allen county has
made a pretty steady business of hit
ting the head of the whiskey viper
whenever it got chance. There is
another chance this fall to get In lick
and that is by electing the straight re-
publican ticket. The election of that
ticket means another defeat for wills.
key.
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Frank Nigh, the Republican candi-
date for Register of Deeds, did not lose
his arm in the war, and yet the chanc-
es are that II there had been no war he
would not have lost his arm. 1t hap.
pened in this way: His father bad
Joined the army and In order to cup
port the family during his absence, his
mother had to do q great deal of out
door work. Among other things she
was at work one day in sorghum
mill. She brought Frarfk-then a
child two years old-with her and
placed him, asleep. in the shadow Of
the mill. The boy awoke and reach
ing out his arm, thrust it in some way
into the machinery which crushed it
80 that it had to be amputated near
the shoulder. That Is how, II he did
not lose his arm because he was sol.
der, he came the next thing to 1t by
losing it because his father was.
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"When our Lodge voted on the ques-
ton Of putting out an F. NJ. B. A.
ticket" remarked member of that Or
der from the south part Of the county
in this office the other day, "there was
only one man voted for 1t, and he Was
q Democrat and wanted Office" From
similar remarks that have drifted into
this sanctum during the past few
weeks, we judge that was about the
size of it all over the county. The men
who worked the hardest to have an
"F. NJ. B. A" ticket put up were,
without exception go far as We have
yet learned, Democrats or Union La.
borites who sought 10 use the order TO
further their own mercenary ambition
and to disrupt the Republican party.
Fortunately for the future welfare of
the organization a majority Of its men,
bers were unwilling to violate its fun
damental principles by prostituting 1t
to the service of designing demagogues
and thus preserved it from taking a
step which could but have ended in
the destruction of the organization.
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So far as We know anything about
the [Democratic] candidates, the tick
ct is q good one, but it has the same
defect that our own ticket has-it Is too
much one-sided. 1t looks little as
though lola and Humboldt controlled
both parties.-Mordn Herald.
This little fling at lola and Hum
boldt is unworthy of the Herald and,
80 far at least as the Republican ticket
Is concerned. is not justified by the
facts. The Herald knows that the
east side of the county had four candi.
dates for one office before the Repub-
lican convention, with the Inevitable
result that no one of them got votes
at the primary to do him any
good. And yet when they came into
the convention one of their men could
have been nomin ated if they had stay.
I'd by him. Mr.. Nigh owes his nCDin-
alton to votes that came from the east
tide Of the county. But even If this
had not been 80 the east side has MOTH
ing to complain of. With the sheriff,
The county commissioner, the member |
If the Legislature and the superintend-
,nt all hailing from that district, it
has its full share and ought
not to complain if some Of the persin,-
mons happen to fall in this direction.
We never took much stock in the To-
,ality argument. however we'll found
ID it might be, but when, as in this
,ase, it is in no degree justified by the
acts, it lie certainly entitled to no con-
alteration whatever.
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Did you ever take the Republican
ticket and read it carefully from top to
bottom and see what q prime lot of
men are on it? There il VIM. Gull
lingham to begin with: A man
whose private life lie spotless who as
! merchant accommodated more PEG.
pie probably than any other one man
n the county; who as public officer
,as performed bis duties faithfully,