The Iola register., 1890-10-24
LOCAL rorrrTCAL Norrs

To w. d. Jewell: II elected MEM
,nber of the Legislature will you vote
for the re-enactment of the prohibi-
itrry law? The people are asking the
question.
TON. J. strong: n elected a MEM
ber of the Legislature will you vote to
people are asking the question.
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4 J. B. Goshorn stands on platform
declaring undying and implacable
to prohibition. Would 1t be
safe to intrust the enforcement Of the
law In his handse
We understand that Mr.. Hay
ward still insists that Cover
nor Humphrey receives each year
several thousand dollars more
than his salary. We have before
us q full and itemized statement
of the Governors account for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1890, sealed and
certified to by the Auditor of State.
II shows that 5000 was every cent
paid to Gov. Humphrey out of the
State Treasury during that year.
Other sums were of course paid out
for clerk hire, stationery and other ex.
penses of the executive office, but
these were all drawn by other parties
on itemized statements, which were
sworn to Just as county vouchers are
itemised and sworn to. The money
did not touch the fingers Of the Gov.
ernor, and he never drew o dollar
from the State except his salary. We
understand that Mr.. Hayward tries
to accuse US of wilful falsehood on the
bubble that we quoted him as charg-
ing the Governor with receiving S1S,.
600 when he only charged him with
SI5, 900. Our informant may have
been mistaken but the difference In
the amount does not lessen the
crime Of traducing an innocent man
But as q matter of fact Mr.. Hayward
is wrong IL he assumes $4,000 to be
the amount appropriated for the ex.
penses of the executive Office. The
statement before as shows that the
amount thus appropriated for the year
referred to was $16, ,900-much nearer
SlS, 600 than $15. 600, by the way. But
of this amount only l2,362.57 was
drawn, leaving q balance of $4537. Al
unexpended. OF this SIS, ,362.S Gov
Humphrey received his salary, 5000
and not a penny more. If anyone
doubts this we have the proof to show
An obscure and tdisreputable sheet
published In this city In its last issue
charged l.. B. Pearson with having
recently sold corn to the elevator al
Humboldt which was "white at the
top of the bags and yellow at the
bottom" making thereby an unlaw
ful gain Of two cents bushel. o.
course the accusation Is absolutely
false. Mr.. Pearson has not sold 8
bushel of corn to the Humboldt eleva
tor or to anybody else,-except q littlt
seed corn to his neighbors-for five
years. The lie Is silly one that will
deceive nobody. But is it not an out
rage that an unknown and irresp0n
sible stranger should come in her,
and, before the ground Is warm undel
his feet, make an infamous charg,
against q citizen of Allen county who
has lived among us for twenty year
without so much as the smell of scan
dsl about his garments?
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There are few men IN Allen coun
ty now following after the strang.
Peoples god, who within a littl,
while will be seeking the way back t.
the Republican party painfully ant
with tears and praying to be forgiven
for their blindness. Happy for then
IL their sin be not remembered agains
them.
Every Third Party man In Aller
county will vote the Republican ticke
this year. He cannot do otherwis,
and be consistent.
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The Peoples rally ON "Wednesday
was q great success. Considering thu
bad conditions of the roads, there wa
q large crowd present; the opera house
being well filled both afternoon and
evening. AS Republican, our only
regret Is that the crowd was not big
ger, for the more voters hear Aller
the more votes there will be fol
Funston. We have heard q great
many political speeches, and among
that number q great many that were
very poor and thin. But the speech
made by Mr.. Allen was certainly the
poorest and thinnest of them all
Think uf acandidate for Congress who
with all the tremendous issues now
before the people, can only talk three
quarters OF an hour! And think o.
actually sending such man to Con
gress! Mr.. Allen pretended to ans
wer Senator ingalls, Ottawa speech
1t was q good deal like Mickey O'Flynr
on the railroad section, trying to ans
wer Mr.. Gladstone.
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A peculiar thing about Mr.. Aliens
speech-and the same was true ol
the speeches made by the other gen.
tlemen with him-was that he made
no reference whatever to the platform
of the political party he advocates
This platform makes some very radi.
cal demAnds,=as has been shown in
these columns-but Mr.. Allen says
never word about them. He dWells
at great length on the sins of the Re
publican party and the evils he claims
have resulted therefrom. But he does
not attempt to show how his own
party would remedy these evils. We
will send this paper free for year to
anyone who win quote US q single
word in all his speech that even
squinted toward q remedy. Shall we
employ a doctor who tells US only
that we are sick and getting worse
and likely to die, but prescribes no
medicine to help us recover?
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Another peealiarity of all these
speeches was that they had no word
about prohibition. 4 decision 9f the
courts has destroyed the efficacy OF
our prohibitory laws and unless they
are re-enacted the State will be given
over again to the reign Of the saloon.
And yet the advocates and candidates