The Iola register., 1890-11-07
win seek no occasion to have the lsssol
repeated.

repeated.
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It is but due to Mr.. Strong, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Representative
TO explain that his small vote is ac
counted for by the fact that in severa
precincts in the county it was reported
that his name had been withdrawn
and a great many who would have
voted for him cast their ballot for one
of the other candidates. Had it moi
been for this he would have received a
far larger vote than Mr.. Jewell. It il
not definitely known who Is responsi.
BILE for these reports, but it may be
easily conjectured. Ten days before
the election q certain element I'm the
Democratic party which has no prin.
ciple that 1t would not barter for whis.
key, addressed q petition to Mr.. Strong
asking him to withdraw. The more
decent and self-respecting element OF
the party, however, persuaded him to
remain on the track. Nevertheless the
whiskey crowd industriously circulat-
ed the report that he was out of the
race, and threw every vote they could
from him to Jewell. 1t was despica-
bic trick, but 1t did not win.
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The sensation Of the day was the ap-
pearance Of large delegation of Re-
publican voters from the river neigh
borhood south flown. The delegation
marched around the square led by the
Ladies band, then formed I'm line at
the polls and cast their ballots. These
voters were "Pap" Hayward's neigh
bors and came up In body to show
the size Of his influence. Three signif-
icant banners were carried in the pro-
cession bearing inscriptions as follows:
prosperity follows Industry" Pro-
tective Tariffs the Farmers Friend"
and Calamity Prices: Corn As cents,
wheat sl.00, fax s1.25." These ban
ners were planted near the polls and
remained there all day.
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The result In Allen county amply
justifies the confidence expressed last
week by the REGISTER that the peo-
pie here would not blindiy follow the
lead of men with neither character
nor ability. These men began their
work nearly year ago and they kept
1t up with malignant pertinacity
till the hour of the election. Their
overwhelming defeat is a fitting re-
buke to misrepresentation, slander,
villification aud intolerance, and ev-
cry man In Allen county who hates
all these things has q right to rejoice
at it.
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Every succeeding election demon
strates anew that it was mistake to
change the date of the election Of
township officers from spring to fall.
1t makes..a long ticket and delays the
count, for one thing. And then it
makes it possible for disagreement
over a little township Office to be
carried up all the way through the
rest of the ticket. The next legisla.
ture should give us the old law.
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The piteous wall of the calamity
shriekers was poured into the ears of
men Tuesday who were unloading
their fax at S1.25 per bushel, and set
ting their own prices on corn and even
leaked into the recorders office where
more than $1,000 in mortgages had
been released in one month.
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The REGISTER urged as one of the
reasons why Mr.. Funston should be
renominated, that he was the only
Republican in the Second district who
could be elected this year. Can any
body name another man now who
could have got out of the way of the
avalanche?
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In the first hundred votes counted
out at lola there was only one Third
Party prohibition vote, and it bore the
name of ]. B. Goshorn for county at
torney. A Prohibitionist voting for q
man who said he hated the prohibi-
tory law as the devil hates holy water!
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The most sorrowful thing about this
whole business is the defeat of Attor-
ney General L. B. Kellog. tits hard
thing for man to be beaten in Kan
sas simply because he enforced the
laws, and for another man to be elect
ed on the plain issue that he will not
enforce the laws.
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The Third Party prohibition vote
has practically disappeared. Seven
ballots were cast in Geneva and one or
two In lola. But most Of them return
ed to the Republican party whence
they came and which they ought nev-
er to have left.
Hooker SHAPED says the report that
the Democratic tickets used In this
preeint were printed in his blacksmith
shop, is malicious slander, invented
to injure his reputation as q skiIful
blacksmith.