The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
FAITHFUL AND ABLE.

The following is an extract from the
Blue Mound Suns Washington Letter
written by a man who has no personal
interest whatever I'm Mr.. Funston but
who speaks from the standpoint of a
disinterested observer:
Editor Sun: There was local item
i'm the issue of the Sun ofthe 18th inst,
| that somewhat astonished me when
read IL. The item stated it had been
frequently asserted that Mr.. Funston
has not done his whole duty by the
soldiers.
Surely no man acquainted with his
impartial course In Congress can truth
fully make such an assertion. From
the time he first took his seat down to
the present date, he has ever been on
the alert to help the defenders of their
country. Whenever a measure was
introduced for their Individual or col
iective benefit he has spoken I'm its
favor. 1 speak from q personal knowl-
edge of the facts i'm the case, when 1
say there is no man In Washington In
a representative capacity who has
done more for the soldiers. When they
have come here looking after their
pensions, he has, without solicitation,
assisted them financially; he has gone
with them to the Departments, and
has plead their case before committees
and ON the floor of the House of Repre-
sentatives. He has done his whole
duty, and he has done it faithfully
and well, and they who assert to the
contrary do so through ignorance, or
malice aforethought.
The Democrats are going to use all
the means flair and unfair) they can
employ to elect majority of Repre-
santatives i'm the Fifty-secOnd Con-
gress; are going to dc so to restore the
destructive policy of the Cleveland
Administration, during which rebels
and copperheads were exalted, and
those who had fought and suffered to
preserve the Government of the United
States were debased and relegated out
of office to make room for those who
hold nothing i'm common with the prin-
ciples and institutions of popular gov
eminent as understood by men who
consider loyalty to the old flag para
mount to every other secular duty.
Such being the case, how necessary it
is to continue in office men of exper-
ience-men who have proved faithful
to the trusts repOsed in them.
If, through Misrepresentation, and
disaffection engendered thereby, the
Republicans of the Second Congress
sional District of the State of Kansas
should fail to renominate and re-elect
Mr.. Funston, who has SO honorably
and faithfully served their best inter-
ests, / am free to say they will make
q mistake that 1t will take years to
remedy.
While the gentleman spoken of has
been a true friend of the soldiers, and
has devoted reasonable portion of his
time to their immediate assistance and
for their future benefit, he has not been
derelict in caring for and advancing
the interests of other classes of cOnstit-
uents. The records of Congress will
bear me out i'm the statement that no
Representative whose career has been
contemporaneous with Mr.. Funston's
has done more for the development of
the agricultural and mineral resources
of his District. Through his exertion
and labor laws have been enacted that
have caused the expenditure of thou
sands of dollars among his constituents
New industries have been brought into
remunerative operation, and all along
the line of his terms of service as a
Representative in Congress, are imper-
ishable marks as an able and faithful
public servant.