The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-25

In his short speech before the cor
vention Tuesday Mr.. Jacoby said tina
the political agitation INDUCED In b,
the American people from time
time was q good thing, that In tn
boiling of the pot the scum came {
the top and fioated off leaving wha
remained purer and better. w
thought it was q good point, wei
made, and repeated it during the at
ternoon to somebody on the stree
who had not heard 1t. whereupol
we find, In an hour or two, the repor
floating around that "Charlie Scot
said it was only the scum of the Re
publican party that had: been fightin,
Funston!" We guess the same geniu
must have started this report, tina
started the one last week to the effec
that we had decided to let the figh
for Funston Ego by default.n
There will be an Evolutionary con
test for the silver medal, at the NJ. E
church on next Tuesday evening. TIL
following are the names of the con
testants and their subjects: Mis-
Milly Henderson, 1.-TWO Fires;n Mis-
Della Ladd, Responsibility of Rum
selling;" Miss Olive Hawkins, "a bar
rel of Whiskey;;" Miss May woodin
"The Martyred Mother" Miss Clar,
Miller, Prohibition the Hope of Gu
Country" Miss Jessie Thayer, "Ant
Poverty" Mr.. Elliot Ewing, 9TH,
Walls of the City" Mr.. Albert Hyatt
"What the Constitution Guarantees. ,
Ten cents admission.
Next to the great and only Her
would have been burned fol
a wizard 300 years ago-Prof. William
son who gave exhibitions in his tent
near the court house last week, Is the
best magician we ever saw. His IL
lusions are performed with wonderful
skill and are certainly calculated t.
deceive the very elect. He ought t.
have had better audiences. And, by
the-way, the Professor, young as he
looks, was soldier and served a term
at Andersonville.
The primary in this township last
was lively one, but so far
rs we could observe was conducted In
entire good nature and leaves no cause
for bitterness. OF course there Is more
over the result on one side
than there is on the other, but that
should occasion no particular surprise.
We have all been there more or less
md we know how it goes. The only
thing to do, as George Martin says, is
to come in out of the wet.
Here's richness, from the Kansas
City Times report of the Peoples con-
vention at Ottawa: "Then followed a
utilization among the members, who
told the situation i'm their respective
counties. H. III. Hayward, a one leg
red veteran of the war, who said he
had lived in Kansas for thirty-eight
years and used to eat with John Brown
md sleep with James Lane, said that
N Funston's home county he would
be beaten by six hundred votes"
In compliance with the request of
he city authorities the Mo. Pac. Rail-
way Company Is at work this week
'nlarging the culvert under its track,
within the city limits so as to permit
he free flow of water and prevent the
of the northern part of the
ity that has hitherto resulted from
very heavy rain. The road is to be
for its promptness in re-
ponding to the city's demands.
There was a big crowd in town all
lay Saturday, and the original pack
ge house was running wide open
lext door to the voting place about
which scores of men were congregated
ii day. And yet we saw but two
men at all under the influence of iq-
Tor, -and they were not Republicans,
Though they tried to vote at the pri-
nary and were very wroth when their
'ote was refused.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Beatty and Mr..
nd Mrs. w. l.. Wisely, of Usage,
Happen to have been married on the
anne day and will celebrate the tenth
of the event by receiving
heir friends at the home of Mr.. Beatty,
lear Bayard, at 2o'clock in the after
loon of July 30. The REGISTER ac-
a cordial invitation to be
The o. p. men are having a rocky
ime of it. The banks have refused to
inter into an agreement to go on their
,ond when they are arrested, the
butchers will not sell them the use OF
heir ice chests, and the lawyers will
lot accept a retaining fee. They are
ealizing what the REGISTER told
hem last week they might expect.
A cali appears this week for Re-
publican convention for the nomina-
ion of candidates for county offices.
This is usually the signal for the an
of such candidates as de-
ire to enter the race, and the REGIS
FER herewith tenders all such the use
# its columns-for the usual consider
,tion invariably in advance.
Justice Shelter and a jury were