The Iola register., 1890-05-02

Progressive Farmer: We have tim
and again said that it is not the pun
pose Of our order to control the polite
or votes of its members. A Democra
is just as free to vote democratic afte
he joins the order as he was before h
Joined it and aRepublican is Just a. fire.
to vote republican. Were it o,herwis
we could not give it our support. Ii
some cases, however, the MAJ. gers O
these parties have 80 ridict ID ant
abused the farmers for organizin,
for their benefit, and have go scornet
all their requests that they have fel
compelled to seek a ticket outside o
all parties and uncontrolled by them
No such thing has ever been done ex
cept under circumstances like these
and even then the members are fire,
to support that ticket or not as thei
inclination and idea of right prompt.
them to do. All reports of the parti
san press that the order seeks to con
troll the votes of its members, or tha
it presumes to enter the field of party
politics, are absolutely grOundless anC
false. When absolutely compelled t.
take separate action, as the farmer.
have been in some cases, we have al
ways advised the formation of ticket
in open meeting as free citizens, and
not as members of any order.
Learcnworh Times: Get out into
the sunshine. There is bright side to
the picture. Kansas is prospecting
All classes are i'm better condition than
they were six months ago. There has
been far less financial trouble i'm the
State than was expected a year or two
ago. The reaction has begun. While
prices of farm produce are very low
still they are very much better than
they were few weeks ago. A large
part of the crop of 1889 was reserved
for the higher prices. Immense wealth
vet remains i'm the corn cribs of the
State. Reports from the special census
enumeratOrs who are at work i'm all
parts of the State, go to show that
farmers are paying their debts very
rapidly. The prospect is plendid for
another good crop this year. Why
should we be gloomy? The winter is
past, the spring time has come. let us
shake off the winter of discomfort and
get out into the glorious sunshine of
cheerfulness.
very midst of the solemn ceremonies
of comforting degree upon a new vic
tim on Tuesday night they were start
led by terrific pounding upon their
castle door. Sending a guard to "at-
tend the ALARM" it was discovered
that some twenty or more of the
Daughters of Rebecca were there
without the pass word" and de-
instant admission. AS it
was observed that they carried promis-
ing looking baskets, and as it was al
so observed that they intended to en-
ter anyhow, formalities were waived,
the initiation was postponed, and the
Odd Fellows did Just what any other
fellows would have dOne-opened the
door and bade the ladies enter. And
they had q jolly time,-if an outsider
is to be permitted to judge from the
laughter and clapping of hands that
fioated down into the street.
The Edmond Q. IT, San has the fol-
lowing flattering report of a lecture re-
Gently delivered in that city by y. {.
Scott:
the brilliant lawyer-edtor of Oklahoma City,
4. c. Scott No brainer production nor better
delivered will be heard in Oklahoma during the
ploquentiy and forcbly presented Of the trend
and current of modern thought. Radicalism
would in our judgment be a better title for the
lecture But i matters Little about titles or
attention and shows its author to be-
Dne of the brightest young men in the southwest
Mr.. Scotts future is indeed full of hope and
promise. We do not hesitate TO pronounce him
he abest man in the Territory OF his age. and
his character and his habits fortunately are only
,qualed by his splendid abilities, In the near
uturc of a better state and condition of politi-
al society which we have full faith to believe
Oklahoma will illustrate, such mcn as Mr..
scott will be i'm demand.
II. NJ. PurdOm, who was in Topeka
last week as member of the L. :.
grand jury, was interviewed by a re-
porter of the Capital and is reported
Is making the following statements:
.'Ies. sir; they are red hot for resubmission
iowD i'm our county. Ths sentiment is growing
iaily, There is going to be trouble in our Sec
ire waking up and organizing throughout the
country. In our county il is called the +. NJ. ID.
A.. but its purpose is just the same as the Farm
RS Alliance and they work in union with the |
Alliance. Old Funston's chances of going back
o Congress are mighty slim. lie appointed a
postmaster the other day that nobody wanted. |
Mound City and other places are just as bad. If
he Democrats put up the right kind of man |
Iganst Funston We will elect him.
TO those who know Mr.. Purdom and |
he attitude he has heretofore held on
he prohibition question, these are in
eresting, not to say peculiar, remarks.
From Valleyite's" report of the
Meeting at Union school house last
evening, it appears that the
lttempt to organize the Farmers
league" farmers political party,
ell very flat. Even the man who had
AIKEN enough interest in the matter to
,ost the bills, when he found how
was the opposition to the
did not venture a word in
avor of it. The farmers of Allen
county do not need to have their pOlit-
cal course dictated by two or three
,ig-bugs away off in Massachusetts or
They are entirely able
o do their own thinking.
On Tuesday last Mr.. Pryor got sec
md packer into his gas well and in a
hort time after it got into position the
,as was throwing the water over the
op of the forty foot derrick. The flow
$ not as strong as it was when it was
irst struck, but it is growing stronger
nd Mr.. Pryor is sanguine that it will
Ii return within few days. Even if
gets no stronger than it now is, it will
'e fine well and will furnish fuel for
great many stoves. Mr.. Pryor work
d hard and spent a great deal of mon
v to get this well and everybody re-
)ices that he has been able to save it.
lie has several hundred feet of pipe al
eady on hand which he will at once
egin laying in order that the gas may
e utilized.
MARRIED: At the brides home
ear LaHarpe, April 20, 1890, Mr..
-lysses II. Courtney and Miss Sarah
Williams, Rev. NJ. J. SteinmetZ
fficiatinv Only tho naar relative of