The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-27
One of the paragraphs in the "plat-
form" we published two weeks ago
was as follows:


form" we published two weeks ago
was as follows:
We believe in the United States of America
and that any citizen who does or SAYS anything
to weaken loyalty or 10 create Dissatisfaction
with our form OF government ought to be
hanged as traitor.
We are reliably informed that at an
open meeting of Onion creek Lodge,
F. NJ b. A., held last Saturday night,
Mr.. W. \. Choguill, of Humboldt,
read the above declaration and con-
strued it 70 mean that everybody but
Republicans ought to be hanged "a
traitors!I Pap" Hayward Joined
him in that construction and said that
he was going to borrow a copy of the
REGISTER and file it away "to bring
up against Scott and the Republican
party in the next campaign We
are not surprised that Mr.. Hayward
should make such fool break" for
in addition TO being a malignant
demagogue he is mental pauper and
doesn't understand the meaning of
words. But Mr.. Choguill cannot be
excused OH this score-on the last half
of it We mean. He understands the
meaning of words. He knows per-
fectly well that the above paragraph
cannot by any sort of manipulation,
other than plain lying, be distorted
into the meaning he gave it. 1t was
on his part, a wilful and malicious
misrepresentation, made with deIib-
crate intent TO deceive his audience
and prejudice them against this paper.
And it was all the more inexcusable
because Gifts black ingratitude, for the
REGISTER has always treated him
with the utmost courtesy. As mat
ter of fact the attack will deceive no.
body, for every man who has sense
enough to be permitted to run at large
must see at glance the unfairness
and dishonesty of it. But the stigma
of bearing false witness against his
neighbor will attach to Mr.. Choguill
none the less because the falsehoOd
was 80 transparent as to fool nobody.
The REGISTER will not be injured.
How much Mr.. Choguill will be bene-
flied remains for him to compute.
Hon. l.. b. Pearson stopped over at
lola Saturday on his way home to con-
fer with some of our business men con-
corning pending legislation. He says
that great many of the Alliance rep
resentatives admit in private CONVEX
sation that the mortgage and interest
bills they have passed would be an ac-
tual injury to the State if they should
become laws, but 1--WE promised the
people to pass them and we will do it
and trust to the Senate to kill them"
There is honesty for you isn't there?
And these same men will go onto the
stump next fall and say 1--WE would
have passed laws that would have re-
lieved you of all your troubles and
brought good times, but the Republic
can Senate wouldn't let us.''
1t is better to be born lucky than
rich. I. +. Strickland not long ago
stumbled by pure luck onto the fact
that tract of land in Logan town.
ship, being a strip 81 rods wide off
the west side of section 10, township
26, range IS, about $50 acres, was Gov
eminent land. 1t was heretofore sup
posed to be railroad land, but it proves
to have never been patented to the
railroad, and Mr.. Strickland's filing
upon it, as a soldiers claim, has been
accepted by the land office and he
will doubtless secure the claim. 1t il
better to be born lucky than rich.
VIM. Clinchey, of Elm, was in town
Wednesday and called to bid Us good
bye before departing for New York.
We don't wish him anything but good
luck, but our guess il that he will he
mighty homesick for Kansas before
he has been in the city month. y
man who has lived in Kansas eleven
years hasn't any business leaving.
Major J. Andrews was in town the
other day aud called to notify us that
he will hereafter get his REGISTER at
Ia. We regret that the
Major and his family are to leave AL
len county and hope they may soon
return.
Leroy Runyan has returned from
the piney woods of louisiana and il
1nce more on the old farm in Elm
township. He is glad he went but
sladder he got back and il not likely
To- leave Kansas again.