Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-10-22
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Some Interesting Phases of the
County Campaign.
Hear Limbird Tuesday night.

County Campaign.
Hear Limbird Tuesday night.
Judge Humphrey will carry every
county in his district.
Sherm Ellison is making winning
canvass. He is a sure winner.
Township tickets are being nomi-
mated on straight party lines. That's
business.
Silas Baker is the choice of the
Second district for commissioner. He
will do to tie to,
There will be no occasion to attempt
marching alliance voters to the polls
this year in squads. That act is over.
If every republican will do his duty
towards the ticket this fall they will
have cause to rejoice with exceeding
gladness, even to the building Of great
bonfres.-[Manchester Sun.
1t is generally conceded that the
News rabid campaign against lot of
men who are not running for office will
probably prevent their election this
year, but the republican candidates
are gIeeful at the papers idiotic breaks
at them.
The Office should seek the man, says
the peoples party. When the election
is over this fall it be found that the
candidates on the republican tickets
throughout the state are the men who
have been sought and found. 1 Enter
prise Journal.
The News claims that Frey did not
take out his naturalization papers until
after he was nominated. Mr.. Frey has
been votingisince 1882 and the records
of the district court will show that he
is entitled to do so. For a downright
malicious lying sheet the News has no
equal. i Manchester Sun.
Should Silas Baker, the republican
nominee for commissioner from the
Second district, be elected Dickinson
county would have a commissioner,
competent and worthy in every respect.
Mr.. Baker is live, enterprising. broad
minded man and just the kiud of
man that should be elected. lie IS
level headed and businesslike in ali his
methods.-[Chapman Howitzer.
That republican wheel hOIse, EX
Judge Ben Peck, of jefferson township,
was in town Sunday and, of course,
talked politics. He says old jefferson
will be in line with safe republican
majority next month, for the whole
ticket. 1t wouldn't surprise the Herald
to see Judge Peck make another shy
at the Office of probate judge next
year.-[HOpe Herald.
By grab! Don't this beat anything |
you ever heard of? For weeks and |
months we have listened to the yowl-
ing of the calamity orators about the
hylock bankers-and now here we
have it. The completion of the work
of the state bank examiner shows that
the majority of stockholders in the
banks in this state were farmers!
Whew! What's all this fuss
about2-[Hope Dispatch.
F. E. Nottorf, of Hope, was in town
yesterday and left this morning. He
is the republican candidate for county
clerk of Dickinson county, and is a
we'll qualified, painstaking gentleman
that would grace any Office in the gift
of the people. He is well satisfied
with his canvass and expects to Oe at
the top of the tree when the votes are
counted.-[Solomon Sentinel.
We are quite willing to admit that
Lawyer Tom Smith, Of Abilene, is a
good and clever. though perhaps mis-
guided fellow, but when he tries to
induce an intelligent audience to be-
lieve that corn, cotton, wheat, tobacco,
horses. cattle and hogs are imperishable ,
he is asking them to believe
q statement that would 0e as difficult ,
Of digestion as diet of india rubber I
md cobble stones. Mr.. Smith must ;
'ecOllect that Hope people are not
ays.-[HOpe Herald.
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