The southern argus., 1891-08-20

The greatest demand of the worlds
busy people today is time If it were pos
sible to lengthen the nights and shorten
the days, the students would assemble and
resolute with that end in view: the wage
workers would come together in an organ
ICED body and ask that the nights be length
ened and the days be shortened. Deliber-
alive bodies and courts of Justice carry
their sessions far into the lateness of the
night for the need of time This neces-
sity goes to help make up Topekas prom
lnence. However, in this short article. I
shall give only an epitome of the promin-
ency of the Capital City.
l called at the Capitol to see the govern
or, where | found him comfortably seated
IN his official capacity beseiged by other
callers and apparently absorbed in reading
and studying miscellaneous papers The
| governor, L. U. Humphrey, introduced
me to his private secretary, Mr.. D. o.
McCray, after which we three sat down
and engaged in tete-a-tete through dura-
ton of FIVE minutes. | have never felt
more at home in any other so distinguished
a mans company than l did in l. U
Humphreys. His excellency is modest
and retiring yet easily approached
have the honor of being personally ac-
/ quainted with the governor, having met
him in independence, his home, before he
was elected to the chief magistracv of the
state. The governor is highly respected
at his home by the whites and the blacks
Col. John NJ, Brown beyond all ques-
ton is the nucleus of Shawnee county
politics today and whose uniform political
career in the pales of the Republican
party is winning Gf it has not already won)
for him state renown and a national repu-
tatlon. His education was acquired at
! Oberlin, Ohio, and after teaching school
three years in that state he went to Miss
issippi and engaged in the same work for a
short season. He had the honor of being
sheriff and tax collector in Mississippi for
two years-I873-75. He came to Kansas
in 1876. His ability as an educator being
discovered, he was made principal of the
North Topeka public schools During the
years I87o-8o, he was general superintend-
ent of the Freedman's Relief Association.
He was clerk three years in the state
auditors Office In the year 1874 the
governor. Mr.. Ames, and the senate made
him a colonel in the state militia Col
Brown is practical farmer and has lived
on his farm during the fifteen years of his
life in Kansas, and is today living on his
one hundred acre fruit farm within mile
and quarter of Topeka. In the year
1889 he was regularly nominated by the
Republicans and elected clerk of Shawnee
county, the richest and the most inhuen-
tial county in the state There is now
not a candidate out in the field against
him. Mr.. Browns singularly clear record
as a public servant will return him to the
Office he now holds with such majority
as only the true and the tried can obtain.
In my rambles through the city ran
amuCk of ID. 0. McCray, esq. Mr.. Nc
Cray is a professional journalist, who
never fails to strike when the iron is hot
He worked on the Daily Capital three
years and was associate editor of the
Leavenworth Times for year and half.
Fifteen years covers the entire period that
this young journalist has lived in bleeding
Kansas. He is now adjoining position
that can only be filled by bright con-
genial and we'll educated gentleman-that
of private secretary to the governor.
Rev. H. B. Parks. pastor of ST. John
A. NJ. f. church, is the pulpit orator.
church builder and the expounder of the
ecclesiastic law of the A. NJ Z. church
west In less than two months 81. 900 was
raised by our subject Highland Uni
VerSlty is credited with having educated
him The itinerant field has been receiv-
ing the benefit of his labor for thirteen
years. Vicksburg Miss. is my old home
No one can pastor that charge but
thorough-going energetic person. The
Rev Parks was pastor of that church two
years or more. The brainy ] {, Emery
held the same charge some years ago. St.
John church is worth $50 600 including
the SIS, 900 improvement made during
Rev. Parks administration Four dele
gates are to be elected by the annual con-
ference which meets at Fl. Scott, Sept. II.
to attend the general conference which
convenes at Philadelphia in May '92.
Send Rev Fl B. Parks to your general
conference for he is one of your ablest,