The advocate., 1891-05-13


demnatory TO the old soldiers, and said to
have been adopted by the above named as
sociation at the aforesaid meeting, is false.
IT. BosTIcK.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this I'd day of May, 1891.
[SsAL.l S.J. MORRIS, County Clerk.
STATH OF KANSAS, 90
Reno County.
s. A. Willoughby, of lawful age, being
duly sworn, says: That he is farmer and
resident Of Reno county; that he was
present at the meeting of the Kansas Re-
form Press association at it's meeting in the
city of Hutchinson ON February "a, 1891;
chat he distinctly remembers the resolution
as it appears in the affidavit of the secretary
of the association as the one that was
adopted at that meeting relating to the old
soldiers, and the only one that was intro
duced or considered at that meeting relat-
ing TO that subject. He further says that
the resolution published in the Interior
Herald, of Hutchinson, and in many other
papers, and said TO have been adopted by
that association at the aforesaid meeting,
condemnatory Of the old soldiers, is false
from first to last. s. A. W1LLoUGHBY.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this 30th day of April, 1891.
[SEAL.7 j. S. REGER,
Deputy Clerk District Court.
STATE OF KANSAS, ss
Reno County.
E.W. Jordan, of lawful age, being duly
sworn, says: That he is farmer and res
ident of Reno county; that he was present
at the meeting of the Kansas Reform Press
association at it's meeting in the city of
Hutchinson on February "a, 1891; that he
distinctly remembers the resolution as it
appears in the affidavit of the secretary of
association as the one that was adopted at
that meeting relating to the old soldiers,
and the only one that was introduced or
considered at that meeting relating to that
subject. He further says that the resolution
published in the Interior Herald, of Hutch
inson, and in many other papers, and said
TO have been adopted by that association at
the aforesaid meeting, condemnatory of the
old soldiers, is false from first to last.
E. w. JORDAN.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this 3Oth day of April, 1891.
[SEAL. J. s. REGER,
Deputy Clerk District Court.
STATE OF KANSAS, ss
Reno County.
J. L. Brady, of lawful age, being duly
sworn, upon his oath says: That he was
present at the meeting of the Kansas Re-
form Press association in the city of Hutch
inson on February "a, 1891, as reporter for
the Hutchinson News, being in the regular
employ of the publishers of that paper, and
that the resolution as published in The AID
vocArE of March 4, 1891, and embodied in
the affidavit of s. McLallin, hereunto at
tached, is, to the best of his knowledge and
belief, the resolution that was adopted re-
lating to the old soldiers. He further says
that he heard no other resolution at that
meeting, expressing any sentiment in any
way concerning the old soldiers.
j. L. BRADY.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 28th day of April, 1891.
[SEAL.] R. J. CANNELL, Notary Public.
Commission expires October IA, 1894).
STATEMENT OF R. J. CANNELL.
This is to certify that l attended the
meeting of the Reform Press Association,
held in this city on the oath day of February,
1891, having attended as spectator and
was present during all the time the report