The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-22

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those who did hear it speak of it in
terms of Observation-Disclosures
Speaking of the matter they say il
was chiefly rot; and speaking of the
manner they say it was chiefly rant
Rot and rant, however judiciously
mixed, do not make a very attractive
combination. Why is it that people
will endorse a fraud like this? There
is that 5. of V. Camp at Hutchinson
for instance, which adopted the reso-
luton we printed last week, praising
this lecture as "thrilling" and "stir-
ring" and eloquent" and all that.
What did they say such things for
when they knew they were not de-
served? Out of pure good nature, prob
ably. But they ought not to have
done it. If individuals and OrganiZa-
tiOns and newspapers would tell the
ice-cold truth about every man or COM
pany that started out in the "enter-
tainment" line, the sticks and the
frauds would be crowded off the road
pretty soon and the public would be
very much the gamer. Which re-
minds us that one of the New Year
resolutions of the REGISTER was that
it positively would not give editorial
endorsement to any travelling show
unless it had personal knowledge of
its worth. We have always given
our honest Opin ion about these shows
after we had seen them, but we have
sometimes been led-by such endorse
mentt as that Hutchinson resolution,
for eXample,-to vOuch for them..befOre
hand, and there is where we are go
ing to reform. If anybody sees an
editorial endorsement of travelling
show i'm these columns after this, he
may make up his mind it is mighty
good show. If he sees only the regu-
acknowledgements and clippings from
other papers, he can-take his
chances.
The Washington correspondent of
the Topeka Cdpitdi has the following
notes about Congressman Funston in
one of his recent letters:
Congressman Funston says that
people out in Kansas are giving him
credit that does not belong to him. al
see by some of the newspapers, said
Mr.. Funston today, that they are
claiming that my opposition to Geo.
II. Anthony prevented his appoint
ment to the position Ofinter-state COM
merce commissioner. That il more
honor than / am entitled to The fact
is, Mr.. Anthony never had any show
for the place. 1t is true | did go to
the President for the purpose of pro-
testing against AnthOny's appoint
ment, but | soon discovered that no
protest was necessary: in fact, when
spoke of the matter to the President
he did not seem to know at first who
| was talking about, and | was Oblig-
ed to explain to him that it was MIR.
Anthony of Kansas, u candidate for
interstate commerce commissioner.
But what makes me mad" continued
Mr.. Funston, ais that the State Off
GERS and others who were SO indignant
at me forOppOsing Mr.. Anthony for a
position which pays 81, 800 did not
turn i'm when they had the chance and
secure for him the appointmentment
to the SenatOrship. He was the only
candidate from my district and feel
bad abOut it, Congressman
=,
illness and was able to appear on the
floor of the house today for the first
time since the reassembling of Con-
gress. He had severe cold which
threatened to develope into pneumonia
or grippe. Mrs. Funston arrived Il
few days ago and will remain here for
two or three months as has been her
custom for six or eight years. She is
accompanied by her youngest son,
Edward II. Funston, jr. Their eldest
son, Fred Funston, is here tempOrari-
ly, in the botanical division of the ag-
department, and the second
son is in charge of the COngressman'e
farm in Allen county, while their only
who last year attended
Bethany at Topeka, is this year at the
State university at Lawrence.
We hope the teachers for whom we
promised to print in this issue a num-
Der of selections suitable for use in the
of Kansas Day will forgive
us for not keeping the promise. 1t was
made without thinking of what hap
pened OH the night of October 81.
When the time came to fulfil it, then
we remembered. All our scrap books,
that were full of "Kansas Things"
personal anecdotes. historical facts,
poems, addresses; all our Kansas
Books, from the history of "The TrOu
blesn published by the Government
in 1860, down to Wilder's Annals,
which told everything that had ever
in Kansas, to Kansas or
about Kansas; all these things gath
cred with loving pains through
ten years of close contact
with everything pertaining to
Kansas and to which we had been
wont to turn as to an ineXhaustible
goneI Where can we
turn now? We might, perhaps, have
gone to the United States histories
and to a few other original sources
and with great labor have dug out
few dry bones. But we hadn't the
heart. So we hope the teachers will
forgive us. Maybe we can have some
thing for them next year.
The county commissioners have
made arrangements with the city
council whereby offenders against the
law, committed to the county Jail for