The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-22

| tOHnsuip Dciug ItDfeecuteu, HUI less
than 95 delegates being in attendance.
The attendance and the enthusiasm at
this convention were in striking con-
trast with the lonesome and funeral
gathering of the Eleven who consti-
tuted the Democratic convention that
met the week previous. There was
nothing lonesome or solemn about this
convention, and there were no ques-
tiOns as to whether the Republican par
ty should fight this fall under its own
flag or some other, and no gloomy
forebodings as to the result. Nothing
of the kind. Instead of this, there
was a body of active, earnest men,
never prOuder than now of the party
they represented, never more firm in
their conviction that it is right, never
more confident of victory. The selec-
ton of delegates to attend.the District
and State conventions was accom-
plised without friction, and the en-
dorsement of Mr.. Funston and Mr..
Barber was unanimous and hearty. A
"straw vote" taken merely to ascertain
the personal preference of the indiYi-
dual delegates for Governor showed
so for A. w. Smith, 10 for Morrill, and
for Murdoch. 1t is evident that the
nomination of Farmer Smith, which
now seems entirely probable, would
meet with the enthusiastic approval
of a large majority of the Republicans
of Allen county. The official report
Of the convention will be found on our
last page.
There is one suggestion the REGIS
TER would like TO make to Republi-
cans all over Allen county: And that
Is when the next county convention
Is called pick out some young men
and send them up as delegates. 1t is
q little remarkable how nearly our
conventions are made up of the same
men year after year. There were
some men in the convention last Sat
urday who have been delegates, we
venture to say, in every Republican
county convention for twenty-five
years, while there was large num-
Der of men who have been on hard
every time for ten years. There is
nothing the matter with these men.
They are rOck-bOttOm Republicans
and they know how to RIM a cOnven-
ton. But they can't live forever
much as we wish they might-and
they ought to be training up some
apprentices to take their places. 1t
is all right to put two or three of the
old wheel-hOrses on each of the dele
cations to keep the team steady. But
there must be In every neighbOrhOod
clever, reliable and ambitious young
men and these should be recognized.
1t will do them good and it will help
the party.
Services were held at the NJ. +.
Church last Sunday afternoon i'm
memory of Miss Maggie Culbertson
and Miss Fife Root, two young ladies
who were active workers in the
church and Sunday School and whose
early and lamented death has already
been noted in these columns. The
exercises consisted of brief addresses
by NJ. p. Jacoby and j. +. Henderson,
representing the Sunday School; by
Ira Patterson, representing the Ep-
worth League; by Miss Alice Myler,
representing the young ladies of the
church; and by the pastor, represent
ing the Church at large. Each of
these addresses was appropriate and
appreciative, and the exercises
throughout were impressive and in
teresting, and were listened to by a
large and attentive audience.
How many of us have worried and
fretted about the weather this past
week, or this past month, or this past
year? And can any one of us tell
has stopped or brought one drop, less
or more, of rain? Isn't it fact gen.
orally that the things we worry about
most are the things over which we
can have no possible control? ParsOn
Peterkin remarked in our hearing the
other day, 1.-THE face of every man
and woman is full of wrinkles brought
there by worry over things that no
amount of worry can help" And the
Parson usually knows what he is talk
ing about.
The Humboldt Union says that Mr.. |
J. Paullin, one of the prOprietOrs of
our gas wells and a popular conductor
on the Santa Fe, has invented and |
patented a spark arrester and smoke |
that is designed to be used |
on locomotives. Last fall, during the !
dry spell, the contrivance
was used for four round trips on one
of the engines on the Southern Kan
sas division with very satisfactory re- !
suits. The final papers of his patent
will be issued this week. The inven- |
ton is an important and valuable one
and we hope it will make Mr.. Paullin |
rich.
We started in to make personal
of all the delegates to the
county convention last Saturday who |
called on the REGISTER, but soon |
found that to do SO would be about the |
same as calling over the roll of the
and so gave it up. The !
REGISTER always keeps "Open house"
when there is q Republican conven-
ton in town and is glad that the del
egates have got in the habit, as one of
them expressed it, "of just drifting
over here to see how the Old Thing !
looks" They are always welcome.
A comparison of the public square
in lola with the native prairie furn-
ishes a good demonstration OF the
of tame grass pasturage
over wild. The blue grass in the
square was big enough to pasture
three weeks ago while the prairie
grass is only now barely started. The !
stock man who has blue grass pas
ture may count on saving months |
feed at each end of the winter.
Capt. G. A. Nicholetts, formerly of
is now resident of Par
sons but has not lost his interest in
Second district politics. We have a
letter from HIM this week hurrahing
for Funston and congratulating him
and his friends on the success of their .
The Captain says that
LaBette county is bound to redeem
herself this year.
The Garrett Dramatic company will present
Hopper. The Lightning Rod Agent at lola