The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-10-27
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
LOCAL POLITICAL NOTES.

For Constables &c. I. F. Strickland, L. ". Hall.
LOCAL POLITICAL NOTES.
Every week the prospect of giori-
Gus Republican voctOry in Allen
county grows brighter. The Repub-
licans are united, aggressive and in
earnest. Scores of Democrats, thor
oughly Disguised with the cowardly
surrender of their central committee
to the Populists, and thoroughly con-
vlnced that the continued ascendancy
of Populism means continued injury
to Kansas, will vote the straight Re-
publican ticket. Scores of honest
Populists, compelled TO admit that
their leaders have betrayed them,
that instead Of doing better than the
Republicans they have done worse,
and that there is no hope of anything
good to come out of the new party,
will abandon that party and return
to their old allegiance. All this
means splendid victory for the par
ty which stands as truly now as ever
it stood in all its history, for every
thing good in National, State and
county affairs.
There is talk that number of good
Republicans will scratch certain
candidate on the Republican ticket,
on the ground that several years ago
he SCRATCHED certain candidate on
the ticket. We don't know anything
about the alleged facts. But suppose
they are true: Will not the men who
scratch him now be guilty of the very
crime they charge against him? But
"we want to teach him a lesson" may
be urged. The place to do that was
at the primaries. 1t is all right to
fight any candidate right up to the
door of the convention. But when
the convention has acted, that should
end the fight. The actionofthe conven-
ton is the will of the majority. And
the majority must rule, or the strength
of our organization is gone. We have
as little sympathy with a bolter as
any body can have. But if a county
convention is willing to put a man oil
the ticket who once bolted, that set
ties it with us. We are not willing
to become a bolter ourself, merely to
"teach a lesson" to some other bolter.
Think this over little.
1t begins to look as if the Peoples
party were going to pieces over in
Woodson county. The Yates Center
Democrat says:
The Pop. candidate for surveyor has
left the county, while the chairman
of the calamity gang has taken out
declination papers for another of the
candidates, and it looks very much as
though the once naughty party was
about to follow McGinty to the bottom
of the sea. Whether the chairman
is getting forty Observation-Disclosures
candidate or not remains a mystery.
1t isn't supposed, however, that he is
working the Pops simply for his
health.
The Erie Record says that Gov.
Lewelling never so much as mention
ed the Legislative controversy in the
speech which he delivered at Erie the
d ay after he was in lola. This is en-
couraging. 1t shows that the Gov
ernor still has conscience and that
it won't stand the wear and tear of
repeating on two days hand running,
such whoppers as he told here.
Governor Lewelling located He'll
Gate somewhere off the coast of Nor
way" The Governors geography is
about as badly mixed as his history.
"Vote for men who represent the
principles of the peoples party and
nobody else" Shouted Gov. Level
ling. That was a scorcher on his
party in this county which, accord
ing to the sworn statement of the Of
ficers of its convention, has put three
straight Democrats on its ticket.
Don't you believe this statement, dear
Populist brother? Then go to the
county clerks office and ask to see
the "People's" certificate of nominal
tions, sworn to by G. S. Ritter, and
you will find among other names ON
the ticket the following:
Sheriff, J. w. Bale, Democrat.
Surveyor, w. j Price, Democrat.
Commissioner, VIM. Braucher, DEM
ocrdt.
Don't take our word for it, but go
and see it.
II. l.. Henderson, X. b. Stevenson
and w. II. Root drove out to Moran
Tuesday night with Hon. J. X. Cub
bison. They report a splendid, en-
thusiastic meeting and a magnificent
speech. Marmaton township is all
right.
With their usual chilled steel
gall the manipulators of the
ga gin'' combine in this county
made demand upon the
county clerk that he cause the names
of their candidates to be printed tt0ice
on the official ballot, once under the
heading peoples Ticket" and once