The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-11-03
LOCAL POLITICAL NOTES.


Our guess is that, considering the
number of votes cast, n. l.. Ard will
get the biggest majority of any candi-
date on the Republican ticket. He is
an old soldier, an old resident of the
county, good business man and a
man who has always attended strict
ly to his own affairs. An effort has
been made in certain parts of his dis
trict to stir up the old League preju-
dice against him, but it has dismally
failed. Mr.. Ards claim to the land
he occupies is SO equitable and so well
known, and his record as law abid-
ing citizen is SO firmly established
that the attempt to awaken feeling
against him only reacted on those
who tried it. He will be elected by a
rousing majority and will make one
of the best commissioners Allen coun-
ty ever had.
The Republicans have not held
many school house meetings this fall
but those few have been remarkably
well attended, not only by Republic
cans but by Populists,-which is a
good sign. Whenever men are will
ing to hear the truth there is hope
that they may believe it.
The REGISTER has had little to say
about the Republican candidates dur
ing this campaign, not because there
was little that might be said i'm their
favor, but because the principles for
which they stand are so far more i'm
pOrtant than the men themselves.
Every candidate on the Republican
ticket will fill the office to which he
aspires honestly and ably and de-
serves support for that reason. But
all of them together stand for the
principles of the Republican party,
for law and good order and good gov
eminent and against revolution and
disorder and misrule, and it is for
that reason that they should receive
the support of every good citizen, re-
CARELESS of party.
Senator billiard, of FIT. Scott is
POpulist and is making speeches in
Bourbon county for the Populist tick
1T this fall, but he has too much sense
and too much regard for the truth to
attempt to defend the Pop. revolution
1T Topeka last winter. Maj. Foust
heard him at Bronson Saturday night
and he says he frankly admitted that
he Dunsmore House was never legal
y organized. The Peoples party |
would smell better in the nostrils of |
Ill good citizens if all it's orators and
eaders would follow the example of
senator billiard. 1t is an uphill bust
less to defend what is indetensible.
1t appears that the opposition i'm
Douglas county has abandoned the
light on every office save that of sher-
i'll, and that all the other candidates
re to be traded and sold in the hope
f electing Col. Mace. That must give
he other candidates hilarious feel
journal.
Same here precisely.
No personal grievance, however
reat, should induce any Republican
vote against single Republican
andidate. This is the skirmish line
next years battle and every point
ielded to the opposition now will ,
lake them that much harder to dis ,
'dge then. LET us make a clean I
weep. s
Last Saturday morning Capt. VIM. &
raucher met us on the street and !
ter shaking hands, put his arm i
trough ours and in the friendliest +
,ssible way called our attention to 7
lie item in last weeks REGISTER in h
hich he was quoted as abiding to il
ov. dwellings speech as "pack b
hes" and said that there must be II
me mistake about it as he was not o
lola on that day. We replied that n
q statement had been printed on n
hat we considered good authority, a
1t that if it was not true we should fl
rtainly take pains to correct it. 81 II
lew you would he said, ''if call IT
your attention to it because 1 knew
at you would not Intentionally mis-
present me-" After little farther
TX he said, 81 wish now you would B
We me little slip of writing, so that F
nay show it to any one who may G.
row it up to me before the paper til
mes out" We thereupon invited pa
n up to the REGISTER office where gi
wrote and handed him the follow flu
:: ga
Whom it May Concern:
ne above statement talluding 10 the item re-
ed to- which appeared in the REGISTER of
ober "a. was written upon what / consider
1t the time to be good authority have ~,
however that il coulinothave been III
:, as Capt Braucher was not even in lola on \,
day OF the Governors meeting / regret i,
eedingly that / was deceived into publish pl
q statement (which is not. borne out nv or
facts and which does Mr. Braucher injus- an
l. Respectfully, of
CHAS. F SCOTT
IS we handed it to him he remark
THAT is everything l could ask.
u have treated me like a gentleman u,
L shall treat you the same. I 40,
Q you my word that L shall not ON
Ike use of this to reflect OH you or to o,l
barrass you in any way, but only tb,