Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-26
POLITICAL CHAT.
The Campaign Grows Livelier as the
End Draws Near.

have property here.
A straight line of KS down the
squares at the left edge of your ticket
will be the best way to vote.
Burton's speech Saturday evening,
Nov. 4, will be attended by people from
all parts OF the county. All want to
hear Burton.
Does Dickinson county want to go
on record as endorsing the anarchy
exhibited by the Pop mob called the
Dunsmore house2
Lewelling is to speak in HeriDgton
the last of this month. win he be too
cowardly to discuss his party's recordp
lie has been this far.
The Topeka paper published in
Abilene has not yet cited any mathe-
NAUTICAL authority to establish the Pop
ulist position that So is greater
number than 81.
The FIRST Peoples Party adminis,ra'
ton on earth" is the first and only
administration that ever deliberately
looted the public treasury for the pur-
pose Of publishing aud distributing
partisan literature.
The people OF this county are still
waiting for some Populist to tell them
by what authority LswelIing ordered
the State militia to drive the legal
house Of representatives. from repre-
sentative hall last winter.
Sam Smith Ia making thorough can
vass Of the county for county attorney,
and when votes are counted out he will
lead the van by from three to five humid
red votes aud that isn't putting it too
strong either. Harrington Times.
Andy Wilson used to "plant corn in
the spring" The Pops of this year
seem to be in favor of also trimming
trees in the spring as they grow 80
red in the face over doing it in the fall.
The Pop campaign will go the way of
Andy's.
DIR. King, who ia on the Republican
ticket this year for register of deeds,
is an old soldier and has lived in this
county 30 long that almost everybody
ought to know him. lie is a go d
Republican aud when elected Will make
a No. county officer. Il IIerington
Times.
Artz is still wanted in Colorado to
answer a criminal charge and the vsr
dict of Shawnee county jury, com.
posed Of Republicans, Democrats and
Populists finding Secretary of State Os-
born guilty of a crime is still unre-
versed.
+. L. Nottorf Is one of the most
popular officers the county ever had
and Hope township, his home, should
give him a solid vote this fall. Don't
vote for a Missourian who comes back
simply to get office, but vote for u per-
feet and honorable gentleman who
lives here and who will stay here any
way.-[IIcpe Dispatch.
Important meeting: A meeting Of
the anti trimming club will be held in
MclneTney's cellar at midnight tonight.
All persons opposed o trimming trees
Ia the fall OF the year are requested to
be present. This is the great issue Of
the campaign and We sincerely hope
that all friends Of the party will turn
out. by order of Topeka bosses.
1t ia understood that Charlie Craw-
ford is making all arrangements to run
for probate judge next fall on the Pro-
hibilion ticket, Alternating as he dCe1
between county attorney and probate
judge year after year, the judgeship il
in line for 1894 and having been h
round Of nearly all parties, old and
new, in his hunt for an Ofli'e, the Pro.
hibition party is the only one not yet
tried The Populists are dead on h.
him. and know exactly why he joined
them. They will show him how much
they think OF that kind Of converts on
election day,
At an informal election the forms of
the new law being observed, the name
of l.. =. HOutZ for high school trustee
was duly crossed in the first line and
those OF +. W. Wright and Sarah M
Gould were duly crossed in the second
| line. A m ,jOTity of the Judges decided
that ali names should he rejected Wa
the decision in harmony with the lawy
Hope Dispatch,
1t was. There are two high school
trustees TO b. elected. Both are for
the same length rm ana both nrr
equal in prominence The order in
which they are prlr ted on the ticket is
simply accidental arrangement AZ they
we're handed the printers. Those
whose names are on the frat lire are
In no sense running against each other
1t is every man against the field aud
the two receiving the highest number
of votes, no matter where their name
are found, will be elected, Each voter
can vote for two men by putting an y
| TO the left of their names, and for only
I two. If more are marked no Judge
can dec de wi ich two are 10 receive the
vote. To be- safe put an X TO the left
of the names OF A. s. LOwery and +.
W. Wright. Then yOn cannot miss IL.
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