The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-10-27
after was heard ON last Tuesday be


fore board composed of the county
clerk, the district clerk and the coun-
ty attorney. The law very plainly
provides that when two parties unite
upon the same ticket they shall be
held to constitute but one party, and
of course one party cannot have the
names of it's candidates printed in
two different places ON the same bal
lot. The plain purpose of the law is
to prevent the deception of the voter
by making it appear that there are
two separate tickets when in fact
there is but one, and the majority of
the board very properly took this view
of it. Mr.. Campbell holds a different
view, but he admits that there is
abundant authority in the law for the
opiGion held by the majority of the
board. This decision does not dis
franchise anybody. as some of the
the fusionists are trying to make 1t
appear, for it does not keep off the
ticket the name of any candidate of
any party. 1t simply declares that
the same names shall not appear
twice under separate headings. And
that is not only good law, but it is
good morals.
The official ballot will be published
in the REGISTER next week as di-
rected by law.
Republican meetings will be held
during the remainder of the campaign
as follows:
Stone School House, Dist 81, Tues
day, October 81, Oscar Foust.
LaHarpe, Tuesday, Oct. 81. Chas.
+. Scott.
Carlyle school house, Tuesday Oct.
81, ID. Carman.
Thursday, Nov. 9, Silver Leaf, Dist
65, Oscar Foust.
Thursday, Nov. 2, New Scotland
Dist, Chas f. Scott.
Humboldt, Wednesday Nov. l,
Oscar Foust.
lola, Monday, Nov. 6. Oscar FOust.
All these meetings will be held ut
the usual hour in the evening and the
local committeeman are requested TO
make all necessary arrangements.
There was splendid Republican
meeting at Diamond school house last
Tuesday evening. We shall be much
surprised if old Deer Creek does not
redeem herself this fail.
1t wac an interesting and instruc-
tive spectacle to see the chairman of
the peoples Party committee at the
court house Tuesday demanding with
all his energy that the Peoples ticket
be placed Oh the official ballot under
the Democratic:head, as well as under
the heading of his own party. The
trouble with the aforesaid chairman
is that he goes to extremes. AT first
he didn't want to give his ticket any
name; but now he wants to give it
t,Uo names. And because the law
declares that the same set of candi-
dates cannot he printed twice on the
official ballot, and the board so de-
cided, the aforesaid chairman is vol
canic with rage. Such unselfish de-
votion on the part of a member of one
party to the interests of another, and
antagonistic party, is touching in the
extreme.
The Populists have endeav0red in
every possible way to belittle the
supreme court decision i'm the legis-
lature case, and to stigmatize it as
mere partizan judgment without
foundation i'm either law or justice.
If any of our readers have been in
clined r TO believe this talk, we hope
| they will turn to the inside pages of
this paper and there see the array of
eminent judges who have endorsed
that decision as being not only JUS
tice, but good law. When such men
as Thomas NJ. Cooley, of Michigan,
and David Brewer of the supreme
court of the United States say that a
decision is sound the question is set
tied in the minds of all sensible men
"W ell, what did you think of the
Governors speech?" somebody asked
Capt. VIM. Braucher the other day.
~ think it was all pack of - -
lies" was the direct and emphatic re-
ply. "Why. Captain" said his
friend, 81 thought you were Popu-
list!" Il used to be-" he said, "but 1
want it distinctly understood that 1
am not now" There is one thing we
always did like about Capt. Braucher:
And that is the way he has of letting
people know where he stands. He
was elected three years age as Pop
ulist, but the record that party made
at Topeka last winter thoroughly dis
gusted him and now he wants it dis
tinctly understood that he is running
as democrat.
Quarter Century Test.
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