The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02

be no surprise to his friends if he runs
ahead of his ticket, as indeed we be-
lieve he will. We feel quite certain
of his election and we will say to the
people that he will make q good Off
Ger.
Mr.. Editor Your article in last weeks REG
IsrER referring to my candidacy, and mostly
your own make up. you affirm to be not person
al ceilings" You promise to publish my answer
to Ii II respectful and short and gave me the
names of Fl Travis, T. 1. Crowell, /. V. Port
Jas Tredway, and Webster Johnson as yo you,
sounding recommendation as to my ability to
fill the office of Representative on the Republi-
b0h % i1 in can with
politics Mr. Travis emphatically denies hav-
ing any conversation with you on the subject.
and believe Mr. Crowell and Mr. Port will also
deny the allegations referred to Jas. Tredway
has been unfriendly to me since one of the
Township board decided against him in a
controversy over a fence between him and Mr.
Wallace Also Mr. johnson is unfriendly to-
ward me. You say Mr. Editor that yon know
am honest and that no charge has been brought
against my honesty: Mr. Johnson as one of the
| Township board must think so too, for 10 refer
ence has been made TO the books kept by me
till the present time. will show them to be
correct at any time If requested. Let my integ
my W R.. L. MASLEY
The peculiar logic of the foregoing
letter, as well as its no less peculiar
spelling and composition, are at the
same time confirmation and justifica-
ton of the remarks in last weeks
REGISTER. The REGISTER stated,
purely as a public duty, that in the
general opinion of those who knew
him best MIR. Manley was cratic,
badly balanced and lacking In judg-
ment and common sense We didn't
ask him to furnish our readers proof
of these statements, but he has seen
fit to do so. and hence there is no.
thing farther for us to say.
-
In his letter, published elsewhere
in this paper, r. l.. Marley refers to
the "high sounding recommendation"
which the REGISTER gave him when
he thought he was candidate for the
Legislature four years ago. The item
to which he refers was as follows:
M s of G% b e. Se
| a candidate for Representative. Mr.. Manly is
| a courteous gentleman who is highly esteemed
in the neighborhood In which he lives He is
| a man of liberal education, having attended col
lege two years and taught school five years
thereafter. He has always been Republican.
and If elected would doubtless make hard
working and conscientious representative.
The paragraph was written at the
request of Mr.. Manly and. as we had
not previously known him, the facts
which are stated and which make up
the "high sounding recommendation"
which he has evidently valued so
much as to preserve all these years,
were furnished to us by himself. We
do not know why it should embarrass
us if, after four years, the people have
discovered that the estimate which
he put upon himself was too high.
Indeed it must have been that the
people had already made that dis
covery, for it will be remembered that
in spite of Mr.. Manley's candidacy
Mr.. Pearson was nominated by accla-
mation,-so Mr.. Manley must not have
had delegate in the convention.
We wonder, by the way, if that fact
had any thing to do with his sudden
and mysterious conversion to popu-
lism?
, We understand that some Populists
about town are making great talk
, about what they say was an attempt
on the part of the Republicans to per-
petrate great fraud in the printing
of the official ballot. OF course there
is nothing in it. The Populists have
no candidate for county attorney, and
the Democrats have no candidate for
representative, and the first proof of
the ballot was printed without these
: offices being designated in the re-
spective tickets for the reason that
! the law, as the county clerk construed
it, makes no provision for leaving a
blank in q ticket which is not COM
, plete. Before single official ballot
had been struck these proofs were
taken to Mr.. Goshorn, chairman of
the Democratic committee, and to Mr..
Ritter, chairman of the Populist COM
mittee, and their attention was par
, ticularly called to this arrangement.
Mr.. Goshorn said it was all right SO
far as he was concerned. Mr.. Ritter
objected and claimed that a blank
should be left in each ticket where
, ever there had been a failure to NOM
mate q candidate. AS County At
, torney Campbell took tho same view,
!. the change was accordingly made.
, No effort was made to deceive any,
body. Not an official ballot was
printed until all the parties in inter-
est were given an opportunity to in
spect il. The county clerk put one
construction upon the law, and the
county attorney put another. And
that is all there is to the howl about
fraud.