The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
ABOUT OUR COLONEL.
A Few Paragraphs From the columns OF
Press Comment About the Defeat
of w. c. Jones for the q. s.
Marshalship

Troy Chief: Col. w. c. Jones is
said to be very sore over his failure
to be appointed United States Mar
shall, and the selection of Nicely.
Now is good time tor Jones to get
back into the Republican party. He
left it for a similar reason, but not
half so good a enc. He used to be a
rip-snorting Republican, and was an
active member of the State Conven-
ton of 1858, that nominated Cover
nor Harvey. But sometime between
that year and 1872, he was convert
ed" The story, as told to us, was
something like this: Jones and Col.
Charles =. Twiss were both members
of the 10th Kansas Regiment. After
the war, they returned to Allen coun-
ty, and became rival Republican poll
ticians. Twiss was elected to the
State Senate in 1864. Several years
later, in 1868 or 1870, they were rival
candidates for the nomination for the
Senate, and got up considerable feel
ing over the contest. The Conven-
ton, as compromise, set them both
aside, and nominated another man.
This made Jones and Twiss so mad
that they both left the corrupt Repub-
lican party and became Democrats.
Jones remained in Kansas, while
Twiss went West to grow up with
the country, and has never been
heard of publicly since. We have
read accounts of persons being rem
dered blind by a sudden shock, and
fter remaining so for years, had
their sight as suddenly restored by a
similar shock. Jones has had his
second shock. Will it restore him to
sight?
Laurence Journal: The appoint
ment of Nicely as United States mar
shall for Kansas may be a good one.
The Journal has a warm personal
feeling for the doctor, and believes
that he will make good officer. In
fact from a personal standpoint he
would have been the Journals ia
vorite, had we been privileged to have
a favorite. But yet we cannot help
seeing that it is about the worst thing
for Democracy that could have hap
pened in Kansas. 1t is going to split
the party from bottom to top, if it is
thick enough to be split, and is going
to set the whole outfit by the ears.
For this the Journal is thankful.
Fredonid Citizen: Col. Bill Jones,
of lola, who eft" billiards. as an i'm
posing officer of the Nineteenth Kan
sas after the war 1S6S); who was once
q Republican but left the party years
ago because it did not appreciate him
sufficiently, has been turned down by
Cleveland in his application for the U.
s. Marshalship. He has, surprising
ly, been a great Jones for several
years, but will now fade from State
wide view and shrink to his normal
local size.
Guthrie (Okld) Capital: DIR. Nicely
is marshal of Kansas. Col. w. G.
Jones is flOundering in the soup tour
cen. The erstwhiIe boss has been
bossed. From king he drops to
plebeian. This is a fitting end to po-
litical tyranny. Jones is good fellow
we like him-he has thousands of
good friends, but his political strength
lay in his power as dictator, a boss,
and the flight Of such can be but tenn
porary in these days of individuality
and independence. Nicely is a good
man and will be in every way equal
10 the Kansas marshalship.
OttdWa Republican: The appoint
nent of Nicely instead of Jones proves
he very trifiing dependence the
friends of Cleveland can have upon
lis corpulency. The enemies of
Cleveland are getting the plums and
ibr se who fought for him are turned
iIur.
4 ~ Chief: The defeat of w. c.
Jon,c or United States Marshal is a
iesel d rebuke of shyster. Nicely
vas q. open and active fusionist.
while vhes used his whole power, in
! sneaking way, to the same end,
while pretending to be a stalwart
Democrat. Shysterism got left.
Laurence Journal: That Col. Jones
8 cast aside shows that Cleveland
las about as much gratitude in h is
oul as a Jersey mosquito. If any
nan on earth ever earned anything
Jones has long ago earned
he marshalship. But it is not our
ght. The greater the scrap, the bet
er the Journal will be pleased. But /
does like to see justice done, even
y savages and Democrats.
K. c. Star: Colonel Bill Jones will
ave his band playing in front of {
is senatorial boom next month. ,
The Twice-a-Week Times.
The Kansas City Times on January
began issuing the Weekly Times s