The advocate., 1895-09-18

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x-Rupresentative Joe Sekavec is
making life weary for the Republican
nominee for commissioner in the Third
district in Ellsworth county. He ought
to be elected and would make a valu-
able officer.
Ingalls, says congressman and office
holders are the greatest EDWARDS on
earth. Don't believe It. No one but
brave man like Dick Blue would dare
go before Kansas audience and make
a gold bug speech.
1t is now given out that Dick Blue
will fight ingalls, for Senator and that
he will work for Tom Reed delegates
to the Republican national convention.
His fight on Ingalls, will be in the inter
est of Burton.
Major Hudson, not satisfied with bor-
ing his readers with two column double
loaded editorials on the partnership
fight, has now writtena book on the
subject and will inflict 1t on long suf-
fering public.
The State Temperance Union will hold
another meeting in Topeka on the Gath
Of september. The administration man.
ner of enforcing the prohibitory law
In Leavenworth and Atc!hison will re-
ceive some attention ait this meeting.
The redeemer business administra-
tion gets $1.25 a ton for the product of
the penitentiary coal mine. The Pop
ulist board let a contract just before
the members were removed for $1.42 per
ton. The contract was let to an ad-
ministration pet.
Atchison county Republicans devel-
oped a novel scheme to get out of get
ting into an embarrassing position on
the finance and other public questions
that the Republican party is on all sides
of. 1t failed to appoint any resolutions
committee at all.
Soldiers reunions will be held in Kan
sas ON the following dates: Salina, Sep
tember 1928; Concordia, October IA;
Erie, October 11-12; Goodrich, October
10-11, Pleasanton, October 24-25. A re-
union of the 5Oth Illinois infantry will
be held in Kansas City, Mo-, October
1926
The Populists and Democrats of Chase
county will vote the same ticket this
year. The nominees for sheriff and
are Democrats Dennis Mad
den, one of the best county attorneys
in the state, was renominated to fill
ltha ,IOpYniYnd dorm
David Overmyer got a fee Of $4,000 out
of the Black Bob Indian land case in
which he was master in chancery. The
work required about two months time.
There is only one man on the Barber
county Populist ticket that lives in the
county seat and ne Is the candidate for
coroner.
The Lawrence Journal has a unique
way Of classifying Kansas Democrats.
Tt divides them into two classes, the
first of which is Frank Webster, who
has a weakness for free silver and
mixed drinks and the other consists of
Barney Sheridan whose hobby is gold
and whisky straight.
Three of the candidates on the Repub-
lican ticket in Jeweh county are ex-
Office holders and ex-Warden George
Case is chairman of the county commit
lee which leads the Mankato Advocate
to suggest it sounds very much like
the good old bond-issuing deal-flxing
days when the ring was in it's glory"
In Ellsworth county two papers bid
on the county printing, one bidding
33 1-S per cent and the other 32 per cent.
The board let the contract jointly to
these two papers and another one that
did not bid at all at so, 30 and 20 per cent
each, making the expense to the county
100 per cent. OF course It was re-
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