The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-05-01
KANSAS PRESS COMMENT

| EmpOrt0 republican: Inc Dest
policy for the Republican party of the
state to pursue towards the second
district fellows, is to recognize them
as belligerents aud then let them go.
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Laurence Journal: 1t is given out
from the White house that every mail
brings thousands of letters urging
Cleveland to run for president again.
No one supposed that so many Ameri-
can people had it in for Cleveland
that way.
| SdliHd Republican: Here is story
Mark Twain told over in India; sin
our country" he said, several years
ago there was man came into pro-
hibition town, and unlike you savages
here, they said to him, You can't get
a drink anywhere except at the apOth-
ecary's.' So he went to the apoth-
ecary who said, You can't get a drink
here without prescription from a
physician But the man said, I'm
perishing. 1 haven't time to get a
physician The apothecary replied,
We'll, haven't power to give you
a drink except for snake bite The
man said, Where is the snake? So
the apOthecsry gave him a snakes
address und he went off. Soon after
however, he came back and said, For
goodness sake give me drink. That
snake is engaged for six months
ahead'n
Atchison Champion: Speaking of
gold and silver mines, if you want to
strike "pay dirt" buy a Kansas
farm and work it for all there is in it.
1t beats Cripple Creek out of sight.
Emporid Gazette: Comrade Ingalls,
will not be at BelOit. It's dollars to
doughnuts that COmrade Burton and
Comrade LobdelI will be there.
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LeauenWOrth Times: OF the forty
four wreathes of olive and laurel
awarded at the Olympic games, the
Americans won eleven. The Greeks
came next with ten victors; the Ger
mans had seven; the French five !;
and the English three.
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EnpOrid Gazette: The statement
that Billy Buchan was the innocent
victim of fraud and corrupt practice,
will cause smile to creep steadily
over the icy features of death. There
is Jim Lane story which relates
how old Jim Lane got his followers in
room and unfolded to them the de-
tails of plot to organize the sound
rels and ruffisns of Kansas into a
secret society for the purpose of assas-
mating Jim Lane. Sam Riggs, who
was at the time new Lane recruit,
leaned over to suffering Charles
Garrett, and asked in Mortified tones
"Where do you suppose they meet ?"
To which Charles replied as laconi-
call as his stutter would permit" Ii
lin a p-p-p-pig's whistle"
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Hoisington Dispatch: Our Popu-
list exchanges are more dOleful than
usual the last two weeks. Two much
rain.
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Laurence Journal: Had a Repub-
lican Senator gone junketing over the
country making political speeches az
Senator Tillman did, the Pop press
would have had varied assortment
of fits every day. But Tillman is a
one eyed horse of a different color.
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Eureka Messenger: Ed. Howe,
who has gone all the gaits in his time
says that the greatest mistake of men
is the notion that there isjoy in sin.
Nothing is as strong as nature, and
nature has decreed that the happlest
man is the honest man, the unselfisb
man, the polite man, the patient man
the generous man.
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Laurence Journal: The Journal
desires to call attention to the board
of county commissions of DougIa.
county. 1t is model board, and we
would that all other boards in the
State would follow its example. 1t is
made up of two Republicans and one
Democrat. Yesterday whom the mat
ter of the county printing came up
there was no wrsngle, no dispute, no
controversy. The Journal put in no
bid for the county printing, no bid
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