Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02
WOMEN IN POLITICS.

WOMEN IN POLITICS.
In many cities of the state, the women are
taking great interest in politics, and the regis
tration is larger than usual.
In Fl. Scott, the registration was over 1000
yomen-much more than ever before.
In Leavenworth the registration OF women
reached nearly 5000. An old colored woman,
aged 1r3 years, was hauled to the city clerks
office and registered.
The registration in Topeka is also very large.
THE Peoples party secretary OF state declin-
ed RI issue charters to drinking cubs.-Yates
Center Advocate.
So the Pop legislature "done nothin'," did
it? Who passed all those bills the corporations
and office-seekers are bowling about?-lola
Friend.
lake SHEPHERD, the county attorney OF
Bourbon county, is after the joints and boot
lepgers He says they've got to quit business
and 'stay quit"
THE Minnesota Legislature has bill pending
recurring all saloon keepers in that state to dis
play red sign with the word "Danger!' OH
it. Very appropriate, 100.
AN Ellinwood woman who runs dairy raised
forty tons of sugar beets last year ON single
acre of land She says beets are the best feed
for COWS to be had-Winfeld Free Press.
The name of the district clerk of Crawford
county is Rabbit, but that doesn't signify that
he is heir.-Iola Friend.
No; but it seems to signify that he has pref
ty good running qualities.
NOT one railroad in America has been built
entirely by private enterprise. The public Is
always called OIL either for land grant, bonds
or other subsidies. Such monopolies should
belong to the rubic.-Iola Friend
In Oklahoma, bill was proposed to tax the
brewers. Discussion revealed the fact that
thew bled the territory of 81 400, 900 per an
uuu,-ssnnore than the value of all school and
church property within its bounds. ''-LeaAet.
uTHE blow almost killed father" is the way
the metropolitan papers headed an account OF
Mcpherson man who put pound of powder III
to the stove to blow the SCOT out of the pipe
Exchange.
McK1NLEYs inauguration ceremonies cost
two and half million dollars. Thomas Jetter-
sons cost FIVE thousand. Yet -ferson made
model president, and people were not dying OF
hunger and cold while his inaugural dance went
on.-Girard Independent News
REPUBLICAN papers fill out the prosperity
columns with accounts of the wonderful gold
discoveries and of the great increase in the
worlds supply of that metal. No use to try
that old bunco game on the people; it makes no
difference how much gold is being dug out of
the ground if they do not get sight OF it. Got
TO set it out where it can be seen.-Farmer S
Friend, lola.
THE pretended leaning of President McKin-
lev towards international bimetalism becomes
Justly ridiculous when one reviews the makeup
of his cabinet. Not man sits therein who is
not an avowod champion of the present gold
standard All of them have aided and abetted
Wall street in fastening upon the American ma
ton England's system of fnance.-Yates Cen
ter Advocate.
REPUBLICAN papers roast the late legislature
because they didn't do enough, and then they
roast it because it did too much. They roast
1t because they say it did not fulfill its prom
Uses. and then they roast it because it did pass
laws as promised. About the only thing it did
not do that should have been done was the pass
aoe of a good railroad law, and that may come
vet. Good measures are constantly coming to
i;oht that were not reported. For example, a
law placing express companies under control
Of the board of railroad commissioners. =
Hutchinson Gazette.