The advocate., 1897-11-17

Wellington Voice: Many veterans
may not be aware Of the fact that under
an act approved March 6, 1896, the Union
soldier who applied for pension under
the new law, act of June, 1890, and whose
claim was rejected, can have 1t recon-
sldered and In the event of his pension
being granted he is entitled to all ar
rearages that would have accrued to him
under his original application, provided
it Is shown that he was disabled in a
pensionable degree at the time his first
application was fled"
Ellsworth Populist: I'VE have seen
men before now that were too modest
to vote for themselves, but little the
best job Of this kind of work was done
in a certain road district in this county
last week. The report Is, one of the
judges on the election board in the east
part of the county took the ballots be-
fore they commenced voting and wrote
his own name in for road Overseer in
the blank spaces left for that purpose.
1t is not necessary to state that he was
elected. We don't know how true the
story is, but it is said to be fact"
The announcement that ex-Warden
George H. Case, of Mankato, will be a
candidate for the Republican nomlna-
tion for Governor has caused the resur-
rection of an old story about him. He
was a candidate in 1888 and Captain Nor
ton, of Mitchell, was a candidate for Sec
retary of State. Cases fight defeated
Norton, but all of the circumstances
tended to show that Case was merely
running in the interest Of Humphrey and
that he got Warden Of the penitentiary
as pay for his work. Naturally the fell
lows in the Big Sixth are little slow
about pushing his boom until they can
learn whether he is in earnest or merely
operating as a sideshow for some one
else
President Mckinley will doubtless
read the following estimate OF the value
of his latest appointee from eX-Speaker
Lobdell with a pleasurable feeling:
There may have been some political
wisdom in giving Barney Kelley a soft
political job, but to our uninitiated mind
the reason why wOrn-out old political
hack, powerless for good and with but
little power for evil, who has already
received $4,000 in cash for four years
of public service, who hasn't a constitu-
ency in which he could elect a State
delegate or recall halting Republican,
should be preferred, is very obscure.
There is, however, one consolation-his
bellyaching around at political conVen-
tiOns will be stopped and he will prob
ably be far enough away so that his dis
turbing influence will cease to be felt"
A western Kansas aspirant for Office
is ready to agree that there is wide
difference in the worth of personal
friends. The convention in which he
was interested was to be held in neigh
boring city, and one of his local friends
insisted that he had better be on the
ground early in order to take advantage
In the aforesaid aspirant's interest of
any circumstances which might occur
prior to the arrival of the main show.
This appearing to be good idea, it
was approved and carried out. When
the friend reached the convention city
he found liberal delegation represent
ing his townsman's chief opponent. He
inquired why this candidate was not in
evidence and was told that it was not
believed to be necessary. well" he
said, ''if you fellows expect to stand any
show whatever in this convention you
had better get Mr.. - here at once" Mr..
IS friends wired him and he came and
put up such fight as to make the re-
suit decidedly uncertain for time. 1t is
unnecessary to state that the first men
toned aspirant did not fully approve
his friends method of taking advantage
in his interest Of ante-cOnvention cir
cumstances.
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