The advocate., 1897-08-25

permanent State organization OF stock
men. Other county associations are
urged to send delegates
Congressman Curtis says that he has
notified the President that if he does
not appoint his candidate for postmas-
ter at EmpOria he will make no further
recommendation for any office. AS he
will not interfere in BrOderick's dis
trict, he will have all Of the postOffice
tribulatiOns off his hands.
Ewing, the Leland Lambert candi-
date for postmaster of Emporia, has
been indOrsed by Senator Baker. Con-
gressman Curtis made a hard fight for
another man. The contest locally was
very bitter one and the factional fight
will continue for some time, to the ben
eft Of the opposition, of course.
Ex-Chief Justice David Martin says
Il know Judge Williams's order is as
wrong as wrong can be and is sup
ported neither by the law the consti-
tuition or the preCedents. There are
hundreds of precedents which should
guide Judge Williams, and for the life
Of me I don't know why he ignored
them"
Jim Hagaman, Of the Concordia
Blade, says that it is fOOlishness to
travel anywhere from 4,50O to 1000
miles to get to Klondike when it is
but 1,946 miles across the country He
says that direct route across the cOun-
try is practicable, and proposes to Or
ganlze company and try 1t about
March l.
1t was Harrison Kelley, the ex-Con-
gressman, of Burlington, who died re-
Gently. Some of the papers have it H.
B. Kelly. The latter was State Sen
ator and member of the Board of Char
tiles. He has lived at Mcpherson and
Lawrence. Both were formerly Repub-
licans and both have voted with the
Populists lately.
One Of the State officers figures that
if a special session of the Legislature
would give the State Board of Equal
ization more power, the collection of
taxes under just and equitable assess
ment on the packing house properties
in Kansas City alone would increase
revenues sufficiently to pay the eX-
pense Of a special session.
Judge Milton, of the Court of Ap-
peals, is commended by Pawnee county
citizens because in an important habeas
corpus case in which that county was
interested he went to Larned and con-
Quoted the hearing instead Of making
the county hundreds of dollars of ex-
pense by requiring the army of wit
nesses to appear at Dodge City.
Clarence Thompson, of the Hoxie
Palladium, was married August 10 to
Miss Effie Denison. This announce
ment is rather tardy, but he forgot to
say anything about it in his own paper
until over week after the event. Mr..
Thompson is recognized as a newspaper
man of energy and ability, and such
man usually makes model husband
Senator Hessin, leading Republican
candidate for Governor, says Of the
Williams injunction matter: Il am a
lawyer and have great respect for the
courts. / am against any man or any
party that kicks against the judiciary"
All of this means that If Hessin were
Governor the corporations, aided by
the courts, would do as they pleased
with the affairs Of this State.
The Populist papers of the Sumner
Cowley district are all supporting w.
7. Mcbride, the nominee for District
Judge, in a very earnest way. While
the convention was stormy, the fight
was dropped when the convention adj
jOurned by all but very few whose
continuation of it seems to be actuated
by personal considerations and the
prospects of personal benefits.