The advocate., 1897-11-17

indicate tnaJ ne mas obtained a TtOnl
seat. He is a candidate for appointment
as Corporation Counsel
Lawrence Jeffersonian: 'If 1t is true
that r. w. Turner, Secretary of the
Railroad Commission, fought the silver
ticket In Jewell county, he should be
fired. 1t places the State administra-
tion in bad light to have an appointee
in one Of the best positions making an
active fight against local ticket"
The Mound City Torch of Liberty
charges that the Observer (Rep.) pre-
sents bill to the County Commissioners
for counter for printing press, $3.50"
and that it was allowed. A citizen Of
Linn county is quoted as saying that
the editor has not as yet presented a
bill for his board, but that 1t will doubt
less be filed soon.
The Supreme court has decided that
the present method Of computing good
time for the prisoners at the peniten-
tiary is correct. The charge that the
prison officials were keeping prisoners
beyond the time provided by law there
fore amounts to nothing and has about
as much foundation as other charges
brought against them.
Hlawatha has an old soldier contro-
Versy Of new sort. A plat of ground
was set apart in the cemetery for de-
ceased veterans. It was owned by the
G. A. R. post. A colOred veteran was
recently inferred there and the widow of
white veteran Immediately had the re-
mains of her husband taken up and
moved to private lot. This is drawing
the color line after death.
Wellington Voice: "The theory that
Populist majorities are regulated in size
by good, bad or Indifferent crops is
knocked into smithereens. At Topeka
Sumner county is credited with being
the banner POpulist county in the State,
and it is yet within the memory Of the
most obtuse Republican that her wheat
crop was nearly double that of any other
county in the State-dOllar wheat (O,
too, you knOw!"
Senator w. g. Sterne, who has been
recommended by Senator Baker for
United States Marshal objects to Re
publican headquarters being kept open
in Topeka all winter. He says that II
some one were put in charge who would
work for the interests of the whole
party, 1t would be all right; but that its
influence would be used to strengthen
the Leland faction. AS Leland is fight
ing him, Sterne don't want his strength
increased If he can help 1t.
A lot of Republican papers and poll
ticians are wearying people with whom
they come in contact with lot of stuff
about the enormous coal output Of the
penitentiary under Populist manage
ment and the attendant injustice done
to free miners. Why don't the miners
so after the Republicans who sunk the
coal shaft in the first place? And why
do they complain about what they call
an abuse which is not so bad as when
in the hands Of Republicans?
In Bourbon county the vote on County
Coroner was tie, each candidate re-
Ceiving 2,156 votes. The tie was settled
by the board as provided for by law, and
Doctor Cummings, the Popullst candl-
date, won. Doctor McLemore, the Re-
publican nominee, is a colored man.
All OF the other Republican candidates
were elected, but they like the colored
man so well that they scratched the
only one on the ticket, Notwithstanding
the fact that he ran for an unimportant
Office.
Kansas City Star: "The lawyers are
showering compliments upon G. G.
Clemens for his Supreme court reports,
which are said to be the best arranged of
the long series back to the beginning.
The index is especially comprehensive
and reduces the difficulty of locating
points in the subject matter to a mini
mum. The headings to the various