The advocate., 1897-10-20


partment, 1t is not likely that it will be
approved or that the Office will be moved.
Phillipsburg Herald: 1.-THE Pop admin
istration is not all bad. Four years ago
the ballots used at the election cost the
people $77; a Pop printed them. Two
years later the ballots cost SLIT; a Pop
did not print them. This year, owing to
the new law, they will cost less than four
years ago. A Pop will print them, and
a Pop law reduces the size and cost.
Think Of this when you vote for Commits
sioner this fall"
During the four years that they have
been in Office not Republican paper
has said word rejecting on the Judi
cial ability Of either Judge Geiger or
Judge Andrews; but now that q cam
paign Is on, they are being roundly
abused and their conduct on the bench
is being misrepTesented If these papers
believe the stuff they are retailing, why
did they not bring it to the attention
of the public months ago.
Kansas City Times "a Republican
Judge allowed ]. B. Johnson, a Repub-
liCan politician, $25,0OO for three-min-
ute talk at the sale of the Santa Fe
railroad two years ago, and now the
Republicans Of Kansas are paving the
earth because William J. Bryan received
$2.400 for talking four hours at Wichita.
If Bryan was paid as we'll for the time
he talked as Johnson was he would have
pocketed exactly $2,0O0,000,"
w. B. Rogers, gold Democrat of Nor
q
year and named candidate for State
Senator without the knowledge or con-
sent Of any Democrat in the district.
This year he went up to the Judicial
convention with a pocketful of proxies
Of other alleged delegates who could not
come. An inquiry addressed to the
County Chairman developed the fact
that no convention was held.
A Republican paper says that some
thing must be seriously wrong when
State officer has to call down an ap-
pointee, and cites the Morris-WhartOn
affair. There was no calling down in
this case. 1t was simple suggestion
as to the Auditors idea of the duties of
the place and of his own. Considering
that Mr. Morrill, had to sit on Kelly
(Wharton's predecessor) to get him to
turn over anything, Republicans should
keep still.
The Santa Fe officers have found as a
result of their Investigations that the
engineers on the west-bound passenger
train were to blame for the Emporia
wreck. It is alleged that they ran by
signals which directed them to stop
The COroner's jury at Emporia found
that the train dispatcher was at fault
in the matter. The road has paid the
widows of the dead engineers $1,000
each. The widows of the firemen got
1900 each.
The story that Bob Kepley offered a
Shawnee county farmer a carload of
beer to be used in getting votes in his
locality sounds pretty ridiculous. A
similar carload for each locality in the
county would cost vastly more than all
the offices in the county are worth and
would last the people until long after
the time when Kepley will not be in
terested in vote-getting A more plaus-
ible story might have been more gener-
ally believed.
After having attempted to wreck the
the Populist paper at Junction
City, the Secretary of the Republican
committee tried the same scheme on
the Sentinel, the Democrat paper. In
both cases the attempt failed. The
scheme was to buy obligations against
the papers and then take possession.
In the Sentinel case the worthy Sec
retary suffered a head-end collision with
the editors fist which did not improve
his personal appearance.