The advocate., 1897-09-01

past. EVERY DOuy Will dbISS ludL IlSy
ought to have passed before they be-
gan, both for the good of the Republi-
can party and the people of the State.
Judge PfOst, of Kansas City, Kas.,
who was appointed by Governor Leedy
to preside over one of the new city
courts established by the last Legisla-
ture, has taken a personal hand in the
enforcement of gambling laws He
headed a number Of deputy cOnstables
who by his orders made a raid on one
of the policy shops. This is gambling
concern conducted on something the
same plan ais lottery. The raid re-
suited in capturing about a dozen peo-
pie and the securing Of sufficient evil
dence to close the place.
Clay Center Dispatch: mo one but
an ignoramus or a fool will claim for a
moment that anything but the heavy
foreign demand, caused by short crops,
is responsible for the rise in the price
of the wheat the farmer has to SELL
This cannot last. No one but an igno-
ramus or fool will deny that the tariff
bill is responsible for the rise in the
price of what the farmer has to buy
The tariff is a fixture. In this kind OF a
deal it is not hard to see that the last
state of the aforementioned agricul-
turist is pretty likely to be worse than
the first"
Lawrence World Rep): "The Re-
publican party is in the hole, through
the greed and political imbecillty of
men who have held offices. Unless
there are new men brought to the front,
, the party cannot inspire confidence to
win at the next election. The Repub-
lican party is in the minority in Kan
sas and we must get good recruits to
win On the POpulist record this ought
not to be hard to do, and it will be
done if the Republicans nominate a
ticket that is not mixed with any Of
the old deals and trades that have dis
graced the party in Kansas"
Senator Hessin, who wants the Re-
publican nomination for Governor,
says: "The greatest and most import
ant issue in Kansas politics to-day, so
far as the Republican party is con-
cerned, should be the overthrow Of
bOssism, which means that Cy Leland
should be dethroned. The party has
been dragged down to defeat through
his manipulation and it should rise up
and rid itself of this heavy burden. 1t
is more than we can bear We have
had it long enough. Let us now give
the responsible men in the party an
opportunity to give an honest utter
ance to their opinions"
The EmpOria Republican says: ].
A. Mccoy returned last evening from
Ottawa. He says the Santa Fe employees
at that place will be represented in the
Fall Festival at Topeka with a large
float representing the wouldbe parity
between silver and wheat. 1t will be
represented by an exchange between
two parties, trading bushel of wheat
for bushel of silver" Commenting
on this, the Topeka Journal says: IF
anything of this sort is intended, the
Ottawa people should be warned in
time not to- bring it, The Santa Fe
demonstration will not permit any
thing political to be shown in the pa
rade No partisanship is to be allowed
during the entire Fall Festival. We
had enough of it at the soldiers reun-
ion last fall, when the clustering gen
erals insulted all the free silver SOL
diers."
A story is being industriously cir
culated that the Text Book Commits
sion and contractors have adopted a
rule that no school books should be
accepted in the exchange except they
be complete in every respect. Much
is made of a suit filed recently in Riley
county to compel the contractors agent
to take some books which were re-
iccted. The district making the ex-
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