The Advocate and news., 1898-01-12

political friends throughout the State
will be glad to learn OF this happy untOn.
Clerk Thompson of the Court Of APP
peals has turned over to the State Treas
urer $52.62. He has collected that amount
over and above his allowance for salary
and clerk hire. The records Of his Office
show that he has collected about twice
as much money as his predecessor col
lected.
In the Kingman Journal, w. L. Brown
charges that the Paola Times articles re-
tiecting on him are inspired by the fail
ure Of the editor to secure a job. Mr..
Brundage answers by challenging Mr..
Brown to cite the time and place when
he ever made an application for any pub
lie position.
"Tiger Bill' Campbell, who obtained
considerable notoriety as Assistant At
tOrney General during Morrill's admin
istratiOn because Of his efforts to en-
force the liquor law at Wichita, has an
nOunced that in his opinion the prohib-
itory law cannot be enforced and should
be repealed.
The Republicans Of lola are ignoring
the municipal ownership question and
are making a fight for city offices -on
national issues. OF course lola would
suffer severely in every imaginable way
II man who opposed Mckinley, the
gold standard and the. Dingley bill
should be elected Mayor.
A number Of papers give their readers
an impression that Editor Easterly, Of
the Eureka Union, has been criticising
some Of the appointees Of the adminis
tration because Of his inability to secure
a place for himself This is a mistake,
as Mr.. Easterly asked nothing at the
hands of the administration.
F. w. Boyle, Bourbon county farmer,
is contesting mortgage on his farm be-
cause a gold payment clause was in
serted after he signed 1t. The holder re-
piled that this did not change the con-
tract, but Judge SimOns held that in the
light of recent political events it might
materially alter the liability and there
fore the mortgage is void.
The Hutchinson Democrat says that
the alleged Democrat conference which
was held at that city, at which 1t was
decided to naminate w. M. Whitelaw for
Congress, was attended largely by w. F.
Petition, of Dodge City. 1t states no
meeting representative of the Democrat
party was held, that Mr.. Whitelaw is not
candidate, and that the Democrats are
for Simpson.
The Supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the lower court in the case
in which J. r. Mcpherson, the Repub-
lican Clerk of Sheridan county, was
ousted from Office for frauds in cOnnec-
ton with the bounty on rabbits. He
turned over scalps which had been
cashed in to an outside party who turned
them In over and over every day for
several weeks.
Comptroller Dawes has appointed
George P. Cunningham, of Nebraska, as
national bank examiner for Kansas. He
is a brother of Dawes former law part
ner The other new examiner Is New
Jersey man. Senator Baker and Con-
gresham Curtis are very warm over the
affair and assert that there is no possl-
BILE excuse for going out of Kansas to
find suitable men.
Ex-senator Hill P. wilson writes the
Atchison Champion that by reason OF his
position as chairman of the insurance
committee in 1889 he knows that all OF
the insurance bill, about which Attorney
Boyle has raised question, was legally
passed except that which Boyle thinks Is
void, and that he don't remember
whether that was or was not in the Dill.
This explanation is as clear as mud.
Eureka Union: There are several Peo-
ple's party papers in Kansas that are
independent enough to protest at things
that are wrong in the conduct of PopU-
list officials The Union Is cordially
commended for such protests by the El
Dorado Advocate, Wellington Voice and
Garnett Agitator. The Paola Times, Elk
County Citizen and Cottonwood Fails
Reveille also have done some protesting.