The Advocate and news., 1898-03-30

ABE ELLIS, whose pOst01lce recOmmbn-
datiOns have sent him up the golden
stairs politically at gait which could
be equalled only by a jackrabbit, has
been petiti0ned to settle the row at Lin
coin by ordering a primary election.
A case against one VIM. H. Gougdon,
OF Kansas, who has been imprisoned for
debt, has been decided In GOugdon's IA
vor by the Federal Court of Appeals at
StLouis Judge Phillips held that a
man could not be imprisoned for debt
The revolt against fusion is spreading,
Republican papers say, and then they
quote Barney and John Sheridan, two
Democrats who have never favored or
abided by fusion, as new converts to the
idea Of an independent Democrat ticket.
The Topeka Journal is very much
afraid that Maj. Tom Anderson is being
used as a cats paw to help ]. r. Bur-
toms boom for Senator This is because
the MulVanes, who are very solicltOus
for Burton's welfare, are pushing him for
State Senator
After raising disturbance every day
since the Maine affair about President
McKlnley's unpardonable delay, the To-
peka Journal now solemnly asserts that
1T Is not among those who hold Presi-
dent Mckinley under suspicion in his
actions toward Cuba"
Professor Hills, of Harvey county,
may be scholarly man, but he don't
keep tab on what is going on. II he did
he would know that Chester !. Long has
been named by the bosses as the Repub-
lican nominee for Congress, and that
there Ia no show for Hills.
The latest dull day political story is
yarn about ingalls, being likely to be
the Populist candidate for Congress in
the First district. The paper which
printed this story is the same one which
prints as an absolute fact all Of the stuff
that the Key West correspondents send
out.
Tom Eckert, OF the Arkansas City |
Traveller, who was one of the peniten- |
tiary directors who appointed DR.. Nor |
rison, says that Morrison was highly |
recommended and was thought to be |
all right, but that he should pay the |
penalty If the Advocate and News story |
Is true.
The Leavenworth Times says that Cy |
Leland announces that he is going to |
Washington to confer with Senator
Baker relative to some appointments, but |
that when he gets there he proceeds to do /
everything in his power to make life |
miserable for the senior Senator from |
Kansas. -...
Gerald Volk is a candidate for council
man in Wichita. The ordinary city cOun-
ell knows as little of business methods as
the average press association, and 1t will
doubtless be a good thing for Wichita to
have such a successful business man as
Gerald Volk as member Of It's city Leg
islature.
A man who pretends to be d. L. Fer
rier, veteran Of Company X, Second
Indiana cavalry, Is travelling over the
State. Department Commander Botkin
says that he is q fraud and an impostor,
as the real Ferrier is at his home in
Springfield, Mo-, and has not been away
this winter.
Talk about men having just provOca-
tion for getting mad. Out at Russell 0
man was cleaning his Cistern when the
fire bell rang. The men who were to pun
him out yelled down to him that it was
his house and then skipped Off to the fire,
Even Webb McNall would get mad If
treated that way.
The Republican State comMittee has
received a carload Of campaign literature
which will be sent out under Mark Han
mas frank. 1t is peculiar coincidence
that this stuff should come along just at
the time when the railroad mail contracts
are being determined by the amount of
matter transmitted.
Congressman Curtis has notified his
friends that he will remain at Washing
ton and attend to business instead of
coming home to fix political fences. He
should remember the experience Of Sen
ator PETER, whose concern for the per-
formance of duty was greater than for
bnSe Al