The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27


Governor Leedy for appointing James
Beck as lieutenant colonel because the
latter could not read and write twenty
years ago.
Any one who has a book or two to
spare should send It to the Girls Indus
trial School at Beloit. The girls have
plenty Of time to read, hut the library
is not large.
The editor of the Lincoln Beacon
(POp) don't approve Of the nomination
OF his Democratic contemporary, and If
his bill Of particulars can be sustained
it is no wonder.
The Wichita Eagle (Rep) says that
PETER is the only candidate for Governor
who will enforce the prOhibitory law If
elected The Eagle is supposed to be
StanIeys organ.
Fred Vandegrift is advising the boys
to bet that If the Republicans win the
House Fitzgerald, Of Ford, Will be
speaker. What will become of Bill Nor
gan's State Printer boom?
Judging from the last issue of the
Girard World, whose editor Is the only
member Of the Abe Steinberger party
in Kansas, it is mighty easy to get free
advertising in that paper.
Shawnee county Republicans have
nominated Major Tom Anderson for
Senator and Aaron JetmOre for County
Attorney. Both OF these men were Op-
posed by the church people.
Billy Morgan thinks that he has dis.
covered that Republican papers did not
know what they were talking about
when they admitted that Attorney Gen
eral Boyle is good lawyer.
Probate Judge Norton, of Douglas
county, announces that it will cost no
more to marry in that county than it
did before the revenue law was passed
He will pay for the revenue stamps him
SELF
The Remington Paper Co. is suing all
of the old stockholders in the Topeka
Capital under the stockholders double
liability act. The latest suit is against
Ex-Governor Morrill,, who owned 1000 in
stock.
1t is rumored that Stanley has prom
ised to reappOint w. G.. Bird as labor
commissioner. 1t is safe to say that
such action will not be taken on the
recommendation of Morrill, or Geo. w.
Martin.
F. G. Johnson is mentioned for the
Populist nomination for Legislature in
Phillips county. It is doubtful if there
is a man in the Sixth district who Is
better qualified for the Office of Repre-
sentative.
Barney Sheridan kicks because the
nominees of the Democratic convention
don't suit him. He has no word Of Oppo-
sition to the platform either in 1896 or
1898. Did Barney want to be on the
ticket himself?
Not quite 4 per cent. of the Kansas
colored recruits were unable to read and
write. Just after the war scarcely that
large a percentage of the colored men
could read or write. Who says the race
has not progressed?
Billy Morgan has been telling the pub
lie for years that Fred Funston is the
greatest man In Kansas Now he says
that the Twentieth Kansas does not
move because of the incOmpetency Of it's
commanding officer.
The Garden City Sentinel wants to
know If Mckinley is right and whether
Lincoln was wrong. The latter ran the
rebellion on greenbacks while the for
meT insists on interest bearing bonds for
the support of this war.
Shawnee county, which boasts Of its
record as the banner Republican county
of the State, has managed to put flag
up over it's court house at last. 1t took
a long while to decide that an exhibition
of loyalty would be made.
When Barney Sheridan is asked If the
present State officers have conducted the
public affairs in opposition to the prin-
ciples of good government he has moth
ing to say. His wall is based on failure
to get on the ticket himself.
Mead, of the Mcpherson Republican,