The Advocate and news., 1898-04-20

PUBLIC OPINION .S
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Others and form a company or combine
before he can either OpRress or influence.
The way the word Is used In reference
to individuals illustrates how many peO-
pie are ignorant of its meaning. Why,
when | was In politics some newspapers
even referred to me as a plutOcrat.
Hlawatha Democrat (Pop.): Down in
the Fourth Congressional district the
PODulists and Democrats are having a
little family row about which shall have
the candidate for Congress and each one
Is saying foolish things about the effect
1t will have on the State ticket IL they
can't have their way. 1t strikes US that
this Is a matter in which the Fourth
district brethren should be left to work
out their own salvation and the effort
to mix State politics In a Congressional
fight is unwise and should not be encour-
aged.
Atwood Citizen (Rep): The Oberlin
Eye hopes that the opposition to A. H..
Ellis which permeates the Sixth district
may not extend itself to the candidate
he may favor. But the best thing Ellis
can do is to keep his mouth shut as to
who will be the Republican nominee for
Congress. There is an Idea prevalent
that he wants to be Judge or something
OF the sort, and he Will throw to the men
who will help him to the job. This would
kill his man in the district. The best
thing he can do is to go into the back
yard and saw wood during the entire
campaign.
Clay Center Times (Rep.): No Re-
publican in the State with gumption
enough to read energy enough to think
and sense enough to unite himself with a
party cares a cent for the fight between
Leland and Sterne Both represent mar
row, distasteful, selfish, personal ends
and aims, neither Is worth a minutes
consideration in a serious convention
where the destinies Of party are at
stake. Set them aside; teacn them a
lesson. Wipe them out. Kill their can
didates. Who wants four years of the
kind Of nonsense now to the front in
party councils?
AtChlsOn Globe: The Prudential In
surance Company has given notice tha.
It will quit doing business in Kansas,
owing to the ruling Of Commissioner
McNall that insurance companies must
state how much salary every officer re-
CelVes. There Is an understanding that
the officers OF insurance companies re-
ceive salaries that are unreasonable and
unfair to policy holders. 1t is under
stood that fourteen other companies will
quit the State for the same reason. We
should say there can be no objection to
stating the salaries received by the Of
flcers, II they are not too high.
Winfield Tribune (Dem.): BY long
lease Of power the Republican party has
naturally collected to its ranks multi
tude Of strikers and heelers and to pro-
vide for them became corrupt 1t Is the
same old crowd, more clamorous for
return to the fleshpots Of the old regime.
They look upon Office as private snap,
useful only for spoils. To appease the
hunger OF these cormorants the manag
ers were compelled to plunder the pub
lie treasury. New Offices, wholly useless
to the public service, were created and
distributed without regard to compe-
tency and contracts were awarded with
no account OF services rendered.
Oberlin Eye CRep.): he (ElnsJ Will
frantically mix himself into everything
that comes up, and will probably appear
beforethe committee Onresolutlons at the
Congressional convention as the especial
champion OF free silver. He is figuring
now on slipping his friends In as Con-
gressional delegates (where he has
enough friends in county to- I'LL dele
patinnN ond Sfirrinu I'm On hittar 3Uht
between the announced candidates that
he may be chosen as the compromise"
candidate. This is another OF his 'sllck"
schemes that will not work. The Re-
pRblicans of this district are through
with Mr. Ellis-and a whole lot Of them
are very glad.
Wellington Voice (Pop.): From an
article quoted from the Advocate and
News elsewhere 1t will be seen that the
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