The Advocate and news., 1898-05-18
ABOUT
KANSAS.
Wichita Beacon: 1t will
be several months yet be-

the information to quiet Republican ed
ltOrs in Kansas who are afraid Governor
Leedy has delayed the game.
Yates Center Advocate: What graf
flying thing II is indeed for hundred
men to travel from all parts Of the
county to attend a [Republicanl cOnven-
tion and have the work Of selecting dele
gates placed in the hands Of three men.
Columbus Modern Light (POp): What
we have done we can do again; the brill
liant deeds of the past are but promise
of those to follow. The man who doubts
our superiority, man to man, gun to gun,
under any and all circumstances, had
best go to Spain.
Plttsburg Daily Tribune: New York
is In debt fifty millions over her legal
limit. She gives all her franchises to
the few and the public has to suffer.
Her total bonded debt Is 1920, 1902, ,673, a
very neat income for the bOndholders
to fasten on the people.
Plttsburg Daily Tribune: The boys
who are wading around in the mud at
Camp Leedy will not be the ones to say
that Governor Leedy was too slow In
getting them there. The government
supplies will not come for ten days yet.
Who should get the cussing?
Eureka Union (Pop); Good, level
headed men for delegates to the Congress
slOnal and State conventions, who are
wise enough to know and unselfsh
enough to do the best that can be DONE
all things considered, are the kind Of
men to elect at our county convention
next Tuesday.
Lawrence World (Rep): Governor
Leedy's course regarding the militia has
been fnally vlndicated. He did not dis
band the companies. He simply said that
while the militia should have preference
1t was not fair to accept the old officers
without giving the recruits chance to
vote on who should be over them. All
this fuss and furry has been foolish and
everybody sees 1t now.
Hiawatha Democrat (Pop.): The Met
rcpolltan police law was conceived in
iniquity and brought forth in sin. It was
another one Of those Republican meas
ures calculated to pull the wool over the
eyes OF the PrOhlbitionists and yet al
low saloons In the cities. Governor
Leedy Is not responsible for It's adoption.
He Is responsible for It's retention and
must bear the odium it has always en-
tailed.
Great Bend Beacon (POp.l: The DEM
ocrats Of Kansas have issued letter
notifying the Peoples party committee
that some Of the present State officers
must be hauled Off TO give them place.
The proper thing for our convention to
do Is to compel these Office hunters to
stick 70 their agreement and not to de-
mand new deal. The rank and file OF
the Democrat party are not asking for a
change; 1t Ia all done by the political
Axers. Let well enough alone and let us
renOminate our whole State ticket.
(. Minneapolis Better Way: With their
great standard bearer and patron saint,
Mark Hanna, convicted of bribery by
members OF his own party, in his own
State; with Republican Congress fore
Ing loan of $5OO,OOO,OO0 upon the peo-
pie before they even know that the tenth
part Of II will be needed confronted with
the many unQuestiOned scandals be-
queathed to them by the late Morrill, ad-
ministratlon, the Republican party is in
great shape to go caterwaullng about
restoring honesty to the government"
Clay Center Dispatch (Pop.): Colonel
Hughes ideas as to a soldiers duty to-
ward his superior officer do not seem to
have appealed very strongly to the Gov
ernor when he was making up his list
OF appointments. Who knows but what
the doughty swell-head would be going
over to the Spanish camp with the infOr-
nation that while he had orders to clean
them out they might rest assured that so
hong as he had anything to say about Il
they would be unmOlested? Such an act
OF perAdy is a part Of his military record.
Wichita Commoner (Pop.): The prin-
cipal difference in the course pursued
by Governor I.eedy and the Republican
Governors OF Iowa and Illinois is that the