The Advocate and news., 1898-05-18

night for very insignificant pay, but one
who wants to go as delegate to the State
convention finds that he rs not in it by
about 16 to /.
The Kansas City Gazette thinks that
Cy Leland Is putting out poison for Dick
Blue in the interest of Bailey for Con-
gressman-a at-large
The Sterling Democrat, which has
wanted to turn down Bush and Morris,
now thinks that 1t Is useless to renOmi-
nate Governor Leedy.
No notice to that effect has appeared in
the Troy Times, but numerous other pa
pers state that Deacon Hathaway is no
longer with that paper.
Judge McKay's friends won in the
Harper county POpulist convention and
Senator Titus heads q delegation which
faVOrs his denomination.
The burlington Courier suggests that
two years from now Assistant Auditor
G. A. Taylor ought to be heard from as
the nominee for Auditor.
Cuts Of Major Hood and a wrlteup
from the EmpOria Gazette embalmed in
boiler plate are going the rounds Of the
country Republican papers.
The HillmOn case seems likely to drag
OF forever. After five trials and with
two pOstpOnements since the last one,
L. again goes over until fall.
The Republicans of Wilson county are
experiencing difficulty In finding aspir-
ants for county offices. A dead sure de-
| Font 10 nOf o11VrrfnU
For once all of the Kansas papers are
agreeing with each other on one prop
OsitiOn. 1t Is that the local company of
volunteers Is the best in the service.
Bourbon county Republicans are sore
because Dick Blue did not help Il. c..
Gates when by giving him one vote he
could have been nominated for Congress.
Deweyville people claim that their
hamlet, which Is located In Clay county,
was named for Admiral Dewey by an old
personal friend who was an early set
tier.
Harry Richter thinks that il Major
Harvey goes to war that there is show
for him, and he wants the Republican
nomination for lieutenant governor
again.
Kansas Republican editors have dull
news days the same as other people
When they come they dish up column
using the Wharton water barrel fake for
a text.
4 Charley LObdell predicts that Hessln
y Rdll have a more nearly solid delegation
Y lEOm the Fifth district than any other
III 1Son nonAfJaNn mil bov
kAbme district.
y San effort is being made to carry Shaw
" ~ county for Hessin. AS he is not Le-
X laNd'8 candidate the county was prob
" holy. promised to someone else at the
n horton convention.
I, GConncllman Gerald VOlk is making
htSHble for the electric light company at
i, IEicnlta. He thinks that he has found
something which needs reforming. His
long suit Is doing things.
When county seat paper says that 1t
noticed John Jones and Bill Smith, both
able attorneys, in town during court
week, 1t probably means that the other
lawyers did not subscribe.
The basis Of representation in the First
district POpulSst convention Is as
follows: AtchisOn IA, Brown 1S, Doni-
phan 6, Nemaha IL, Jackson 3, Leaven-
worth q, Jefferson IL, Shawnee rs.
The HOltOn SunflOwer Is booming
Frank Elliott for the POpulist nomina-
tion for Congress in the First district.
J. NJ. Senter Is the only other person
who has been suggested for this place,
The turning down of Pipp in the
Fourth district after receiving the ben
eft Of his efforts in manufacturing ar
guments for protective tariff and roasts
of the penitentiary management Is mere
ly an additional link in the mass Of ac-