The Advocate and news., 1898-09-14

The Mound CITY Standard runs q col
ored mans column.
A light frost was reported at Coolidge
last Friday morning.
The State University has been run
ming thirty-twO years.
A Mcpherson bank has been burned
out twice in thirty days.
Light frosts were reported in several
localities last Wednesday night.
The Mitchell county Democrat cOnven-
tiOn has indOrsed the Populist ticket
A heavy frost was reported at Augusta
last week. Stanley tried.tO speak there.
The passenger train on the Salina
branch has at last been put on. 1t runs
to Plainville.
What Stanley needs is some scheme
to draw q crowd and then some one to
make speech for him.
Franklin county Republicans are so
short on issues that they by resolution
attack private business men.
DIR. Neely has an easy thing in his
legislative race. Ex-Attorney General
Dawes is running against him.
Judge Horton has returned from his
Eastern trip. He did not get the racy
depOsitions which he promised.
Paymaster Fogler, who was appointed
from LeaVenworth early in the war, Is
at Santiago and has yellow fever.
Editor Snyder, of the Mcpherson Free
man, has openly bolted the entire Re-
publican ticket, from top to bottom.
, Judge DOsteF spoke to large and en-
thusiastlc meetings last week. The meet
ing at El Dorado was a specially good
one.
Nels Anderson, one of the best read
Swedish citizens Of Kansas, is out doing
campaign work for the POpulist State
committee.
Lieutenant l.. G. Criner, Company M,
Twenty-first Kansas, has been nOmi-
mated by the Populists for County Su-
perlntendeRt.
The HOlton Tribune (Rep) has dis
covered that Surgeon Duncan, the grave
desecratOr, Is Republican, and pro-
ceeds to defend him.
Governor Leedy was unable to be pres
emit at the Oskaloosa meeting, and H. B.
Fleharty was sent in his place. Fully
1000 people were present.
Rufe Cone has withdrawn his offer to
J bet $500 that Stanley will win. He did
not know how big political chump the
Republican nominee was.
The Kansas City Star says that Col.
Hughes would rather wear a uniform a
half day than sell ton Of coal, and that
he is in the coal business, too.
A petition for a Socialist Labor ticket
In Allen county bears the name of Pro-
bate Judge Smith. the Republican nomi-
nee for reelection to that Office.
Fred Vandegrift thinks that the To-
peka joints must really have closed, as
IL is reported that a strange taste has
been noticed In the city water.
The Hutchinson News says the only
issue this year is the Endorsement of
Mckinley, Stanley says that the blight
OF Populism is the whole thing.
Candidate Stanley spoke to crowd of
less than 500 at Augusta last week. in
spite Of the fact that the meeting had
been thoroughly advertised for weeks.
Judge Horton has been attached to
Mort Albaugh's board of strategy. He
Is attorney for more insurance compa-
mics than any other man in Kansas
The State Agricultural College opened
last week with much better than usual
attendance. Figures are not yet procur-
able, but they will show material gains.
Last December Republican papers
were printing paragraphs like the fol-
lowing: Mark Hanna may have hot
time with the Ohio Legislature, as the
Pop papers are claiming, but he found
leisure last week to boom the wheat mar