The Advocate and news., 1898-08-17
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County Attorney, Richard Shive; Su-
perlntendent Charles Foulkes; Clerk,
Bert Hobble; Surveyor, w. l.. Daily.
No corporation lawyer is running on
the POpulist State ticket, while all but
four Of the Republican nominees are so
employed.
BY the change in districts in Douglas
county the POpulsts have chance to
carry the country district. A strong can
didate will be named.
P. p. Elder suggests that the Repub-
lican chairman in Franklin county send
Walt COstigan's name in to the State
committee in response to Frank Brown 5
letter.
The patent churn swindler is or rather
was at large in Sedgwick county. He
has gone now, but other communities in
that section should blockade their farm
houses.
A text book entitled 1.-THE Study Of
the Child" prepared by President Tay-
lor of the State Normal Is being trans
lated into Spanish for use in the schools
Of Chile
Not over a year ago Republican papers
were all saying good things Of Attorney
General Boyle. Now they are all crit
icizing him. Is he any worse than he
was year ago?
Dave Leahy thinks that it would be as
ridiculous for Dave Overmyer to waste
any words on Barney Sheridan as 1t
would be to train a 1S-inch gun on an
English sparrow.
Captain Spivey, the POpulist- Democrat
nominee for Clerk of the court in Shaw
nee county, is a one-armed Confederate
soldier, a thoroughly competent Clerk
and a good citizen.
The charge that men cannot be found
who will accept county offices at the re-
duced salaries is true in so far as it
applies to Republicans. They won't get
chance this year
Shawnee county Republican officers
have taken down their "The American
Navy-They Remember the Maine" pen
nant and have put up good sized flag
over the court house.
H. p Myton, o former western Kan
sas patriot who could not get his feet
on the ground, went to Indiana and has
landed as agent for the Uintah and
ouray Indians in Utah.
Complaints are being made to the
Topeka police that joints are still run
ming on Smoky Row. The closing seems
to have been less general than the new
force would have appear.
The most idiotic fake that has been
perpetrated on Kansas people in many
years is the yarn that the intelligent
farmers of this State are taking up a
collection for Joe Letter.
The Atchlson Globe says. "An
through the Wichita Eagles praise of
Brother w. Eugene Stanley there
sounds tired refrain Of 'He-is-a-Wich-
lta-man-and-we-have-to
Since Jim Dobson and Jobless Jobes
have both left the State, Chester I. Long
Is given q chance to choose new man
ayers who may be able to do something
for him. He needs help badly.
Wichita Is to be connected with We'll
lingtOn, Conway Springs, Milan, Argo-
mia, Harper and Anthony by telephone.
II has already secured telephone COM
munication with GODDARD, Cheney and
Klngman.
An Arkansas City man don't drink
water because he says that he has a
cast-iron constitution and he Is afraid
it would rust it. Bob Semple has a diff
ferent reason. He does not drink it be-
cause he don't like It.
Shawnee Populists and Democrats
have named the following candidates:
Senator H. Fl. Wallace Attorney, Eu-
gene Wolfe; Superintendent, l.. S.
Campbell; Probate Judge S. r. Crom-
we'll; Clerk, r. M. Spivey; Representa-
tives, Joseph Griley and John Barber;
Commissioner, Charles Bush. The Pop