The Advocate and news., 1898-06-15

the public of his personal feelings, pre-
JUDGES and grievances. The doctrine is
mighty good, but there are acres Of
editors whose belief in the theory is
more apparent than their efforts to
practice 1t.
The Douglass House members have
always Jared badly. Douglass Is no.
body knows where. Ed HOch has just
failed to get on the State delegation
from his county. Warner is on his way
to the penitentiary. Hughes has never
had front seat since and Welch Is
never heard of except in foolish breaks
in the practice of law.
When the Appellate courts were es-
tablished, three years ago, the Supreme
court was Ave years behind with its
business. It is now stated that within
one year IL will have caught up so that
a case can be heard soon after IL is
filed. 1t will certainly be satisfactory
to litigants who have had to wait for
years for final decision.
In a case in his court, Judge SimOns,
Of Fort Scott, criticised eX-Chlef Justice
Horton, who was one Of the attorneys,
for setting up things in his petition
which were absolutely out of harmony
with several Supreme court decisions
which had been rendered In which HOr-
ton cOncurred. In order to give Horton
a show change Of venue was granted
The position of a large number of
Republican papers is clearly defined in
the Lawrence Journals statement that
1T is not going to give candidates for
Office free advertising, and If they ex-
pect anything they must divide their
salaries to help sustain this paper" The
Journals candidate for the postofiCe
got left, and things have been going
wrong generally for some time.
Some years ago a fellow by the name
Of Gordon worked gold brick game on
a Jefferson county farmer. He was ar
rested and gave a cash bond of $4,000
His attorneys got this cut to $1,5O0 and
put up bond and withdrew the cash.
Now the Shawnee county district court
holds that the bond was void because
1t was approved by the clerk of the Su-
preme court instead Of the court itself.
The Hutchinson News (Rep.) compli-
ments bright Kansas business man in
the following: Charlie Pattison, who
has run a county office, creamery, a
brokerage business, a farm, general
store, a church and other enterprises,
and has made success at every one,
now takes charge Of the Abilene Ma
tiOnal bank" The News should have
oHdnH That Az Dotkiunu 10 DOYvlict
and as such has been elected County
Treasurer twice.
An Emporia volunteer who is located
at Camp Alger, in Virginia, says that
Kansas is forty years ahead Of that
State In the matter OF civilization.
Some time ago Topeka newspaper
man walked out Of a Union avenue sa-
loon in Kansas City, and the first man
he met was Rev. John Bright, who re-
preached him for coming out Of such a
place. The Topeka man solemnly as
sured him that he regretted having done
so very much, but that he did not have
money enough to stay in there all Of the
time.
Frank Montgomery laughs at the
story that Republicans are elated every
time reports of the election of an anti
Leedy delegate are received. He says
that Republicans want Leedy renomi-
mated, that they held their breath for
fear he would go to war and they are
now glad they are to get whack at
him at the polls. The facts are that Re-
publicans have lied about the Governor
so persistently that they are beginning
to believe their own stories and really
think they have something upon which
to make campaign.