The Advocate and news., 1898-03-30
CONCERNING KANSAS.
BY ]. W. MoRPBY.

The W. R. c. State convention will
be held at Wichita, April 20, 21 and %
Mrs. Griffith, OF Emporia, is the de
partment president.
President Wellhouse, Of the State HOr
ticultural Society, says that the fruit wai
not far enough ahead to be seriously In.
1ured by last weeks frosts.
The Florence Bulletin is about the
only Republican paper that now tells
about what will happen after this Popu-
listlc wave has gone down."
The Douglas county Republican con-
Vention elected delegates instructed for
]. =. Peairs for State Superintendent.
Poor old Stanley is not in 1t.
A lodge Of the Elks has been organ
lied at Wichita. This Is the third local
organization In Kansas, the others be-
Ing at Topeka and Pittsburg.
The Railway Age speaks Of Governor
Leedy's interview relative to the Supreme
court decision In the Nebraska maxi
mum rate case as his delirium."
The effort to get District Judge Moore
to restrain the City Clerk from putting
a non-partisan ticket on the ballot at
Junction City was not successful.
The Emporla Republican tells of local
young man who says that he Is so tired
Of Emporia that he would not stay there
a day If no did not have a family which
supports him.
The Atchlson Champion (Rep.) says
that II 1t were left to vote Of the Re
publlcans Of the county that Broderlck
would get the Congressional delegation
from that county.
The fight for the nomination In the
Seventh district is said to be between
Long and Bentley. AS the bosses have
decided that Long Ia to be the man 1t
won't be much Of a fight.
Maj. r. J. Anderson will probably be
named as the Republican nominee for
Senator to I'LL the vacancy caused by the
resignation Of Marshal Sterne In the
Shawnee county district.
+ The latest mention for State Senator
from Shawnee county Is Arthur Capper,
Of the Mail and Breeze. Mr.. Capper very
sensibly thinks that newspaper business
beats politics in every respect
Professor Georgeson, formerly OF the
State Agricultural college, has been sent
to Alaska as special agent of the agricul-
tural department to investigate agricul-
tural conditions and prospects.
Ex-Governor Click says that the Demo-
Gratis will help the Populists bury the
Kansas Republican party 30 deep this
year that 1t will not respond to Gabriels
horn at the general resurrection.
Chairman Taylor Riddle says that he
has not appointed committee to con-
fer with the Democrats and will not do
do so unless authorized by the State COM
mittee, which meets at Topeka, April 20.
The readers of the Riley Regent must
have a poor opinion Of the editors abil-
ity, One of them asked him the other
day when he was going to write another
continued story for the patent side Of his
paper.
Cy Leland says that the reason why
Curtis lost Jefferson county Is that about
100 Topeka fellows were sent over to
work the county for him and the local
politicians resented the interference Of
outsiders.
A cooking school at Emporla is caus-
Ing a material increase in the produc-
tiOn Of profanity. The women who at
tend are trying all sorts of new dishes
and their husbands invariably take din
ner up town.
The Johnson county Republican Con-
gressional delegates are said to be for
Jack Harris, T. l.. Hogue, the John
son county candidate, has withdrawn.
On a Buchan test, his opponent showed
1870 votes to rs.
The catalogue of Republican candi-
dates for State Office Is now about half
column long. 1t Is necessary to revise 1t |
almost every day. Office seeking is one
Of the few lines Of business which is en-
joying genuine boom.
The report Of H. @. Toler, OF Wichita,
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