The Advocate and news., 1898-04-27

In most Of his political speeches Billy
Edwards has told his hearers about his
sorrow because his youth prevented par
ticipation in the civil war, but instead of
hustling around for a chance to enlist
now he is spending time and money
running for Office.
The sledge-hammer crowd in the
Douglass House OF 1893 Is playing in
hard luck. Alexander Warner, of Bax-
ter Springs, one of the leading members,
has just been convicted Of wrecking a
bank. He will be given five years at
hard labor in the penitentiary in which
to repent.
The records Of the Farmers Alliance
Insurance Company at Mcpherson do not
bear out the often repeated assertion
that cooperative concerns cannot be sue
ceSsfully operated. This company has
written 1850 policies up to this time this
year, compared with $40 during the same
period last year.
Christopher Columbus Borin, Of Ober-
lin, is trying to make 1t appear that his
election to the city council is a vote of
censure to Abe Ellis for refusing to rec
ommend him for postmaster. AS mat
ter Of fact, dozen or more persons de-
clined the nomination and 1t went to
Borin by default.
The gang was a little short on dele
gates in the Edwards county Republican
convention so credentials were fixed up
for delegation from a township where
no primary had been held. This was
charged and admitted in the convention,
and Edwards county conventions are no
worse than others.
A Sumner county woman is in trouble
for trying to dodge her taxes. She signed
and swore to the assessors statement, in
which it was stated that she owned no
personal property. The County Attorney
has discovered that she has $23,350 worth
of mortgages on file and she will have
to answer to a charge Of perjury.
Representative Tom Jackson, of Har-
vey county, was a colonel of a colored
regiment in the civil war. His regi-
ment was in the Fort Pillow affair. The
boys presented him with a watch, which
was stolen from him at the Bryan meet
ing at Wichita. He has just recovered
1t, 1t having been pawned by tramp
at Lincoln, Neb.
A Hamilton county farmer writes to
the Syracuse News that he can't appre-
ciate the justice Of having to pay more
taxes on his farm, which he has spent
money improving, than his neighbor who
lives in a dugout and whose stock is
sheltered by Gods promise to temper
the wind to the shorn lamb" He thinks
that the enterprising citizen should have
a rebate and that penalty should at
tach to the shiftless one.
Gray county Republican managers are
considerate of their followers comfort.
Instead Of calling them together in con-
vention to ratify the bosses selection
of delegates, they SIMPLY meet in COM
mittee and select delegates without
troubling the rank and file at all. The
general adoption Of this system would
save many Republicans good deal of
money which is spent attending con-
ventions, and the results woulG De the
same.
The Wrought Iron Range Co., a st.
Louis concern which sells stoves to the
people directly through agents and about
whose methods there has been consider
able criticism, is operating in Sumner
county. The Wellington Mail published
an article advising people to buy Of home
dealers and rejecting on concernsthat sell
through agents, and the local field man
ager proceeded to settle his grievance
in o physical way. His action reflects
seriously ON his employers.
The Yates Center News says that there
is now $23.69 per capita Of the circulat-
ing medium, which it says is an increase
of $3.50 since the adoption of the Chicago
platform. A few years ago Republican
papers claimed that more than $25 per
capita was in circulation. When was it
contracted? How has this expansion
spoken Of been brought about and when?
II the News knows what it Is talking
ohout n has discovered figures which no