The Advocate and news., 1898-07-13

Doniphan county is very poorly gov
erned.
The fellows who are claiming that the
Populist officers at the penitentiary are
flooding the State with convict-mined
coal should read the following from the
Leayenworth Times (Rep.): There
were 100000 bushels Of coal sold from
the Kansas penitentiary in 1895, 445, 900
bushels in 1896, $4,000 in 1897, and this
years sales will not amount to 100000
bushels"
Up in the BrOwn-Nemaha-D Doniphan
district the Republicans are divided be-
tween three candidates for the nomina-
tiOn for judge. Judge Emery, who asks
a denomination, has Nemaha. r, F.
Buckles is Brown county's choice, while
Doniphan is supporting Leland's man
man Friday, w. l. Stuart. The conven-
tion was held yesterday and the result
is not yet known.
The editor of the Narka News, who is
approvingly quoted by Republican pa
pers as a Populist editor who says that
"he is not much stuck on the present
State officers" is really q Nebraska Re-
publican, whose Kansas sojourn would
have been interrupted some time ago
If a Republican friend had been elected
to Office over the line so that he could
give him a place.
John Hamilton, of Norton, is not as
enthusiastic over the nomination by the
Republicans of Reeder for Congress.
Hamilton ran for Judge against Judge
Geiger in 1897 and would have been
elected, he thinks, If he had got the full
Republican vote in Phillips county. His
failure to secure it is charged to Reeder's
inactivity, and he proposes to be equally
inactive this year.
There are indications of a lack of
harmony between the Republican pa
pers at Lawrence. The World (Rep.)
says "a paper that will deliberately
swindle the city out of $100 by over
charges can talk economy with poor
grace. The records of the city of Law
renee show where the Journal paid $100
to keep from being prosecuted. What
business man can be found who will
again give a man a position of conf
dence after he has been convicted of
being thief?"
The Council Grove Republican is au-
thority for the statement that H. E.
Richter, the Republican nominee for
lieutenant governor Is veteran Of the
civil war. He enlisted at the age of 16
years on the Sd of August, 1864, in Com
pany |, 123d Indiana infantry. He was
corporal. The war records bear out the
statement, but the lack of information
on the subject on the part Of Repub-
1fnon iOdf0otnc fbnf fhn
tion was not made or influenced by his
record as a soldier.
Ralph Botkin, son of Congressman
Botkin, had hard time getting into the
military service, but he got there. He
was examined, but owing to slight de-
feet in his eyesight was rejected He
Immediately went to his father to get
him to use his influence with the powers
that be to get them to waive this slight
defect When the President was ap-
preached he was surprised to learn that
he had come to see him to become pri-
Vate and he readily authorized his en-
listment. He is now in Company G,
Twenty-second Kansas, and is as happy
as If he were a colonel.
Mcpherson has been having trouble
with its waterworks company and its
plant has been closed for sometime. A
fire broke out July and when the fire
company was ready to turn on the water
it was found that the company had no
pressure on. At the point of revolvers
the engineer was forced to act although
he insisted that Federal Judge Williams
instructions prevented him from doing
so. The fire loss was 100000, but it
would have been much less if prompt
water service had been secured. 1t
would have been decidedly Populistic
but whole lot cheaper If the city had
owned that plant.
Alongside of some talk about the in
competent officers sent out by Governor
Leedy the Topeka Capital runs the fol-
lowing: while in Washington Mr. Le-
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