The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-22
Gov. Leedy Finds That at Hia-
Watha Insurance Rates
Have Really Come Down Ac-
cOrding to Local Reports.
MAKES A TALK THERE.
Says if He Could Only Multiply
the Offices
Like the LOaves and Fishes,
'TWOuId Save Lots of Trouble.

Hiawatha, Oct. Ex-Governor Leedy
arrived here at noon yesterday and was
taken to the residence of Grant Har-
rington where be was entertained. In
the afternoon he addressed a meeting
at the court house. After the meeting
he went around the town and was in
troduced to some of the people. Among
those that he met was Andrew Ammon,
a Republican, who operates an eleva-
tor here. In the course of the cOnversa-
tion between the governor and Mr.. Am
mon, the latter said: There is one
thing that I will give you men credit
for and that is the work of your man
McNall. He has made conditions such
up here that got my insurance for $50
less this year than paid last year"
is that so?' said the governor Yes,
that IS so and there is another thing
that have come to a conclusion about,
and that is this, an insurance policy is
worth more cents on the dollar than it
was before. 1t used to be so that you
could not tell how much a policy was
worth on the dollar till after you burn
ed out and then it was worth lust as
much as you could get out of the COM
pany in an adjustment Now when you
have loss they will have to come pret-
ty near paying what is written on the
face Of the policy"
When Governor Leedy met Jim Fall
loon he said: Hello, am glad to hear
that you are giving it to Cy." ''Well,
that is what I am doing" said Falcon.
Mr.. Faloon is the opposition candidate
to stuart, the Republican candidate for
district judge in this district which is
composed of DOniphan, Brown and Ne
maha counties. There is a serious bolt
among the Republicans on the judge
ship fight; in fact the chief contest in
this county is over it and the state
tickets are to a certain extent lost sight
Of This is the home of Mr. Falcon
a nd
the state senate two years ago and car
ried this (BrOwn) county at that time
by nearly two hundred votes. The Re
publican ma jOrity in DOniphan county
was too much for him to overcome and
he was defeated. This year things are
different as there is a revolt in Nemaha
county against the Leland nominating
convention, as they call it; and the
friends of Falcon say they will be very
much disappointed if he does not carry
the judicial district.
In speaking of the matter Mr. FaI-
loon said - think that can carry this
county by seven hundred votes 1 car
ried it two years ago by two hundred
votes or about that and this year with
the sentiment there is against the meth
Cd of the nominating convention I am
confident of getting it by a good in
crease. Up in Nemaha they will give
me five hundred more. They were treat
ed the same up there that we were here
and they are of the same mind about it,
Over in Doniphan county they will give
my opponent a majority of about five
hundred, which will leave me a good
margin
The opinion of the PopuIist leaders is
that this county is sure to show gain
of two hundred votes for Leedy at the
coming election. This is accounted for
by the fact that two years ago Leedy
ran that number of votes behind the
rest of the ticket. Brown county is the
home of Ex-Governor Morrill, and he ran
ahead of the ticket here. This year there
is no local feeling to count for or against
any of the candidates on either of the
states tickets and with the same re-
suits as two years ago this would swell
Leedy's total vote in the state two
hundred votes.
1t is not claimed for the Populist or
rather the Silver ticket a it Is headed
and called in this county that it will
carry the county but the fusionists con-
tent themselves with the assertion that
they VIII reduce the majority of the
Republicans of two years ago quite sub
stantially. At that time the county
went three hundred Republican. This
calculation Is made on the basis that
Senator PETER will poll the vote of the
straigbtout Prohibitionists who have al
ways numbered about one hundred in
the county.
One thing that is having a great eff
feet up here among the business men is
the status of insurance rates. Rates
have come down and the business men
are investigating the cause of it. Many
give the credit of the reduction to Nc
Nall, others say nothing as to who is
responsible, Today's issue of the kan
sas Democrat, a local paper came out
with lot of interviews with men who
said that their rates had gone down.
They were as follows:
Levi Og7e, $25 less; W. o. Noble, rate
reduced from S1.05 to 80 cents; w NJ
Smith, reduction of Is per cent; Andrew
Amman, $50 lest this year; Grant W.
Harringt on, rate reduced from 81. 25 to 81;
Adam Schelling, Is cents a~hundred ess.
Hill Brothers, rate reduced from $50 to
S12 so a thOuSa nd. McFa dden and E1ich-
oltz, rate reduced from 81 to $1.25 a
hundred. George H. Adams, a materi-
al reduction, party failing to state how
much.
The Silver men are making the most
of this campaign material and claim it
WI make them a good number of votes.
Silver county central committee said:
an estimate of the vote before it is
gains in this county, just how many wi
have a good chance to elect our county
ticket. I think that the state cket VIII
run well and that all the candidates on
it will get about the same number of
Ovtes. This was not the case last time
owing, no doubt, to the fact that this
was the home of the Republican candf-
date for governor"
Governor Leedy left on an early train
this morning for Troy where he is billed
to speak today.
THE GOVERNOR AT H1AWATHA