The Advocate and news., 1898-06-29

Having suspended the Crawford
county primary system long enough to
enable Dave Mulvane and Cy Leland to
put up the kind of a delegation to the
State convention that they wanted,
Shawnee Republicans will begin using
1t again.
In order to make a showing of COM
petent business management, ex-Warden
Lynch Of the penitentiary, took credit
in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885,
for about $4,000 of Improvements and
productions which properly belonged to
the succeeding fiscal year.
The Sterling Democrat hardly thinks
the State ticket can be elected as it is
now made up and thinks that the State
committees should be given power to
make changes. 1t also insists that the
Democrats be given the majority Of the
nominees for the Legislature.
Frank Montgomery says that the re-
nomination Of Major Harvey for Lieu
tenant Governor was ridiculous. 1t
probably does appear that way to a
party which has no old soldier on the
ticket and which totally ignored the
boys who are now in the field.
There is some dissatisfaction over the
way in which recruiting officers filled
out their regiments. Republican papers
allege that Governor Leedy is to blame,
but he is not The recruiting officers
were volunteer officers in the service Of
the government, who acted under in
structiOns from the War department
James r. Hallowell who made the
race for Congress against Jerry Simpson
in 1890, died at Charlottesville, Ind, last
Friday. He had been prominent in Kan
sas politics for twenty years, but when
disappointment in his ambition to go to
Congress came he seemed to break
down. He has not been well man for
several years.
Ii the testimony taken in his prelimi-
nary hearing is the whole truth, young
Collins Is not insane on the subject Of
gambling He played poker one night
and lost two dollars. He went to sleep
and later got up and went into the game
again. when he managed to win back
what he had lost. Then he quit and has
lot played since.
The latest tribulation of the Republi-
can papers is that Governor Leedy did
not arrange for the payment of Kansas
volunteers for the time elapsing between
the date on which they left home and the
day that they were mustered into the
government service. OF course the fact
that he had no available funds for that
purpose is not mentioned.
The only thing which Republican pa
pers have to howl about now Is that
Governor Leedy permitted the POpulist
State convention to dictate to him in
reference to the manner in which State
affairs shall be conducted. 1t is ter
rible crime in the eyes Of Republicans
for party leader to pay any attention
to the demands of the people.
The Populist State officers have done
very we'll in the matter of furnishing
volunteers. Sons of Secretary Bush and
Auditor Morris are in the service. Lieu
tenant Governor Harvey went himself.
Congressman BOtkins boy tried to en-
list but was rejected because Of poor
eyes. The other State officers, with one
exception, have no boys old enough
to go.
About half the Republican papers Of
About half the Republican papers OF
Kansas are charging that the last POpu-
list Legislature defeated bill providing
for initiative and referendum. No such
bill was considered. A resolution sub
mitting a constitutional amendment
providing for the adoption Of that sys-
tenn was unanimously supported by Pop
ulists, but it had to have a two-thirds
vote.
Conner Davies thinks that there is
some difference between a Populist and
a Republican State convention. In the
latter, in which Corners face has been
a familiar one since the early SOS, few
fellows run it and the delegates are as
meek as reconcentradoes. In the Pop
ulist convention he finds 800 live wires
loose all of the time and every delegate
did what his judgment told him was the