The Advocate and news., 1898-07-20

Judge Alden says is not good.
Since the fact has come to light that
Hobson is an Alabama Populist, Repub-
lican papers have discovered that the
Merrimac affair was a failure and that
the achievement was not really very
brilliant.
The Anthony Bulletin inclines to the
opinion that the story that Long does
what JObless JObes tells him because he
created him is true, because Long is
just such man as JObes would be likely
to create.
The Hutchinson Herald (Rep.), which
carries Stanley's name at the head Of its
columns, says that "A man must be a
peculiar kind Of an animal to be pop
ular with the jointkeepers and church
members"
Dave Leahy says that, having an eye
to November business, the members of
the State Funeral Directors Association
all declared that they were Republicans
when a straw vote was taken at the
State meeting.
The Kingman Journal (POp) says
that although State uniformity has
cheapened text books, State publication
would result in a still greater reduction.
In its opinion the State printer should
be a salaried officer.
While the POpulist editors are all sup
porting the war and advocating vigorous
prosecution of it, ex-Speaker Lobdell
Of the Kansas City Tribune (Rep) asks:
How do you like this business of set
tllng some other fellows fight by this
time, anyway"
Editor Heisler, of the Kansas City
Sun, was superintendent of Wyandotte
county pust after the war and he ap-
pointed Joe Hudson as school director to
I'LL vacancy. This was the first civil
Office which the general filed after com
ing out of the service.
The Republicans are not caring so
much about the story about the Smith
GODDARD row in the State committee get
ting into the papers, but they are
anxious to find out who gave it away.
George Martin lays it up against Harry
Richter and Newt Ury.
AS was to be expected, Republican pa
pers are finding fault with Secretary
Bush's ruling that evidence of the au-
thenticity Of signatures to a nomination
petition must be attached to 1t. They
want strict election laws in Mississippi
and loose ones in Kansas.
The first Sunday school teacher in
Kansas who has had brand Of cigars
named for him, according to the Hia-
watha World, is w. r. Stanley. If the
cigars are of the variety which are usu-
ally given such names, the smoker will
wish Stanley had never lived.
It would be we'll for the Republicans
to correct up little on that list of Dem
ocrat papers which are still refusing to
support Leedy. 1t still includes the Gar
den City Sentinel, which is owned and
edited by Ed Westgate, a member of the
Populist State executive committee.
AS result of a church row at Topeka,
Rev. Olden, of the African Baptist
church. shot and seriously wounded
colored man by the name of Frazier,
who was an expelled member Of his
church. Olden claims that Frazier had
an ak and that he acted in self-defense.
According to the Kansas City Tribune
(Rep) the colored men feel very grateful
TO Governor Leedy for his recognition
Of them as men, but he must not expect
hem to vote for him simply because he
has given them an opportunity which no
Kansas Republican Governor would have
given.
Junkin serves notice on the corpora
lions that by trying to evade the reve-
lue tax they are putting their friends in
condition so that 1t is hard to defend
hem. His remarks tend to indicate that
in his opinion this is the first instance
IN which corporations have been derelict
In their duty.
Abe Steinberger, who herds by him.
self politically in Kansas, is in trouble.
His middle-of-the-road friends in Texas
are discovering that the Northern fu~
sion Populist is just as strong a kicker
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