Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-07-31


w. H. Manners old customers and
friends will be pleased to know that he
is. again, selling goods in Garnctt. Mr..
Manners is at Henry Rockers store-the
oil / Garnett acknowledgements store.
This store opened up for business again
last Saturday.
Mrs. Sarah A. Walker gave a dinner,
on Wednesday, OF last week, to num-
Der of her old friends. Among THE guests
were Mrs. Geo Vines, Mrs j. n. Cline
and Mrs. ]. A. Scroggs. We did not
learn the names of the others. Mrs.
Walker is an excellent hostess, and the
company had an enjoyable time.
Go to Henry ]. Rockers, on
the North side, with your pro-
duce, butter and eggs.
Hon. I. d. Stevens, of the Central City
neighborhood, and w. W. Webber, Ut
Lone Elm township, paid us neighbor-
ly visit last Saturday. OF course the pc
litical situation was discussed, and both
gentlemen expressed the opinion that So
cialism is the only way out of our var
ious national difficulties.
w. w. Webber, of Lone Elm township,
who lost his barn and its contents by
fire on the 10th, informs us that he held
an insurance policy in the Grange lnsur-
ance Company for $500 on the barn and
$500 on the contents In just eight
DAYS after the fire, he received draft for
the full amount OF the insurance. Nat
urally, he is we'll pleased with the Grange
Insurance Company, and is also thank
full to Mr.. Hiber. the agent, for his prompt
ness.
Mrs. II. M. Brooke is now in Chetopa,
and we understand that Mr. Brooke
will 90 there next week. We have not
learned what he will do. but we are of
the opinion that he will not be out OF
the editorial ranks very long. Howard
has published the Plaindealer good
MANY wears, and he has been in the
newspaper business nearly all his life
He will be like a fish out of water until
he gets back into the harness again.
We regret to lose the Brooke family from
| Garnett.
| VIM Schoonover informs us that his
daughter, Mrs. Norma Brown, and Mrs.
Georgia Wells will stop at Honolulu, on
their way to Manila, and rest while be-
fore continuing their voyage When Mrs.
Brown gets to Manila, she will tnd
home already furnished. which her hus-
band secured lately Mr. Brown wrote
that if Mrs. Brown would not go to the
Philippines, he would come back to the
United States; but. as he has good po-
sition, at good wages. he thought it best
tor her to go to him. She finally conclud-
ed that he was right (although she regret.
ted to leave this country, and, SO. lastSat
urday, she and her baby and Mrs. Wells
left on their long journey.
Ed Howe, Of the Atchison Globe, is
preparipg for a blowout of extreme
dimensions on occasion of the twenty
fifth anniversary OF the establishment Of
that great and good" propounder o.
the doctrine of Republicanism. The Gel
ebration is to take place next Sunday
and Howe has asked Governor Bailey
to preach a sermon on Good Citizenship
Now, Howe has acquired considerable Of
a reputation as joke artist, but il
seems to us that, in this, he has out done
himself. But Bailey has entered into
the spirit of the joke, and has agreed to
comply with the request. For the Gov
ernor to attempt to speak on this subject
directly on the heels of his pardoning
one of the vilcst libertines within the
borders of this fair state. who was serv-
ing a twelve-years sentence in the pen
itentiary for accomplishing the ruin Of
and aiterward numbering, a seventeen
year.old girl. seems to us, at first, rather
ludicrous; but when we ponder upon the
enormity of the crime, and the depth to
which the Governor must needs have
stoopcd to do this atrocious act the
affair loses its righteousness. 1t seems
to rs that one OF the chief elements o
that state of American manhood upor
which the Governor is going to preach
: is the example we set to the younger
generation by our choice of associates
and for him to pardon this personifica
ton otrottennf IS for no reason otherthar
future political reference, seems yer,
foreign to,our conception of good citizen
shin We have, however, cited but ont
instance out of Bailey's many deviat
/ ions from the highway of manhood
! which we might mention, but this ON
seems to us to be about the limit. H,
| has lowered himself to the same mora
nlane. in the eyes of the people, as tina
occupied bv the criminal himself.
These things make a good citizen fee
like taking liquid-elm Climb and clean
I ING out some of the rottenness of%l
{, administration, and it seems sham
R that the people of Kansas will have nj
y way of recourse. not even through tn
ballot; but they will not. for Henry A
len and Will Allen White are entirely to-
wise to allow Bailey's name to occup
!. the place at the head of the Republican
:, state ticket through another campaign
= What the people would do to him at tn
ballot box would be a plenty.
!, Let the Governor choose subject up
on which he can discourse with som
degree of intelligence.