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8 CONCERNING KANSAS. Shawnee County Populist Tlrket. Clark of the District Court J. O. Butler ProbaAe Judge 0. H. Custenborder County Attorney E, E. Cheaney Superintendent Public Instruction .. Miss Nettle Wnghl Bepresentative Thirty-fifth Diatnot .... J.J.Sohenk Bepresentative Tbirty-eiith District .... :....S.J. Sloat Bepresentative Thirty-seventh Diatriot. F. A. Kiene County Commissioner V. S. Stevens NOTES. . Tha registration in Topeka ia 8,635, the largest it baa ever been. Some "esteemed contemporaries" are a little reckless in their uaa of English when they refer to Coming's referendum party as the "otherendum party." The record of Colonel Harris on the Pacific railroad question in congress ia alone enough to re-elect hija. All the Populist members from Kansas are true blue. 0. W. Hendee, who baa for several months been traveling for tha Advocate, waa called to La Clede, 111., by the sick ness of his father, who died before hia arrival. The election of Jerry Simpson, Wm. Baker and John Davis has been a fore gone conclusion these many days. This accounts for the faot that so little is said about these candidates by Populist papers of state circulation. Nela Acres, the tin-horn politician, associate of Pete Elme and Gy Leland, has sworn out a warrant for the arrest of Senator Martin on the charge of crim inal libel. The senator in an interview denounced him as a gambler. The republican chairman of Shawnee oounty assures the public that hia party will have 5,100 majority in thia county. If Chairman Leland is baaing hia pre dictions on such silly reports as this, it ia easy to see how he is misled. Nobody but the republican committee believea such nonsense. George T. Anthony ia standing up for Nebraska. His unpopularity did not commend him to the voters of Kansas, so he went to Nebraska to tell the peo ple how to vote. His record has already followed him there and scraps of his biography are frequently seen in Ne braska papers. More of Republican Mismanagement. In every department of the state gov ernmentcan be found evidence of im provement over former administrations in the way of eflbienoy and diligence in saving the people's funds. List Saturday, Superintendent of In surance Snider received $12500 from thirteen fire insurance companies who had formerly refused to pay their re ciprocal tax. This reciprocal tax ia de manded by our insurance lawa of com panies in states which charge Kansas companies a tax for doing business in those states. The Hanover, Home, Ni agara, Pacific, Phenix, Westohester Fire, Continental, German-American, Germania, Glen Falls, Greenwich, Queen and Rochester German, refused some years ago to pay thia tax, and other su perintendents made no effort to collect it, In tact, Mr. Snider's predecessor, McBride, swore that no such money waa due the state, and the reports of hia predecessors show that they did not try to collect it. Mr. S aider and Attorney General Little sued the above companies for tha pyant of thi rnwey, oonpatlnjfthe amount, aa the law directs, at 2 per cent on all the insurance they had written in cities of the state, containing paid fire departments. Therefore the exact amount of it waa difficult to de termine. The $12,500 waa accepted aa a settlement up to the year 1891, and tha amount due for thia year's business will be paid as soon aa the superintend ent can (ret reports from which he can compute the amount. Thia money goes to the support of paid fire departments, Superintendent Snider has several other important items to the credit of his administration, among which ia the collection of $6,300 from the bondsmen of Governor Humphrey's defaulting assistant superintendent of insurance, Billingslea. It begins to look as if the Populists did not take charge any too soon to save the state treasury from bankruptcy. Morrill Compared With Jeise James. Oh, yes; Morrill ia a "redeemer" all right It you don't believe it, ask those poor Washington and Marshall county homesteaders how much it cost them to redeem their homea and improvements from the greed and rapine wrapped up in Morrill's old hide. When we think of Morrill aa a redeemer we always think of Jesse James as a Christian mission ary. Some how or other there is such an analogy between those ideas. C Ltlaad, chtirmia of thi repub lican state central committee, mind you, speaking of Morrill's land swin dling operations, said: "It waa a business transaction, and he would have been fooliahnot to take advantage of it" How is that for republican sentiment, or common honesty? Business trans action, indeed? To make demands of poor men who no one uidar God's heaven bad a legal or moral right to make; to extort blood money from men to poor too fight it,and for the purpose of enricning Morrill's pocket; to force a oondition upon poor helpless homesteaders which created woe, and want, and misery, and reduced them to starvation to save all they had on earth their very homes they had toiled and and saved to obtain. In the name of humanity, of justice, of com mon honesty, we ask the slippery gen tleman who is shaping the Morrill cam paign if he calls that an hon orable bus iness transaction? It in thia matter Morrill performed the part of an honor able business gentleman, then waa Ben edict Arnold a patriot and a martyr. (The Goff's Advance, from which the above ia copied, is republican, and ia sup porting every republican candidate ex cept Morrill. Annie L. Dljjjs. Thia faithful worker in the People's cause has been one of the busiest in the state during thia campaign. Her dates for speaking have not all been published in the Advocate because many of them were fixed but a short time ahead and were only published in the localities in which the speeches were made. Mrs. Diggs is billed to speak every week day and almost every evening un til the election. After that her pen will again be busy at newspaper work, and the readers of the Advocate will be de lighted with the "pieces" she writes, aa her large audiences have been delighted with ber speeches. No speaker in Kan sas has done more effective work thia year than she. Get your business training at the WiohiSa Coarjtrdsl coll? Y. U. C A. buiidir;. THE TRIED DISTRICT Is the Home of This Tricky Bedeemer-He's a Match for Morrill. In the state auditor's office ia a voucher upon which S. S. Kirkpatrick, now candidate for congress in the Third district, drew $500. The taking of thia money waa as rank a fraud upon the part of Kirkpatrick as if he had gone into the treasury and stolen tha money. The original voucher ia in Mr. Kirk Patrick's own hand and the object of copying it verbatim et literatim is not to call attention to the illiteracy exhibited in the spelling. Here it is: Thi Stat or I -s to S. S. Kibkpat kiok, Db. To legal services rendered the state and expenses inoured in the prose cution of the Case of the State of Kansas against Einey and Hutton charged with the murder of John Frazier in Chautauqua oounty Kansas Under a epeoual contract entrerd into with the Governor of the State in the month of Novem ber 1891 $500.00 Stati or Kansas, ) Wilson County, J I do solemnly swear, that the above bill is just, correct, and remains due and unpaid; that the amount claimed therein is actually due according to law. S. S. Kisxfatbiok. Subscribed and sworn to before me, thia 2nd day of November, A. D., 1892. Samuil C. Holmxs, Notary Public. (My commission expires December 4, 1891.) Appropriation for contingent fund, gov ernor's department, 1893. Topxka, Kas., Nov. 2, 1894. I do hereby certify, that the within was contracted by me for the state, under au thority of law, and that the amount therein claimed is oorreot aooording to such con tract, and ia unpaid. Lyman U. Humphbiy, Governor. Audited November 7, 1892, Chablxs M. Hovey, Auditor of State. Two residents of Chautauqua county, W. H. Gibson and John S. Frazier, were murdered in 1890. As they bad been threatened with violence because they had brought diseased cattle into tha locality it was supposed that the neigh bors who threatened them were guilty of the murders. No interest waa taken in the matter of solving the mystery, out side the county, until the campaign of 1892, when a correspondent of the Kan sas City Journal, who was taking an aotive interest in Governor Humphrey's congressional oampaign, made a sensa tional report of the arrest of Frank Kinzey and Jirry Hutton, charging that the murders had been planned within the local Farmers' Alliance, and had been committed by members of the Alliance. It then developed that Governor Humphrey bad recently employed S. 8. Kirkpatrick (whom he had defeated in the congressional convention), and the notorious dead beat, Lew Hanbaok, to work up the sensation and bring it to a head. Humphrey bad two objects in view. Kirkpatrick was out of sorts and would not support Humphrey without pay. Hanback waa drawing a salary from the adjutant general's office but he was at a heavy expense canvassing for Humphrey, and needed extra pay. They were both paid from the governor's con tingent fund, in open violation of law. Humphrey's other object was to have these two scoundrels work up the mur der case in such a way aa to prejudice the people against the Farmer's Alli ance, in the beat of the campaign. Their efforts were an utter failure. Nobody, not even the county officials and a detective who : were investigating the case for two years, ever beard of Kirkpatrick's being employed in the matter until the campaign of 1892. And when ha swore in this voucher that the contract was made in 1891 be doubtless iron to a Hi to crdcr to ecrcta Humph. life. ' . D. BOTKIN, Candidate for Congress in the Third District. rey. In addition to bia making thia false statement he took $500 which he never earned. That is the kind of man the republi cans of the Third district want to send to congress. Curtis WouM Encourage Murder. Curtis' "justifiable homicide" bill, so called, ia strong enough to entitle ita author to the favorable consideration of all that class of republicana 'who place the righta of corporations above those of the common individual. Curtis used to be quite proud of this production of hia but he doesn't say much about it of late. The Advocate quoted from the bill soon after it was introduced, but since Mr. Curtis ia talking about hia own abil ity we will give the substance of it again: Past Thhm Homioide shall be deemed justifiable when committed by any person in either of the following oases: First In resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to commit any felony upon him or her, or in any dwelling house in which such person shall be; or Saoond When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or his or her hus band, wife, parent, child, master, mistress, apprentice, or servant, when there shall be The man whom Congressman Curtis is afraid to meet in discussion, and who is going to capture the Fourth district. a reasonable cause to apprehend a design to commit a felony, or to do some great personal injury, and there shall be imme diate danger of such design being accom plished; or Third When necessarily oommitted in attempting by lawful ways and means, to apprehend any person for a felony com mitted, or in lawfully suppressing any riot or insurrection, or in lawfully keeping or preserving peaon. Past Foub Homioide shall be deemed exousable when oommitted by accident or misfortune or in either of the following cases: First In lawfully correcting a child, apprentice or servant, or in doing any other lawful act by lawful means, with the usual and ordinary caution, and without unlaw ful intent, or Second In the heat of passion, upon sudden or sufficient provocation, or upon auddsn combat, without any undue advant age being taken, and without any danger ous weapon beinjr used, and not dose in crssl isd cscrcsl maner. S. M. SCOTT.