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S5S3"Srap "wshIRa. ssls? W1 WBitsaKSWSHBW 3KS?7SS58 .r., J dSi S,VV i ii. -i ' " t.- y- c--w " - v . OunaBMi "-,- WMMz m YLkff Iij HI Hill BJwIIAvillLKWi XVf lHfiH II ' ' ' :-li "TjffiF 1 gg(aBiHuMf rPJWFr Jim ml 3- S3 fj 15 S3& U IS? re& I f v-B k': iTEJLiaiiir sussciaiTiOjsr, $2.00. EIGHTH YEAR. Close up the ranks. Vote the way you shot. Tote the straight RepuHcan ticket. Tuesday, November 2, is the elec tion day this fall. .Vote for Judge Conger. He is precisely the man for probate judge. Turner for congress, and 250 ma jority for him in Trego county. How is that? Vote for Judge Harlan, He is a good lawyer, with enough experience for a supreme judge. Judge Osborn ought to receive at least ninety per cent of the votes in Trego county next Tuesday. Vote for A. B. Baker. Nobody questions his ability to discharge ably the duties pf county superintendent. Vote for A. H. Blair. His ad ministration as district clerk has been characterized by ability and faithfulness. Bob Ingersoll says Cleveland has made three glaring mistakes: First, accepting the nomination; second, taking the oath of office; third, not resigning. Not one true Republican will vote to send a Democrat to the Kansas legislature. He could do Republicanism no meaner or more fatal act by voting the Democratic ticket throughout. The Scott Sentinel administration, government-laud-office-ially Democratic, calls' Senator Ingalls an ass. This is a sample of modern Democratic policy in western Kansas in such neighborhoods as the daisies have sufficient land pap encouragement to send them out to smile! Can the newest editor of the Trib unc ono Hotchkiss byname, we hear dictate to settlers of Trego county how ihey shall vote? and he himself not a voter! Can this political pimp receivo recognition in this manner from one man in Trego county? Not that anybody knows of! Vote the whole Republican ticket. No true Republican will allow himself to be influenced by the sophistry of the en emies of the party. The man who in the past has been honored by the votes of the party, and who belts the nominees of its conventions, is not worthy the name of Republican nor entitled to the suffrage of the party. Kirtoin Chief. In September, 1870, Moonlight was a candidate before the Republican state convention at Topeka, receiving ten votes. Failing to receive this nomina tion, he became a candidate for renonii nation as secretary of state, but was defeated, receiving only thirteen votes out of one hundred and seventy-six. Two years later, in 1872, he was an applicant for appointment as United States mar shal. Failing to receive this appointment he became sour and sore headed, and drifted into the Democratic party. Em foria Globe. In Osborne county the Democrats are running a woman for superintendent of public instruction. In speaking of the Dem. paper fighting the Republican can didate for this position the Fanner says with sense: "We should offer no objection to the Democracy of Osborne county inarching peaceably about under a caUco banner, blustering, blowing or singing hymns, as they choose, but when an at tempt is made to unfairly impugn the of ficial record of a Republican candidate, --neither gallantry nor common justice should stand in the way of the truth be ing told." Republicans, you can not afford to stay at home all day next Tuesday. You owe it to your party to take at least enough time to cast your votes. None of us who care a farthing for Kansas west ern 'Kansas Trego county can afford to labor under the stigma of permitting the Democrats to poll a vote approachably as large as the Republican vote. On this votewill be based the Republican repre sentation from Trego county to the state gubernatorial, the state presidential, the congressional and other different conven tions of 1888. No true Republican can afford, we say, to dally on this point An old Kansas Democrat' mourn fully remarked, a lew days ago: "I Leard Tom Moonlight make a speech in 1868 that was the most violent and abu sive tirade against the Democratic party and its leaders that I ever listened to; Sjfd-'fcncl now they have nominated him for bL( , . governor ana expect me to vote lor him. -Somehow the abusive speech rings in my if be was right then the Democrat- nd its leaders ought to be eter- damAed, in this election, as well all others. If he slandered and lied ltf Deawcratio party tkeo, .no Mt-to?clocjaiiii;now;- A LIE SPAT UPON. J. R. Newman, a young man with a Pennsylvanian for his father, edits the Harrison (Ark.) Times. J. R. is making a fight on the G. A. R. order. He alleges that it is a political organization, and that its rules require, on oath, explicit obe dience, etc. Now instances constantly arise which cram into the average mind the conviction that the harvest of the fools is not jet completed. Wa-Kee-ney World, April 5, 1884. It has been stated so frequently, by innuendo, that the editor of the "World ran a Democratic paper in Arkansas as to lead us to state the facts in the case, and to brand as maliciously false any and every such statement. The newest editor of the Democratic paper in Wa-Keeney has been placed in possession of a copy of the Harrison, Ark., Time, dated ou the 12th day of April, 1884. We ourself received a copy of the same issue. The attack on us is confined to a paragraph stating that Tilton ran a Dem ocratic paper in Arkansas, and ran for representative in Carroll county, receiving about a dozen votes. The statements of the Times editor were made in his rage at the appearance in the "World of the editorial item quoted at the beginning of this article. It was enough to make him feel indignant, we now admit. He the son of a Pennsylva nian down in Rebeldom villifying the order of the Grand Army of the Repub lic catching so bluntly the truth square ly in his face! As to our race for representative in Carroll county, we present the voluntary testimony of Hon. J. D. Greason, who, since in 1880, has been publishing the Republican Citizen up at Atwood, in north west Kansas. In his paper of September 10, 188G, Mr. Greason sajs: W. S. Tilton's candidacy for represen tative in Trego county reminds us that he was in 1878 an independent candidate for representative in Carroll county, Ar kansas. It was a free pitch-in, and of course Tilton was left, although he re ceived the uuited support of the northern Republicans. Col. E. J. Black was also an independent candidate at the same election, and being a militia colonel and a native of the state his chances were bet tor than Tilton's, whose northern birth and Republicanism were crimes never to bo condoned. Wo lived in Arkansas our self, in Carroll county, and among our best friends there were Confederate sol diers, but there existed a large substratum of the bushwhacking element, on which the politics of the county and state were allowed to rest Mr. Greason know us in Kansas before we went to Arkansas to publish a paper. He knew us as a man who, the first time wo were old enough to vote for president, cast our vote for the Grant and Wilson electoral ticket in Linn county, Kansas, in 1872. He knew us as a man who gave the Grant and Wilson ticket the zealous support in 1872 which we have been in the habit of giving Republican tickets since. Mr., Greason knew us as a man who, in Cairoll county, Arkansas, where three-fourths of the population were Dem ocratic and where that party controlled a still larger proportion of the wealth started the first newspaper ever published within its borders; and he knew that we refused steadily to run a Democratic or gan or to participate in Democratic cau cuses or conventions. He knew, further, that neither party there held any conven tions to place in the field county, state, senatorial or congressional tickets. He also knew that while we were there the Republicans placed no state ticket in the field. In the conduct of the paper which we published there, under those circum stances, we assumed a position of po litical independence. By reason of our refusal to participate with the Democrat ic element, we were known as a Radical Rad. In 1878, we came back to Kansas, where we could enjoy political liberty without question. By the grace of God and hard work, we have done it, and will continue to do it We will also brand, as the dirty befoulers of character which they are, every person who attempts to slander us. Our political career in Arkansas is summed up in the observation that ' could not be a Democrat. As to the quality of the Bowlder, our Arkansas paper, as a literary endeavor, we will just say that it ranked at least as high in that state as the World ranks in Kansas. We have the papers on file in Wa-Keeney,' and are not asking doubtful persons to take our word for the asser ,tions which are made in this article. What has been said above will fall upon the Democratic organ, the Demo cratic candidates and the professed Re publican or two who is working with them simply like the voice of political death falls upon its shining marks. For them we did not make these statements, and for them the statements which are to follow are not made. We value social friendships far more than political pref erment. Among our many warm friends throughout Trego county, we have said to some, when this matter would be cas ually mentioned, that we did not run a Democratio paper in Arkansas. We shall aonak'tbe alienation or diminution of ttairvperaoBal friendshipe by failing to abiw np aow.tbe fij tia when a legit-. STOCK! JLIi3VLI3SrC3- TECS BASIS OIF OTJIE& WA-KEEKET, KASTSAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1886. In addition to the testimony of Mr. Greason, we present the following corres pondence on this'point: ' Wa-Keeney, Kans., Oct 11, 1886. Hon. E. J. Black, My Dear Sib: You are a Republican. I am charged with having run a Demo cratic paper in Arkansas. Did I? You are a lawyer, raised there, have been to the legislature from Carroll county, and are acquainted with the facts. Yours very truly, W. S. Tilton. COLONEIi BLACK'S BEPLY. Bebryville, Abk., Oct. 14, 1886. W. S. Tilton, Esq., Wa-Keeney, Kans., Dear Sib: Yours is at hand, and con tents noted; and in answer will say that I never heard you accused of editing a Democratic paper here or elsewhere. The Bowlder was always an independent pa per, with a tendency toward Republican ism. Respectfully yours, E. J. Black. Wa-Keeney, Kan., Oct. 11, 1886. Hon. y. P. Fancher, My Deab Sir: You are a Democrat among Democrats a man who proved the genuineness of your Democracy by drawing your sword in behalf of the Southern cause. The most of the time I published the Bowlder you were county clerk of Carroll county. Will you please state to me, by return mail, whether I did run a Democratic paper in Arkansas; al so whether I did not leave there on ac count of my lack of sympathy with the dominant political sentiment of that re gion? Respectfully vours, W. S Tilton. MB. FANCHEB'S BEPLY. Bebryville, Ark., Oct. 13, 1886. W. S. Tilton, Esq., Wa-Keeney, Kama, Dear Sib: Yours of the 11th inst. is received contents carefully noted. In reply, I will state that if you ever published any other paper in Arkansas than the Bowlder, I have no knowledge of it I understood the Bowlder to be inde pendent, with a strong leaning to the Re publicans. I regarded you as a Republican. I would much have preferred yon and your paper had been Democratic; be cause I believed you to be a good news paper man of more than average ability, and that you "could havebeen of great help and support to the Democratic party in this state; and I believe that I inti mated as much tojou on one occasion, and stated to you that it would be, not only to your political success, but pe cuniary as well. Jas. P. Fancheb. Wa-Keeney, Kan., Oct 11, 1886. Hon, yay Freeman, My Deab Sib: I am charged by a re cent bobber-up in this community with having run a Democratic paper in Arkan sas. Yon are a Republican of long standing there, as well as a substantial business man. I wish to ask you whether this charge against me is true. You will oblige me by answering by return mail. Yours very truly, W. S. Tilton. MB. FBEEMAn'S BEPLY. Bebbyville, Abk., Oct. 14, 1886. W. S. Tilton, Deab Sib: Yours received, and in re ply will state that I have never heard you accused of being a Democrat or of run ning a democratic paper in this county. It was understood here that you was a Republican in politics, and if I remem ber rightly your paper (the Boulder) was independent in politics. Hoping this will be satisfactory, I re main Yours very truly, J. W. Fbeeman. W. S. Tilton never ran any other paper than the Bowlder in Arkansas. He never lived in Arkansas at any other period, except in the capacity of a Union cav alry boy. The snot of the Harrison Times lives in Boone county, more than thirty miles from Berryville. One of the handsomest press notices it was ever our let to re ceive came from the pen of his father then on the Times on our leaving Car roll county. In our candidacy for representative in Carroll county, we received fifty-eight votes, with what Republican vote there was diveded between Colonel Black and ourself. In that scrub race no nomina tions by either party were three other candidates Democrats in the field. NO TIME FOR PLAYING. Yon say you are a Republican. Well, this should be, frima facie evidence of your intention to vote the Republican ticket But, suppose you are in doubt as to whether you should vote for a certain man on the ticket. You admit you are in doubt this far, do you? Then as long as that doubt sticks to you, you can not af ford to vote against that man! Some day, for some reason perhaps to you now unforeseen, it will react as a boomerang. If no doubt attaches to whether ycu ought to vote against that man on what you call your ticket, and he is not a regu lar scalawag, you pay poor heed to the promptings of your own heart if you do not walk over into the Democratio camp. This is no time for playing in politics. H. Ewalt, as rank a Copperhead as Ohio produced a political maniac in the same direction yet is writing to this county: "I hope you will not vote for such a man as -Tilton." We never asked Ewalt for bis vote or support, and can't under stand what he is bellyaching about, unless he may have heard that Mr. Beetor, our opponent is being touched up on his Maryland birth and Southward leasing. .Kpttor-WUgawyl; he- whole ARTICLE 5. SUFFRAGE. . State Constituto(17SlQuali floations of elector. Section!. Every white male person, of twenty-one yearsa and upwards, belonging to either of the following classes who shall have resided in Kan sas six months next preceding any elec tion, and in the township or ward in which he offers to vote, at least thirty days next preceding such election shall be deemed a qualified elector: First Citizens of the United States. Second Persons of foreign birth who shall have declared their intention to be come citizens, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization. (171) S 2. "Who Not Qualified. Sec tion 2. No person under guardianship, non compos mentis, or insane; no person convicted of felony, unless restored to civil rights; no person who has been dis honorably discharged from the service of the United States, unless reinstated; no person guilty of defrauding the govern ment of the United States, or any of the states thereof; no person guilty of giving or receiving a bribe, or offering to give or receive a bribe; and no person who has ever voluntarily borne arms against the government of the United States, or in any manner voluntarily aided or abetted in the attempted overthrow of said gov ernment, except all persons who have been honorably discharged from the mili tary service of the United States since the first day of April, A. D. 1861, pro vided that they have served one year or more therein, shall be qualified to vote or hold office in this state until such disa bility shall be removed by a vote of two thirds of all the members of both branches of the legislature. VALUABLE TARIFF TESTIMO NY. Hon. T. Dwight Thacher, state printer of Uansas, is'Trpdlfshed orator. He is a" college-bred man and an editor of many years' experience. Mr. Thacher's views, as we have always understood them, are that, if the commerce of the world is ever placed on a natural footing, free trade will be the normal condition. But he is a Republican, and in his speech at Troy, Kansas, the other day, as reported by the Times, iiir. Thacher gave expression to these sentiments: Among the other questions which the speaker touched upon was the tariff ques tion. He showed that it might be possi ble to have free trade between all the nations of the earth if they were all on an equality as to labor and the prices paid for labor and for living, but so long as the United States paid better wages to its mechanics and laboring men than other nations, so long would it be folly and ruin to adopt free trade with other nations. Many Republicans" perhaps endorse these sentiments of Mr. Thacher. But no Republican can afford to endorse free trade in America. This the Democratic national party always did until they were taught, by the superior tactics of the Whigs and then the Republicans, to hedge by declaring in favor of tariff for revenue. We are talking now of the Democratic party. It swallows Randall and the other eastern members of the party who know the Republican protective policy to be the true idea. Western Kansas wool growers and all other producers of commercial commodi ties understand that the protective policy reaches through all the commercial rami fications of the whole country. RULES DETERMINING RESI DENCE OF VOTER Section 9 of the law of this state on the conduct of elections reads: The judges of election, in determining the residence of a person offering to vote, shall be governed by the following rules, so far as they may be applicable: First. That place shall be considered and held to be the residence of a person in which his habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning. Second. A person Shall not be consid ered or held to have lost his residence who shall leave his home and go into an other state or territory, or county of this state, for temporary purposes merely, with an intention of returning. Third. A person shall not be consid ered or held to have gained a residence in any county of this state, into which he shall have come for temporary purposes merely, without the intention of making said county his home, but with the inten tion of leaving the same when he shall have accomplished the business that brought him into it Fourth. If a person remove to any other state, or to any of the territories, with the intention of making it his permanent- residence, He shall be considered and held to have Tost his residence in this state. i- Fifth. The place Srhere a married man's family resides shall be considered and held to be his residence Sixth. If a person shall go into 'anoth er state or territory, and while there ex ercises the right of 'suffrage, he shall be considered and held to have lost his resi dence in ihkf atataP , -L V V - Ssrirss&Ti" UNTZDTJSTiaiES. A H. BLAIR, Land Attorney and fteal' Estate Agent. CONTESTS A SPECIALTY. Wa-Keeney - - Kansas. LEE MONBOE, Attorney at Law. 1). H. HENKEL, U. S. Commissioner. Monroe & Henkel, Lai nil M Attorneys, "Wa-Keeney, Kans. JOHN A. NELSON, Attorney at law Loan Agent. U.P. Land Agent for Trego, Gra ham and Ness Counties, WA-KEENEY. - KANSAS. Stock Eanches a Specialty. Parties meaning business request ed to write me. A. J. HAELAN. SAM H. KELLEY. HARLAN &KELLEY, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW. Practice in all State & Federal Courts. A. J. HARLAN, Real Estate & Land Agent. Business before the Land Office Promptly Attended to. OFFICE UP STAIKS IN "WOBLD BUILDING, WA-KEENEY. KANSAS. EOLLISTER & BIGGER, ATTORNEYS-AT -LAW. All legal' businessmen trusted to our care will be attended to promptly. Office on Russell Avenue, east of Franklin Street. WA-KEENEY, KANSAS. S. R. OOWICK, ATTOMEY-AT-LAW All legal bminesq entrusted to mycaro 1111 receive prompt end careful attention. Office with Wheeler Bros. WA-KEENEY, KAN CO WICK & WHEELER BROS, will give Bpecial attention to final proofs and contests. F. DANFOBD. 8. B. HOGIN. DANPOED & HOGIN, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW And Real Estate-Dealers. Buy and sell Real Estate, secure Homesteads and Timber-claims for those wanting gov't land. Will practice in all Stale Courts and bo fore the Gov't Land Office. Business solicited. Office in basement of Keeney Block, W-A.-lCEEISrE-Z' KANSAS. J. WORD CARSON, NOTARY PUBLIC, Purchasing, Selling and Locating LAND AGENT &ATTJY. Makes Soldiers' Homestead Declaratory Entries, Timber Filings, Pre-emptions, Homesteads, Final Proofs. Attends to Contests in all phases, etc. Promptness and fair dealing. All work guaranteed. Office in Basement of Keeney Block, UNDER U. S. LAND OFFICE. BUSTING- HALL. JBZ" J. E. BAKER. I have fitted up anew and enlarged dining room in the house occupied by Baker & Sons as a real estate office. The public are invited to give us a call. The best of accommodntns guaranteed. T WAGNER, Veterinary Surgeon, WA-KEENEY, KANSAS. "Will doctor cattle, horses and all other stock. WM. SPICER, THE MERCHANT TAILOR, Keeps the choicest assortment ot FALL WINTER GOODS In the City. Employs only Firat Class Workmen, and Warrants.! Perfect Fit w Id Siii. ' j.r ..-. i cirfcv4r t IjWft Bfeop unm cuor apatft ociwaMH siisrcs C. C. BESTOR, Deeded, Railroad, -W School Lands, Homesteads, Pre-emptions and Timber Claims. GENERAL REAL ESTATE BUSINESS. Money Loaned on Deeded Property. No. 195 Ifraxifclin Street, Wa-Keeney, Kansas. B. J. I Hanna, LAND -:-ATTORNEY, 'Wa-Keeney, - Kansas. Prompt and careful attention given to any and all business before the United States Land Office. JOHN E,ONNQ,UIST, PAINTER, Sign Writer, Grainer, Kalsominer, Paper Hanger. WA-EEENEY, EAN. GEO. BARRETT, CARPENTER, BUILDER, And ' Contractor. o Plans and Specifications PREPAKED TO ORDER Shop on north aid8 of Russell avenue, second building -west of Opera House. OOOSaiE TO TT'FVR.&TT A "W'ff NEW FEED & BOARDING STABLE, JUST WEST OF 0PEEA BLOCK, WHEN You Want your Horses Fed & Boarded. Special care given to Animals entrusted to my keeping. COOK ROOM AND FEED MILIi ATTACHED. Corn, Oats, & Ground Feed FOR SALE, IN LARGE OB SMALL QUANTITIES AT LOWEST CASH PRICES. I have lately put in a Horse Power Feed Mill and will do Custom -:- Grinding. H. S. DAVIS, At Kershaw's Livery Stable HOTEL ! HOTtL ! YOU WILL FIND GROVER, AT THE WHITE -i-HOUSE, WALLACE, KANSAS, Always ready to attend to the slightest wishes of his guests. ACCOMMODATIONS GOOD. PRICES. Only $1.00 Per Day. $5 00 Per Week. JAS. K. GROVER, Prop. A. B. JONES, Physician and Surgeon Office in Jones & Ferris's Drug Store. Wa-Keeney, Kansas M.H. FARMER, PHYSICIAN UURGEON, DISEASES Of the Eye, Ear aid Tfcnat i Specialty. A full line of Spectacles on hand. Office In Hfile's Drug Store, WA-KEENEY, - - KANSAS. DE. E B. WILCOX,, . H0KBFAT1G PHYSIGIAM AND DENTIST, W - ijE coi'ir, 5 c:ej:etts KTJMBER 36, WILLIAM WIELSOH ATTORNEY AT LAWT AND LAND AGENT. Offiee 4th door north of TJ. S. Land Office, WA-KEENEY, KANSAS. Practices in the several Courts of Kansas and the United States Courts. Land Law and oases before the U. S. , Land Office a specialty. Does a general land business. Corres pondence solicited. THIS SPACE BELONGS TO HUTZEL & G0URLEY. Land Agents " - LEE MONIIOE, Pres't. D. H. HENKEL, 8eCy. Real Estate Brokers & Loan Agmts, WA-KEENEY, - KANSAS. 70,000 acres wild and improved lands for sale. Will purchase land in Trego and adjoining counties and pay carh for same. $ 1 00,000 Money to Loan at 8 Per Cent. J. B. WILSON, COUNTY SURVEYOR AND LAND LOCATOR, WA-KEENEY, - - - XAWiAi Frick's Livery, Opposite tho Oakes House, WA-KEENEY, ... KANIAL LIVERY, FEED & SALE STABLE. Best of Bigs at the Most Reasonable Rates. A. C FEICE, Prop. A. E. SIGLEE. Carpenter iMjL Builder, Special attention given to buildings of modern styles. Shop north of Keeney Block, WA-KEENEY, - KANSAS. C. D. STEWART, . Proprietors of IM SHAVING PARLOR. Jirht door sonili of Hille's drag store. Everything in First Class Styl. WA-KEENEY, KANSAS. CITY BAKERY, REDUCTION IN BREAD, CAKES, And all kinds of Goods. Stores at Lawrence & Hall's; also in sooth room of Sawtelle Auction Block; also at 41 Washington St., Wa-Keeney, - - Kansas. 373 J. HEaEJ03B. c TIY DELIVERY. Headquarters at Verbeck's Store. DAVID ARBUCKLE. A. E. MICKEL, Wa-Kesney Wei Mir. ALSO AGENT FOB THX PEBKIXS WESTOffLI,. All work and mills guaranteed Mtisfae- tory. Mills and pumps always on hand. WA-KEENEY, KANSAS. D. ARBUCKLE, -DKAZdEB IS GRAIN, FLOUR -AX-D-i FEED. 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