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THE TOLA REGISTER.
REGISTER, Established lsws.
CODRANT. Established 1881
DEMOCRAT, Established 1SSG.
ELSMORE EAGLE, Established 1S90.
8AVONBURGH PROGRESS, ESTABLISHED 1891.
Iola, Allen County, Kansas, Friday, Atjg-ust 24, 1894.
VOL. XXVIII.
No. 38
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GEO. A. BOWLUS, President.
MRS. W. M. HART1IAN. VIce-Pres.
ANK OF ALLEN COUNTY,
IOLA,
Transacts a General
Exchange on Kansas City, Chicago and New York.
Makes collections in all parts of the United States
NEG0TIA1ES FIRST MORTGAGE LOSS'S OH WELL IMPROVED FARMS,
Correspondence Solicited.
Rail Road Tinje-Table.
SOUTHERN KANSAS-GOING NORTH.
No. 203 Passenger, daily 12: -11 p. m.
No. 204 Eastern Express, daily 2.27 a m
No. 216 Way freight, daily ex. Sun... 11:30 a. in.
No. 220-Frelght, daily -.... 8.05p.m.
OOINQ SOUTH.
No. 201 Passenger, dally 2:03 p. m
No. 203 Panhandle express, daily.... 1:53 a. m
No. 215 Freight, dally 12:41 p. m
Train No. 218 carries passengers between Gar
nctt and Channte only. Close connections made
at Kansas City and throngh tickets lor sale for
all eastern points. R. A. Edgar, local agent.
FORT SCOTT, WICHITA & WESTERN-GOING
EAST.
No. 454 Passenger 5.37p.m.
No. 456 Local freight 2.50 p. m.
GOING WEST.
No. 453 Passenger 11:10a.m.
No. 455-Local freight lL20a. m.
Trains No 455 and 456 carry passengers be
tween Ft Scott and ElDorodo
R. S. Happersett, Agent.
PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIETY
DIRECTORY
DENTISTRY.
S. Torcr Office over Evans Bros', drug store
Dr. H. E. Duncan, Office over Tost Office.
ATTORNEYS.
H. A Ewlng.
Ewing & Bennett.
R. H Bennett
Office at Court House.
J. B. Goshoru atUirney-at-law and notary
public. Office over Contant's store, Iola, Kan.
CAMPBELL & HANKINS, Attorneys. A. H.
Campbell County A tt'y ; W C Hansons. Depu
ty Couty Atf y. Office one door east of post of
fice, up-stairs, Iola, Kans.
Foust & Son attorneys and connsellors-at-law.
Office two doors north of Northrup's bank. Iola,
Kansas.
Gard & Roberts Lawyers. Office in Reoisteb
building.
W. B. Glover, Attorney at Law, First National
Bank building, Humboldt Kansas.
PHYSICIANS.
W. D. Scott, M. P. physician and accoucher.
Office In J. II. Campbells drugstore.
J. E. Jewell, M. D. physician and surgeon.
Special attention paid to surgery and eye dis
eases. Moran. Kansas.
C H. Boulson Homeopathic physician. Sur
gery and diseases of women and children a
specialty. Office at residence near Pennsylvania
Central Hotel.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
K. and L of S. Iola Council Knights and La
dies of Security meets the first and third Friday
nights of each month. R H. Bennett.
Cor. Setfy.
G. A. R. KcCcok Post No. 51 meets the first
Saturday on or before each full moon at G. A
R. Ball. All comrades In good standing are in
vited to meet with the Post H.M Miller, P. C.
HcCook Relief Corps. No. 145 meets the first
and third Friday evenings of each month at G
A R. hall. Mrs. M. L. Miller, Pres.
M. E. Smeltzcr. Secy.
Salem Chapter No. 4, Order of Eastern Star,
meets in Masonic Hall 1st and 3rd Monday in
each month. Mrs. Sarah Crow, W1L
Miss Nellie Colborn. Sec.
CHURCHES.
Episcopal Services on third Sunday oi the
month. Fred E. Stimion, Missionery in charge.
Christian, or Disciples Corner of Broadway
and Sycamore. Sunday school 10 a. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday nights. E P. Trabuc,
pastor.
United Brethren Sunday School every Sun
day at 3 p m , and preaching every other Sun
day evening at first door north of Court House
R. H. Bennett, Superintendent J. W. Stone,
pastor.
Methodist Episcopal Comer of Jefferson ave
nue and Broadway. Services every Sabbath at
11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday school at 9:45 a.
m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening
at 7.3a AU are cordially Invited to all of these
meetings. J. Hunter, pastor.
Baptist On Sycamore street. Treachlng Sun
day momlngand evening. Sunday school at 9:45
a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at
7.30 p.m. Young people's prayer meeting ev
ery Sunday evening. M. F. King, pastor.
Reformed Divine worship in the Christ Re
formed church at 11 o'clock a. m. every Sun
day. Evening services every two weeks
at half past seven o'clock p. m. Sunday school
every Sabbath at 10 o'clock a. m. All are cor
dially Invited to attend. L S.Faust, pastor.
Presbyterian Madison Ave Preaching ev
ery Sabbath at 11 a m and 7:30 p. m Sabbath
school at 9:45 a.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday
at 7:30 p. m. Everybody welcome. W. L
Bquier castor.
MISCELLANEOUS.
W. C T U Regular meeting every second
and fourth Fridav. at 3 o'clock p. m , at the
Christian church during the summer.
Allen County Horticultural Society meets
every rccond Friday of each month at 2 o'clock
p m atG AR hall B F. Pancoast Pres
R. a Moore, Secy
Iola Public Library Over Northrup's bank.
Open every Saturday from 2 to 8 p.m. Stock
and membership tickets for sale at the room.
Mrs. Wm. Knapp, Librarian.
T. S. Stover Abstracter of titles. Has a com
plete set of abstract books for Allen county. The
only one who makes investigation of titles a
specialty. Iola. Kansas.
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Makes Suits to Order
and guarantees a fit
Prises, $6 to $10 a Suit.
Opposite Kreutai & Kraeger"! Meat Mark at
H. M. MILLER, Cashier.
C. E. BENTON, Attorney.
KANSAS.
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Banking Business.
LEGAL NOTICES.
Sheriffs Safe.
(First published August 3, 1S9L)
T"Y virtue of an order of sale, dated the 30th
S day of July, 1S34, issued out of the district
court in ana lor Alien county, Kansas in
an action in said court wherein F. C Prest was
plaintiff and William D. Matthews and Martha
A. Matthews, his wife. L. D. Matthews and L.
A. Matthews, his wife: S. L. Matthews, Levi
Robinson. Elnora B. Claiborne, Joseph Cahn
and Isaac Bachrach. partners as Joseph Cahn &
Company, George J. Englehardt, Robert Win
ning. John A. Johnston, partners as Englehardt
Winning & Company. Charles C. Rainwater,
Simon L. Boogher and John B Morris partners
as Rainwater. Boogher & Company and C H.
Crabtrce, G, W. MattheTs, P. C. Padgct and M.
B. Padget were defendants. I will on Tuesday
the 4th day of September, 1S94. between the
hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. ul, at the front door of
the court house in the City of Iola, in said Allen
county, Kansas ffer at public sale and sell
to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand
all the right, title and interest of each and every
of the above named parties in and to the follow
ing real estate, in said fetate and county, to-wit:
The cast half of the north east quartcrc; of no
if of section thirty-six 3S township twenty
three 23 range ninetccnTlSJ cast of 6th p. m.
Said property will he sola as directed by said
order of sale, without apprau-cment, and sub
ject to a prior encumbrance of the principal
note forS575.00 and interest as set out in plain
tin's petition and belonging to a stranger to this
suit C C. ACSHERMAK.
35-39 Sheriff of Allen County.
Beardsley, Gregory S Flannelly, attorneys.
Kansas wtr. xo
SHERIFF'S SALE.
First published Aug. 3. ISO J
BY VIRTUE of an order of sale Issued out
of the District Court of Allen county,
Kansas, wherein Albert Bromer was
plaintilC and James Paddock and Margaret Pad
dock his wife, and J. W. Bowlby and Emily
Bowlby his wile. J. F. Corrigan, T. J. Beebe,
Assignee of the Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany of Kansas, a corporation, and T. II, Ste
vens, The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company ot
Kansas, a corporation. Orlando F. Castccn. U.
Llewelyn Jones and P. G Walton. Trustees,
and O F. Casteen, F. G Hobson and Levi S
Gould, Assignees of the Fanners Loan and Trust
Company of Kansas, a corporation, were de
fendants, I will on
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH, A. D. 1891,
at 1 o'clock p. m. of said day, at the front door
of the Court house in the tity of Iola. in ;the
county of Allen, in the State of Kansas, offer for
salt- at public auction and sell to the highest
bidder, for cash in hand all the following de
scribed real estate situate in the county of Allen
and State of Kansas, to-wit The southeast
quarter of secUon twenty-four, and the north
half of the northeast quarter of section twenty
five, all In township twenty-three .south, Range
nineteen east of the Cth P. M.
Said property will be sold as the property of
the above named defendants and without ap
praisement, to satisfy said order of sale.
C. C. ArSHERXAK,
Sheriff of Allen county, Kan.
Chas. O. Ebwin and T. S. Stoves, attorneys
for plaintiff. (35-39)
Sheriffs Sale.
(First published July 27. 1894.)
The State of Kansas, allen county, SS.
In the District court Seventh Judicial District,
sitting in and for Allen county. State of Kansas
Hannah N. Goodhue plaintiff,'
vs
A H. Brown. Anna L. Brown
his wife etal deiendants.
BY virtue of an order oi sale issued by .the
Clerk of the seventh judicial district court
fnand fo lllanivinntr RtntAnf Vftnsit in
the !above entitled cause, and to me directed
and delivered I will on
WEDNESDAY, AUGDST 29 a. d. 1894
at 1 o clock p. m. of said day. at the front door
of the court house in the city of Iola, Allen
county, Kansas, offer for sale and sell to the
nignesi Diaaer me loiiowingaescnDeareai es
tate to-wit The south west anarter UO of the
south west quarter (.'fl of section four (4) town
ship twenty-four (24) range eighteen (18) cast
containing forty (40) acres more or less lying
and situated in Allen county, Kansas.
Said lands and tenements will be sold with ap
psaisement to satisfy said order of sale,
(34-3S) C. C. ACSHEBMAN,
fcnerui oi Alien conniy, Kansas.
Sheriff's office, Iola. Kansas. July '-'0, 1891.
PUBLICATION NOTICE.
(First published Aug. 17. 1891.)
State of Kansas to Henry Heiser and Sarah E.
Heiser, his wife:
You will take notice that vou have been sued
in the District court in and for Allen county.
Kansas, by S, H. Standart, an assignee, ana mat
unless you answer to the petition filed in said
suit on or before the 2sth day of September 1S3I
said petition wiU be taken as true and Judgment
rendered against you accordingly, loreclosing a
mortgage executed and delivered by Henry
lielser ana baran ji. iieiser io enppen, i-aw-rence
and company dated January 18th 1892. on
the. following described real estate in Allen
co. Ks to-wit Lot one (1) and the south half of
lot two (2) in bloclc lorty seven tiij in me ciiy oi
Iola, and for the sale of said real estate, without
appraisement, to pay the debt secured by said
mortgage
Witness my band and official seal this 16 day
of August 1891
ILiB.1 I'KA.NKli. TKAHS,
C37-SK Clerk of said Court.
Beardsley, Gregory, A. Flannelly attys for plfl.
W. L. Douclas
3 SHOE
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And other specialties for
Gentlemen, Ladies, Boys
and Misses are the
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Seo descriptive advertise
ment which appears in this
paper.
Take no Substitute.
Insist on having W. Zm
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with name and Drlea
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L.L.NORTHRUP. President. J. H. VANNtTx'S, Cashier.
EST5lBIISKCJSX IN 1868.
L. L. NOaTEfflOT
BANKING HOUSE,
lola, Kansas.
Individual responsibility larger than any Bank in Southern Kansas.
A General Banking Business Transacted in all
its branches.
Dealer In foreign and domestic exchange. Collection made at all accetaable
points ana proceeds remitted on aay oi payment. jjiDerai
discounts given to customers.
LOANS MADE AND NEGOTIATED ON IMPROVED FARMS.
Broom Corn,
Crass Seed,
Grain $c Hay
WILL SHIP FROM IOLA,
Ione Tree, &
oJLso Starijj OooJL,
;petitiorL prices.
COAL
Will sell you anything you want, and buy anything you
have to sell.
HAY PRESSES, PIANOS, ORGANS, SEWING
MACHINES, Etc., Etc., FOR TRADE.
A. W. BECK.
H. L. HENDERSON)
Can show you some bargains in
REAL ESTATE,
Improved Land or Raw Prairie.
CALL ON HIM FOR
New York
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Fine livery carriages and buggies
Transient custom a specialty. Horses
boarded by the week Come and see
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SANDALPHON.
Have you read In the Talmud of old.
In the legends the Kabbins bare told
Of the limitless realms of the air.
Have you read It the marvelous story,
Of Sandalphon. tho Angel of Glory.
Sandalphon. the Angel of Prayer?
How, erect, at the outermost gates
Of the City Celestial he waits.
With his leet on the ladder of Heht.
That, crowded with angels unnumbered
By Jacob was seen, as he slumbered
Alone in the desert at night?
The Angels of Wind and of Fire
Chant only one hymn, and expire
With the song's irresistible stress:
Expire in their rapture and wonder.
As harp-strings arc brokemassunder
By music they throb to express.
But serene In the rapturous throng,
Unmoved by the rush of the song.
With eyes unimpassioned and slow,
Among the dead Angels, the deathless
Sandalphon stands listening breathless
To sounds that ascend from below
From the spirits on earth that adore,
From the sounds that entreat and implore
In the fervor and passion of prayer;
From the hearts that are broken with losses.
And wcaiy with dragging tbe crosses
Too heavy for mortals to bear.
And he gathers the prayers as he stands.
And they change into flowers in his hands,
Ints garlands of purple and red;
And beneath the creat arch oi the portal
Through the streets of the City Immortal
is waiica tne iragrance tncy sneu.
It Is but a legend, I know
A fable, a phantom, a show,
Of the ancient Rabbinical lore:
Yet the old mediaeval tradition.
The beautiful, strange superstition,
uut na'ints mo ana noias me tnc more.
When I look from mv window at night.
And the welkin above is all white.
All throbbing and panting with stars,
Among them majestic is standing
8andalphon the Aneel, expanding
His pinions in nebulous bars.
And tho legend, I feel, is a part
Of the hunger and thirst of the heart,
The frenzy and fire of the brain.
That grasps at the fruitage forbidden,
The golden pomegranates of Eden,
To quiet its fever and pain. LongJtXXovo.
Editorial Notes.
One county in Alabama with a total
voting population of 2500, gave a Dem
ocratic majority of 4000 at a recent
election. Talk about enterprise !
From every part of the country comes the
cheering news that the Populists are rapidly
gaming grouna jnacx.
Alabama for instance! Last year
Populists beaten by 11,000. This year
Populists beaten by 40,000.
The unanimity and enthusiasm
with which the Democratic tariff bill
is approved and applauded by Eng
land and Germany and all our other
commercial rivals, must be a source
of much pride to the Democratic
party.
The Populists raised a great out
cry because the Republicans did not
compel the railroads to pay taxes
enough. And yet these same Popu
lists insist that the government should
own the railroads in which case they
wouldn't pay any taxes at all.
"I am no man's slave" shouts sena
tor Vest. "I fight for principle and
my country." Brave talk. And yet
the timo was when the valiant Vest
served in the Confederate Congress
from Missouri, a State which never
seceded, in order to keep from fighting
for anything. A traitor both to his
State and country.
Attorney General Little has
gravely put forth an official opinion
that tbe amendment to the constitu
tion which makes an ex-Rebel soldier
inelegible to office unless his disabili
ties are first removed, is unconstitu
tional. In other words he declares
the constitution itself unconstitional!
Little is certainly the clown of the
Populist circus.
The Topeka Capital had a better
report than any of the Kansas City
papers had of the exciting scenes and
speeches in the House of Representa
tives on the day the Senate tariff bill
was passed. Topeka is not a metropo
lis, but the Capital is a metropolitan
paper. A man who reads it every
day will know what the world is
doing, and he will find it set forth
promptly, accurately and fully.
The Populists are making a great
kick because Gov. Lewelling was not
invited to the Hutchinson Reunion.
But they do not explain how it hap
pens that he has as yet made no re
sponse to the cordial invitation that
was sent him on July 11, to attend
the Reunion at Baxter Springs.. They
do not explain either why he failed to
accept the invitation that was given
him to join the Grand Army in 1661,
or '2 or '3 or '4.
Dispatches bringing glad news of
the enlivening effect of the new tariff
bill upon the industries of other coun
tries continue to pour in. Many tin
plate mills in Wales which have been
closed since the McKinley law went
into effect are preparing to open, and
it is wired from Lyons, France, that
the silk market is "tremendously ac
tive" in view of the new market open
ed by the Democratic tariff bill in the
United States.
The New York Sun, the ablest
Democratic paper in the United States
expresses its opinion of tho work of
the Democratic Congress in the fol
lowing pious exclamation: "God pre
serve the party that goes to the peo
ple with such a record of perfidy,
such a confession of dishonor." A
less pious and more profane man than
the cood Mr. Dana would have used
another and a shorter word in the
place of "preserve."
TiiEPopulIsts have been very strong
in Woodson county and we were
greatly surprised to read that their
recent county convention was utterly
devoid of enthusiasm. It is made
clear now, though. A Yates Center
friend tells us that the convention
was held in the Salvation Army hall,
and tbatupon the walls were these
placards: "Prepare to meet thy God!"
".Remember your mother's prayers!"
"You must bo born again!" It is
easy to understand how such warn
ings and admonitions tiiould cast a
pall of gloom over a lot of men who
had met to endorse the Lewelling ad
ministration and the Populist party.
In his message to the legislature,
Gov. Lewelling said:
Prohibition is the law of the State, not statu
torvbut a Dart of the constitution. Thpanos-
tion is not whether this Administration favors
prohibition, but is it in favor ot obedience to
ana eniorcmcnt or tne law".
In his letter to Col. Daniels, Asso
ciate Justice Allen answers the ques
tion of the Governor with a very em
phatic negative, He says:
Itisauopn secret that tho prohibitory law
has not beeu enforced in the larger cities. Our
opponents in the mpalgncan sta:t out with
the clear and admitted prpilion thi tue pro
hibitory law has been guueiiiii) disregarded in
the large cities. I fear also that they can show
systematic boodllng by the police departments
How much evidence will then be required to
convince those of our people who are especially
interested in the enforcement of the prohibi
tory law, that the administration is directly con
nected with all these practices? Worst ot all I
dread possible developments showing direct
connection of the executive office with these
mrttcrs. ,
Gov. Lewelling was in Hutchin
son during the old soldiers reunion
and was treated with the utmost
courtesy by the officers of the G. A.
R., the Commander taking him in a
carriage to the reunion grounds, at
tending him constantly and sending
him in a carriage to his depot. The
Governor spoke .bout his visit at the
next town where he made a speech,
and illustrated his feelings while at
Hutchinson by the story of the
man who slept among bed
bugs and explained next day that
"though he was among them he was
not one of them." It must be a sin
gular variety of old soldier who will
not resent such an insult as that.
It is reported that the eastern
friends of the suffrage movement, led
by Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw, ab
solutely decline to turn over to the
Suffrage committee In this State any
part of the $30,000 which has been
raised in the East to assist in the cam
paign, until Mrs Johns is deposed
from tho chairmanship of the cam
paign committee. And they do this
solely on the ground that Mrs. Johns
is too friendly to the Republican par
ty. Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw
seem determined that the amend
ment shall not receive any Republi
can votes at all. They alienated hun
dreds of these votes, we fear, when
they insisted upon making the amend
ment a party issue. And now if they
succeed in turning Mrs. Johns down
and turn the money that has been
raised for suffrage into tho campaign
fund of the People's party, their work
of killing the amendment too dead
for resurrection will be accomplished.
The first Governor of Kansas, and
the man to whom the State owes
more of reverence and gratitude than
any other of her citizens, was buried
at Lawrence last Sunday. The occa
sion was a serious and solemn one and
it brought together a notable company
of men who came from all parts ol the
State to pay homage and tribute to
the man who had given the best part
ofhislifeto Kansas and her people
and to the holy cause of freedom.
Four of the five living ex-governors
were there, and many other men
hardly less distinguished. But the
one man of all men who should have
been there was not there; and that
was L. D. Lewelling. He was noti
fied of the death and the hour of the
funeral in ample time to have reach
ed Lawrence from the remotest part
of the State. But he was out making
political speeches in his own behalf,
and he had an engagement to preach
sermon" somewhere on "Christian
Socialism" on the day of the funeral,
and so he sent word that he "could
not get In"! The Governor of Kansas
is a representative of the people. All
the people of Kansas could not attend
the funeral of Charles Robinson but
they had a right to expect that their
representative would be there. It is
to the unspeakable nnd endless
shame of Loraine D. Lo welling that
he was not there.
BON'T MISTAKE THE ISSUE.
As a matter of fact Major Morrill
voted for free coinage in 1800. But
what difference does it make whether
he did or not?
What has the Governor of Kansas
got to do with any question affecting
the National currency?
Whether he i& in favor of a double
or a single standard doe- not cut any
more figure in the real Nsue of this
campaign than whethe: ho believes
China is right or Japan in tho war
over Corea.
The issue in this campaign i3 the
supremacy of the law!
The supreme object to bo accom
plished is the overthrow of the cor
rupt, law breaking, boodllng, revolu
tionary administration which has
brought loss and humiliation and
shame upon Kansas.
The wholo black record of the "Re
form" pirates is the is"tie, and tho
people must not lose slgl t of it in the
dust which the guilty incompetents
are trying to kick up ab mt National
questions.
The thing for the honest oeople here
in Kansas to do is to turn the rascals
out; Congress can look after the silver
question.
CHARLES ItOHINSON.
Charles Robinson died at his home
near Lawrence last Friday morning.
He was buried in tho beautiful Oak
Hill cemetery on Sunday, and nearly
all who remain of tho "Old Guard"
camo from all the quarters of Kansas
to join with tho thousands of his near
neighbors in tho simple, but profound
ly touching and impressive obsequies.
Tho story of Gov. Robinson's life is
told in detail elsewhere in this paper
:md needs not be repeated hero. It is
a m role, almost a romantic stoTy. It
is mo story of a Man, a man who
took eaiiy a man's place in the world
and held ii staunchly and sturdily to
the end. It is the story of a fighter, a
man so constituted that ho must take
one side or tho other of evory question
upon which men divided, and who,
having chosen his ground, must main
tain it earnestly and aggressively
against every challenger. It is the
story of a wise counsellor, of one
whose brain was always cool and
clear no matter what fires might be
flashing from the bluo eves.
Governor Robinson was as nearly
an independent man as wo over knew.
He came as near standing by himself.
balanced by his own judgment, re
quiring no strengthening support
from other men either as individuals
or as aggregated Into parties or
churches or societies of any kind. At
various times in his lifo he worked
with various political parties, but
when the particular object of the
work was accomplished ho put tho
party aside apparently with as little
concern as he would lay down a tool
that ho was done with. The fear of
being called inconsistent never troub
led him. In fact, no fear of any kind,
either moral or physical , e ver troubled
him. He said what ho thought ought
to be said with as small regard to
consequences as he did what he
thought ought to bo done. And if the
words of to-day contradicted those of
yesterday, that did not concern him,
for the words of both yesterday and
to-day were honest words. He did
not know what policy meant, so far
as the word might be applied to his
own fortunes. He knew, doubtless,
as well as everybody olse knew, that
he sacrificed all the political honors
which a gratelul and admiring people
would have been proud to bestow
when he severed his connection with
the dominant party. But the thought,
if it occurred to him, never bid him a
moment's pause.
We never knew why he left the Re
publican party, but we suspect it was
chiefly because it wa3 triumphant.
Dr. How laud, in the funeral discourse
put it well, we thought, whon he said,
"Gov. Robinson saw justice so often
on the side of the ueak that it would
seem almost as if be came to believe
that it was always there." Like so
many men of his ancestry and mould
and temper, he was constitutionally
in tho minority. His sympathies
were always with tho "under dog,"
and he helped the side which needed
help, with little regard, some of us
sometimes thought, to whether it de
served the help.
Gov. Robmsou was a Yankee of the
Yankees and so he no ver ceased work
ing and thinking. It was more than
30 years sinco he laid down the only
elective office he ever hold in Kansas
and went to his farm to live. But he .
was always very much "in evidence''
in all the questions that during all
these years havo made Kansas the
most interesting spot on earth. He
was a frequent contributor to the
newspapers and a frequent speaker on
the stump, writing and speaking, not
to gain some personal end, but solely
"to have his say." Only last June
we saw him, the last time in life, and
although the pallor of the fatal illness
was on his face, the old time light
was in his eyes and he talked with
the old time interest about everything
that was happening in tho State and
the world.
For more than a year it was our
great good fortune to be associated
with Gov. Robinson in public work
which was very dear to tho heart of
both of us, and so wo learned to know
him intimately. And we learned to
know him to be a just man, a generous
man, an inflexibly honest man, and
with all his apparent austerity, a
charmingly genial and hospitable
man whom ono could love as well as
admire.
His death came in the fullness of
time, when his soul was "fit and sea
soned for it3 passage," and the end
w.i3 painless and peaceful. Tho stal
wart, manly figure of him will never
be seen again on the streets of the his
toric town where it had become so fa
miliar that it seemed almost as if,
having been there from tho beginning
it must continue unto the end. But
as long as there remains on the map
of the earth a spot called Kansas, and
as long a3 there remains even the
dimmest tradition that there was a
long, horoic, and finally successful
struggle there for freedom, so long
will live tho name and tho fragrant
memory of Charles Romnson.
Emporia Gazette: The statement
that Governor Lewelliog mado a
political speech Sunday on "Christian
Socialism" is a mistake. Mr. Lewel
ling put in the day playing cards at
the Phoenix club room in Dodge City.
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