The Iola register. [volume], September 07, 1894, Image 1

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THE IOLA REGISTER.
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REGISTER, Established 1S66.
CODRANT. Established 18a
DEMOCRAT, Established 18S6.
PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIETY
DIRECTORY
DENTISTRY.
S. Tozer Office over Evans Bros . drug store
Dr. H. E. Duncan, Offico over Post Office.
ATTORNEYS.
H.A Ewing. R. H Bennett
Ewing& Bennett. Office at Court House.
J. B. Goshorn atterney-at-law and notary
public. Office overCoutantfa store, Iola, Kan.
CAMPBELL & HANKINS, Attorneys. A. H.
Campbell. County Attfy ; W. C. Hanklna, Depu
ty Couty Atfy. Office one door cast of post of
fice, up-stalrs, Iola, Kans.
Foust t Son attorneys and counsellors-at-law.
Office two doors north of Northrop a bank. Iola,
Kansas.
Gard & Roberts Lawyers. Office In BSQISTZX
building.
W. B. Glover. Attorney at Law, First National
Bank building, Humboldt Kansas.
PHYSICIANS.
W. D. Scott, M. D. physician and acooucher.
Office In J. H. Campbell's drugstore.
J. K. Jewell, M. D. physician and surgeon.
8 pecial 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
dles of Security meets the first and third Friday
nights of each month. R. ILBemstt. ,
Cor. Secy.
G. A. R. McCook Post No. 51 meets the first
Saturday on or before each full moon at G. A.
R. HaU. All comrades In good standing are In
vited to meet with the Post H.M Miller, P. a
McCook Relief Corps. No. 15 meets the first
and third Friday evenings of each month at G
A. R. hall. Mrs. M. L. Miller, Prea.
M. B. SmelUcr, Secy.
Salem Chapter No. 4, Order of Eastern Star,
meets in Masonic Hall 1st and 3rd Monday in
each month. Mrs. Sarah Crow. WM.
Miss Kellie Colborn. Sec
CHURCHES.
Episcopal Services on third Sunday ni the
month. Fred E. Stlmson, Missioncry in charge.
Christian, or Disdples Corner of Broadway
and Sycamore. Sunday school 10 a. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday nights. E P. Trabue,
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 Corner of Jefferson ave
nue and Broadway. Services every Sabbath at
11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday school at 9-15 a.
m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening
at 7.30. All are cordially invited to all of these
meetings. J. Hunter, pastor.
Baptist On Sycamore street Treadling Sun
day morning and evening. Sunday school at 9-45
e. 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' dock a. m. every Sun
day. Evening services every two weeks
at half past seven o'dock 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. I
Sqnler castor.
MISCELLANEOUS.
W. C T. U Regular meeting every second
and fourth Friday, at 3 o'clock p. m , at the
Christian church during the summer.
Allen County Horticultural Society meets
every recond Friday of each month at 2 o'dock
p. m atG A R. hall. B. F. PancoastPres
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 abstracj books for Allen county. The
only one who makes investigation of titles a
specialty. Iola, Kansas.
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WORLD'S FAIR
COUPON NO. 28.
' Bring or Bend this coupon
to The
Register i
, ollice accompan
led by
10 CENTS IN SILVER
and receive No. 28 of
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the World's Fair Portfolios, 's
c They are now ready for distribu- 5
i tion and are worth twice the am't. ,?
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W5&" Do not Bend stamps.
Tf ordered bvmall enclose one cent stamp (
with dime.
Complexion Preserve
DR. HEDRA'S
OLft GREAM
Removc Frecklei, Pinplst
Liver Molei, Blackheads,
Sunburn and Ten. and re
stores the cVln to its origi
nal freshness, producing a,
clear and ncaitny com-is
Tilprinn. Knrjcriortoallfaco"
preparations and perfectly harmless. At all
druggists, or mailed for SOcts. Send for Circular.
VIOLA SKIN SOAP t tapJ Inci.mp.riMo u
lilc pcriMos Soap, rnlH for tLe toO. mad vltbost t
rival tjr the Barmy. Abolmrir nn ud dcHcttal lacdl
tmttd. Amnnrim. Price 25 Cento.
G. C. BITTNER ct CO., Toledo, O.
W.L. Douglas
53 5MOt
S THE BEST.
NO SQUEAKING.
And other nwcialtles for
Gentlemen, Ladles, Boys
and Misses are the
Best in the World.
See descriptive advertise
ment which appears In this
paper.
Take no Substitute.
Insist on taring W. L.
DOUGLAS' SHOES,
vrith name and vriea
stamped on bottom. Sold by
AH PERSON & PeCLUTE.
YOU CAN CURE THAT COUGH WITH
mmam
bveldc
EHert's Daylight Liver Pills
A small i egetable pill. Cures Sick Headache
Constipation. Dyspepsia, all Bullous Ills and
Disorders ot the Stomach. Lherand Bowels.
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For sale at Campbell's Drug Store.
ELSMORE EAGLE, Established 1830.
8AVONBURGH PROGRESS, Established 1S91.
L.L. NORTHROP. President.
ESTABLISHHD IN 1S69.
L, L. NOftTHfrW
BANKING HOUSE,
Iola, 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 acceisable
points and proceeds remitted on day ef payment. Liberal
discounts given to customers.
LOANS MADE AND NEGOTIATED ON IMPROVED FARMS,
GEO. A BOWLTJ8, President
MRS. W. M. HARTMAN. Vlce-Prea,
BANK OF ALLEN COUNTY,
IOLA, KANSAS.
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Transacts a General
Exchange on Kansas City, Chicago and New York.
Maxes collections in
NEGOTIATES FIRST MORTGAGE LOANS ON WELL IMPROVED FARMS,
Correspondence Solicited.
Broom Corn,
Crass Seed,
Crain & Hay
WILL SHIP FROM IOLA,
m coAiy
The Famous Black Diamond, Lone Tree, and
Wier City Coal ; also Strip Coal, at cheap
competition prices.
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. HENDERSONS
Can show you some bargains in
REAL ESTATE,
Improved Land
LL
DoYou Wantto
THIS IS THE SEASON TO FEED !
FEEDERS are CHEAP!
AND OUR TERMS ARE REASONABLE.
Write, or Come In.
Siegel, Welch &
ROOMS 141, 142, 143 Stick EicSurtji, KANSAS CITY, MO.
IOLA, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY,
J. H. VANNUYS. Cashier.
H. M. MILLER, Cashier.
C. K. BENTON. Attorney.
Banking Business,
an pans 01 uie uuneu otatua
WANTED !
LaHARPE OR MORAN.
or Raw Prairie.
lL,OAJS:& OR
Feed YourCrop
Glawson,
Life Stock
Conission Co.
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Rail Road Tinjc-Tablc.
SOUTHERN KANSAS-GOING NOBTH.
No. 202-Passcnger, dally 1241p.m.
No. 204 Eastern Express, dally 2.27 a. m
No. 216 Way freight dally ex. Sun... 11:30 a. m.
No. 220-FrcIght, dally 8.05 p.m.
GOING IODTH.
No. 201 Passenger, dally 2:08 p. m
No. 203 Panhandle express, dally.... 1:53 a. m
No. 215 Freight, dally 1241 p. m
Train No. 218 carries passengers between Qar
nctt and Channte only. Close connections made
at Kansas City and through tickets for sale for
all eastern points. B. A. Edgar, local agent.
FORT SCOTT, WICHITA 4 WESTERN-GOING
EAST.
No. 454 Passenger 5.37 p.m.
No. 456 Local freight 2.50 p. m.
GOING TTXST.
No. 453 Passenger 11:10a.m.
No. 455 Local freight lL20a. m.
Trains No. 455 and 456 carry passengers be
tween Ft. Scott and ElDorado
R. S. Happersett, Agent.
LEGAL NOTICES.
Road Notice.
(G. F.Robins etal).
State or Kansas, Allfn County, ss.
The Slate of A'anjai, to whom it may coneern
WHEREAS, Application has been made by
petition to the Board of County Commis
sioners of said county, for establishing
a county road, as follows, to-wifc Commencing
at the S E corner of sec. twenty-one (211, town
ship twenty-three (23) south, range twenty (20)
east or the sixth principal meridian, running
north one mile. Also; commencing at the N
corner of section twenty-two,(22)township twen
ty three (23) south, ranee twenty (20) east of the
sixth principal meridian, running west two (2)
miles onthc north side o( sections twenty-two(22)
and twenty-one (21). Said roads situated in Al
len county, 8tato of Kansas, United States of
America. Said roads to bo forty feet wide
And W hcreas, H. P. Fowler. G. O. Myers and
J. C. Bcatty viewers, and G. DeWitt, county
surveyor of said county, have been ordered by
said County Commissioners to view, survey and
establish said road
Therefore, you are hereby notified that said
viewers and surveyor will proceed, on the 18th
day of September 18H. at lo o'clock a m., at the
place of beginning of said road, to view, survey
and locate said road, and perform whatsoever
other duties as arc required of them by law:
and unless you then file a written application
with said viewers, giving a description or the
premises on which you claim damages or com
pensation, your application for the same will be
barred.
Witness my hand at my office In Iola, In said
county, this 20th day of August, 1894.
James Wakefifld,
County Clerk.
Sheriffs Sale Under Execution.
(First published Aug. 24, 1894 )
State of Kansas, Allen county, ss.
J. S. Judd, ")
vs
B. G. Culver. J
BY virtue of an execution to me directed ami
delivered. Issued out of the Fourth Judicial
District court of the State of Kansas, sitting
In and for Franklin county, in said State I will
on
Tuesday September 25, A. D. 1894,
between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and four
o'clock p. m. of said day at the court house In
iola in toe county anu s'aic aiorcsaia, oner ai
nubile cnle and sell to the hiehest bidder, for
cash in hand all the right; title and interest of
the above'named defendant in and to the fol
lowing described real estate to-wifc The undi
vided one half (a) of southeast quarter (') of
section nineteen (19) township twenty six (26)
range iweniy iu aiicu i-uuuky, nauaue.
Said property levied on and to beseld subject
toamortgagcof $700 and Interest at 10 per cent
from Nov. 1; 1S93 as tho property of tho above
named defendant C. C Ausheuman.
Sheriff.
Sheriff's office Iola, Kansas. August 17. 1894.
(38-42) W II. Claik, attorney for plff.
DO YOU INTEND TO BUILD -a.
MOVSE, BARN
OB FENCE?
THEN REMEMBER THAT MY
LUMBER YARD
IB THE MOST COMPLETE IN AL
LEN COUNTY, AND THAT MY
PRICES ARE AS LOW AS THE
LOWEST.
L. L. NORTHRUP.
0. A. JAPHET.
Livery, Feed and Sale
Stable.
West Street. Iola. Kan.
Fine livery carriages and buggies
Transient custom a specialty. Horses
boarded by the week Come and see
us.
TERMS REASONABLE.
KRUEGER & KREUTER.
Champion Meat Market.
North of Pennsylvania Hetel, Iola, Ks.
Fresh and salt meats, sausage and
Inril mnntantlv nn hand. Cash naid
for hides. Highest price paid for beel
cauie.
DR. WINCHELUS
TEETHING SYRUP
Is the best medicine for all diseases Incident ta
children. It reguLites the bowels; assists denti
tion; cures diarrhea and dsenteryln the worst
fomis;cures canker sore throat : Is a certain pre-
ent 1 e of diphtheria ; quiets and soothes all pain
invigorates the stomach and bowels: correctsall
acidity; will cure criplns In the bowels and wind
colic bo not fatigue jourself and child with
sleepless nights when it is within your reach ta
cure j our child antlsaeour own strength.
Dr.Jaqiic'8 German IForm Cakes
destroy worm1 & remote them from the sjsteri
Prepared by Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, III.
Fnr sale at Campbell's drug Btore.
H. Reimert
Makes Suits to Order
and guarantees a fit
Ple, $e to 10 a Suit.
Opposite Kreuter A Xraeftt'i Meat Market
SEPTEMBER 7, 1894-
rRKSCIENCE.
The new moon hung in the sky.
The sun was low in the west.
And my betrothed and I
In the churchyard pansed to rest
Happy maiden and lover.
Dreaming the old dream over;
The light winds wandered by.
And robins chirped from the nest.
And lo 1 In the meadow sweet,
Was the grave or a little child.
With a crumbling stone at the feet.
And the ivy running wild
Tangled Ivy and clover,
Folding It over and over.
Close to my sweetheart's feet
Was the little mound up-piled.
8trlcken with nameless fears.
She shrunk and clung to me.
And her eyes were filled with tears
For a sorrow I did not see:
Lightly tho winds were blowing.
Softly her tears were flowing
Tears for the unknown years
And a sorrow that was to be.
T. B. Atdrich.
Editorial Notes.
"Equal rights to none and lottery
boodle to all," is the way they are
translating the Populist motto now.
Capital: When the Populists had
a meeting at Silver Lake last week
there were just eighty voters present
by actual count. At the Republican
meeting Tuesday there was an audi
ence of 1,500 aud fully one half were
voters who wero out to hear tho
truth.
Pkof. Marvin and Prof. Bailey,
both of the Universiry of Kansas, read
papers before the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science
at its recent meeting in Brooklyn
which attracted much favorable com
ment. It will not be the "wild and
woolly" West much longer.
Chairman Bbeidenthal is still
using a room in the State house as his
People's party committee room, and
he is still drawing his salary of $2500
a year as State Bank Examiner, al
though all his time 1b given to cam
paign work. Do the people want two
years more of that kind of Reform?
The Review of Reviews for Septem
ber might well be called an internati
onal politics number, the word poli
tics being used in its broadest sense.
Jiivery line of this whole compact is
sue is up to date and directly perti
nent to the great problems that con
cern the world at tho present moment.
K. C.Star: Some of the employes
at the State house sleep in the build
ing and others have a bath room in
the west wing, while the Populist
committee sends out campaign litera
ture from tho eaot wing. There is
nothing that can work a snap for all
there 1b in it like a fleeting, transitory
Pop. --
A recent investigation revealed
the fact that in addition to Old Man
Waite, who has been there since last
spring, there are 22 persons at the In
sane Asylum at Topeka who are
neither employees nor inmates. They
are simply "Reformers," Doodling
their living eF the State, after the il
lustrious example set by Mrs. Lease.
Thomas Nelson Page, the most
popular writer in the South, begins in
the September number of Scribner's
Magazine a two part war story called
"Little Darby," in which he again
shows his wonderful power of sympa
thetically depicting Virginia charac
ter and Bcenery. The Btory contains
Borne very stirring war incidents and
is a worthy successor to the same au
thor's lamous tale of "The Burial of
the Guiis.
Oskaloosa Independent: Thevoters
of the Second District who support
Col. Moore for congress will do that
much toward condoning the miser
able fraud perpetrated in the unseat
ing of Funston by the Democratic con
gress. The disfranchisement of an
entire county on a technicality is a
fraud that needB a wholesome rebuke,
and Mr. Baker should be laid on the
shelf to moulder forever more, for his
share in the steal.
"Thanatopsis" has been called
the greatest poem ever written by a
boy of sixteen, and it is interesting
also as the first American poem which
has received and retained recognition
from the critics. The influences that
shaped the poem in Bryant's mind
are described in the September Har
per's Magazine by Rev. John W.
Chadwick. and the story is illustrated
with two engravings of the bust of
Bryant in the possession of Parke
Godwin, and by a view of the house
in which "Thanatopsis" was written.
Daniel Zercher continues to
spend a large part of the time for
which he draws a salary from the
State, writinir fairy stories to Popu
list papers about the great amount of
money the present administration nas
saved the State; but the man with the
tax receipts to prove these assertions
is not coming forward very numerous
ly. Taxes have not been reduced and
the Treasurer's report shows that
there was $100,000 less money in the
trftaaurv at the becrinninff of this year
than there was at the beginning of
last. If $1,000,000 has been saveu,
where is it?
From a summary of the financial
bills introduced into Congress by
the Populist members, it appears that
if all of them had become laws the
per capita circulation would now be
in the neighborhood of half a million
dollars. But that is all right if Popu
liBt logic counts for anything. If the
Governmont can "make', money,
then why should It not make plenty?
VOL. XXVIII.
If the "flat" of the Government can
make a ten dollar bill, why can it not
make a hundred dollar or a thousand
dollar bill? And if it can do that
why can it not nuke half a million
dollars apiece for us just as well as
half a hundred?
The Democratic editors of the State
met at Topeka last week aud, after
hearing reports from all parts of the
State, issued an address to Demo
cratic voters, the most interesting of
which, to Republicans at least is
the following:
On careful consideration of the political situa
tion in the State ot Kansas based on the most
conservaUvo figures, we arc convinced that
the Populist state Ucket is defeated beyond the
polbillty ot a doubt. We base our conclusion
on the situation as it exists. In 1892 the Re
publican vote was In round numbers 156.C00 and
the combined vote of the Democrats and Popu
lists was 1172.000, being a majority of onlyC,90C
Take the luwt estimate made by the most
saneuine 1'onulN! and en ouch votes will be
cast for the Democratic HrVet to leave the Pop
ulists in a Hopeless miuoru.
Mr. Julian Ralph is now on his
way to the Orient, where he will
make for Harper's Weekly and
Harper's Magazine studies of the
topsy-turvy conditions that obtain
upon the world's farther side. Upon
his arrival in Japan he will quickly
forward accounts of whatever he may
witness of the war between that
country and China, of the gathering
of the naval representatives of all
Christendom, and of the peculiar
scenes attondant upon the war. He
will be met at Yokohama by Mr. C. D.
Weldon, the artist, who has long been
familiar with Oriental life, and who
will co-operate with Mr. Ralph in
this work.
The Register desires to protest
most earnestly against the proposal to
build a tomb and eiect a monument
for the late Gov. Robinson on the
campus of the State University. In
the first place it is the last thing ho
himself would have countenanced if
he had been consulted about it. He
was a plain, modest man, and osten
tation such as that proposed would
have been infinitely distasteful to
him. In the second place a Collpge
campus is not a fitting place for
tombs and monuments. Suppose this
precedent should be followed and the
remains of a score or a hundred of the
benefactors of the University should
be brought there: How shocking it
would be to see tho College grounds
studded thick with graves aud gran
ite shafts! There is no grave place so
fitting for Charles Robinson as the
place which he chose himself, on the
beautiful Hill of Ro3es with the hun
dreds of those who were his neigh
bors and friends close about him.
And there is no monument so fitting
for him as the plain shaft which he
himself erected to mark the spot.
Let a building be erected on
Mount Oread and called by his name;
or, better still, let the $50,000 it is
proposed to raise for his monument
be called the Robinson Scholarship.
and used to help young men and
women get an education a purpose
which he himself would so heartily
have approved. But as for himself,
let him rest where he lies.
DID YOU VOTE FOR THIS?
It has been, and still remains, our
firm conviction that if the farmers of
Kansas understood fully the real prin
ciples upon which the Populist party
is founded, if they could look far
enough ahead to see what the logical
and inevitable results following from
the practical application of those
principles must be, that party would
not carry a precinct in Kansas. We
know of no better way of judging the
intentions and the desires and tne
purposes of a party than to scan the
measures which representatives of
that party have Introducea in con
gress. We have tnererore secured
copies of a number of the bills intro
duced by the Populist congressmen
and we propose to discuss some of
them from time to time so that our
Populist readers may know just what
it is they are expected to endorse.
This week we desire to call atten
tion to a resolution introduced in the
United States Senate by Senator Pef
ler. The resolution is really a com
plete Populist platform for it sets
forth in detail all the remedies which
the Populists would apply to cure the
ills from which the people are suffer
ing. After declaring that all railroads
should be under direct governmental
control and that all coal beds ought to
be owned and worked by the states
or the Federal Government, that rates
of interest should be unif irm etc., the
resolution goes on to deel .ro "that all
revenues of the Governw at should be
raised by taxes on real a'ale."
How does that strike you, farmers
of Kansas?
If your distinguished Senator could
have his way you would pay, not on
ly all the township, county and State
taxes, but all the Government taxes
as well !
No tax on money, says Populist Pef
fer. No tax on whiskey or tobacco.
No tax on stocks or bonds or notes or
mortgages. No tax on railroad roll
ing stock or the machinery of the
manufacturer, or the goortaof the mer
chant. No tax on anything but the
land you make your liviug out of. Is
that what you thought you were vot
ing for when j'ou voted the Populist
ticket?
The proposition seemB so preposter
No. 40
ous that every Populist who roads
this is probably saying to himself "O,
that is another Republican lie." But
if they will writo to Senator Peffer he
will no doubt be proud to send them
the resolution (it was introduced July
0.) and they can see for themselves
that we have not misrepresented it.
And why should anyone be sur
prised that such a resolution should
come from such a source ? The Pop
ulist party is notoriously in favor of
Government ownership of railroads
itu! telegraph lines. Why should it
not be In favor of Government owner
ship ol land? If a "private citizen is
not to be allowed to own a railroad or
any part of it, why should he ba al
lowed to own a farm or any part of it ?
Senator Peffer thinks that he should
not be. For that is what his resolu
tion means. When all tho taxes are
laid on real estate there is not a farm
er in the United States can keep his
land. He couldn't make enough to
pay the taxes. And that is exactly
what Senator Peffer expects and de
sires. He doesn't want anybody to
own land. Ho wants the Govern
ment to own it all, just as he wants
the Government to own the railroads
and coal mines. He is simply carry
ing Populist principles to their logi
cal conclusion.
But, farmers of Kansas, is this
what you voted for? Why have you
worked and saved all these years to
pay off the mortgage on your farms?
So that they might be your own, of
course, to use as long as you lived and
to hand down to your children.
Then why should you vote for a party
which proposes to tako these farm3
away from you by laying so heavy a
burden of taxation upon you that you
cannot possibly pay it?
You have been following the Peo
ple's party because you thought it
was going to make it easier for you to
get and keep a home. Why should
you continue to follow it when the
highest authority in that oarty de
clares that one of its objects is to take
away your homo and make you sim
ply a tenant of the Government, pay
ing all its taxes?
CAN'T STAND THE ROTTENNESS,
The desertion from Populist ranks
threaten to become a stampede.
The latest departure is the most
significant of all. It is that of Ben 8.
Henderson, a Populist so Conspicuous
in the party that he was made tem
porary chairman of the last People's
party State convention. Mr. Hender
son was one of the Populist speakers
who was expected to stump the State
and ensaffements were made for him
all through September and October.
But he has written a letter to John
W. Breidenthal, chairman of the
Stale central committee of the Peo
ple's party, in which he cancels all
his meetings and repudiates the nom
ination of Governor L. D. Lewelling,
and declares not only that he will not
support him but that he will "hang
his head in shame" should he be re
elected.
Mr. Henderson cites as his reasons
for this course, the utter rottenness,
incompetency and dishonesty of the
Lewelling administration. He takes
up one by one the scandals at various
State institutions, the penitentiary
speculation, the lottery boodling, the
Winfleld Imbecile School horror, the
nettv bribe taking of the members of
the State Board of Charities all
these he takes up one at a time and
declares that he has learned from
personal Investigation that every
charge made is absolutely true.
Speaking of the Kansas City bood
ling, for example, he declares that
JuBtice Allen's letter on that subject
is altogether too mild. He saj's that
within the past two weeks he has
learned positively, not from Republi
can but from Populist sources, that
the Kansas City police Commissioners
do take money from the lotteries and
joints, and that the Governor knows
it, and still retains those commis
sioners in office although earnestly
petitioned by honest and prominent
Populists to remove them.
Speaking of the Winfield School,
he says that the ruperintendent of it,
Dr. Pilcher, is "absolutely and utter
ly incompetent, h drinks too much
whiskey, he neglects the duties of his
office, he is niot inhuman and cruel,
and he is no more fit for his position
than an ox." The Governor and the
State Board of Charities know all
these things, and yet Dr. Pilcher Is
retained in office.
Summing it all up, Mr. Henderson
says:
Governor Lewelling knows hc facts herein
stated He has repeatedlv been notified of the
incompetency of these men and corruption
practiced, and notwithstanding his knowledge
thereof he absolutely refuses to raise his execn
tlve hand in behalf of the people of the State or
Kansas In the enforcement of the reforms advo
cated by the People's party.
For these reasons and many others I might
mention. I cannot, as I said before, support
Governor Lewelllnt: for re-election and hence
cannot, ot conre, enter into tho campaign. I
had thought 1 would do so at any rate. adocat
inc measures and not men: but this, upon re
flection. I cannot conscientiously do so for this
reason: I am reminded of the fact that 40
per cent of all taxes paid by the people
of this State into the Srate treasury goes
to the support of the seven gTeat charitable
Institutions of our commonwealth. In
view of this monstrous fait, every man in
Kansas, regardless of his poUtlcal faith,
must consider the Integrity and capabultyor
the men to administer these t usts of as great
consequence as the principles of the party to
which he belongs.
In conclusion, permit me to say that If Gover
nor Lewelling should be elected I want It tls
tlncUy understood that I shall make no claims
to any part of such victory, but will hang my
head in shame.
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