The Monitor from Clay Center, Kansas • 4

M. ALLAWAY, Official City Paper. S. LOOFBO UliRO Editor. The Oonnty Toots the Bill There is but little time during the year that there ia not one or more prisoners in jail being boarded in good style at the county's expense.

There is no good reason why the ounty should not avail itself of the labor of these prisoners, and by this means receive a recompense for the outlay on their account. The following is the lull text of the law touching this subject, and it is the duty of the county commissioners to take the proper steps for carrying out its provisions. Suck action would savt the county several hundred dollars per annum, and like action on the part of the city council would be productive of equally grat- CONTRACTOR AUD BUILDER, Clay Center, Kansas, December, 8, 1883, The enforcement of the above law would aid materially in improving our city and county by making hotter streets and better roads, and this by simply applying according to law tha labor that has heretofore been allowed to go to waste. Let those whose duty it ia take the proper steps at once lor the carrying ont of the provisions of this act. If nectary let the people of the county petition the commissioners to maka immediate provisions for its effectual enforcement.

At present our jail does not eeem to be much of a "terror to evil doars;" but with this law applied it would probably have fewer charms for ita lawless patrons. The Monitor was a small craft but it was a terrible vicious thing to fool with. tm tad Shop oa Grant Avenue, betweaa and 6th strot CUT CENTER, KANSAS, ifying results in relation to the aity, TO D9 ATft KSffZMJ OJ CHAPTER, CXXVII. Employment of Persons Committed to Jail. Be it Enacted ly the Legislature Carpenter, House, Bridge, or Finishing Work.

oftlu State of Kansas; Senator Plumb thinks the full Republican ticket will be elected in Kansas next fall. We have no doubt of the Section 1. That the board of county on correctness of the senator views this proposition. commissioners oi auy county in this state may, whenever they may deem it advisable so to do, properly shaokla and woik, under such rules and regulations as they may from time to time ordain and establish, each and every male prisoner committed to the jail of their respective oounties for failing to pay the fine and costs adjudged against such Carriage and Wagon Shops Good for Wamego. Fines amounting to $7,700 were taxed up to the saloon keepers of Wamego during an eight days term of the district court just held in that place.

Personal liberty seems to be going to ruin fast over there. prisoner on his conviction and inoreased Salutatory. Having purchased the Cresset office with a Tie to the publication a newspaper in Clay Center, it ia fitting that I ahould at the outset indicate briefly the line of pelicy to be pursued by the pa per iu the future. 1. Being myself a Republican, and having full faith in that party as a political organization, and filly endorsing its position on the vital political issues of the day, this paper will in the future be distinctively Republican in politics.

It is my belief that the principal reforms tough' to be inaugurated by the Greenback Labor Party may be more nurely and expeditiously accomplished by working within the party that has inaugurated and carried to a successful is-ue all the political reforms that have been brought about since its organization. If it has faults, which is no doubt the will be easier to correct them than to build up a new party. It is my belief that the idea of a thirl party is an impracticable one. 2. Being a Prohibitionist from principle, and believing that no other plan can ever, in any event, accomplish the overthrow of the mm power, and that legal prohibition, supported by a healthy moral sentiment, and a loyal purpose on tne part of officiils and citizens to enforce aud obey the law will accomplish it, this paper will advocate that principle, and urge the strict enforcemeut of that law, the same as any other law.

It will also insist upon the prohibition plauk being retained in the platform of the Republican party of Kansas, and that no maceuvering by the minority to dodge the issue or expunge it from the fca Pull Blast. Promptness, Cheapness, and Pint Class Work is My Motto. costs, and also any male person failing to pay the costs adjudged against him as the prosecuting witnass in any criminal proceeding. Bec. 2.

That the board of county -o commissioners may establish a county stone-yard, and work male prisoners mentioned in the first section of this act, at bieaking stone for use in macadamizing streets and roads, under such It is claimed by some that the whisky question is not a political one, and has no business in pohtics. The Monitor believes it has no business in polities or anywhere else, and is in favor of getting it out as quick as possible by turning the engines of political warfare loose upon it, and firing it out of politics and of existence by stopping the manufacture and sale of the venomous stuff, not only in Kansas but all over the country. rules as they may from time to time ordain and establish. Sec. 3.

That the board of countv commissioners of tha proper county are THREE IN 2732. I Wt ti wboU ti th machinery tutd by Hall McKnlght, f. I authorized to sell or dispose of such stone as they may have had broken, on snch terms as they may deem advisable, or in case they cannot Bell the Bame, to use the same for the improvement of some designated road or street; and oi making a sale of such stone, the money arrising therefrom Bhail be used to pay The New Speaker. Mr. Carlisle, the new speaker of the 1.

V. Powers with everything addad to ataka a oaaapUt toftf. SAVE TWO SETS OF MEN WORKING SAME, House, was nominated by a large major- ty over Randall and Cox, in the Dem for stone delivered at the county stone-yard, and the icm.uuier shall be applied to the payment i.i iLo tne and costs ocratic caucus. He is a tariff reformer and was nominated on that issue. The to do work oa short notioa.

If ywi waat ro standing agtOut thte person breaking thesnm-. tariff tinkering business will therefore turnad aroomd, call am Sec. 4. In cace thou a prisoner 6hall probably be a prominent feature ol the present session. The Democratic party dt-siir, and v.uu an undertaking to tub ti Ljuitty, with good aud euuiciuut to bo approved by the W3MC.

rr will in all probability "put its foot in it" as usual, as it seldom lets a good oppor county dtiii, ti. ha will do given or specified tnuoiuit Jt work on some high tunity slip. It certainly can never have a more favorable opportunity than this, way aijugnaceu iy tue chairman of the board of county commissioners of the proper county 1 and in a Bpei tied time, in full tha said line and cost churgeii the said prisoner, as an indiscriminate reduction or re' muval of the tariff on foreign oommodi ties would kill any party. party plutform be tolerated by the majority on auy pretext whatever. I firmly believe that prohibition has come to stay that the conflict between the people and the rum power is an irrepressible one and will never terminate until the saloons and all their dark train of evils are swept from the face of the earth.

Therefore I hold that the party that stays with prohibition will win in the end, and tliut that party will be the Republican party, unless it goes back on its past record. 3. Having gone through the various phases of homestead life in Clay county, having been a resident of the count; th cburuuL vi the board of county Politically Speaking. oomunbfiJ--i 0: tiio proper county authorize tvpt suck undertaking, The Monitor will not attempt to wres and direct j.tili-r t-i uiow suoh pris tle with the financial problems of the Mm! oner tu leu tui j.ul lot the purpose of Greenback party, nor to discuss its the doing the. cpecititd work.

Said work may be dune uuder the direotion and ories in reference to the currency of the control of some road overseer designat ed by te chairman of the board of fourteen years, more than half that time coantry. They may be all right aud just the proper thing. But to our mind the present financial and currency sys ccunty coruwusiouers of the proper AND count and when said work is done or engaged in farming, it is but natural that should cherish a vary warm feeling for performed in tke manner and in the tems seem good enough, and it is oar honest and consciencious belief that it Clay county farmers, mechanics and all time designated in said undertaking, the chairman of the board of countv com others who have contributed to the development of our county and to the is better to let well enough alone. "While we are free to admit that many of the missioners shall so certify on said un ml lall in it dertaking, and Bald prisoner shall then be 'discharged from all liability for the building up of our flourishing city. It will be the aim of this paper to speak hue aud costs for which he was irapris theories of the Greenback party are good and worthy of the most favorable consideration, jet we believe that the better and surer way to accomplish the oned: Provided, For any good and oui in tueir oenaii wnenever an oppor efficient reason the chairman of the -AND- tunity oilers, and champion their inter' ests on all occasions.

ends sought is to work within the old board of county commissioners may ex tend the time for doing the work specified iu such undertaking. i. I am aware that "The war is over," party of reform, that has already accom but at the same time I am aware that Sec. 5. In case tlie prisoner entering plished so much for hmmanity, and is into tue undertaking shall fail or neglect thousands upon thousands of the brave to do or pc.loiru tue work or labor epecr still pushing ahead, getting in its work wherever a political or social evil presents itself, or wherever the cause of hu tied 111 the undertaking so given by him You Will Never Regret It, KSsSgSSSE will as hrculanua trade dane in Clay county this Fall and Winter, and that tha geatlemanly Tillers of the Soil will hava the almighty wherewithal to pay for their gooda, I hava purchased the largest, greatest, and most transcendent stook of Itoys who fought it through and won the victory, aud kxow what it cost, are scattered abroad throughout the laud, me county attorney snail at once pro-ci ed to collect the amount specified in Mich undertaking, aud no defense, ex manity or the sights of tho people are ieoDardized True the party is not and that ueariy a full regiment of them have found homes in Clay county, many cept payment or the death of tne princi without its faults, and what organiza pal in tno undertaking during the time of them minus a leg or an arm, many tion or individual is there of which the in which (such priucipal was to do such nil (SEN 1 more suffering from various other dis work, shall he allowed.

same cannot be said. Even Greenback ers themselves will not claim that their ouug wouncw, ana pernaps not one Sec. G. Prisoners shall be allowed oue dollar tor each day's work perform whose life will not terminate years soon party is a party of absolute perfection ed them in good faith uuderthepro visions of this act, or if the prisoner pre- Cur belief is that it is easier to correct er from the fact of his having "3one at his country's call," and participate! in fer, the of county commissioners the defects, if there are any, in a party may allow buch prisoner a specified sum per cuuio yard for breaking stone. The amount so earned by the day or by the that eventful struggle.

It will bo the purpose of the Monitor to contribute especially to their interests, and do what it may be able to do towards keeping already historic for the accomplishment of the greatest reforms of the age, then it is to build up and equip a new party under the cross-fire of two full grown cubic yard, when the same shall amount to the sum of the fine and oosts, the same shall be deemed a full satisfaction alive the memory of their heroic deeds and fully equipped parties that are at In short it will be the purpose cf the of the fine and costs ia the action for wnich the said prisoner was committed ready battleing over substantially the same issues that the new party proposes Monitor to advocate right principles. to the l'tu 01 the county. Seo. 7. The county shall not be lia to champion.

bio for any costs by reason of the provis extrt an influence for good whenever it may, promote as much as possible the interests of our city and county, to be We submit these thoughts in candor, Evar brought to this city, consistitg of Silks. Cashmeres and Dros Goods, Boots Shoes, Gents Furnishing1 Goods and Hats and Gaps. Also A Fall and Complete Line of Gro- eries, and have marked the same down to JHF OWEST JfoTCH RICES I have bought my goods for cah, and can therefore offer them at prices tever before heard of. J. A.

DITTMAR, South Side Lincoln Avenue, ClafCcir, Mm. ions of thu wise than as herein and ask our Greenback friends to con found at all times and mnder all circum provided, nor shall this act be construed us limiting the board of county sider them in the same spirit, and decide if it is not the better plan to fall in stances, on tne ngnt side 01 au ques commissioners of any county in their tions that may present themselves be right to discharge any person from the .1 line with the Republican party, and as fore the public. an in tne manner as now provided by law. With these preliminery thoughts the little craft is launched on the sea of Sec, 8. This act shall take effect and sist in correcting the evils that city have crept into it, and march with it in its crusade against oppression, monopolies, drunkard makers, and law defiers in whatever garb they may present be in force from and after its publica journalism to buffet the waves oi pub lie opinion and withstand the storms of uon in tue statute oook.

Approved March 5, 1881. fate. Hoping its character wal be sucn I heraby certify that the foregoing is as to meet public favor and confidence a true and correct copy of the original I remain yours for right principles and themselves, to tha victory that will ulti mately crown the party of correct' prin' enrolled bill now on file in my office. Jame Smith, Seoretary of State. honest journalism.

P. S. LOOFBOCEKOW. ciples and faithful and earnest workers..