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2. THE HORTON WEEKLY HEADLIGHT: THURSDAY. AUG. 7, 1890. Sknatok JVi'mb has lost his nerve A MOUTH PIECE.

We would ask John Radford if L. on Mill mm The Hor in REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION. There will be. (U'lruate convention of the fie-publicans of lliown county, Kansas, held ut the court house In the elty ol IHuwutba, 011 the 1st day of September, ISitO, ut one o'elock for the purpose of choosing right Ui the Kepublkiw Slate Convention to lie held at To. peka, Kansas, on September isjo; elK'it delegate to the ltcpuhllcaii CoiiKtessmiml Conven 1 Mi- Vjtt W.

H. YEEIAN. W. A. NORTON FURNITURE (Successors to AV.

Vkkian Furni too 1 Paper and Wi Lrrgest lino of Parlor and Bed Room Suites in the city We also have a an elegant line of Ceflins and Caskets, and a handsome hearse. mm YEEIAN. JOHN COLLINS. Kansas. DflOf GEO.

W. PIERCE, Druggist and Pharmacist. A Complete Stock of Drags, Stationery, Cigars and Tobacco. West Front Street, Horton, Kansas. Chicago Lumber Company LUMBER Our Prices and Stock Defy Competition.

It will pay you to get our Prices and examine our stock. Kb li JUawatfia, and he will wish in the not far distant future that he had not made his free trade break. Tiik call for a republican delegate convention will be found In this issue. Let none but the best men be chosen to go to the different Conven tions. Tiik Fanners' Alliance is all riirht of itself, but in nllying itself with a sd cnlled People's Tarty it is digging its own deadfall, and will bo merely used as a tool.

The republicans of Atchison are not very choice in their language in expressing their opinion regarding the recent flip-flap performed by the Champion. Tiik Hiawatha World says that "the Means that ITorton Uses will not bring her the county attorney." Hiawatha will never use as honora ble Means to defeat Ilorton's candi date if it can. Tun Congressional Convention in Ilolton will be attended by a large number, and the old veterans will be there in force to use all honorable means to secure the re-nomination of Major Morrill. Dr. Chaixis wants to take water regarding the Champion's recent flop on the free trade question.

The talk of a new republican morning paper in Atebison is what is worrying that gentleman. We know of one straight-out dem ocrat in Horton who has been taking: the Atchison Champion for twenty years, but recently stopped it because of the senseless fight that sheet is making on Ingalls. A vuoMiNKNT Southern man recently confessed that he was never afraid of but two things. he said "was the Yankee army, and the oth. er is my wife." The army is disbanded, but he has his wife with him yet, so there is no fear of his being a rebel.

On the contrary he obeys and fears. If the Kansas City Times would devote as much space to the dirty, filthy debauches of its proprietor, Doc Mumford, as it docs in slandering Kansas citizens it would be in much better business. Its latest on A. 15. Campbell will prove a very hot chestnut that the Times can't drop when it wishes to do so.

The Atchison Champion comes out flat-footed for free trade. As it has been a good democratic paper for the past three months it is only expected that it would take up the free trade hobby. It would now be in keeping for Champion to pull down that line "Founded by John A. Martin," and insert "Foundered by a party by the name of Cliallis." A statement based upen good authority is going the rounds of the press to Uiejeffect that President Har rrison has declared against a second term and that he will not under any circumstances stand for the presidential nomination again. Now let Ex-President Cleveland do the same thing.

He did it once before, but then people might believe him this time. have entire new deal on both sides. Hig Stone (lap (Va.) Herald. m'; it We have heard in the past week that the Hon. Jas, Falloon of Hiawatha is a possible candidate for district judge.

If he is no better man could be found to fill the position. He is in the front rank with the leading attorneys of the state; his large practice is sullicient proof that lie is a successful practitioner, and Drown county and this judicial district would lie honored by him in the oflice of district' judge. A moii in a very prominent Kansas town the other day poured out fourteen kegs of beer and a barrel of whisky with the approval of the county attorney. lie was inspired by the attorney-general and he by the governor. It was an original package case, the liquor belonging to a foreign dealer.

The town will have to pay for it, and the governor will not oiler to contribute. Marysville Free Press. And the democrats wail over the lost booze and will not be comforted because so much good democrac)' is lost. C. Clark was the only man who made a speech in the "People's" conven tion in Hiawatha? We would ask if John Radford did not make a speech in that convention? We wofld ask if John Radford has not given ex pression to the words that the hanging of the anarchists in Chicago was nothing but a "premeditated, coldblooded murder," 'and that Spies, Parsons, et al were the champions of the grandest organization that ever existed We would ask John Radford if the warmest champions of the labor party in Horton are not those who put in six or seven days in the week sitting on Kanoff'ssnlt barrels saying how tiikir party would save this country if it was in power? We would ask John Radford if he does not know that some of those who would wish to and do lead the labor faction, or element, ui Horton are men who have not done a dozen day's work in the past year? We do not know Mr.

Clark, hence would not say ho was not a laboring man out ratlier lie is a tanner he does laber and labor hard. But old dog Tray got into bad company once. John Radford is, we believe from what we have seen of him, a hard working man, hut we do not believe the People's Party 01 the farmers, no, nor the Horton delegation, want a man for their mouth piece whose political ideas of government are those of John Radford. A man who thinks that the hanging of men for throwing dynamite bombs in a crowd ed thoroughfare like Haymarket in Chicago is cold-blooded murder, or who advocates the principles of the anarchists, is not the man to be one of the leaders of any party of sensible and law-abiding people. That kind of feeling or principle in any party will in time do more harm to the' laboring classes than anything else.

Any day these "salt barrel orators" may be heard spouting about how this country is going to the devil at a two-forty pace, yet some of them are today living off of the effects of republican administration. As to the inference cast by Mr. Radford that we are "backed by a hundred thousand" we but quote one of his sentences "he speaks regardless of truth." We have our doubts if Mr. Radford, or any of the champions of labor, puts in more hours or labors or more steady than the editor of the Headlight and he has done so ever since he was ten years old. We wish we were "backed by a hundred thousand." We wonld like to experience the feeling for about a week or two.

We have some backing, 'tis true, and among them are eight or ten of the most hard-working farmers in Brown county. If the Headlight was an enemy to their interests would they have extended it a helping hand in the hour of need No, hardly. Neither does the Headlight intend to stab them in the back but rather, if possible, to prevent them from being led into an organization that political tricksters intend to try to make a cats-paw of. The Farmers' Alliance may do grand things for the farmer if it does not try to do too much in its It will be more successful and more safe to proceed slowly. Build not your foundation upon the titterings of "salt barrel politicians" lest the waves and waters of opposing forces undermine it and make it fall.

The farmers have no enemy in the Headlight in their movement, but it would only caution them about being made the tool of political tricksters, shysters and "salt barrel orators." To cut and slash Abraham Lincoln's saying "the People's party may- fool all of the farmers part of the time and part of the farmers all the time, but the People's party cannot fool all the farmers all the time." Kansas has a school for every 182 persons, a Sunday school for every 430, only five criminals for every 10,000 and reports an increase of wealth per capita of 40 Jier cent. Massachusetts has one school for every six persons, one Sunday school for every 1,230 and twenty cnmin als for every 10.000 of the popula tion, with an increase of wealth per capita of 6 per cent. These alarm ing symptoms show that Kansas is dead or dying! Clay Center Times. Which all goes to provc( that prohibition is killing Kansas. If such is the case just give us some more of the killing.

WHITAKER CLARK, Publishers. KnU'ivd at the Vost Office lit llurtim, drooiul class mull matter. One copy, one 5 One copy, six months, 75 Une copy, lour months, 5 One copy, three months, 40 Strictly la Fr President in W.H, IN .1. JXOALLS, Of Kansas. Thellcstltmil 111 till' lies! Slnte of tlie I'lliwi.

It is estimated that ut least seven tenths of the Alliance will not oppose Ingalls. (ioi was fined $100 for not answering a summons of a New York Court to net ns a petit juror. K.iiA Lkkch, a farmer of Newton County, Mississippi, discovered in gold while ditching in his field a few days ago. 1 explanation of the peculiar density of thunder clouds is said to lie in the fact that the vapor is partially condensed into drops by the floctrical action. Tub Ilolton Recorder hiings out Judge liroderiek for congressman of tin's district.

Next to Major Morrill we are for liroderick, and a good man he is, too. A (ikoroia vouth who answered (inclosing a quarter) an advertisement of how to make money without work got in reply a piece of paper inscribed: "Catch suckers as we do." On an average there are thirty-live more boys than girls born in New York City every week. On the average fifty more males than females die. So the female population grows more rapidly than the male. At the recent city election in Kansas City Col.

Case elected treasurer by 1,300 majority over his democratic opponent. Jt is accounted for from the fact that Mills spoke in Kansas City few days before the election. A dispatch sent from Hiawatha, last week, stating that Congressman Morrill had bought another newspaper, thellorton from the same source that all the lying dispatches from Hiawatha are. Why do republican papers publish such stuff as news? Troy Chief, Tiik military authorities of Russia have issued an order that cavalry men shall not wear their ordinary spurs when they attend a ball. They may wear spurs with blunt rowels, but they may also, if they prefcrvap.

)car in civilian clothes, with 110 spins at all. A a mors fact is noticed in connection with the formation of barnacles on ships' bottom. In a majority of cases there is a much heavier growth of grass on one side than on the other, and in numerous instances one side will be almost free while the other is as foul as K)8sible. For the benefit of our farmer readers who may not know the record of L. Tolk, president of the National Alliance, we will publish it in full iiext week.

That he is'a demagogue of the worst kind i shown up by those who knew him at his old home in North Carolina. The Horton Hkaim.ioiit handsomely roasts the jwrpctrator of the un just statement that Major Morrill has purchased the I1kaiu.h;ht and proposes to show the accusation up not true, but a vile and malicious lie. In justice to Mr. Whitaker as well as Mr. Morrill it is but fair that the le done.

Morrill News. Yes, and it is pretty near ripe, too. A oiiiin; to Judge Hrewer, if the House substitute for the original package bill becomes a law, it will not only practically end the original package business, but it wiil also prevent the dressed beef combine from shipping their poods into Kansas, the shipping of Texas tattle through the state if diseased, and the exclusion of iAXiistana sugar. The measure is evidently far reach-! ing in its possible tion to lie held at Holton, Kansas, on September 10, unit ten doleales to (lie Republican Ju dicial ('(invention to bo held at Hiawatha, Kan sas, on September IS, 18(H). The convention will choose a like number of alternates to each con vention.

The basis of representation for the several and wards shall be one dele. gale for each, twenty-five (25) votes and major fraction thereof cast for secretary of state In 18M, to-wJt' ist ward 3 1 1 41.I1 ward ...3 1 1st ward 3 Hiawatha City ward 4 4 (4tu ward 2 Irvliij? township 7 Morrill township 7 Itoblnson ...8 liescrve precinct 2 Kairvlew precinct Everest precinct 5 Willis precinct ..8 District 44 precinct 3 Padnnla township 5 Hiawatha township: .....10 Hiiinlin nreelnct Carson precinct 2 Washington precicnct 2 Baker precinct ..5 Klckaiioo preclncl 4 West Horton 2 Total 107 The central committee man of each precinct and ward will organize a board of three judges, two of whom shall perform duties of elerks to conduct the election of delegates which will be by ballot. The primaries In tlie country precincts will be held from 2 to 3 o'clock, ni. and in the cities of Hiawatha and Horton from 8 to 9 o'clock p. on August 28, 1890; In Mission township, oil account of the formation of a new precinct, one delegate Is taken from each of Willis and Baker precints, computed 011 the vote cast for sheriff in 1889.

The several committee men of the various townships, precincts and wards will give ample notice of the time and and place of holding the primaries. None but known Kepublicans will be entitled to a vote. By order of the Central Committee. Dated at Hiawatha, Kansas, August 4, 1890. M.

G. Ham, John Chairman. Secretary. Polk, the president of the Nation al Alliance, is a first-class fraud. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

HOI HE JOI XT KKSOLl'TIOX. SO. 3. House Joint Resolution No. 6, Proposing an amendment to sections three ami twenty-live of artlule two of the constitution.

Be it resulted by 1ie Legislature of the State of A'aiuas, heoJhirdt of the menZbers elected to each hotue thereof concurring tlierein Section 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of lie stale of Kansas is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection, namely: That section three, 111 tide two, be amended so that the same shall read as follows: Section 3. The members of the legislature shall receive as compensation for their services the sum of three dollars for each day's actual service at any or special session, and fifteen cents for each traveled by the usual route in going to and returning from the place of meeting; but no compensation shall be allowed or paid lo any member for more than ninety days at any regular session, nor for more than thirty dayB at any special session. And that section twenty-five of article two be amended so as to read as follows: Section 25. All sessions of the legislature shall be held at the state capital, and all regular sessions shall lie held once in two years, commencing on the first Tuesday of December ol each alternate year, commencing on the first Tuesday of December, A.

1). one thousand eight hundred and ninety. Slc. 2. This proposition shall besuhmitted to the electors of this state at the general election of rep-resentrlives to the legislature in the year A.

0. eighteen hundred and ninety, for their approval or rejection. Those voting in favor of this proposition shall have written or printed on their ballots, For the amendment to sections three and twenty-five of article two of the constitution;" those voting against the said proposition shall have written or printed on their ballots, "Against the amendment to sections three and twenty-five ol article two of the constitution." Said ballots shall be received and said votes shall le taken, counted, canvassed, and returns thereof be made, in the same manner and In all respects as is provided by law in case of the election of representatives to the legislature. Sicc.8. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and alter its publication in the statute book.

Approved March 1, 1889. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled resolution now on tile in my office, and that the same took effect by publication in the statute book May 25th, 18S9. WTUJAM MGGIN8, Secretary of State. IIOISK JOIXT RESOLUTION MO. House Joint RksollHon No.

8, For the submission of a proposition to amend the constitution ot the Stale of Kansas. Be it resolved by Ihe, Legislature of the State of Kansas, two-thirds of the. members elected to each houst thereof concurring Iherrin Section 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of this state is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection, namely: The constitution of the state of Kansas is hereby amended by striking out the nhole of sections two and thirteen of article three of the constitution, and inserting in lieu of said sections the following, which shall constitute section two of article three of the constitution: Section 2, The supreme court shall consist of seven justices, who shall be chosen by the electors of the state, four of whom shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of four shall be necessary to every decision of the court. Any elector of the state shall be eligible to he elected or appointed justice of the supreme court.

The justice holding the oldest commission by virtue of an election shall be the chief justice, and in case twoor more justices rball hold commissions by virtue of an election of the same date-, older than the commissions of the other justices, they shall determine by lot who shall be chief justice. The term of each justice of the supreme court shall he six years, commencing on the second Monday in January next after his election. On the adoption of this amendment the four additional justices provided for by this amendment shall be appointed by the governor, and shall hold their offices until the next general election in 1891, when their successors shall be elected, one to serve until the second Monday of January, 1894; another to serve until the second Monday of January, 18116; and the other two to serve until the second Monday of January, 1898. The membersof Ihe supreme court elected at or prior to the time of the adoption of this amendment shall be justices of the supreme court under this amendment for the period of time for which they were elected. After the general election in 1891 one justice of the supreme court shall lelecied at the general election in eali year except the year 1897, and every six years thereafter, when two justices shall be elected.

The justices of the supreme court and the judges' of the ilisl riot court shall at stated times receive for their services such compensation as may be nrovided by law: Prortdtd, Such compe-nsailou shall not lie less than fifteen hundred dollars to each justice or nidge each year; and such justices or judges shall receive no fees or perquisites, nor bold any nlher office) of profit or trust, except a iudicial office, under ihe authority of the state or the I'nlted States during the term ol oi'ice for which said justices nidges shall be elected, nor practice law in any of the courts in the state during their continuance in office. Sec. 2. This proposition shall be submitted to the electors or this state at the general election for the election of representatives to the legislature in the year A ft. eighteen hundred and ninety, ftir Ibcir approval nr rejection.

Those voting in favor this proposition to amend Ihe constitution shall bn-e wiitten or printed on their ballots, For the Iudicial amendment to Ihe constitution." Those vntinc against this proposition to amend the shall hare written or printed on their "Against the judicial amendment to the co.tilution." faid ballots shall he received and said voles shall he taken, counted, canvassed, and returns thereof made, in the same manner and in all respects as is provided by law in ecs uf the election of representatives in the letrlslatmo. Skc. S. This resolut ion shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute bonk. Approved February 27, 18t9.

1 hereby certify that the foregoing Is a true and cor-eei enpv of the original enrolled resolution now osi ule in my office, and that the same took ellect br publication in the statute book May 2.th, 1HS9. WH.I.IAM IIIGUIN8, wtot Safe, Equitable and Economical Insurance. Net Assets Jauuary 1, 1888, 51.752.53 Net Assets January 1, 1890, 8i.lS2.52 Net Assets January 1, 1890, 107.465.48 Insurance in force January 1, 1890, 7,544,500.00 Net Insurance in force during 1880, 1,327,000.00 Death Claims Paid to June 1, 1890 $225,000.00 Reserve in State Treasury, $51,000.00 Scientific in Foundation, Perfect in Plan and Unexcelled in Management. For Terms ot Policy or Agency, address J. P.

1 OFFICIAL ROUTE TO BOSTON. The "tfi eat Rock Island has bee declared the Official Route to the NATIONALS NSAMPMENT, 11 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, AT BOSTON, By the department ot Kansas. Special trains will leave Topeka at 5:25 p. m. and Kansas City at 7:25 August 3th, and run through to Boston without change.

This will be the finest train of the season, and will consist of Free Reclining Chair Cars, Pullman Tourist and Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars. Tickets will i be sold at ONE FARE the ROUND TRIP which is only one cent per mile from Topeka or the Missouri River, good to return until August 25, and by special arrnagements in Boston can extended until September 30th. Tickets will be on sale August 6th to August 10th, inclusive. The above rate will be open to all, and ample accommodations will be provided fQr those who buy their tickets via the Chicago Rock Island Pacific Kansas is going to capture the National Encampment in 1892, and the people ot the state should attend the Boston Reunion this year in force. For information of any kind, reservation ot Sleeping, Tourist or Chair car accommodations, address the Department Commander as Sabetha; S.

F. Boyd, Ass't Generel Ticket and Passenger Topeka; or T. J. Anderson, GenT A Topeka. K.

ST. JOHN, JNO. SEBASTIAN, n1 Ticki't anil I'hsu Agt, CHICAGO, ILL..