The Christian Citizen from Topeka, Kansas • 1

The Christian Citizen. DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING OF INTEREST TO CHRISTIAN PEOPLE. Vol. I. Topeka, Kansas, Wednesday, March 27, 1889.

THe Christian Citizen. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY The Riley Wake Printing Company, 701 Kansas Topeka, Kens. T. RILEY. BUSINESS A.

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Eskridge has a reverend lecturer bearing the name of -Manhattan Nationalist. The above item is considerably mix-ed, as the Rev. Mr. Mix is Rector of a church in North Topeka. THE Gladstonian's have gained another victory i in the election held the Gorton division of Lancashire, to fill the vacancy in the House of Commons caused by the death of Mr.

Peacock. Mr. Mather received a majority of 846. Ir is not because the prohibition law is not reasonably well enforced in Topeka, that the governor appointed police commissioners, but because he considered that the new law required him to appoint them in all cities of the first class. CAPT.

J. B. Johnson, judge advocate general of the G. 'A. R.

desides that it is contrary to the principles of the order for posts to endorse a comrade for the offic of post-master. They may give their individual endorsement, but not as WE rejoice that so large a number of the citizens of Topeka, have registered. The number reaches over 8000- Of this number, 2000 are ladies. At this writing it is difficult to estimate the chances of the different candidates for Mayor, though it appears to us most likely that Metsker will be the man. THE country is safe so long as such appointments are made as that of Z.

T. Walrond, of Osborn, No. 28. Kan. for District Attorney of the Indian Territory, and A.

Patton of Beloit, for post-office inspector of Kansas. We would like to see the effect it would have upon our entire country, with such men as these in all of the offices, for four years. Wr. are much pleased with the Rural Kansan, a new Monthly published at Marion, Kansas. We are surprised that such a variety of useful and interesting matter can be furnished for the small sum of fifty cents, yet, more wonderful still, we will furnish it free to new subscribers to the CHRISTIAN OITIZEN, at $1.50 per year, who pay cash in advance, or to old subscribers who pay arrearages to date, and one year in advanee.

JUDGE Sauftler, of the U. S. court of the second Judicial District of Wyoming, has lately rendered a very important decision, to the effect, that it is illegal for foreigners to vote on taking out first papers. This would compel all foreigners to reside in this country 5 years before they can vote. We shall be glad indeed if his decision is sustained.

We do not believe it possible for a citizen of any European country to vote understandingly in the United States, within a few months after his arrival; yet thousands do vote at the first opportunity after landing upon our shores. THE Atchison Champion says: "Wherever the Metropolitan police system has been adopted; it is almost universally commended as a much better system than the municipal system. It has given New York the best police organization in the world, as a substitute for the worst. In all the principal cities of Missouri it has been adopted, with the best results. St.

Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph all have the Metropolitan system. In Kansas City, Kansas, in Leaven worth, and in Wichita hundreds of men who were its bitterest opponents before its adoption are now its warmest advocates and supporters. In brief, it has so many advantages over the municipal system that it steadily grows in favor wherever it is tried. We believe this will be the result in all the cities of Kansas, when the new system is fairly inaugurated." THE sad tragedy which resulted in the death of Mr.

Werner, on Wednesday evening, in this city, and probably will result in the death of his supposed murderer, Mr. Spendlove, may readily be charged to two causes; one, the drinking habits of Mr. Spendlove, which led him, according to the testimony of one witness, to keep liquor in his office constantly, for his own useprobably getting it from Kansas City--and the other, that of carrying a revolver. The most of the murders that occur during quarrels, would never be committed, were it not for this pernicious habit, in violation of law, of carrying concealed weapons. In the heat of passion, it is so easy for a coward to draw his weapon and shoot, that for his own protection, he ought not to be allowed to carry one.

Association lately organized, have obtained rooms over Fish's Tea store on 6th Ave. and have fitted them up very nicely. The rooms are open from 10 a.m. to 9 p. m.

It is a delightful place for the working girls of the city to spend the noon hour or evening. 'Services are held on Sabbath at 4:15. p. m. THE Young Women's Christian THE Y.

M. C. A. of this city will give a reception to the printers on next Tuesday evening. The banquet will be furnished by the ladies of the Congregational church.

This will be the fourth in this series of receptions, and they are proving to be delightful and profitable. THE following by E. O. Frost, in Pacific Christian Advocate, is the best criticism we have seen on Robert Elsmere, and the reasons why he failed as a Christian Minister: First: In the story of his life. we find no evidence of conversion.

Repentanee for sin, and a personal reception of Christ is not mentioned; his decision to take holy orders was from a philanthropic rather than a Christian motive. He started wrong. See Matthew 4:17, John 1:12. Second: Elsemere retained as close and intimate friends, open disbelievers and scoffers of the truth he professed to believe and teach, See Psalm 2 Cor. 5:17.

Third, He gave a large share of his time to a pet hobby which is to bring him personal renown, and which, so far as can be learned, is not to the honor and glory of God, to whose service he has professed to devote his whole life. "See 2 Cor. Rom. Fourth: He sought to obtain justification by right doing. See Gal.

Rom. WE regret to see among the appointments made by the new administration, that of J. C. Clarkson, of Iowa, to be First Assistant -General. That he has been active and influential in conducting the last two campaigns all will admit, but his methods are such as to deserve condemnation rather than reward.

In 1884 he was prominently and dishonorably connected with the attempt to bribe John P. St. John to withdraw from the contest, and in 1888, he was active in the scheme to sinduce an employe of the Voice to steal the mailing list of that paper for the use of the Republican mittee. These charges are too well authenticated to be successfully denied and we are sorry to see the agent, if not the originator, of these highly questionable doings placed in a high position. It looks too much like an endorsement of his political methods.

THE deliberate manner in which the President pursues the task of making appointments is highly exasperating to the politicians. Because three precious weeks were allowed to go by before Kansas received its first crumb of comfort in the shape of an office, the partisan papers and hungry politicians became wrathful, and some very threatening demonstrations against our congressional delegation were indulged in, because of failure to obtain a share of the good things at the disposal of the government. The notorious Bill Hackney, and the fragrant J. Ralph Burton, it is said, sent dispatches to Washington heavily laden with curses hoping thereby to stimulate the representatives from this state into doing their duty. For what else are they paid $5,000 a year except to obtain offices for the fellows who manage, the caucuses and manipulate the conventions? Any man who thinks that senators and congressmen are maintained for the purpose of legislating in behalf of the whole people, is too verdant to understand practical politics.

We are highly gratified with the appointments made by Governor Humphrey, for police commissioners, of Topeka. Hon. P. I. Bonebrake is one of the best known, most reliable and successful business men of the State.

He has been in this county thirty years. Was county clerk ten years. elected Auditor of State in 1876, and held that position three terms. He is president of the Central National Bank of this city, and a christian gentleman in whom all classes have confidence. The Rev.

Dr. McCabe, is pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church. He came to Topeka twenty years and he has been closely identified with all its interests, material, moral and intellectual. He is a many-sided man, or, perhaps better, an all-round man. No one can estimate the value of his work and influence in our city.

It is hardly too much to say, that everybody respects him, and "to know him is but to love him." Mr. Charles F. Spencer came to Topeka with his parents in 1857, when but three years old. Ho received his education in Topeka, and was admitted to the bar in 1878. We have no personal acquaintance with him, but have no doubt that he will act in harmony with the other gentlemen of the board, and that the police government of Topeka, will be safe in their hands.

The board will have entire charge of the police government of the city, including the appointment of a police judge, policemen, captain of police, two sergeants, one sanitary sergeant, one jailor, and one driver. The annual salary of the commissioners is fixed by the executive council, and cannot be more than $400 for each commissioner for a city of the first class. The secretary, however, may be allowed $200 in addition to his salary as commissioner. Their term of office begins the first Tuesday in April. Under the head of a Lie," the Capital Commonwealth publishes the following from a correspondent: Having noticed in a late issue of the Kansas Democrat a statement "that no man ever came into Topeka and invested his money because of prohibition per se." And again, "that nobody ever came to Kansas to live because of prohibition per se," the writer would like to state that there are parties who have invested money in Topeka because of prohibition 83 and there are parties, not few, who have settled in Kansas because of us prohibition per se, and they are not "weak kneed" or "weak minded" persons either.

They come here to get rid of the open saloon and they got rid of it. One lady whom the writer assisted in paying her drunken husband's fine in a saloon city, came to Kansas to try to save him, and the closed saloon was his salvation. He is now a sober well-to-do citizen. These are facts that can be substantiated and should be better known, and the papers of Kansas would do yeoman service for the state if they would enlarge more upon the benefits accruing from its prohibition laws. Keep the fact before the public that there are no open saloons in Kansas, and that the laws against the liquor traffic are enforced as against any other crime, and the sunflower state will continue in population of the best sort as it has ever since she had the courage to legislate against the crime of crimes.

M. A. C. THE fight on the mayoralty question in Topeka, is getting altogether too warm. If the enemies of Mr.

Metsker, cannot defeat him without descending to abuse, impugning the motives and defaming the reputation of those who are supporting him, it seems to us that they had better give up the fight. In behalf of the ladies who saw fit to vote for him at the primaries, we clip the following from a communication, by one of their number, to the Cap. Commonwealth. "But as women voters--the charge we hurl back with indignation is a recent issue of the Jonrnal, and iterated also by a the Copeland meeting, was the statement in effect that the supporters of Mr, Metsker among the women were confined almost exclusively to the colored women and "women of a certain class." It hardly seems possible that even the bitterness of personal strife would permit an American to thus insult respectable women; knowing that women dread any imputation upon their honor or the possibility of being classed with the vicious of their sex the charge is as unmanly as it is false; dozen of women as pure, as intelligent and as conscientious as any in the city went to the polls and voted for Mayor Metsker because they believed in his honesty, and were indignant at the presistent war waged against him for the past two. years by his personal enemies." Later: It is but just to state that the Journal claims that its language and that of the Copeland meeting was not such as is charged by the above writer.

The uew Postmaster General wil soon be the best abused man in the United States. The country will be flooded with stories and statements to his discredit. Two unpardonable sins can be laid to his charge. First, he is a christian man, earnest, active in religious work and ing in his fidelity to his convictions. This arrays the unbelieving pressgang against him so that if anything he says or does can be twisted to make a point against religion it will be made to serve that purpose.

For this reason the Nation charges him with contributing and soliciting campaign funds when he was morally certain that the money would be used improperly, and then sneeringly adds that he is being defended and upheld only by the religious press, thus trying to score a point against the man and another against the church at the same time. His other great sin is that he proposes to carry correct business methods into the conduct of public affairs. This arouses the ire of the politicians. That the head of a government department should cherish the idea that the offices exist for any other purpose than to reward men for partisan services is a thing beyond their comprehension. The first open quarre lwith Mr.

Wanamaker must be laid at the door of a Kansas congressman. Mr. Funston asked, or rather demanded, the appointment of a certain postmaster in his district, when the Postmaster General very properly desired that the papers in the case should be submitted to him before the appointment should be decided on. To this the congressman demurred, insisting that if he were satisfied that should be sufficient, and so demanded the appointineat of his nominee without more ado. To this arrogant demand Mr.

Wanamaker replied that he proposed to be something more than a clerk employed merely to make out commission under the direction of members of congress. An appeal to the President resulted in the Postmaster General being sustained in the position he had taken, and the discomtiture of the gentleman from Kansas. He threatens open war with the foolish official who thinks that he can run a government department on the same common sense principles on which a mercantile business would be conducted. It will now be in order for the partisan press to denounce Mr. Wanamaker as impracticable and fanatical, a hypocrite, a mugwump, a man too pious for politics.

The politicol papers will soon be heard barking in chorus at his heels, and demanding that a politician shall be put in charge of the postal department. A man who does not knnw better than to carry a conscience into public office must be gotten rid of at the earliest possible moment. JOHN WANAMAKER. seems to be well satisfied with the way the ladies have run the affairs of that city for the past year. We believe this is the only instance on record where the municipal officers have all been ladies.

We also believe, that if more of the ladies were elected to office in our cities the cause of morality would be a gainer. Here is what the Independent says: "The 'woman's government' of this city leaves the treasury over a hundred dollars better off than they found it, besides showing a very creditable amount of work on streets and walks during the year. We believe they have in all cases done just what they believed to be right and proper, without fear or favor -which is the right way to do it. They may have made mistakes, but we doubt i if any preceding administration will show up as well as this, and we believe they should be given another term. We understand that the mayor and at least three of the council will consent to run again, and we think if the ticket is judiciously filled out it can be elected by a majority of two to one, judging from the expressions we hear.

THE Washington Sentinel a leading brewers organ, gives its opinion as to the causes of the defeat of prohibition in New Hampshire, and the way to defeat it in THE Oskaloosa Independent other states. If only the friends of prohibition, would all stand together, as the liquor men always do, it would be easier to win, and a general victory would come gooner. Under the heading, Three Cheers for Frank Jones, the editor of the Sentinel says: "Our congratulations to the Hon. Frank Jones for the great anti-Prohibition viatory in New Hampshire! There is no man in or out of New Hampshire 1 to whom that victory is due more than him. But for him it would not have been achieved.

But what did our honored friend, who owns large brewing establishments at Portsmouth, do? How did he prevent the passage of the Prohibition amendment? As we are informed by Prohibition papers last week, he took the only course which a friend of personal liberty can take--he appealed to his friends. To the democrats he pointed out that at all times he had been a consistent democrat. had represented his Congressional disteict twice in Congress, and had never betrayed them by fence riding or absolute apostacy. He asked them to turn out on election day and save their liberty and his hard-earned property from destruction-and they did turn out to stand by their friend. The Republicans he reminded that he had always been an honorable and generous foe.

He showed to them the folly of passing laws that would drive prosperity out of the State and turn the people into hypocrites! He beseeched them to look into the adjoining States of Maine. and Vermont and observe the havoc which Prohibition had made with the morals and temperance of their neighbors there. He asked them, if they could not vote against the amendment, at least to stay at home and not vote at all--and many of them followed his advice and abstained from voting. Instead of obtaining the necessary two-thirds vote in favor of the amendment, the latter has been voted down by a majority of over 5,000. Had Frank Jones been a Republican, or a sort of uncertain Democrat, there is no doubt but that New Hampshire last Wednesday would have become EL Prohibition State.

Let the personal liberty leaders in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, and other States learn. from Col. Jone's example that after all it is the best policy to be honest and adhere to one's friends in this great political struggle--for there is nothing else but politics in it. Read the extracts we publish elsewhere from Pennsylvania! They are very significant. You 'have to get the Democrats out and persuade the Repub licans to stay home, if you want to be successful.

As to how that is to be done, ask the Hon. Frank Jones, of New Hampshire! He can tell you!" SENATOR Joel Moody, lately delivered a lecture at the State University, on Cabeza De Vaca, the first Kansan. The Journal says: The lecture proved to be of entrancing interest, and was listened to with uninterrupted delight. His delineation of the heroic adventures of his subject, and his almost superhuman endurance of the fatigues and dangers of the perilous and weary march of the Spanish high sheriff and his three companions from sea to sea, was marvelously graphic. The narrative of this romantic pilgrimage, although printed in 1542 in Spain, was not translated or known outside that kingdom until given to the world in 1851 by Buckingham Smith, who published but 100 copies of his version, only three or four of which numbers are known as now in existence.

The lecture commenced with the landing in 1528 near Tampa Bay, Florida, a considerable force of Spaniards in search of gold. In the description of the attempt to explore the coast, and its miserable, failure, the encounters with hostile tribes, of wonderful as archers, the abandonment of the explorers by their comrades in the ships, the rapid decimation of the party as it crept inland, and the forlorn attempt to navigate in boats made of wood, rudely fash ioned, using the skins of the legs of horses, slain drinking for food water, to while make the buckets manes and tails were employed in the manufacture of ropes, it swept on with all the charm of a romance, until it brought the handful of survivors with Cabeza de Vaca as the central figure, to the shore again. The recital of his six years sojourn with the Indians, acquainting himself with their manners and customs, his acceptance as "the child of sun," and at length his passage northward into the mountains of Alabama, down to the Tennessee, and Mississippi on ever and the westward, plains cross- and mountains beyond, until he passed a- round the great bend of the Arkansas, and reached the "low country," thus first any white man standing on the soil of Kansas, ended only with his emergenee into the Spanish settlement of Mexico. a post..