The Abilene Dispatch from Abilene, Kansas • 1

Abilene Dispatch Vol. lO. Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas, Feb. 7, 1895. NO.

6. The The Worst Kind of Calamity It is implied that the statement was made in the council that the That Baptist Trouble. EDrron Dispatch: The Brooklyn strikers seem to bo on top this time. Legislature on a Drunk. The Kansas Legislature accorapan WM- COOLEY.

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The sale or additional bonds is a thing to be regretted, but we can expect nothing better from cither of the old parties. G3V. Tillman, the newly elected populist senator from South Carolina, lias arrived at the conclusion that it What has come o'er the spirit of the Reflector's "dreams" within the past month? It is advocating a poll cvthat ever since the Alliance and People's party came into existence it, and those who dictate Its course have condemned. Its present policy Js calculated to drive capital out of Kansas and keep it out. The policy of which we speak is the partial repudiation of our debts.

It advocates a law for the cancelation of the entire debt upon foreclosure and sale of the mortgaged property. Of course this li not original with the Reflector. It never has any original Ideas on great questions, and as it has always done, it has bowed down to kiss the feet of its great Joss, the Topcka Capitol. It saw an editorial in the Capitol advocating the passage of such law. Straightway It forgets all its former utterances on the qucstlou and writes this up as original, and does not even give tLe Capital credit for the sug-gestion.

Bless your poor benighted intellect, Mr. Reflector editor, this idea is not only, not original, with you, it is not original with J. K. Hudson. It Is Populist doctrine, one of the principal reforms that they have called for during the past four years, and one of the things for wnich they have been denounced from one end of the land to the other.

The writer of this article has openly advocated reform for seven years. Why my dear Reflector, this is antagonistic to. the very spirit of Morrill's message. It Is calamitijistic; it is socialist ic, communistic and anarchistic. What does It mean? Why simply this; the leaders of the republi can party admit the justice of populist principles; they know they dare not uudo what has been done by pop ulists; they must keep on in the same line if they do not want to be ever-hvt ingly wiped from the face of the political earth.

The democratic par ty, is reaping hat the republicans ive sown," and because of this harvest the democratic party is waiting only for external oblivion. In obedi ence to the will of the leaders, small try like the Reflector, are hedging, but in this particular Instance the Jackal is trying to gnaw the lion's tongue. But let the reform come, Populist principles carried int-i full operation by some other party will benefit the people just as much as if it were through the party that orig inateed them. To be sure it is too had that he shrews of the political world shr-uld reap the rewards for good deeds forced from them. The county officers' lobby at Tope- ka is said to be the most powerful ever organized In the state.

Their chief object is to retain the present exorbitant fee law. Make them all salaried officers, gentlemen of the legislature. What benefit does a tunty derive from keeping luxurious headquarters, furnishing clerk of court, sheriff and register of deeds, stationary, light and fuel, when their sustenance is the fees exacted? Put tnem on a salary. Garden City Sentinel. What would you think if you went into the post office and the postmaster charged you two cents and at the same time sold me stamps at 1 cents each and gave stamps to another man? Would you think the post master was drunk or there was some' thing rotten? Well, In a matter that concerns you just twenty times as much this is done every day In the of railroad tickets.

You working people pay three cents a mile, by buying 1,000 miles, buy for I cents a mile, while the Very rich ride on passes, unny you can't see you are as much interested in that as you are in postage stamps. If you want equal treatment, vote to have the nation own the railways. Coming Nation. J. R.

Burton who was not elected U. S. Senator on account of the fight made on his moral reputation was called on to respond to a toast at the Leavenworth banquet last Friday night. After deploring the members of the legislature on account of the made on him he said: "It is damnable to assail the character cf a public man," and in closing his re mark on this subject he said, "Character can be assailed but it can nevej. be assassinated.

church was notified of the calling of the ex-parte council. This implica tion Is false. No one In the council claimed that either the church or the pastor was notified of the calling of the council. Why we ask should any one seek to excuse the council, or those calling itf for not doing that which they were not under the slightest obligation to do? This was an ex-parte council, the other side was not entitled to notice of Its assemblage had no rights within the council, though they were accorded some courtesies which they did not accept. It was stated in the council that request was made of the church to call mutual council, and a copy of that request I saw pinned in the church record book during the council.

Itis denied in the article that Tol iver was excluded from the church In the same meeting in which charges were preferred against him. But this is shown to be true, by th article to which this Is a reply. Charges are not preferred against an individual according to all Baptist authority when lodged in the hands of a committee. They must be brought before the church and the church must vote on them. But within that meeting of the church in which the charges were presented to the cnuRcn (as it appears in the article of Dlngee et al) Toliver was excluded.

Not only must the arraignment be before the church and by the church, but before the member to be disciplined is In proper shape to be dealt with, he must be furnished not only a copy of the charges made against him, but he must also have the most minute specifications of the things alleged. And again after all this has been done, he must be given ample time in which to make answer. Toliver was furnished a very gen eral statement of. the things charged against him, says he never saw a copy of the specifications until after his exclusion, and was bustled out of the church the same night in which he was arraigned before it. Baptists believe in fair play, but here was indecent haste and manifest unfairness.

Dingee et al says Newell "has been the persistent hater of this, the Abilene church, since the time of our pas tor Rev. Welsher. He was the cause of the withdrawal of aid to any church whose representative stood by Dr. Welsher. He was instrumental in the forming of the Immanuel church at Abilene and furnished $200 to Rev.

naliplaln to carry on his work." Now let us 'see how even professing christian men can sometimes misrepresent when it is to their Interest to do so. In the second Wel sher couticll the delegates from the Ellsworth, Minneapolis and Hering-ton churches stood by Welsher. Ev ery one of them has since that time received help from our state convention. Even the Abilene church was helped last year by our convention, and every one of these appropriations were made on my recommendation as the Secy, of the convention. I opposed the organization of the Immanuel church as many will remember.

Haliplain never was appointed by our convention and never received a cent at any time fiom me. Rattlesnakes sometimes get so mad that they bite themselves. L. D. Newell.

Manhattan, Kan. If Jan. 24th. 1895. In a public speech down at Leaven worth last week J.

R. Burton in referring to the part he played in the U.S. senator contest said; "We have met the enemy, but I don't want to explain what happened. I don want to haz-zard my own chances in the future." My attention having been called to an article in tho Abilene paper of recent date and I beg as a matter of fair play that I may have space in your columns for a reply. One of the headings of the article characterizes the proceedings uf the council as the "Star Chamber Tro ceedintrs of an Ex-Parte council." It Is true the council was an ex-parte council.

It was called as such and it conducted itself strictly as an ex parte council. Indeed there was nothing left the excluded members of the church, but to either tamely sub mit to the unjust exclusion or to call an ex-parto council. Tho pastor had been strongly urged to call a Mutual council and had he chosen to do so, would have been entitled to name one half the churches from which del egates should come. He did not choose to do this. Tlue church was next asked to call a Mutual council and had it done so would have been entitled to name half the churches from which delegates should come.

The excluded members were eager to trust their case to an ecclesiastical court const! tutcd on this basis. We submit that that must be a sorry cause which will not stand being submitted to such a council. What do the people of Abi lene think must be the relation of the Baptist church in that city to the great body of Baptists in Kansas when bavin the entire state from which to choose they are not willing to submit their cause to a mutual council of their Baptist Brethren one half of the delegates composing which must come from churches of their own selection? It is true the ex-parte council held an executive session, but does anyone suppose we should have better pleased our accusers had we thrown the ses sion open to the public? In shutting our door to outsiders didn't we do the prudent and decent thing? However let it be understood that though the council was not open to those not specially interested, the pastor and clerk of the church both had offered them an opportvnity to sit with us. It is urged in a whining way that L. i).

Toll ver was asked and refused to bring charges against the pastor in writing. But fortunately for him self Toliver was too to be caught in any such trap as that There was a deep laid scheme to put him in the attitude of accuser, but it didn't work. What Toliver did do, what he continued doing to the very last and what he was in reality finally excluded from the church for doing was to insist that certain charges against the pastor, already reduced to writing and finally sworn to, be investigated. But had Toliver chosen to become the accuser of the pastor, be would have been entirely Jus tified by Baptist policy and usage in refusing to bring his charges before any committee. The proper place to bring charges against a member of a Baptist church is at the bar of the church itself.

Why this attempt to Intervene a "Committee to receive charges" between the accuser and the church itself, the only tribunal which can properly try the case? The answer to this question suggests itself. It is claimed that Toliver pleaded guilty to -the charges on which he was excluded from the church. This i Toliver, and others in the church affirm to be false. He says that in substance he said, thit looked at from the churc '8 stand point he was but looked at from his stand point (The Bible) be was not guilty. led by about 200 of the leading politicians of Kansas took advantage of last Friday night to show their cot tempt for the laws of Kinsas.

The occasion was a public banquet given at Leavenworth In honor of the election of Lucicn Baker as U. Senator. So far as the banquet Is con ccrned, had It been conducted aloi the line of decency, would have been most commendable, and very appro priate. But when it comes to the law-making body openly violating its own laws, it is an example of cussed' ncss that will justly meet the censure and condemnations of all believers in law and order. Such a spree as the Legislature took last Friday night is an example that will give Jointlsts and club men a power that will almost place them beyond the control of the law.

These jointlsts to justify their course have nothing to do but point ti the Legislature to prove that the people want the open saloons. The Legislature has shown it in the drunk at Leavenworth. Kansas Mortgage Law. The Topeka Capital of Sunday has a long and very appioprlatearticleon the mortgage law as it is in Kansas and makes a vigorous kick against its further existence. In giving a brief summary of the law as it now stands, It says: "Under the present mortgage law where a foreclosure suit Is begun, if the mortgage or any part of it is past due, a judgment can be se- cured and an order for the sale of the property mad; by the court to satis.

fy ttie judgment. The parties hold- ingtlie mortgage can bid the proper- iv in kit orone-rourtn orles: there no opposition, and get a good it'e to the property and also se cure a personal judgment for the bal auce dije. To make it nlai tier. a man may mortgage his homestead, worth, we will say, $3,000 for $1,000, at 8 per cent interest. If he default the interest he holder of the an sue a secure judgment for the unpaid interest and taxes, hen it comes to a ale by order of th cou-t, if appraisement has been waived as it usually is, the holder of the mortgage can bid that pr pertv in if there are no other bidders eur, ami it is seldom there are.

for one or two hundred dollars. If taxes and back interest amount to $100 a bid or $200 would leave a ersonal judgment of 900. The farm worth Iras been taken to pay thedebt of and there is in addition to the giving up of the property a judgment af $1)00 to paid. This is no, an exaggerated case. Properties are being sold all over Kansas under mortgage upon which the amount loaned did not exceed one-third the value at the time of the loan, and personal judgments of one-third, one- half and sometimes three-fourths of he loan are taken.

The legislative swell banquet which was held at Leavenworth last Friday night spent $300 for drinking purposes and after all had gotten so beastly drunk they could hardly stand up. David Overmeyer very wittingly re-markedthat they had not been drinking "Hydrant Had the election of Senatoi Peffer or Martin been celebrated, with a general drunken row like that of Baker was, I1; i would have been a sufficient reason for. defeating the People's Party, "but since Baker is a republican and the republican party Is responsible for the prohibition law, the act will in the estimation of that party be commended. The republican party Is on trial. It Is on probation after backsliding.

It has to do petter than it has '-ver done before. Lawrence World (Rep.) Yes, the party is certainly on trial and if it does not do a dickens of a si.ht better than It has started out, It will get let down again in two years. Ti people mean business and they want no nonsene. Thos. Kirbu- BANKER, Abilene, Kansas.

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per sale, according toamount of property to be sold. Open 'dates can be learned at the Chronicle ofiee. 'S necessary to form a new party. Col. Breckcnridge Is determined to keep himself conspicuously before the public, if he does have to punch a fellow congressman.

head to do It. The Brooklyn trolly street cir lines, which refused to run its cars In compliance with the supreme urt has had its franchise privilges an nulled. The British papers speak very com plimcntary of the late message of President Cleveland's, and intimate that he will be able to force his views on both of the old parties. In a spasm of purity the republi can party turned Burton down. If that spasm shoald become cluonic, there would be no candidate in that party in 1896.

Ottowa Journal. The bill to appropriate money for the State Printer's deilciency, should not be passed without careful consideration and much pruning. The subject of public printing is more of a steal than anything else. The executi 'e council of Kansas made a very good selection in electing Joe Lowe, J. M.

Simpson, and S. T. Howe, as the hoard of railroad commissioners. 1 selection of II-1 we was niydt. without any effort whatever on his irt.

A very gr iv? weighty state. ment Is mde by Will "bile in tl Kansas City Ptar In which he says, "Mr. Dewey, of Abilene, will tell the Lanier circle about and will use as an illustration "60 on the first ballot." While the Dispatch has little faith in the Senn Salary Bill, it does insist that the countv officials are receiving ton much money rendered The people want thfse salaries re duced. Senator Sonn should procure some assistance and a bill that will stand the test In the courts. A St.

Louis office. hMd.r, against whom a contest has been brought. fil'S charges which shw when footed that contestant receivd 78,0 )0 votes re tli in should have been counted for him. This Is a trifle strange, for the total vote of both of them was onlv 60.00). Rev.

Myron Heed, the Denver minister who had the nerve to preach a-gainst the politicians in his church last June and was expelled from the pulpit, his first sermon In his new church last Sunday. The church was built, especially for him. nis subject was "An American I A special election will be held In the: tenth congressional district of Georgia in April, to select a congressman. The candidates in the late el- ection were Watson and Major Black. JdV.

Black was declared elected by the returning board, but owing to the o-pen fraud that was perpetrated, it was decided between the candidates to hold a special election. We have said that we should publish a list of those who owe us and refuse to pay, and we shall do it. Brown County World. We have abiutconclued to do the same thing There is no other business to be compared to that of the newspaper. The debts are so small and scattered over such a large territory that common business methods can not be used "in collecting.

Council Grove Republican. The Dispatch has had some eiper-' ience along this line and recommends it a a good plan if used with discre-- tlon. We make it a point to be very patient and long suffering if a man has a disposition to be honest, but we don't hesitate to doa little free advertising when man shows beyond a Joaot that he is a rascal..