The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-10-01
THE FODDER HUNTERS IN
WICHITA.
The reform Menagerie.

Last Saturday was the day, 2 O'Clock
the hour. ,rl by the small bills for Il
free exhibition TO the grasshopper rid
den, poverty stricken republicans of
Wichita. Of the reform j. c. Cusey. of
S3l rroclivities, of the reform J. X.
Hudson, of fancy stock notoriety, and
of the reform Nelson Abbott, Of bor-
der rufliun fame.
Bat one man, Nelson Abbott, editor
of the old democratic Patriot, of
Atchison, put in an appearance. }.
X. Hudson didn't come because he
wasn't exactly used TO that kind Of
company yet. Cusey took suddenly
sick and went back to Topeka. So
Nelson had it all his own way to
crowd OF about hundred in the court
house. most of whom were there as
witnesses, iurvmen or officers. The
| court took recess to give him a
chance. The effort was highly iigura-
! tive, so much SO that we have sent for
hundred pounds of extra figures
with which to put his speech i'll type.
1t appeared to be a reform financial
effort, Nels' speech, with first a row Of
figures and then a conjunction, row
of figures and proposition, row of
figures and AN adjective, with Grant,
Osborn and the republican party dis
tributed around promiscuously with
continued figures. The effort for sg-
ures beat the lightning calculator, and
if the republican party of Kansas is
counting anything on figures it is our
opinion we are a beat community and
that Abbott will get away with us bag
and baggage.
After exhaustiug the financial tables
of the state and nation and all the
published statistics, Abbott depressed
a moment to mourn over the dishon'
esty and thieves in the republican par
ty, bu: neglected to give the figures o.
the steal Of the reform party under
James Buchanan when il stole The
navy and arsenals Of the nation.
He pathetically alluded to the 'wal
of races" and the fight in Louisiana, bu
forgot the '.canine race" and its con
nection with Harrington, the reform
candidate for Lieut.. Governor in Kan
sas, and the fight in which that worth.
was horsc-whipped.
lie continued to magnify and length
) eli out the shortcomings of our Tom
and belittle the big interest of on
{ Sam. but proved entirely oblivious t.
e the little matter of record develOpe,
t last week, whereby the reform candi
+ date for governor tried last winter 4
1 swear ihirty-one dollars of the PEG
= pies money into his own pockets.
I Clinging to the ragged edge of DIES
+ pair, with lachrymose detection h
: dwelt upon the glorics OF manhoo
: and the liberty of the individual, bu
5 did not recall the time when he advo
c Gated slavery as divine ordinance.
/ Like big grasshoppcr on a swee
V potato vine, he bore down upon th
> extravaganza of the radical party an
the past corruptions Of republican
4 once high in authority in Kansa
: but in al his figures he remembers
e not that the state levy for the past fiy
i wears has averaged but about seve
mills and that every one of the men
whom he alluded had been shelved b
the republican party.
:, But we cannot follow him-not unit
4, our figures come. II was heap
:. sugar for cent. Ii was the old de
"a pairing wall of The hungry for 70,
:, der-a howl from the crack of doc
4. that found an echo only in the hear
: of the bunker democrats but distur
% ed not the placidity of the weake
, republican.