The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-06-29
Editorial Correspondence.
DORIS AND NOTES From OUR STRAY EDITOR
Number Two.

cnmscribed stamping ground of the
inquisitive Yankee and the initiative
Mongolian, have we Travelled, but
never before have we had, in one trip
so many misconncctions and mishaps
This Sunday afternoon finds us il
the valley of the Susquehanna. at tbs
capital of Pennsylvania, the rain
descending in regular old-fash.
Toned drizzle-drozzlc and no hopes Of
getting a train for Baltimore and
Washington before five O'Clock this
evening. AS we sit writing, a lot OF
fellows are looking at our name OF
the hotel register, vainly endeavorine
to dccipher the worm fence. "Wichi.
ta'' 'and wife, is plain enough we
judge by their talk. One fellow
looks like he might be a Judge of the
Supreme Bench or the Govcrnor-of.
fers TO bet that il is some insane fellow
that has murdered his wife.
We left Pit,sburg this morning be
fore daylight. As we looked from
the ear window down upon the many
roaring, flaming, smoking furnaces
foundrys and iron works, Nic.-ihat's
our wifc-thought it looked like the
"bad place" with the lid off, sure
enough.
Our ride to-day, over the Pennsyl.
vania Central, for two hundred miles
was grand indeed. laundering down
through the valley, where ever flows
so lightly the sparkling Juniata
sweeping around her rugged hills and
mountains at forty-fyc miles an hour
flying panorama of fields, pastures
and woodland, dotted with the home;
and herds Of the well-to-do Pennsyl
vania farmer, and now and then a neat
little village snugly tucked in, to fill
up some level spot, made picture
that Vic says she viii not soon forget,
nor don't believe | will, although il
is not the first time over the same
route.
We left Chicago Yesterday morning
at nine o'clock. Being there but three
or four hours we did not note much
except that it had been raining.
The crops through Northern Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio were sorry looking
enough. To contemplate them, espe-
cially the thin wheat and oats, would
give an Arkansas Valley farmer the
bellyache. For fear we should forget
it, and as we have never said anything
Of the kind before, we will say right
here that "the Arkansas Valley is the
greatest country in the world"
Our last letter was written from
Davenport, Iowa, we believe. When
we closed it the fifth ballot was being
taken at Cincinnati. In that letter we
said that we supposed we must give
up the EAGLES candidate, Ruther-
ford B. HAYES. The EAGLE had not
only come out for him last fall, but
had strenuously opposed instructing
the Kansas delegation. We were
alone in the former, as far as Kansas
papers are con cerned, and the first in
the latter. In two hours after that
letter had been mailed you might have
seen one country editor ont on the
banks of the Mississippi river, ali
alone, turning somersaults and kick
ing his only plug hat all over the leyee.
1t was too good and too much to en-
JOY all alone, but alone we had to go
through with it. Talk of political sa-
gacity! We ask who brought out
Greeley in '6S? Who brought on;
Hayes in 80? But enough of that.
We will shake hands with the boys
who had not enough pluck TO help us
get up Hayes club last fall when we
preached the matter. And while we
are at it we will just put in our polit-
ical say:
The Republican National Conven-
ton was q double victory for the
country. It nominated ticket which
will be heartily accepted and endorsed
by the Republicans and Reformers OF
the country. 1t won second victory
in nominating Hayes in spite of other
arrangements made by the politicians.
That Convention has earned the
thanks of the whole American people,
without reference to party. The NOM
ination l, the triumph of the reform
element of our party, and in obedi-
ence TO demand of the people for pu-
rifcation. For the nomination of q
man SO pure, publicly and privately,
and at the same time so identified
with the great reformatory measures,
which prevailing corruption has made
SO essential, the body of the Republi-
can party will rejoice. 1t is inmate
rial who is nominated at St. Louis, the
Republican party has been saved from
the only defeat which threatened it.
The campaign will be lively one, es-
pecially if Tilden is nominated. Our
platform means war upon the whole
Confederate line with Hayes at the
head of party which has never known
defeat, and with Wheeler as his First
Lieutenant. The ticket and the plat
form mean, together, an honest Presi-
dent and an honest Government, an
honest administration and honest
money. What ronsing old vote will
we give them in Sedgwick county.
AS we said at the beginning of this,
we are Off for the city of bloody poll
ticians, tormenting distances and
cheap clerks, and we will write from
there before leaving for Philadelphia.
p. S.-Vic. is sitting looking out of
the window. She says she is admiring
the Pennsylvania State house, but we
know better. She is thinking of lit
tie home in the Arkansas Valley and
the dear babies we left behind US
there. NJ. NJ, NJ.
Number Three.
WASHINGTON, June %, 1876.
DEAR EAGLE:-Of what my last
letter contained there is not the faint
est rinnln of mnmnry this afternoon.