, 1880-05-04
ELI PERKINS OUT WEST.

The Coming w1aent Oror-FarsnirtG In
Western Kanhus-Tho Voters Against
tirant.
On TIE Cans IN rit.tNo1s. April M.-Tb tAs
Editor u lte Neto York 6isn-sln: In passing
across tho continent and back. am impressed
with thrco things.--tho splondld wheat crop, tho
opposition OF tho voting Republicans 10 Grants
candidacy, and tho bad agricultural outlook for
poor Kansna.
The wheat GRIP in Now York and punnsyt-
vnnla, Ohio. Michigan, Illinois. Indianu, and
Missouri. has not looked botter in twelve yoara
havo tcen In each nr thase Btates, aud ! havo
not yet seen single p>or piece of wheat Then,
6Sses hs Sst e% ever
Kyansvil'e Il sltnntea, i almost wholly xiven W
% ea sna assSa a;. o e %
viii produce 100000 b,tshcls. Southern Illinois
aq Hpo; ~ a ,en Son,y e M en propee
100000 bushols this year, 81 CiaEr, :,2d0.oU. and
J9rsoy nntl Green Counties: aud. in fact, all of
Illinois. Indiana, Ohio, and Missouri. IN tho Rame
'ol ia prairie bottom lunds around Champagne,
nS d raaes ra 9 oaea soTa
with It: 4 dozen crops Of, corr hnvo reduced
tho rich atluyal prnifio soi 20 that Il now yields
ralsel. Tho whoat In Ohio and Michigan cnuld
aFessed a ,os n''S Tso S en|y 1s %ss,
found arc few plcc.s of winter wheat IN wis
s,onSin and Northern Iowa, which have nready
esa sSsn IL p%swes %ssssr s'Fns "''A'
Iss s,si9Stsd : n is m ths x5S1ying M shsas ,ss
crop 1os tn1 @ ~ s yea9 ap st IT,
s,op ate sssss ,ss atowls ssat sR crpp @ at BUSH
c1s Al dealers and wheat brokers who hntc
looked over tho country as hnye agrco with mo
How nbo,,e Kansas7 .,.-.
fy11IGN nf TNDHkN fhntt II }trN1NA tn
cemcs worthless At Hayes CITY, which . on tho
of Aborliae and ealit,a III Knnsaa are a failure
thrce yenre out Of tiye, aud tho people might as
pek Ts of E hc1 9a peaps i ss s
truth must I've told. Hero nre son,o haId fae.s
gnineda from pcrsoual contact With tlionsand
nasf Kssas @
BAD and a!ways l IT, e5 !seE nssopls arc
sno ass eotry M wsss II sa 9a The
other day met John aud James LarTadco. for,
mf95,y Of naeine Ws II Thsy ,na assa a
port ne crops wcut of Larned even, iast year.
To ia ieno S Goanty, % Kasas iost four crops in sue
ccssion by ,hoppers and drought. and then ro-
turned e 1!lnis 70 sta.t ai,a eRai in w. FINN
Berlin, Wis: Tho bad country ruined him. Nc
told mo los farms wero for salo for taxcs In
s. +, Menues went from Elmtrnt MY, oWcat..
ern Knnsas. ind, though ho worked hard ho did
not have Is worth Of crof, IN five ycrs. Iie was
reduced to begging CORN, Ike many OF his
! nefghbors, md thtn left Knnsns. ...
| Inoet omIErnnts every day on tho cars 70
turning from Western Kansas ruined md broken
princplcd railroad n9cnts from allnring t1zmcrs
| in tho East to certnlu beHgary In western knn-
eas, out beyond tho 10th parallel. Starvation
! awRits any 6snigfnnt who gGeB west OF IIaycb
| City On tho Knnkns Pacific Railroad, OF Fort
| LnFned on tho Atchson, Topeka Santa Fe.
| 1hnve voted for Con. Grant twtOa for prcsi"
dent, and what now say say Reluctantly.
| Grants th!Td-term candidacy among voting Ro-
| publicans all over the country. hoar dozeus
| OF sound Republicans say DULY:
~ Will throw away my vote baforo Will roto
| for Gen. 0fuut. llo has hAa enough. VIC ato
| tired Of him. II tho politicians fotst him upon
yoters sEaM " St, w hayo tS soach sho
| carrying Southern 8tnte. was ovcr tn Ken-
| tlioEy tic other day, Thgro met lnnny South.
eruars. and they oil laughed ut such suERes-
Ivy "why,' said an e1-coldoncl from Misslsslppt,
t".thore Is no Republican organization ln tho
aro in;,tho majority, and t6cro Won won't bo;,, l.,
Mississippi and Louisiana. and man must fe m
idiot to think Kentucky or any OF tho border
States will 20 RepublIeMn+ No. sir, tho South la
| solid, md It will come North with sixteen sol!1
EtAtes and l38 solid Democratic Electoral totes."
Having travelled III nil the States au Wintcr,
llcans In nfl sections, and being radical ltopno-
| licnn myself, vArn my party not TO 1eopardizo
| ELt PRnKIns.