The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-07


outlook for wealth-western KansaI
In had Way-Third Term Politics.
Illinois litter inshe New York san.
In passing across the continent and
back, am impressed with three things
the spendid wheat crop, the opposition Of
the voting Republicans TO Grants can.
didAcy, and the bad agricultural outlook
for poor Kansas.
The wheat crop in New York and
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana and Missouri, has not looked bet.
ter in twelve years past. In fact, within
the last twelve days l have been in each
OF these States, and have not yet seen a
single poor piece Of wheat. Then, again,
the acreage is alarmingly increased. In
may places half more wheat Is in than
ever before. Vanderburg county, Indiana,
in which Evansville Is situated, is almost
wholly given up 10 wheat; Posey county
is one continuous wheat field, and Gibson
county, north OF Evansville, will produce
8, O00, 900 bushels. Southern Illinois is al
most entirely surrendered TO wheat. The
millers say that Madison county will pro-
duce 700, 90 bushels this year, ST. Clair,
2, $50, 900, and Jersey and Green counties,
and, in fact, all OF illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
and Missouri, in the same proportion.
Old prairie bottom lands around Cham
payne, and Tuscola, and Effingham, on
which wheat never used TO be raised, are
now loaded down with it. A dozen crops
Of corn have reduced the rich alluvial
prairie soil so that it now yields tremen.
dous crops Of wheat where ten years ago
nothing but corn or wheat straw could be
raised. The wheat in Ohio and Michigan
could not look better, and everywhere the
acreage is increased. The only damaged
wheat 10 be found are few pieces OF win.
ter wheat in Wisconsin and Northern
Iowa, which have already been plowed up
and spring wheat substituted, andi in West
ern Kansas.
Last spring estimated the growing
wheat crop for the Sun at Az, 000, 900 BUSH
els, and the crop measured up about that.
This year l estimate the growing wheat
crop at 550,O00,00 bushels. All dealers
aud wheat brokers who have looked over
the country as have agree with me in
this estimate.
How about Ransas2
The wheat in Kansas is good up to
twenty-five miles west OF Topeka, and then
it begins to be bad, and grows worse and
worse, till it becomes worthless at Hayes
City, which is on the Tooth parallel west
OF the rain bait. Crops west OF Aberline
and Salina in Kansas are failure three
years out OF FIVE, and the people might as
we'll know it. / love Kansas and admire
81 n rlt,nI, ~ har nnhI{c q nj FtKaI FannIa.
but the truth must be told. Here are some
hard facts gained from personal contact
with thousand farmers who have been
ruined by going too far west in Kansas.
Kansas west Of Salina is in bad way,
and always will be. Her people are SUI
iering, and will always suffer until they
leave the desert country west OF the rain
belt. The other day l met John and
James LarTadeesstormerly OF Racine, Wis.
They made dreadful failure out on the
Santa Fe Road, and came back with G. P.
Richardson, all broken up. They report
no crops west OF Lsrned, even last year.
Mr.. Elmer Everett, from Knoxville, ILL.,,
went to Reno county, Kansas, lost four
crops In succession by 'hoppeIs and
drought, and then returned 10 Illinois to
start again in life.
DIR. q. N. Zigler went to Western Kan
sas from Berlin, Wis. The bad country
ruined him. He told me !, 205 farms were
for sale for taxes in Peabody.
S. +. Mennes went from Elmira, n. Y,
to Western Kansas, and though he worked
hard, he did not have s. worth OF crop in
Ave years. He was reduced to begging
corn, like many Of his neighbors, and then
left Kansas.
l meet emigrants every day on the cars
returning from Western Kansas ruined
and broken up. Something should be
done to stop the unprincip!ed railroad
agents from alluring farmers in the East
TO certain beggary in Western Kansas,
ont beyond the Tooth parallel. Starvation
awaits any emigrant who goes west Of
HAYES City on the Kansas Pacific Rail-
road, or Fort Larned on the AtchisoD,
Topek&and Santa Fe.
have voted for General Granttwice
for President, and what now say say
reluctantly. There is tremendous feel.
ing against Gen. Grants third.term can
didacy among voting Republicans all over
the country. hear dozens OF sound Re-
publicans say daily:
II will throw away my vote before !
VIII vote IOI Ibus uEAlts he 1G6 hAa
enough. We are tired OF him. II the
politicians foist him upon US voters again
we will have to teach them lesson BY
letting him be defeated"
The friends OF Grant are now talking
about carrying q Southern State. was
over in Kentucky the other day. There l
met many Southerners, and they all laugh.
ed ut such q suggestion.
"Why," said an ex.Colonel from Mis-
sissippi, "there is no Republican organiza-
ton in the Southern States where the
negro Republicans are in the majority,
and there won't be-" Hayes broke up all
Republican organizations in Mississippi
and Louisiana, and man must be an idiot
10 think Kentucky or any Of the border
states will 90 Republican. No, sir. the
South Is solid, and It will come North with
sixteen solid States and lSS solid Demo-
cratic Electoral vote"
Having travelled in all the States all win
ter, and having had personal contact with
Republicans 10 all sections, and being q
radical Republican myself, l warn my
party not to jeopardize our success by
putting up Grant again. ELI PEsxISs.
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