The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-11-02
rHr TWO LONESOME BROTHERS.
A POLITICAL Trashy.

1
Lights Of tie Democratic party Of Sedgvick
county. Piace-7z< foot Of tie stairs leading
| to the Beacon office. Time-Koon risiag Sat
arday night, about IL O'Clock.
Frank-Hello, Dave, is that your Where
have you been, and why amt you at home
Dave-Yes, what's left of me. Ihave been
at another of those COMPOUNDED meetings in
one Of the upper townships and have a big
disgust on. What crowd, with old Bill and
Amos and the rest of them! Why, you can
see the scowI spread over the countenances
| of the fellows before We are half through,
and by darn, tonight three-fourths of the
meeting got up and left before the old ju dge
got fairly opened out, and it was good thing
they did!
Frank-Well, that reminds me. l have
been putting in the night at the club-room
and was telling the boys about my expert.
ence with old Col. Russell aud his everlasting
grape-juce and wine story. He don't know
any more about the railroad question than \
ten-year-old boy, and l swear amt going
out with him any more, for il does more harm
than good.
Dave--Oh, well, there Is no use kicking
| about the colonel. We want and must have
his friends! Such disposition will only con-
there.
FraDk-What's that:
Dave-Why the boys we used to run with
up there, and who worked SO hard for us be-
fore, say now we have both got the swell
head and are too big for our breaches, smce
we moved to town.
Frank-Durned if l care what they say. |
am not going TO monkey any more for old
grape juice! Frank Dofilemyre will be elect
ed two TO one any how. and you know it.
Dave-Well, guess that's so. We are not
fighting old jake this time; besides, met
more than twenty anti-prohibition Republic
cans to-day who said that if they had it to do
and that while they didn't go any thing on
st. John or the amendment, they'd be burned
il they were going to turn over every thing
| to the Democrats.
Frank-Well, what did tell you? Didn't
| say all along that If we tried to carry more
| than the attorneyship the Republicans would
net stand it? Now what s the Bedeon's prom
| Use that they would Kill off old Bin amounted
! to? Don't you see we have attempted too
/ much? Wouldn't Bill and the old colonel
make pretty pair to draw to in the legisla.
ture as representatives of the biggest city
and county in the State, one talking whisky
| and the other drinking it!
1 l,n.t sl,o lo.G -
at me. told Smythe and Harris and Glenn
and English and old Hobbs and all the rest of
them the same thing, but they said the sa-
loon men would rally the riff-raff Of the
whole country, aud the Republican party and
the preachers once busted we would have Il
fat old time for years.
| Frank-Yes, know, but the saloons have
played thunder! Didn't we, in making up
that last jury list, put on every saloon man
in town and every gambler; and didn't we
let off every yiolator of the law just as easy
as we could; and didn't they agree to not
only make up a fund but to put up pony
purse of thousand dollars with which to
bluff the head fellows on the other side
Now how is it? Why, Murdoch has dropped
on the whole thing and was up taking a copy
OF that jury list to-day.
Dave-The ID! McCarty. to-day, offered
to bet 81 900 against $500 that would beat
Wall, but Kag Hatton heard of it and went
over and not only covered the money, but
shut our fellows up. So that game is up.
Frank-'Spose it is. Have you heard the
racket Bill Campbell is giving us. He is
telling that we are trying TO beat Bill Greif'
fenstein on the sly and some Of Bills fellows
are as hot as the old Nick and | knew they
would be!
| Dave-Yes, and Derby's friends are hot
and Carrothers' fellows are hot! and the EA-
GLE is hot! and the churches are hot! and
the old standby Republicans are hot. every
body's hot, and am getting little warm
under the collar myself, and wish l was out
OF the scrape. viii Steenrod make his prom.
Use good in Sherman, Union and Grant?
| Frank-Well. I'm switched if know what
| to say. i believe now that we could have
| beaten Campbell or Baldersfon easier than
| Wall. All we can say against the plausible
| little cuss is that he was Democrat-once-
just what we are still. Tell you what's fact,
| WISH we tthcu W All COui SC anu
cut loose from the old mossback outfit and
gone over to the Republicans before he did.
Daye-I guess that would have been sensi-
BILE; but, you know, we counted on big
| split in the Republican ranks, then we had
the saloon and whisky interests, then the
Beacon was TO do big things and il and the
Times were to everlastingly wear out that
sheet across the street, and, l guess If the
election had come of a week ago it might
have been all right; but. oh. Lord, it grows
no better fast, for The people who believe in
law just say nothing, but point to our crowd
or hint at our letting those whisky-sellers out
| of Jail, or insinuate that we had no right to
draw from the county that Sl35 for the cases
we should really have prosecuted but dis
missed, and so it goes and may go, for am
going home. Exit the leading characters,
also the fellow who stood in the shadow OF
Allen & fuckers doorway