davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
OUR KANSAS JUDAS.

The principal business of the people Of
Kansas during the past three or four DAYS
appears to have been the hanging of St
John in efiigy. A number of the prominen,
Prohibtionsts of Holten, jackson county
One of the few counties of the state which
gave him a majority two years ago), seni
him on Friday last The following dispatch
HoLTEs. KANs.. Nov. I, 1884.
John p. ST. John, Olathe, Kansasf
Accept congratulations for the success
which seems TO have crowned your efforts to
defeat the National Republican ticket.
We hope that, when you como to realize
the full effects Of your course upon those
causes which, in the past, you have so zeal
ously protested to have at heart, namely,
Republicanism and Prohibition, that YOU
will not, like your illustrious predecessor,
go out and hang yourself, but that you may
continue TO live like that other traitor of
later date, to receive the execrations of those
who were your friends, and to whom YOU
owe all the honor and preferment you have
ever received in Kansas, and as an example
to the rising generation Of the fate that
surely awaits the man who sacrifices every
thing to an overweening ambition"
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
It'd BITS.

The mother Of the late President CARTEL
is dangerously i'll.
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, is conducting
revival at Troy, n. Y.
Mr.. Cbizzola and other admirers of Brig
noIi. are trying to raise a monument to the
great tenor.
Charles Croker, of San Francisco, has
leased the magnificent residence of ex-Mayor
Havemeyer, Of New York.
Emperor William will deliver the address
of welcome to the delegates at the first sit
ting of the Congo Conference.
Edwin Booth opens his season on Novem-
Der IL, at the BOSTON, Museum, in Hamlet"
the same character that he played there
twenty years ago.
Thomas Shaw, member of parliament
from Halifax. has been appointed successor
of the late Postmaster General Fawcett, o.
England.
Mr.. Singery, proprietor of the Philadel-
phia Record, owns 200 houses in the Quaker
City. and next year proposes to build 80
more.
The people Of the south proposes to cree,
monument over the grave of John c. CAL
houn. in St. Phillips churchyard a, Column
bus, 5. c.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley, the African cxplor-
er, will, on Dec. 3, deliver the inaugural ad
address Of the new Scottish Geographical
Society at Edinburgh.
Ii is not improbable tina. duplicate Of
the John Harvard statute a, Cambridge, will
be ordered for the Cambridge college, Eng
land. where John Harvards name was recent.
" found recorded.
James E. Murdoch. the eminent elocuiion-
ZIONIST, and his daughter. Miss Fannie Muir
dock. have returned TO their winter home in
Cincinnati, from Pigeon Cove, Mass Mr..
Murdoch is in excellent health.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
GOOD REASONS.

"Why do you put faith in precinct re-
turns?" Many voters ask this. The Tribune
answers:
1. Because they are the only information
obtained from non-partisan sources of the
first declaration of the actual result in each
voting place. They are put on record so
that they cannot be changed before it can be
suspected that the vote Of the precinct can
be of any consequence except as to local
candidates. They are gathered by the
agents ola non partisan body, the New
York Associated press, which embraces
several Democratic and only two Republic
can journals, those agents knowing that
their iaithles.ness in any case would insure
their dismissal. But every precinct inspec-
tor and county officer lie a partisan, and has
his party to consider.
| 2. Because these reports are sent by wire
before anybody can know what they mean,
OF how valuable they NAV be, and when no
one has any interest to tamper with them.
3. Because they can be and are collected
by trained accountants, and absolutely dis
interested men at the associated press head
quarters, while the political returns by pre-
cincts to county seats are inspected, tabnlated
and footed only by persons intensely excited
as partizans about the result.
| 4. Because there are many of these
returns that any tampering with them, in
order to effect thousand votes one wav or
| the other, must either effect one or two re-
turns so largely rs to make the fraud palpa-
bic, or must effect a great many precincts, in
each of which there are persons anxious to
detect and ready to expose any fraud. But
a return from any county can be changed
several hundred votes by interested parties
without any possibility of detection, except
by comparison with these same precinct
returns.
5. Because each precinct report can be
sent back to one known and responsible
man for CORRECTION or verrifcation, as
many has been, while the reports to polit-
| ical officers can only be referred back to
body Of local persons who have each lis
separate interest in che result.
q. Because the errors in footing county re-
turns of the precincts cause every year q
long delay and vast labor in correction,
and large proportion OF such footings have
to be corrected. The actual vote BY pre-
cincts can be footed and corrected here by
trained men.
I. Because long experience in political
management, as well As long experience in
journalism. has proved beyond doubt that
returns by counties, since they are affected
by these errors or liabilities to erro- of
many kinds, are often untrustworthy. In
a close contest no skilled and trained polit-
cal manager relies upon anything except
the actual vote Of each precinct separately
forwarded.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
GARDEN PLAIN wAxErH WARM.

To tie Editor Of the Daily Eagle:
And the Democrat was crooking bis finger
at the Republican, and winking at his pard
and dong al these things, and Garden Plain
was lively.
And there was Q multitude in the place,
and out Of the midst of them came up a
voice saying: AROUSE We, jolly Democrats,
we have got there Eli"
"Arise and drink and be merry, for to.
morrow we may get left" And they all
answered in loud voice saving:
1--WE will" And then they began to
drink, for behold they would not stand back
when principle was at stake.
And they drank freely. And they were
very merry and painted the town red, which
is after the fashion of this people.
Now there lives at this place apoor cripple
who had, back of his house, a cage Of beau
tiful white and spotted rabbits-very pretty
pets, gentle and innocent-and for which the
poor owner would not have taken any price
But the gallant band had bonfire and
their souls craved a little innocent smuse
| ment.
So they took the box of rabbits and set i
upon the fire and stepped back to view the
pleasing spectacle.
Then one raised his voice and said: "Oh
We brutes, have ye no shame!
"Think Of being nailed up in box &c
wait for such doom!
"Think how those little pets that never
caused a sentient being one single pang Of
pain.
think how they, in their madness leaped
about their cage Of fire in frenzied search
for life, at last TO breathe the whitening
flames and, painting, fall exhausted to u
frightful DEATH"
Then one answered, saying: "Oh, ye
chicken hearted Republican, this barbecue
is for purpose. We are men of nerve.
Behold We are painting your town red.
Go to, now therefore, and let US alone.
"For wot We not these rabbits belonged to
a Cleveland man, and Cleveland is elected!''
Then the Republican made answer and
said: "Pity that the poor dumb brutes
knew not of the arrangement;
"For in that awful moment they should
have had this blessed consolation"
Then the Democrat waxed hot and called
the Republican son-of-a-fool.
But peace was restored and the painting
went on until the town was the color Of the
painters noses.
Still they painted and painted until Sun
day morning, and the ears of all the town
rang all the next day; and the heads were
all swelled;
And when the golden sun lit up the paint
ed place, behold. it was blue. SCRIBE.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
A FALSE ALARM.

For the last twenty years the Republican
politicians have been preaching to the COL
ored folk that if the Democrats came into
power they would force them back into
slavery and deprive them Of their rights and
happiness, and by this false misreprcsenta-
ton they have always succeeded in holding
the colored vote and soaring them into sup
porting, continually, the Republican party.
This country is free for all, and the colored
people will find that If Mr.. Cleveland il
president of the United States for the next
four years, and the government passes into
| the hands Of the Democracy, they will enjoy
the same freedom, liberty and protection
that will be enjoyed by and granted to the
white people Of the country.-St. Joseph
Gazette.
The Republicans have not been preaching
anything of the kind. The colored people
have learned something in the last quarter
Of a century, and they know that the Demo
cratic party hrs no power-whate yer its dis
position might be-to re-establish slavery.
The Republican party gave freedom to the
slaves, and embedded it in the constitution,
and there it will remain forever.
In the northern states the colored people
enjoy, and will continue to enjoy ''the same
liberty, freedom and protection enjoyed by
and granted to the white people Of this
country" But this is not true of the
southern stetes; has not been true for ten
years past; and never will be true as long
as the Democratic party has power to deny
the colored people their civil rights.
There has not been u fair, free election, in
either Mississippi, Lou ;siana, South Carroll
ma, Georgia, Alabama or Florida. for mora
than ten years past. The man who pretends
that the colored people of these states are al
lowed 'the same freedom, liberty and protec-
ton enjoyed by and guaranteed to the white
people" is either an ignoramus or a falsi6er;
| he either does not know what every intelli-
gent and honest citizen of America knows,
viz, that the negroes ofthose states are either
not allowed to vote, or their votes, when
cast, are not counted; or, knowing
this, he deliberately misrepresents plain,
patent facts
The Republican party emancipated and
enfranchised the slaves. 1t has endeavored
the enjoyment Of their civil and political
rights. The Democratic party opposed
their emancipation, opposed their enfran-
chisement, and has, wherever it had power
to do so, prevented them from
exercising their rights as citizens. These are
facts of history. They are undeniable. The
colored people are not afraid that the Dem
ocratic party will restore them to slavery.
But they know, and every intelligent citi-
zen of the United States knows, that in six
or eight states of this union they are, and
and have been for fully dozen years past,
deprived Of their civil and political rights.
The South was made and is kept "solid" by
the most atrocious crimes that ever disgraced
civilized people-by ku klux klans, BY as
sassination and murder and whippings, by
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
FATAL ALliTERATION,

Burchard's three Rs was no doubt fatal
ALTERATION. and but for which the Republi-
cans would have carried New York bv ten
TO twenty thousand, but everybody seemed
combined against the Republican party in
New York. a prominent Republican writ
suspense. 1t looks now as if the American
people had voted TO crown vice and treason
both 10 the government and to the rights OF
human nature. 1t did not seem as If tina,
were possible. If il turns on. to be SO, i,
will be one of the darkes, days in our ma
tons history. think the goody-good peo-
pie Of the land are largely responsible for
the result; men who in their own estimation
are too good for this world. The ST. John
mcn-l do not care 10 call them Prohibition
is,s-held the balance Of power, and they
have usca II 10 put premium on vileness
and copperheadism, and 10 put in power
the men and the party that denounced
sumptuary laws Curtis hss helped the
crowd Of hungry and thirsty conspirators
back into the place which they so lately
desecrated. Beecher, the apostle of lechery,
has gone to his own place. He rallied the
coharts of the unciean. The ko-called re-
igious press, or some Of il, has fallen q
victim to its lack of good moral judgment.
1t has given body and then magnitude to
imaginary evils and overlookedthe immense,
the pertinent, the vital evils that threatened
national calamity. The people have invited
peril and must not be surprised IL the invited
guests cit at their table"
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

THE OKLAHOMA BOOMER,

David Z. Payne, the great Oklahoms
Boomer, is in the city looking after his in
terest Of the United States VS.. Payne. suit
brought to Dust him and his colony of set
tiers from the Oklahoma lands. A motion
to qnash the in dictments is now being ar
gued before Judge Foster, of the United
States district court, in Chambers. j. Wade
Mcdonald, Of Winfield, appears as attorney
for Payne, while the government is repre-
sented by Csl j. r. Hall DWELL, United States
district attorney. Mr.. Hallowel informed a
Commonwealth reporter that defendants, in
their motion to Quash, had abandoned all
claims to the Cherokee lands, but still hold
and contend that they have right to occu-
Ply the Oklahoma lands. The arguments
consumed all o: yesterday afternoon, and
were then not completed. An adjournment.
was taken until 10 O'Clock this morning
Commonwealth.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
THE SUNFLOWER.

ANTHONY. KAs., Nov. IL.
To the Editor Of the Doity Eagle:
The election on the proposition of sub
scribing stock to the Sunfowcr road in An
thony and Silver Creek townships came of
to-day, and resulted in favor of the bonds
Chief Engineer Woods is here tonight anc
is feeling good. He says that in one weel
there will be no querv as to where they
are going. The track is down to Conway
Springs and if all goes well We will be ir
shape to receive our friends by rail on the
first day Of January, 1885.
1t is raining here tonight, and it is just
what was needed.
Our town is growing finely.
Will give particulars some other time.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
STILL LEADS.

The report Of the Kansas State Board o,
Agriculture for the month of September
places Sedgwich county again this year in
the lead as a corn growing county, both as
TO number Of acres and yield of bushels.
Sumner, our adjoining sister county, stands
next highest in both particulars and is very
close on to Sedgwicl's heels.
But two counties, Sumner and Republic,
lead Sedgwick in her number of hogs, and
but three or four counties in the number of
cattle. Four counties only lead Sedgwick
in whca; for 1854. All in ALL Sedgwick
stands the leading county of the state with
Sumner and Mcpherson following closely.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

The National American prohibition organ
says: "The St. John people have succeeded
in putting the party in power which is
pledged not to vex the dram seller. The
prohibitionists have put their worst enemy
into power and now they have absolutely no
political influence which is worth anything
to themselves or to any party. They can g't
no lie sslature to submit prol i5ition exert
Through the party they have just defeated
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

The people Of Missouri should pull down
their vest. Senator Vest said on last Satur-
dav: Beware, for one step further and the
people OF the United States in their ma esty
will rise and throttle the scoundrels that are
attempting to rob them of the privileges
they have Won" Vest has forgotten the
time he with solid south rose up to throt-
tic somebody because Abe Lincoln was de-
olorcd .l,c,.J
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Elsewhere We print letter from Mr.. J.
W. Forest Who defends the course of ex-
Governor St John. We do not endorse the
sentiments Of Mr.. Forest, who seems to be
lieve that Governor ST. John should be com.
mended for his candidacy on the prohibition
ticket. We believe the great mistake o!
Governor ST. John and his supporters is in
turning the country over to political party
that has opposed every temperance .enti-
ment under all circumstances. and in defeat.
ing the only political party tina. has given
the people in any state all the temperance
legislation upon the statute books. the posi-.
bility Of national prohibition has been post
ponsd many ysars-
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Junction City Union: "What a daisy St
John is! He has had the old ladies suifiins
for some time over his delightful war crv o
the Home against the Saloon And nov
he has elected AL old bachelor whoremas,er
with an illegitimate kid in a public asvlum
President Of the United States. and defeated
man with the purest home lie Of any pub.
lie man in the country"
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

The evening of tina election the New
York World claimed Cleveland's election in
New York by 10000 majority. The next
day it dropped to 9,497. 1t continued to
drop about 1900 per day until it reached
LOO, and then began to shout "bewsre of
fraud" "Clsvclsnd is elected"
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

What are the Democrats going to do with
those four thousand votes already discov-
cred in New York which are blank as TO
electors and otherwise defective. They have
all been counted for Cleveland. One-third
ofthem thrown out would leave Stephen G..
al home 10 console Maria
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
a sure Thtog.

For the permanent: cure twithout nercsry in
any form) Of syphilis, 10 either the primsry.
secondary or tertiary stages. Scrofula. copper.
colcred blotcnes On the fSce or person, cancsrs,
old cores, catarrh, rheumatism, sraid head.
rom blood poisou, cures by pr. Turner'S InsiiaS
kiosd Cure. A pamphlet syphiiiis frop.
For sale By swent1ell 4 Douglass, drpeEisss,
ave asliafS bsr paekAge. wsTTaassA flSgf
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Does Cleveland, Curtis and Beecher still
stand for civil service rules. This question
ought TO be answered for if Cleveland
should be counted in many Republican Of
fcials fear they might be retained in office
apanst their we'll
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

The southern Democratic press are ex-
tremely anxious over fears of Republican
fraud and intimidation in New York"
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Democrats have burned their powder and
cmptied their TASKS. Now, perhaps, they
will stand still and be counted.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Democrats seem TO think counting the
ballots is a senseless kind Of performance
after Seven-mule Barnum has decided the
election and ordered a Celebration.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
WlcEfyI. xIysIS.
u.Asan specific.

sure care for gossrrhes. shors.ee. gieef. in
esn.rna:laa 81 The hkslses, kI9Esys, ta-scle
riana white, tnfsHrnxssen q the zssthra.
ssRtrs WHITE, a.d al dts~a-es Of other nass
OF fenass Of The urfns-Reaitai orrAss FOR sale
b. sveatxeii 4 DcsEias. druggists, Opposite
psstc3ee WtehisA kasaAs- u5-H
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

The Democrats are busy making up
cabinet for Cleveland. Guess they had bet
ter wait until they hear from the solid South
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

II will take awhole life time for the friend;
Of Temperance to recover the ground LOST 0'
ST. Johns big moral drunk.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

The political pot in New York continues
TO boil and bubble, and Seven-mule Bar
mum wriggles uneasily at his close proxim-
itv TO the test Of truth.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Society papers will have fine heid III
Washington if Mr.. Cleveland is called 'e
preside IL the White House.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Whenever prohibitionists desire temper
ance legislation they should ask St. john
and Finch 70 demand it Of the Democratic
marty.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

The COMMONWEALTH seems to be conhnine
itself TO growing over the result in Kansas
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

II is said that the Dakota Mennonites
have decided, after sending committee Of
Investigation here, TO move in body from
that territory to this state, their lands being
already selected in the Arkansas valley.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

It rained continuously the fore part o.
this week out in Kingman county.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Gould and Vanderbilt contributed nearly
a quarter of million TO the Democratic
campaign fluid.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
GREENS LIVERY STABLE
TO the PUBLIC.

WICHITA. Nov Z, 1sss
take delight in recommending TO the suarY-
err OF wichita. one who has saved me nom An
untmeiy grave. VAS pro -traied on nv couch
with ecorchiDg fever an racked with peiu
No medicine prescribed by any dsetor in town
secmeds relieve me. They called IL ccueump-
ton Then Mr. Jane r. Sexton was called in
and With her great faish in Chrfst and grand
magnetic power. relieved me Of oil pain and
fever and restored me TO what an now I
have made seversl calls. and have took several
drives since my res;orxtion from ceash
Mss EVA MCCAIN
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

If St. John ever "smiles again" he will
have to emigrate from Kansas.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

The Emporia Republican weakened yes
terdav morning and gave up the tight
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Just wait until John Kelly shows the
country the bottom facts of the vote IN New
York
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Is it not about time to abolish that civil
service commission.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13
Well Boring and Drilling

Promptly done Ia sedgwick ard SURROUNDING
counties. Arsesisn wells made ard ,.rosE<r isy
done. Satisfaction Gasrantssd. TWslv
expsrieres Outafs fer sais Addrsss
fyGILI-s BROS,
Or leave orSsrs viii II A. 6Ayies dealer in
psnps. g.. DSagias Avoss. Wiahsa. Kaa-
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

Our guns and roosters are still cooked
and primed.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

1t YVES long age asserted that "brag was Z
good dog"