The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-20

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OF Kansas what they shalt 10. =
Democrat aud the other has been In the
State four years. Topeka Capital
Rev. A. B. Campbell took Office as
soon as he got to Kansas; he was
made chaplain in the penitentiary. 1t
is soft place. Your audience cannot
run away. You get handsome sal
airy, your feed, clothes, boots and
shoes, all made by convicts out of
goods paid for by the taxpayers of
Kansas. Preacher Campbell waxed
fat. He had soft thing sure au-
dience, good pay, no pastoral visits !:
no trouble about saving souls
Preacher Campbell is the latest man
we have ever seen in Kansas. We
know all the editors and thousands Of
farmers and mechanics, but Kansans
are never fat men. They work too
hard. The pioneers have had to
break the prairies, build their houses
on borrowed money, and pay off the
mortgages-no time to get fat. When
this preacher came here he had no
notion Of going on TO q farm or of
going to work, Oh small salary, like
other preachers. He wanted to keep
his fat. He selected the biggest stone
building in the state for his home,
with plenty of servants 10 wait on
him, to feed and clothe him, aud TO
allow him to get fatter and fatter.
When there was change in the adj
ministratiOn and the preacher had to
go, he still had no idea of going to
work. So he formed a co-partner-
ship with Martin Van Buren, Bennett,
q Cherokee county Democrat, and the
only man in the United States who,
during the war, published paper
called the COpperhead. Bennett did
this in Iowa. All the time that the
war lasted this traitor sat in his office
and abused the Union soldiers, Presi.
dent Lincoln and the patriotic men
and women Of his native land. He
did not join the rebel army, where he
belonged he was just copperhead
snake, Kissing. biting, running out
his lounge at everything that was
loyal and patriotic and true. More
venOmOus and cowardiy even than the
rattlesnake, which sounds warning
of alarm before it fixes its fangs and
sends its poison into the heart Of its
victim. This was Bennett, the Iowa
snake, aud this is his history. lie is
the coparcener of the preacher. For
a year and a half now the fat man
and the snake have been travelling
through Kansas and collecting money
to support themselves. They came to
Hiawatha and begged and carried off
a thousand dollars. They
came here during the Methodist con-
ference. when they were sure of an
audience. We saw them-Van Ben
nett in front, splitting and Tuning, and
the fat preacher in the rear, sweat
ing. wiping the oil off from his face,
his fat sides over the snakes
wit, laughing, very contented, very
happy, and finally tOddling to the
front and asking the people to sub
scribe for Brother Benefits paper.
They collected a great many thou
sand dollars in Kansas, and the
preacher keeps getting fattcr and fat
ter. No Eskimo, floating in train oil,
is fatter or happier than Rev. A. B.
Campbell. He has struck it rich and
has no idea of floating out of his tank.
The coparccner, Van Bennett, is of
the same frame of mind. He has
plenty Of money and has not been so
happy since he yelped anG howled
over the assassination of Lincoln. The
show season has again opened aud the
Fat Man and the Sn Ike gave their
first exhibition in the opera house, at
Saturday, May Sd, giving
Two performances, afternoon ahd eve
ling. The rent of the opera house
for the occasion was one hundred dol
ars. If it has been paid at all it has
been paid by the temperance people.
The shOwmen pay for nothing.
charges for his fat and Ben.
nett for his venom
We need only add that the purpose
If the show this year, in addition to
he passing around of the hat, is to
lefeat the nomination of John A.
Martin for governor. Martin is a
was union colonel, and
las always earned his own living
World.