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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08

they regard as the unjust policy of
England, the Irishmen of America use
their suffrages as though they were
the agents and servants OF the English
Tories. The free-iraders of England
desire nothing SO much as the defeat of
Garfield and the election of Hancock.
They wish to break down The protect
i've tariff and cripple orr manufacture
ers, and uine-ienths of the Irish vot-
ers of the country respond with alacri-
ty. ''Ges, we will do your bidding and
and vote as you please, even though it
reduce our own wages and take the
bread from The mouths of our chill
dren." There are many able men and
clever writers among the Irish in
America. but have never met one OF
them able enough and clever enough
to explain this anomolv on any bash
of logic and good sense. am glad TO
see from your esteemed favor that the
subject is beginning to trouble you
The more you think of il the more
you will be troubled. am sure. And
you will be driven finally to the con-
clusion that the prosperity of the Irish
IN this country depends rs largely As
that of any other class upon the main
tenance of the financial and industrial
policy represented by the Republican
party. F'ry truly yours,
JAMES Il. BLAINE.
This letter puts the case in a nut
shell, and il seems that the Irish por-
ton of our population have been
thinking it over, and are firmly aud
finally convinced that the men whom
England wants 10 rule this nation are
not the ones American citizens want.
The Democratic party represents that
policy that ruined the lrishman's
native land, and he is we'll aware Oft.
He will now look after his own inter-
esis and his country's welfare before
all other things.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
BELL ON INGALLS,.


htSSEi>iI. hau., Au ID.
| 10 the Editor OF the Commemorative:
Having spent several days in your
beautiful state, aud having had many
opportunities of asccrtaining the sen
timents of the Republicans with whom
! have conversed regarding The pros
poets of the reelection of Senator
Ingalls,, am gratified to state that |
have not met single Republican who
has not expressed the conviction that
such an event was as sure as any
that could &c predicted. Speaking
for the veteran soldiers of New
York state, particularly the G. A. L..
through its posts, can say that no
senator, with the possible exception of
John A. Logan, has done so much in
The way of attending to their demands
as Senator ingalls,, and we envy you
IN having so earnest friend day after
day in Washington, who has the man.
illness as well as the patriotism 10 es-
pouse the soldi er's cause. May / ask
my comrades, who among the sena-
tors stood so manfully for their in
teresis during the past session of COIL
gress, rs Senator ingalls,!
lie has attracted the closest attcn-
ton from other states, and is consider
cd the most eloquent as well as the
most attentive member of the illustri-
Gus BODY mentioned, and thousands of
patriotic persons outside of the bOun-
diaries of your grand state will rejoice
TO hear of his reelection.
THOMAS BBLI.,
Devon Post, l48, Dept of New York ).
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
DANA ON THE CLEVELAND SCANDAL

The New York Sun Democratic
has been disposed to regard the char
ges against Mr.. Cleveland with silence
so as to afford him time TO explain or
deny. No statement of any kink being
forthcoming, the Sun has lost patience
and writes the following, which, if APP
piled to Cleveland's case would fit
very nicely. Says the Sun:
If a man is immoral in his life, if he
has deceived and betrayed women, or
abandoned his illegitimate children, he
is wretch who ought not to be toler-
ated. much less promoted to stations
of official trust. If the facts are es-
tablished that candidate has been
guilty of these things, no decent citi-
zen ought to give him his suffrage, no
matter how great his political ability
or how successful he NAV have been in
performing the duties of any public
post.
And again:
There is another consideration to
which we attach very little import
ouCc. An cApcTicuCcu poitiCidu sdiu
the other day that if men should be-
come convinced that such stories were
true, the effect would be to make
them vote for the inculpated candid
ates. In other words, man of licen-
tious life is more likely to be popular
than decent and upright man. This
seems to us totally mistaken judg-
ment. We don't believe it.
And in the same issue the Sun re-
prints this from the Albany Times:
The Democratic campaign opens to-
night in this city. There is one job on
hand that grows no less by delaying
il: that is stamping out what is known
as the Buffalo Telegraph scandal. 1t
is spreading like dry rot into every
state and county and township in the
union, and wherever it goes, and SO
long as it goes, uncOntradicted, it
withers aud scorches and shriyels the
prospects of Mr.. Cleveland.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
PURELY A OemOcRARlc FUNERAL

In reply TO the statement of the ST.
Louis Post-Dispatch which says that
"Blaine papers are teeming with
shocking stories about alleged women
scrapes in the private life of Grover
Cleveland long years ago." the New
York Tribune says:
This falsehood may us well he stop
ped. The Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette states The simple truth in say
ing that The serious accusations against
Governor Cleveland were first made
public by the Democrats themselves.
The first information New Workers
derived on the subject was from the
columns of that sterling Democratic
paper, the Rochester Union, then ed
tied by the Hon. William Purcell, at
that very moment on the Democratic
electoral ticket of this state
The attention of the whole
country was first directed to
them by the DISCUSSIONS of Democrats
at the Chicsgo convention. They
have now obtained circulation in one
Independent paper in Buffalo, and in a
three column article giving all the re-
voting details in The Cincinnati En-
quirer, the chief Democratic organ OF
Ohio, if not of the whole west. The
Commercial-GaZrtte adds, as TO Re-
publican editors: "They might have
used il two years ago, when Cleveland
was running for governor of New
York, for the facts were almost as
well known then as now TO the news
paper profession. But they studiOus-
ly refrained from ever abiding TO it,"
At present the specific charges are
made in dispatch from the Rev.
George II. Ball, OF Cleveland, the or
gan of Bishop Spauldiug. The Re
publican journals have been and are
quite content TO rest their appeal to
The people upon the differences be-
tween the two great parties on The
tariff and other grave questions of ma
Iional policy.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
ITS OWN BAD CHARACTER.

Two days after the presidential elec
ton in 1880 the Chicago Times. then
under the direction of Mr.. Storey
who built it up and was then in tn,
enjoyment of all his great faculties
said in discussing the result that the
Democratic party could never be sue
cessful as against the Republican par.
~, and added:
The Democratic pariy's misfortune
was not in the weakness of its csndi-
date, nor ia its rejecti on of any one
who would have been found more
available Ii was in its own bad char
acter, worse history and worst politi-
cal conduct. When, after great
popular majority in New York had
repudiated Mr.. Tilien's programme
for 1880, Mr.. Chas. O'Connor de-
clared that ''to elect any man of this
generation called o Democrat to the
office of president is an absolute I'M
possibility" he condensed in one short
sentence an absolute truth which it
has taken Mr.. Watterson two years
to discover and formulate in the
statement that, "as party divisions
now stand, the Republicans eau elect
any ticket they may put in the field"
Why "as party divisions now stand?"
Because the bulk of Americans of this
generation have no admiration and no
love. but an intense dislike, of that
part of our political history with which
the party division lately led by Ham
cock has been identified. Standing be-
fore the country in opposition 10 that
offensive history and the men who are
recognized as q part Of it, and still
and giorifying it, that par
fy is able to enter any contest with the
the enormous advantage of public sem
timent throughout the more pOpulous,
wealthy and energetic northern sec
ton in its favor. The north, as sec
ton, has no love or admiration for
sectionalisn; but the bulk of
people, possessing the great
est intelligence aud largest wealth,
have vet less love or admiration for
that historic Bourbonism whose other
name is Democratic party. Its per-
sistence Is an organic thing asserting |
eternal life In ideas aud ideas and ira
which this age detests, is an
offense against which this country has
periodically protested for many years,
with not diminishing earnestness. In
that protest the so-called Republican
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08

party lives and thfives just as a party
of any other name would which should
have for an adversary the party whose
existence has been linked in history
with all that the bulk of American
brain, wealth and enterprise rejects as
false and mischievous.
The government party can not be
overborne in this generation by the
present organized opposition, nor by
any organized opposition of any name
which would preserve what the Ken
lucky journalist appears to mean by
"the existing party alignment" The
party of Bourbonism, under any name,
must first dissolve and vanish into the
imperceptible, leaving its individual
units perfectly free to act, every man
for himself, without organization or
leadership. The "solid south" politi-
cal condition must, first of all, disap-
pear. How can it disappear This
question is one for every individual
southern man to answer for himself.
The election of Mr.. Garfield furnishes
good opportunity to put the answer
in plain and practical way by the
pursuit of different course to that
which the southern politicians pur-
sued when Mr.. Hays held out to them
the northern olive branch.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
POOR OLD MISSOURI.

A correspondent from Nevada in 3
six page letter to this paper protests
against the insinuation made by cor
respondent of this paper, in Sunday
mornings issue. Our letter writer
says he also halls from Ohio, and dis
parages the assertion of his brother
Buckeye. that Missouri is terror for
decent people or that ii is the home of
bandits, but declares that che state 10
rich in mineral resources. The letter
is too long for publication in Kansas.
The truth is, Kansas people don't go
much on Missouri. Her mineral re-
sources are undoubted, but it is worse
than nonsense to deny that for nearly
thirty years, portions of Missouri have
been terror. Missouri naturally is
one of the greatest agricultural, fruit
and mineral states in the Union, and
in a combination of these natural re-
sources, unsurpassed by any state, in
fact, for one we believe she stands un-
rivaled in these respects; but outside
of few of her more enterprising
cities, she has been stunned and dread
ed by enlightened northern and east
ern people. Poor old Missouri. II
will take a more graphic pen than that
welded by our correspondent, and a
bigger paper than the EAGLE, to con-
vince any enlightened northern or
eastern man that she offers either peace,
quiet or riches to home-seekers. Poor
old Missouri, she reverences the menu
orv of the murderer, Quantrell, bows
her head and weeps when the death of
the butchers, the James, the Ander-
sons, the Younger's and the Yeager's
are men,iond, and spitefully spits in
the face of any who would intimate
that these red-handed murderers of
innocent people were any other than
heroes.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
Devon Post, l4S, Dept of New Yo
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

Tong & Riley. of Leon, Kansas, filed
complaint yesterday with the stat,
board of railroad commissioners. al
leging that the St. Louis Il San Fran
cisco road charged them excessive
rates on coal and lumber from Wichita
TO Leon, tie aforesaid articles having
been shipped by Tong Il Riley from
Missouri river points over the Atchi-
son. Topeka q Santa Fe railroad to
Wichita and from thence to Leon, a
short distance. The coInplainants
claimed that the Frisco road charges
them thus excessively for the short
haul TO compel them to ship over their
line from Missouri river points, and
they ask the board TO take SOME action
in the matter. A similar complaint
was made by the board some time ago
by Pinney, Mudd & Co., of Fredonia
and the board decided that the rail
road company had no right to raise
the local rates in such a manor
Cnpital
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
THE POSITION OF lRIsHmem.

The following letter, written by
Mr.. Blaine ia 1880 to an Irish Amer
lean, in reply to some inquiries, lie very
interesting at the present time:
AUGUSTA, Me-, Oct. "a, 1880.
My DEAR SIR:-l received your
friendly letter with much pleasure.
Let me say in reply, that the course of
yourself and other Irish voters is one
of the most extraordinary anomalies in
our political history. Never, proba-
bly,, since the execution of Robert
Emmett has the feeling of lrishmen the
world over been so bitter against
England and Englishmen as at this
hour. And !, ct the great mass of Irish
voters will, ON Tuesday next, vote pre-
cisely as Engiishmen would have item
vote-for the interests of England.
Having seen Ireland reduced to mis-
cry and driven to despair by what
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08

Lots A. AZ 40 81 81 50 n 70 rs IA 16 Is ~ "A rs
Fourth avenue--stz OF lot IS and lots 53 81 81 81
60 II So 40 81 "a. Filth avenue--Lots rs y 20
81 "a % % 10 AZ ~ "a. Douglas avenue Lots
s Is 10 II OF side II 10 q 2S.
Engiish's I'd Addition--Fifth avenue--Lots .
II, beginning ut q point ia It 8 ne14 cor OF swA
OF see 2l-21-1e, thence 2s6 IT W its II $50 q
III n 13S It thence IS IL to beginning. Tn.
VIZ of the following description: Beginning at
point ia 10 and 81 5-i2 ft W ofne cor OF sw.l
OF sec 2i-:.-ie 80 n y II n 2sfft W ~ #.
Engish's 81 Addition--Lawrence avenue
Lot 81. Emporia avenue--Lots iOi l0S los I07.
Fourth avenue--Lot 81.
Engiish's 18th Addition Block Lot o.
English's 9Th Addition--ropeka avenue--si.
| OF lot and lots and 0. Emporia avenue Lots
2 9 10 IL IA 10 Is 20 q % rs II 10 n % q.
Fourth avenue--Lots 3 ) IL Is Is " 10 n
| g q.
Lees Addition W alter street--I.ots On Lon In,
| 1853. Main street--Lot IS. Market street, Los
IS 100 i02 l0f. Lawrence ayenue--IOts 81 30
| lOl los l05 l07 lbs III l79 Isl.
Orme & Phillips Addition. Topeka avenue
Lots 80 81 -. Eemporia auenue--Lot 81
| waterman's Addition--Wichita street.-the
ginning ct point 800 n n Of sw cor of large lot
no s, on Wichita street, in waiermsn's ADA to
the city Of Wichita thence n 20 n lis It 70 n
W l13 n to beginning. Beginning az a point SO
n n OF sw cor OF large lot no on Wichita st in
g lis # n $50 IT W lis n l50 n to beginning
Commencing 225 II n of sw cor of large lot no / .
on Wichiia street, In Waterman's add TO the
city OF Wichita. thence 36j IT to NV cor OF
1 ~.
thence B5 IT thence W ll3 n TO beginning Lot
. q % 33 50. The n y II OF the following de-
scrption. Commencing rs II n of Sc cor OF
large lot no 2, on Wichita street, in Water
mans add to the city OF Wichita, thence IS RI
thence W III II thence rs It thence Il3 n 10
beginning. Waco street--Commencing 80 n w
OF sw cor OF large lot no in watermau's add
to the city OF Wichita thence on w line OF
Waco street to the Sc cor of lot no H. In Water
mans I'd add to the city of Wichita thence w 10
Arkansas river, thence following the mean
behring's OF said Arkansas river to point Vhe re
the line OF Douglas ave in Wichita Civ ex-
tended W would intersect said Arkansas river
thence e to beginning.
Waterman's Addition to WATERWAYS Addition
Waco street--Lot IA 10 Is 20 q 20 81 81 g.
River strset--Lots 40 IS % 81 81 So. sherman
street. Lots 50 Is.
Shuman's Addition--Chicago ayenue--Iot IA
Lakeside Addition--River street--Lotss 10 "A
rs % l20 n square OF W end of reserve
Hyde & Ferrill's Addition--Market street,
Lots is5 ls1 ls9 l91 Els 20 DID ga 226 22s 2S
III 234 23S. Lawrence avenue--Lots 2l7 2I9 ri
223 22J 81 I'D 23l 233 2S5.
smiths Addition--wl< Of the following de-
scriptiou: Beginning at 4 point liz n 8 OF ne
cor and 13l II W OF same cor OF swL OF sec l-2.
le thence 2st n ~ IT 2s4 IT ~ n to begin
ming.
Abbott's Addition-Moseley ayenue--Lot l.
English IS 5th Addition--Fourth auenue--Lots
~ ) 10 l2 IA 16 Is 90.
j l.. n. WOODCOCK
Il Treasurer of Sedgwick Counry
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08

Where does Cleveland expect his
electoral vote 10 come from? Does he
and his friends in footing up the col
umns of figures which count two hun
dred and one, start in with the solid
loyal western states, or the solid loyal
eastern states, or the solid loyal GEN.
trai states? Not at all. He and they
put down the very first thing 1853 votes
from sixteen states comprising the old
slave territory. That leaves but forty
eight votes 10 be made up from all the
other states. In case of his election,
when then would be his backing ?
From what source would he receive
his inspiration? Who would run this
government, the north or south?
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
Road Notice.
First publication Auu sth, Isst
STATE OF KANSAS,

First publication Auu. sth, Issi
STATE OF KANSAS
County of Sedgwick,
cFFrcE OF COUNTY CLERK
August 4th, isst.
Notice Is hereby given that ON the sth day Of
July, ks4, petition signed by . II BentIy
and eighteen Others, WAS presented to the
Board of County Commissioners of the county
and state sfore said, praying for the location OF
certain road, described rs follows, to-wit:
Commencing at the Intersection OF Topeka
avenue and Oak street in the city of Wiehi,s
thence running north to the south line Of the
south half of the southwest quarter OF the south
wet quarter of the northwest quarter of section
sixteen U6). township twenty-seven t27l. range
one ~, east, the terminus Of said road
Whereupon said Board Of County Commission
ers appointed the following named persons, viz
Hesly. o Daisy, NJ Allen, as viewers,
with instructions To meet, In conjunction with
the County surveyor, at the point OF beginning
OF ssid road in Wichita city on Monday, the
25th day of August, A ID lssf. and proceed b
view said road, and give to all parties hearing
By order of the Board Of County Commission
ers. A. +. FoRD
N-z County Clerk.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08

The Prohibitionists of Mississippi,
Georgia and Indiana have refused 10
mix up The cause of temperance with
that of national politics. The exper-
fence of the past satisfies them that
the defeat OF the Republican national
ticket would be simply whisky tri-
nmph--a victory for intemperance.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
Road Notice.

First publication Aug's, Iss4.l
STATE OF KANSAS,
County OF Sedxwick, 80
OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK.
August sth, Iss4
Notice Is hereby given that on the It'll day of
July. lss4, petition signed by III. p Reed AMI
twenty others, was presented to the Beard of
County Commissioners OF the county and state
Aforesaid, praying for the location OF a certain
road, described rs follows, to-wit:
Commencing at the intersection of Fourth
avenue and Oak street in the city Of Wichita
thence running north TO the north line of see
ton sixteen 16), in township twenty-seven
cd, range one ~. east, the terminus of said
road.
Whereupon said Board of County Commits
sioners appointed the following named persons
viz: A. Z. Dodge, w. T. Jewett, J. ID. Hew'
EFT, As viewers, with Instructions To meet l.
conjunction with the County Surveyor at the
point of beginning of said road in Wichita cityn
on Tuesday. the 9th day OF August, A. ID. 81,
and proceed to view said road, and give to al
parties hearing.
BY order OF the Board Of County Commission
ers. EP FORD.
10: County Clerk
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08

The Republicans at first were dis
posed TO turn up their noses, because
Cleveland had 10 record; now thai
they have discovered that he has 9
record, they are more indignant thar
tchison Patriot.
That is little harsh coming from &
Democratic paper. but il is Kansa,
Democratic paper.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
AMUSING.

The New York Sun, the really
staunchest Democratic paper in the
United States, under the head of Be
just TO Blaine" takes up an article
from the late Democratic convert, the
New York Times, in which the latter
paper tries to make its readers believe
that Blaine did not read the Mulligan
letters or all of them, and by the record
and memoranda in the hands of the
committee shows that he did. II COM
pletely exhonerates Blaine. This act
from one of Clevelsnd's strongest adj
vocates ought to settle that hash.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08

The New York Sun says: "If man
is immoral in his life, if he has deceiy-
ed and betrayed women or abandoned
his illegitimate children, he is a wretch
who ought not TO be tolerated, much
less promoted to stations of off cial
trust This is strong language from
a courageous journal, and it now looks
as though Mr. Cleveland would have
10 clear up his record or lose the sup
port of the most influential Demo-
cratic paper in the country.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
LEGAL Nafica

First Publication August.stb. lssi.l
In the District Court Of sedgwick county, Ran
sas
Kansas state Bank, Plaintiff,
vs..
Howard r. Friend, Annie NJ. Friend, Ash
Prunty, and the unknown heirs or deyisees
of Y. n. McDonold. deceased, late OF the
state of Kansas, defendants
The above named unknown heirs or deyisees
of y. a. McDonold. deceased, late of the
State OF Kansas, are hereby notified that
they have been sued by the above named
plaintiff In above entitled action, in the dis
trict court OF Sedgwick county state Of
Kansas, and that unless they answer the petit
ton Of said plaintiff against them flled in said
action, in the Office Of the clerk of said court,
by the 10th Day of September, lssi, said petition
will be taken as true and Judgment will be rem
dered in said action In favor OF said plaintiff
and against said defendants, for the sum of on
thousand and six hundred dollars with inter-
est thereon from the first day Of September
ISL, at the rate Of twelve per cent per annum,
less credits at eight per cent. interest and for
the sale Of the following real estate, lying and
situate in the county of Sedgwick and State of
Kansas, to-wit:
The southeast quarter section "a, township
Is, range 2. west, and the southeast quarter
section Ii, township 81, range 4, west, In sum
ner county, Kansas, (ssid Sumner county tract
being land in which you said heirs and devisees
have an interest), under mortgage lien, to salts
~ said sum OF money. interest and costs of said
action, in accordance with the prayer OF said
petition, and taxes due on said land
KANSAS STATE BANK.
90 Pisintin.