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Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
KENTUCKY.

In his speech on the Mills bill. Judge
Kelley of Pennsylvania made passing
allusion TO Kentucky as a state having
extraordinary natural advantages but
extraordinarily backward in utilizing
them. To speak of her. he said, las
leading state, progressive state. or even
prosperous state, would be to indulge
in bitter irony"
Naturally this disparaging allusion
was not agreeable to the Kentucky dele
cation in congress. and when Mr.. Caruth.
toward the end of his tariff speech last
Wednesday afternoon. turned toward
Judge Kelley and bespoke his attention.
the members who were making a show
of listening TO the debate pricked I'D
their ears IN pleasing expectancy of
something more piQuant than statistics.
They were not disappointed. The elo-
quent representative from the Louisville
district quoted Shakespeare at Judge
Kelley, lectured him little on the churl
ishness of repaying hospitality with crit
.icism, and INDUCED in little Columbian
oratory about the fighting qualities of
kertuckians as illustrated In the early
pioneer days and more recently in the
war of secession. Then he got down to
business as follows:
What have been the proud achievements
OF twenty-three years? Kentucky has
taken into the quality of citizenship those
who formerly owned themselves her prop
erty. She has opened for them schools of
instruction which challenge comparison
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
MARCH RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

In the month of March, the Railroad
Gazette reports, there was total of 172
railroad accidents in this country, in
which eighty-five persons We're killed
and 211 injured. The record shows that
there were thirty-slx collisions, which
denotes gross carelessness somewhere.
In the collisions fifteen were killed, nine
of the number being engineers and fire.
men. The fatality in derailments was
unusually large, sixty persons having
been thus killed. Twelve of the derail
ments were caused by striking cattle,
and twelve by snow and ice. The mark
ed features of the month were the Black
shear disaster, in which twenty-five
persons were killed, and the great storms
in the Eastern and Middle States. In
diana roads seem to have been quite ex-
empt from accidents. But four occurred
within the state, and but two on Indian
apolis roads. The Pennsylvania, east Of
Pittsburg, seems to have suffered more
than any other road, which was largely
due to the four days Of blizzard it en-
countered.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
TAKE IN WHAT WE'VE DONE.

We hope that the representative men
of Kansas will not become SO absorbed
today i'm the matter Of selecting four
representatives to Chicago as to neglect
looking the city over. Many of you
who have been with Kansas from the
beginning have never visited the metrop
oils of this great valley before and may
not soon again. As city which aspires
to be worthy the name of commercial
center, at some future time, not far re-
mote, we hope to be found worthy of
such inspection. Embowered, as the
city is, in very dense foliage, we can
only be seen and our magnitude cOmpre-
hended by taking us in street by
street. Besides, two rivers flow through
our borders and we spread all about with
our picturesque suburbs and lovely envi-
ronments. Sixty-five miles of street and
motor line railways are at your service.
We have many and varied factories, uni
versities, colleges, academies and schools
built and in course of construction;
churches, homes and places of amuse-
ment, etc. etc, and above all people of
enlightenment, culture and enterprise,
such as few cities of its size, of whatever
age, can surpass.
Take time and take look at us before
bidding us adieu.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The street duel in Jackson, Miss. the
other day between Gen. Writ Adams,
postmaster at that place, and Editor
Martin, of the same town, which is said
to have been the outgrowth of the kill
ing of young Gambrel at Winona some
weeks ago, provokes the New Orleans
Times-Democrat to deliver itself after
the following fashion. which is a crafty
ing augury for change of popular SEN
timent in regard to the barbarous prac-
tice: SIS it not time to call halt? Is it
not time for us, standing in the shadow
of this most sad and deplorable tragedy,
and while the air is yet filed with the
despairing cries from hearts that have
been crushed by this heavy blow, to stop
and seriously reflect upon the meaning
of these frequent tragic occurrences in
the south? There can be no question
that such deeds shock the civilization of
the century, and the people of the whole
south are, in measure, brought to the
bar of public opinion and held respon-
sible."
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

anywhere in the northern states. Two
of them were men OF the highest social
standing and were Of broad national rep
utation. They were Jesse -. Bright. Of
Indiana, and Clement l.. Nallandigham.
of Ohio. Each had served many years
in congress, the former in the upper
branch and the latter in the lower Both
were men of great earnestness. undoubt-
ed personal courage and the highest
mental power Bright was expelled
from the senate early IN 1852, for having
in letter recognized Jefferson Davis AZ
president of the Confederate States. Val
landigham's reasonable record led % his
defeat for reelection TO the house in the
same wear.
Indiana produced another Coppcrhead
In the old rebellion days who has since be-
come tolerably well known 10 the country.
His name is Danial w. VOORHEES,. Lack
ing Bright's dignity and NaIiandigbAm
feaTlessness and mental vigor, voorhees,
surpassed the former in activity and the
latter in his scurrilous abuse Of the
Union soldier and IN his base appeals 20
the preJudices and passions Of his set
BE did not, perhaps, do as mach harm
10 the Federal side a. either Of his great
eGemp!ars. But this wa not due 20 any
lack Of zeal in the Confederate cause No
man, we presume. who IL familiar with
the record will hsvetbs moral hardihood
10 accuse him Of wilifully withholding
any aid which he could give 20 the JED
Davis government, when that aid could
t-e given without endsuger1ns hia own
personal safety. Few men ever ~ com
pleielv and satisfactorily embodied. IN
their own persons. tie ideas suggested By
he term ooPPerhesd as Dsnisi W. vooT-
1ees.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
OPPOSITION TO THE INTERSTATE
LAW.

In the annual reports which have re-
Gently been made public the presidents
of several roads have placed themselves
on record as opposed to the interstate
commerce act. The comments of Presi-
cent Perkins, of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy, are fair example. Mr.. Per-
kins says the general decline in freight
rates in the latter part of 1887, which
will be more seriously felt in 1888, is due
largely to the absence of any means of
self-regulation among the railroads. be-
cause Of the prohibition of pooling by the
interstate commerce law. Another eff
feet Of the interstate commerce law, as
interpreted, is its tendency to drive the
wholesale or jobbing trade to cities which
enjoy water competition, and to reduce
the amount of such business at interior
cities wholly dependent on railroads,
where heretofore a large aggregate traffic
may have made it an object to fix lower
rates.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

stead of one. 1t is the center of splendid
stock country, where stock will thrive six
weeks earlier and later than on the line of
the Pacific railroad. 1t is the natural
point where buyer and seller should
meet to their mutual advantage.
Here the drover can close out
his entire drove without sacrificing a por-
ton of it, and the buyer can take only
such as are fit for shipment, leaving the
balance IN rich pasture TO recruit, or sell
to settlers at good rates. Here the drover
can procure all needed supplies for his re-
turn trip az as good rates as at any west
ern point on the railroad. A permanent
MILITARY POST
has been established at Wichita. thus af-
fording perfect protection for the herds,
and al the same time by constant commu-
with the other southern and
southwestern posts, will keep the shortest
and most practicable route entirely free
from all distractions An excellent ferry
will soon be in operation at this point, fur
nishing safe transit for teams and cattle
at all stages of water.
Yours respectfully,
4. II. DURFEE s. Co.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The mention of Blaine's name before a
Republican convention never fails to
arouse enthusiasm and bring out lively
response in cheers. But such demon
STATIONS, in the eyes of Democrats, is
like shaking a red flag before mad bull;
they set UP believing and paving the
ground that would be terrifying if it
were not known to be harmless. This
hurrahing business is very ridiculous in
the eyes and ears of such circumspect
and conservative people as the editor of
the Chicago Times. That paper, in max
ing reference to such incidents, attempts
to burlesque them by manufacturing a
scene on a Logan memorial occasion. 1t
quotes a speaker as saying: 1T was
about fourteen months ago that we laid
10 rest Senator Logan"-when an out
burst of applause from the audience
drowned the speakers voice. Such
scene might be regarded as somewhat
ludicrous if it ever occurred, but the cases
first mentioned are not funeral occasions,
although they are interpreted by the
Democrats as death knells to their hopes
for the future.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The attention of civilized people in a
free age is called to tho announcement
that though the "copper" syndicate" has
lost a million or two in deal in tin, it
will make no difference with the strength
of the combination. The trust is so
strong that it can lose millions and still
keep its grip on the business of the
world. A combination, so rich that it
can afford to lose millions. can hardly
give as reason for its existence the ex-
cuse that it is driven to it by poverty.
The man who can devise method by
which this and all other hurtful combin-
atoms can be routed from the land would
prove public benefactor.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
WILL HISTORY BE REPEATED?

Henry WattersoU, as temporary chair
man of the convention at st. Louis in
1876, organized the body in the interest
of his friend, the late Samuel j. Tilden,
50 cleverly that whatever there was of
opposition previously to him practically
disappeared giving him carte blanche to
the nomination. Not only SO, but the
willy Kentuckian also furnished the in
spiration that constructed the platform,
and other services to that party on the
occasion named. These observations
are suggested by the fact that the Ken
lucky Democrats have again placed the
noted journalist and politician at the
head of the delegation to the st. Louis
convention next month. He sustainS
pretty much the same relation to Cleve-
land that he did to Tilden during the
period mentioned, and this prompts the
query: Will he appear in the same role
in 1888 that he did in 1887? His partici-
patton in subsequent proceedings con-
tributed somewhat to the final defeat of
nominee of that convention, circum-
stance which, although 1t was in nowise
contingent upon the convention proceed
ings, may yet serve as an unpleasant re-
minder of those troublous times and pre-
vent our hero's preferment at the APP
preaching st. Louis meet. Watterson is
smart, but oh SO full of vagaries and
whimsicalities-a thorough Democrat.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

AT the present outlook the number of
immigrants to the United States from
other countries will this year be largely
in excess of last year when the number
reached upwards of four hundred and
fifty thousand. Castle Garden is liter
ally swarming, and every vessel arriving
is taxed for. room. America is regarded
by the whole world as Gods country
and it should be the duty of Americans
to make it such in fact as in name and
reputation. No portion of the country
presents equal attractions in all respects
as those held out by Southern Kansas. 4
fact known TO very many who come to
America even before they leave their
native shores, learned through friends
and acquaintance who have preceded
them. The thrifty and industrious are
always welcomed to bright, progressive
Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
TIE HOME OF TIE GRAND OLD
NAN"

-Ioz1ez vo-i4
Mr. 6ladst0ne's London hons- IL near
70 buckingham gs:a. II - the old--nO.
the nsw-tangled-Que.n Anne style, and
the draw ing room windows overlook tina
parade grounds q the Wellington bar
racks. Sir. Glads.ons likes spending a
fsw m1EDsr;s now and tbsn ia watching
the soldiers 60 through their driIi. The
entrance hall u square ard roouy, pan
elsi a. s The siSircase. with fEs
Chipr@ndaIe carving, sod Lighted BIZ
stained GAS window. La IL are
few reproductions Of the xntosype
gallery and large psctsss og the en-
trance 20 Alexandria, which must rssrsl
70 the sI-prsrnier ssch tins 10 eaters
the house one Of The EnoSs uspss.ssnx
"reminiscences 81 his Official life Aoo~s
i ts the drawing room, which L. long.
charming room In tbs corner - yor-
trait Of liz. GlAdstoDs painted by Watts.
ard II the middle Is plAcsd Ara Glad
stone writing table. !, - shut n b.
screen on whsck are hand portraits u
Der husband snd yoangsr sOn- The
room m which Ir. Gisdstons works =
~ the back Of tbs house, aad ~ cen
sequence free from Al rolse. Sos sssE
the s<sanA o. passing cso-whssl oza
break II ca he esIlet
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
THANKS, THANKS INDEED, BUT NOT
In THE FIELD.

Prom the Trinidad Daily Advertiser.
The Republicans of SedgwIck county,
Kansas. have instructed their delegates
10 the state convention for ColcueI ". ~
Murdoch, editor Of the Wichita EAGLE,
for governor Of that state. Every news
paper man in the Sunfiower state should
give Colonel Murdoch a hearty, earnest
and sincere support. This prince among
descriptive writers has worked for hi-
town, county, state and the entire west
day and night for years past. his mag
nificent devotion 20 Wichita has earned
the enmity OF few newspaper men In
rival cities but this should be buried
now. Make Murdoch governor as the
finest type Of an enterpTFslng journalist
the west has produced HIS ambition
10 be the first officer OF tbs state for
which he has worked 80 hard should be
satisfied. He has earned the right 70
have such q desire, and II would be a.
most Inzratifuds on the part Of the
people Of Kansas 20 dsnv kim this honor
Impuisive and sometimes even hot
headed Marsh Murdoch has ~ri.ters ar
ticles in the past which NAV have been
inaroIitie. but every man, woman and
child IN our sister state no Il &C
171airt~i with the man knows him to be
not oniv sincere, but honest az al times
and under al circumstances. With
strong friendships ard a poor ha.er.
Col. Nursfock a. more naturally given
10 compliments than criticisms. Yer,
like Col T. l. Walker, Hon. ". r. HACK
ney. Hon. J. ". Hamilton, Ralph Easlev,
aud others q the same caste, shouid
take a hand IN 9urdock's cause and
give him not only an earnest bat heart /.
fer surtsurt
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

Reports from the gubernatorial can
vass in Missouri, coming by way of
Washington, do not represent Con-
gresham Glover's chances as being as
suspicious as has been pictured from
Kansas City. st. Louis popular mayor,
Mr.. Francis, is given the inside track
and lead of several lengths. despite the
industry of his opponent and his almost
total neglect of his duties at the capital
The secret of Dir. Glover's aspirations TO
the governors chair is an ambition he
has to pull down Missouri's Vest and
transfer himself to the senate end of the
capitol. He will probably make haste to
get there-very slowly.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

We are pleased to note that Rev. Sam
Jones has decided to act upon the
EAGLES suggestion Of several days ago
and will return to Kansas City-not
temporarily, but for permanent residence
Ito look after the work laid out by him
last winter. To make success of such
an undertaking in Kansas City is big
ger thing than founding a college at the
Georgia village of Gainesville, his old
home.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

A Democratic paper of Ohio, whose
wish is father to the thought, doubtless,
have but few friends left" The facts
are that Mr.. Sherman will have as strong
following in the convention as any other
man mentioned for the nomination, and
whether he is the nominee for president
or not, he will continue to be regarded
by right-thinklng, patriotic people as a
man of superior ability and worthy of
the highest honors.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

So the sister delegates will have to re-
new their fight for admission to repre-
sentation in the general conference be-
fore the annual conferences, where
the question was referred for settlement
by the general conference. A reasona-
BILE Interpretation of that action is that
the supreme body don't propose to be
bothered with women delegates in the
first place, and will admit of no new de-
partures or innovations to the uniform
practice of that body to satisfy mere
whim and woman's fancy.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
First in the Hearts Of the People.

First in the Hearts Of the People.
Nickerson Register.
NJ. NJ. Murdoch, of the Wichita EAGLE,
is without doubt the man who made
Wichita what it is. and contrary to the
general rule, the people of that city have
never ceased to do him honor The lat
est thing in that line is the Sedgwick
county convention instructing their del
egates to use all honorable means to
nominate Hon. NJ. NJ Murdoch for gov
ernor. Of course Murdock's chances are
meagre from the fact that he is making
no effort for the place, and as we have
remarked, Gen. Taylor is the man, but
nevertheless, Col Murdoch has the best
wishes of majority of the Republicans
of the state
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

Col, Murdock is still for Wichita. and
while he knows there is no ready money at
hand to further enterprises. he lives in the
belief OF a Republican administration and
better times.-Colwich Courier.
A big crop, a Republican administra-
ton and the opening of the Indian Terri
tory and the better times not only for
Southwest Kansas will come but a new
word for boom viii have 10 be invented
to describe Wichita's growth and pros
perity.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

If the rise in the price of wheat keeps
pace with the present rise in prospects
for the growing crop and the race shall
be kept up for a month to six weeks
longer, as between the harvest of grain
and harvest of gold it will bring into this
state, business of all kinds, and enter
prises, new and old, will be given an i'm
petus such as the country has not en-
ioyed for months and years. Good times
are at hand for all.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

A fellow standing on the street yester-
day, watching with some intent the pa
rade of the knights Templar, read upon
one of the banners the motto in hoe
signo vinces." exclaimed: "A hog sick in
Vincennes-that's Voorhees,"
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
Another Big Plant.

Colwich Courier.
The Missouri Pacific was nearing
Wichita Thursday and party across the
aisle was twittering about the growth of
the city. They We're passing field four
miles out and the Wichitan nudged his
friend and said:
Ground broke here, you see, for an
other large plant
well, l do declare.''
Eyes" and he slid into the smoking
compartment" "a corn plant"
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The papal decree is regarded by the
Irish parishioners as an interference in
their politics. while the Pail Mall Gazette
(Englishl says: THE pope's blunder
amazes U.S." From these estimates it
would seem that the holy father had
made mistake
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

Right down in the boots, there is rea-
son to believe that all of the other fell
lows are afraid Of the Palengenesis boom
that is springing up in southwestern
kansas.-K. G.. Star.
Anthony, Smith and Humphrey have
been interviewed and they declare that
they never heard of old Palengenesis.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

In the absence of any direct cablegram
we hope the convention today will not
forget that America has son on the
other side of the big water whose absence
is worrying the Democratic party in a
distressing way, but whose presence on
the stump next fall will simply paralyze
them.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The Kansas editors in town yesterday
spent about five minutes in re-electing
Associated Press officers and several hours
in enjoying the luxuries of the metropolis
Father Baker remarked that he would
take his annual drink. Noble Prentis
wandered among the churches. Mr.. Easley
of Hutchinson sang a song of salt, and the
Hutchinson salt vein had got to be 600
miles thick the last time he described it.
Marsh Murdoch went on all four sides of
the Kansas City boom with tape line and
tried to get diagram for use at home.
And finer body of men don't live on this
earrh.-k. G. Times.
AS to the boom alluded to, the last
named gentleman had been led by re-
ports in the local papers to believe there
was such a thing there, of dimensions;
but when he came to put the tape line to
it it was SO disappointing in its bigness,
or rather smallness, that he abandoned
the job with the consciousness that he
can see a bigger thing in that line at
home, in the Peerless Princess, every day
in the week. But the peroration, that's
nice. Thanks.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The Cowley county Republican con-
vention adopted series of strong, STIR
ring resolutions, among them endorsing
Col. J. r. Hallowell and instructing the
delegates 10 the convention in Wichita
TO support him for delegate TO the Chi
cago convention.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

Appearances are very deceptive, be-
sides two years is a very short time in
which any man to impress himself upon
state, especially state of the mental,
moral and physical texture of Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

THE Liar" is the name of new story
in the Century. Why the scene was not
laid in Kansas City the editor does not
explain, but no intelligent reader will
find any trouble in locating it.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The Kansas City Star thinks it will be
interesting to note the process Of secur-
ing an endorsement for Senator ingalls,
at Wichita, with Joseph K. Hudson in
the convention. 1t will not be thing of
process, Mr.. Star, but of spontaneous,
irresistible inevitability and Major Joe
has our unfeigned sympathy,
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The women of the Methodist church
will hardly get away with the general
conference with that facility that the
female lobbyists got away with the last
Kansas legislature. Boquets did the
business at Topeka. We suggest that
yellow legged chickens be tried on the
Iiuinac
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
A High Compliment.

Arlington Enterprise.
II. NJ Murdoch, editor of the Wichita
EAGLE. was Endorsed for governor by
the Sedgwick county convention. Marsh
is not a candidate, but the action of the
convention was a high compliment to
him and his work for Wichita and Sedg-
wick county.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

A Canuck threatens us with war. Let's
lick her. But hold on, exclaims a gal
liant kentuckian, he says something
about Britain being behind it all. Let's
liquor.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

Plumb took the hide off the Chicago
cattle syndicate and ingalls, skinned the
bark from the tall Sycamore. A pretty
nair of Deelers
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The protestant Episcopalians Of South
Carolina are still trying to work out their
''color line" problem. Since the fiat
refusal of the laymen (who pay the sal
aries to sit in convention with a negro
priest, and their open defiance of the
authority of the bishop, it has become
for the latter and his clergy case of the
riddle of the sphinx; if they don't find
a solution for il the consequences will be
very unpleasant. 1t was thought that a
solution had been found in the Rev. DR..
A. Toomer Porter's proposal to have two
conventions, one for the white church
men and one for the black, the bishop to
serve as connecting link. The laymen
pronounced this satisfactory, but a
Charleston dispatch reports that the
negroes say they will leave the church
first.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The Boston Transcript observes that
Mr.. Voorhees, very naturally dislikes to
hear too much anent the tall sick EN-
e'er the war-bosh.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
The Time too Short.

Kansas City star.
Judging by what Colonel Marshal NJ.
Murdoch has done for so small portion
of Kansas as Wichita, it might not be a
bad idea to give him chance at running
the whole state for a couple of years.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

The senator from Kansas proves him
self to be formidable Nemesis. He in.
gals the Democratic statesman.