Wichita eagle., 1888-08-21

board and Streetor voted for it.
This is the manner OF man who i
! now talking to the ex-soldiers of tn
, union, resident in Kansas, and soliciting
their votes for president. This is tn
kind OF mortgage shark who is irving t,
persuade Kansas farmers to vote for hin
for president.
why, if his record was known h
would not poll q corporals guard of
vote in the state. What [ have sale
about him | can prove from certificate
from the county clerks Of Inman anC
Mercer counties. They are sworn state
ments given under the seal of the cour
and are therefore irrefutable."
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There never was time in the history
Of the United States when people of al
classes We're SO busy studying the politica
principles at issue between the parties as
now. Whatever the result every section
and faction should be satisfied. The
Judgment of the people may be wrong
but then purpose is honest and patriotic.
J. K. Nelson, of Anthony. arrived
home from England last Saturday. He
savs-and we beliebe he is an orthodox
/ Democrat-that there seems to he more
! interest evinced for the success of CIeve-
! land in England than there is in the
United States. Still there are people
who are willing to chance trial OF
/ Democratic free trade.
The Democrats are now kicking against
! the tariff on Bibles. Poor fellows: it
does look a little hard, because in their
blindness they no doubt think that with
cheap Bibles they might encompass the
| impossible and at last reach eternal life.
CameiS may turn SumerSetS through an
eye of a needle but the day for any good
in cheap Bibles for the Democracy has
long since passed.
If the reports that come from Brasil in
regard to the treatment Of the lately
liberated slaves in that country are true,
the condition Of the slaves is worse than
when they were in bondage. 1t is said
that when they ask their late masters
for pay they are threatened with army
service unless they work for nothing.
Bills in the Brazilian legislature asking
compensation freed by the law Of May
- are not even reported from COM
mittee.
a Democratic exchange suggests, as
sort of apology for the delay in the ap-
pearance of Mr.. Cleveiand's letter of
acceptance, that the prompt appearance
of General Fishes letter after his nomi-
nation by the third party prohibs was to
be expected, inasmuch as he had nothing
but defeat to accept and that he might
as we'll do that one time as another.
Upon the same idea the presidents delay
in promulgating his letter is simply in
eXcusable. Still, it is not forthcoming.
The Duluth Tribune says the nomina-
ton of Wilson by the Democrats of
Minnesota is generally regarded by I'M
prejudiced Observers as an utter aban-
dOnment of the state by the Democracy,
OF course the party was doomed to de-
feat in any event but with strong state
ticket more Democratic members of the
legislature might have been elected, and
the chance Of carrying some of the close
districts improved. As it
is. there is nothing left Of the party-not
even hope.
In discussing the political outlook in
that state at present as compared to its
former rather doubtful attitude, the San
Diego Union declares that it shows on
the surface that the immigration to that |
''tive-eighths of the peo-
pie who have poured into California |
since 1886 come from the Republican |
rural communities of the north; and,
though their departure is weakness
there, it is a decisive gain here, and will !
be SO registered at the polls
Two young Kansans, Messrs. Victor /
lIurdock ana L. ID. Washburn, who have |
just returned from trip out west, beat
the best time on record in making ascent
and decent of Pixies Peak The best
line eyer made previously was by
professor i'll Yale college who made the
iSCcDt, Oh lOol, III I'VE IOttTS. ouT yOliUS
heroes made it in four hours and fifty
i've minutes On their return from the
peak TO Manitou they received quite an
ovation from the populace over their
ieat which was regarded next to Won
lerful.
The Wellington Quid Nunc. the daily
ssue of which lapsed into state of des-
tude two or three weeks since. bobbed
Ip again last Sunday rs Sunday morn
ng local and society paper. 1t was no
ault Of the editors that the daily was
TO suspend, and if the good
ok of our neighborlng city shall rightly
appreciate the meritorious journalism
he loss they sustained by the suppress
ion Of the daily viii be made good to
hem, in a large measure, by the Sunday
Guild Nunc.
The present duty on wool is So per
emit The Mills bill makes it free. The
PRESENT duty on salt is 40 per cent. The
lilis bill makes it free The present
iuty on fruits is 50 per cent. The Mills
III makes them free. Hemp and fax
AVE a duty of 20 per cent. The Mills
Ill makes them free. But when it
ONES to rice. the product of a Demo-
ratio state, the Mills bill demands 100
,er cent duty. For another product of