The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09
SUNFLOWER SKINNER.

1t has been more than two weeks now
since any preacher has signified his inten-
ton of representing the people of Kansas
! in congress.
On J. Ralph Burton's farm there is said
to be the most successful scarecrow in
Dickinson county. 1t is dressed in Mr..
Burton's last spring suit.
Mutterings of Garfield are heard in the
| district again. This time in the connec-
ton with a position right behind the bat.
| The question is can Canfelds
The Rev. A. NJ Richardson is the prohi-
bition nominee for governor. Is Mr..
| Richardson Democrat and what Is his
capacity as prohibitionist?
One report says B. II. Clover, president
| of the Farmers Alliance, has moved to
Hutchinson. The district ne moved out
of was the Third-Bishop Perkins
Tom Moonlight is allowing the Demo
Gratis to proceed to elect him to congress
man. The extreme passivity preserved IN
this candidacy by Mr. Moonlight lends an
amusing yet rather pathetic hue TO first
district politics
The farmers of the Seventh district will
meet at Great Bend on the twenty second
and nominate a man for congress. The
fact that President Clover has just moved
into that district probably has nothing to
do with this, however.
The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks
Senator Plumb has enough sense to come
in out of the rain. Such an expression as
this shows that the Courier-Journal and
other old journals are fast giving up the
tradition that Kansas is droughty state.
1t is very plain that Harrison Kelley and
Speaker Reed are not fascinated with each
other particularly Harrison Kelley. But
it must be admitted that Reeds method
of setting down upon the Democrats is
much more effective than kelley's Arkan-
saw oratOry.
The Lawrence Journal wants to know
whether the prohibitionists are hypocrites
or lunatics \ paper as well Informed as
the Journal should not hesitate a moment
over such a query Lunatics are not al
ways Enthusiastically. But what can you
say for hypocritical lunatic.
That the states two young Columbian
exposition commissioners sat down to a
dinner the other day with plates at SIS
head must greatly intensity the dissatis-
faction of some of the older Kansas poll
ticians who at present are busy picking up
cold corn-pones in the kitchen of the
Farmers Alliance.
Bill Higgins, the secretary of state, has
made the first move towards the fall cam
paign. He has appointed a new charter
clerk, not farmer to be sure, but a one
legged soldier Several papers have
assured Mr.. Higgins that his reelection is
surety, but this appointment shows that
his own mind is not free from doubt.
The Leavenworth Times kicks against
so much noise on the Fourth 1t says
the noise is not patriotism, but savagery,
and it wants to know if we are civilized.
All this undeniably points to and proves
one fact-that since that postoffice row
Dan Anthony has become surprisingly
irritable. Don't the package" stores at
Leavenworth keep nerve tonic?
Senator Plumb in conversation with a
Doctor Ensor, of South Carolina. who
was complaining that he could not be
elected to congress from that state, said:
why don't you sell out and leave?
Come out to Kansas. There's plenty of
room out there for you to run for congress
The state at large would be glad to have
Senator Plumb tell in what district in
Kansas there is plenty of room for Mr..
Ensor to run The statement in its pre-
sent inde1initeness, and with almost every
district full of blooming candidates left
directed at the state as a whole is unkind,
to say the most for it.