The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-28
COLONEL HALLOWELL.
The Future Congressman of the Big Sew
enth in the City.

From the Hutchinson News.
Colonel James R. Hallowell. the Re.
publican nominee for congressman in the
big Seventh was in the city last night
on his way to Ness county. where he will
speak today at an old soldiers reunion.
A News reporter called on him at his
room in the Midland and found him with
his coat off, smoking a finely favored
| HAVANA and evidently contemplating
the chilling effect the winds of next No
vember will have on Jerre Simpson as
they whistle through his whiskers on his
trip up Salt creek. No matter how
often one sees Colonel Hallowell he al
ways finds something new about
| him that indicates talent and genius.
| Of all his prevailing characteristics
| none Is more conspicuous than
his ability to make the visitor feel at
| home before he IS fairly across the
! Threshold of his apartments When he
| greets one his whole soul seems TO be in
| the SalutatiOn and his visitor can scarce
| ~ help asking himself the question. can
this be Colonel HalloweN. the distin-
guished soldier and peerless orator OF
Kansas: He is as plain as an old shoe. as
the saying goes, and he seems to have as
warm heart for the humbleSt citizen as
he would have for men occupying the
most exalted st itions.
'What is the latest, Colonel" said the
reporter, by way of breaking the ice.
Nothing at all | have Just returned
from Indiana, where | visited two weeks
at the home Of my childhood and with
friends Of my youth. While away I
have been over a large area of country.
but l saw no place in better shape than
our own peerless Kansas. No man can
rightly estimate the beauties of our state
or the grandeur of her institutions till he
crosses her borders and see what there Is
on the outside Our fields have not
yielded as beautifully this year as they
would have done under favorable CIR
Cumstances, but | make the assertion.
and | fear not contradiction, that the
crops along the Santa Fe road between
HutChisOn and Kansas City are 30 per
cent better than along a similar distance
of any Inns Of road or roads between
Kansas City and Pittsburg. The farmers
of Kansas Were worse scared than hurt /
and mark my words that when they
commence gathering their corn they Will /
find from 30 to 30 per cent more than /
they expected. | make another asser-
ton 10 the effect that there (
will be more money in circulation /
in Kansas January 1st than there /
has been in the state at any one /
time during the past five years. l also /
make the assertion that more mortgages /
have been paid off in Kansas this year .
than during any similar period in the I
history of the state. These assertions /
can be subStantiated by the records OF I
the various counties. l am little afraid. /
however. said he. that the farmers are
making a mistake Just at present III sell /
ing their hogs instead of feeding them. /
Every time farmer sells hog he is de
crea5ing the value Of corn, for if all the
hogs are sent out of the country all the .
corn is thrown on the market and conse-
quently the price will come down in
to the increase in the amount
offered for sale.