The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-17
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

The Leavenworth sun has "rlz again
aud in the evening, too.
Chf Baker is at present the most de
voted advocate ofthird-termism in Kansas
Senator ingalls, did not make speech
on the Mckinley bill, but then the bill
went through without it.
Jerry Simpson says 1--WE want new men
in congress-" Some one ought to plug
Jerry and see if he isn't green
VIII Kansas get one of the tariff COM
missioners? Ii means $1,000 salary, s., 300
clerk hire and travelling expenses.
Kansas beats everything on queer COM
binations this fall A Salina man has
married girl Of Honolulu, native Sand
witch Islander.
Next winter in Kansas can not be mild,
goose-bones, katydids, and meteorology
notwithstanding. Somebody has to be
left out in the cold.
Kansas produces one-thlrd OF the castor
beans of the United States. That's all
right. But think of Kansas being known
as the Castor Bean State"
1t will only be little while now until it
will be popular at Alliance picnics to tie
the ham sandwiches up with free binding
Irvine. Plumb and ingalls, voted for free
binding Irvine
The establishment of the Leaven-
worth Sun presents an opportunity for the
present state administration and the pro-
gressive euchreists TO get an organ in
Leavenworth.
A bill will be brought before our next
legislature providing for election by the
people of city marshals, city clerks and
street commissioners. This looks like
dynamite in disguise TO blow up appointive
police commissioners.
Col. W. A Phillips was chairman Of the
first Republican state convention. 1t met
October y, 1880 John A. Martin and
Preston B. Plumb were its secretaries.
Charles Robinson was nominated for gov
ernor and Ben Simpson for attorney gen
eral
Senator Plumb takes nearly every i'm
portant newspaper in Kansas. 1t is said
that whether in his seat in the senate or at
his den" or on the street, he always has
paper somewhere about him. He is the
most complete individual paper carnival in
Washington
Some rascal tried to go through ex-Gov-
ernor Clicks pockets at Atchison Monday
morning But the loss of the Democratic
nomination for governor evidently had
made Click unusually watchful for he
grabbed the thief and gave him over to the
police.
Col. Learnard hoists the name of f. H.
Funston at the head of the Lawrence
Journals columns. Substract the name
of A. l.. Allen, the Alliance candidate for
congress, which is also hOisted, and you
have the Journals entire support of the
Republican candidates.
Senator Ingalls, made a strong partisan
speech at Pittsburg. He said: IF man
is Democrat, in Gods name let him be
Democrat. He that is filthy let him be
filthy still, and if he is Republican, in
Gods name let him be Republican in off
years as we'll rs presidential years"
There's rainbow-colored partisanship for
you.
Dick Blue has law Office at Oklahoma
City and he is also campaigning assiduous-
ly for the Republican party in Kansas.
Oklahoma City is the stronghold of Dem
ocracy in the territory. This looks like
successful effort to get on both sides of the
fence.
One of the most notable events of the
grand encampment of the q. A. r. at To
peka next month will be the presentation
to Mrs. Ida Martin, widow of the late ex-
Governor John A. Martin, of a gold medal
bearing the design of the 4th army corps,
that being the corps to which Col. Martin
regiment, the Sth Kansas, was attached
during the war.
Senator Quay is not the only influential
devotee Eugene Ware has in the east.
Speaker Tom Reed has five copies of
Iron Quill" One he keeps at home in
Portland; one at his domicile in Washing
ton, and one, it is said, reposes beneath the
speakers desk in the house. The other
two he lends to his literary friends.
If President Harrison really wants an
extra session of congress he shows by the
wish his ineffable reliance on the 5000
An extra session or a cOntinu-
alton OF the present session would last I'M
til the middle of November at least. In
that case Perkins, Funston and Harrison
Kelley will either have to slight their con-
gressional duties or neglect their own