The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-06
SUNFLOWER SKINNER.

Ben Clover prefers the designation
Peoples party" to Alliance"
The Florida convention is good deal OF
a side-show to the Kansas Alliance.
Mrs. Lease can have some Say" in the
matter next spring. She can vote, then.
1t is about time to ask Senator Ingalls,
how many cords he has piled up to date.
| Scott county has the lowest record on
corn this year. 1t only raised lis bushels.
The presidents message ''speaks for it
self'' but it takes a mournfully long time
to do it.
Kansas is never without boom of some
kind 1t is Senator Plumb's presidential
bonanza, now.
That town is OVERRIDING the Lucy Par
sons" business.
p p Elder is the only Farmers Alli-
ance politician whose picture is in the old
Kansas herd book
A. B. Campbell has gone down as deep
rs he once went up high. He is engaged
in mining in Joplin.
There is young lady in Wellington,
who is so precise in her language that she
calls it the Mckinley William.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says that Sen
ator Ingalls, is more patriotic than parti-
SAN" and that is saying great deal.
1t would not be amiss now for Senator
Ingalls, to return the dynamite cartridge
TO its owner in Louisiana, with thanks.
The Alliance hit the Republican party
so hard between the eyes that it saw stars
and at once picked out Plumb as the cyno-
sure.
Dairyman Otis, the congressman from
the Fourth district, does not take cream in
his coffee. This important fact was given
away by a relative.
Chicago with the help of American in
genuity and the Mckinley bill Will prob
ably succeed in getting something higher
than the Eiffel tower
John Davis paper has at the head of its
columns the names Of j. b. Weaver, of
Iowa, for president, and L. i. Polk, of
North Carolina, for vice-president.
Timothy Mccarthy drew the slip Of
paper out OF the governors hat Wednes-
day, that seated Republican from Marion
county instead of an Alliance man.
Nobody will deny that the last cam
affairs imaginable if it hadn't been for
John J. Ingalls, New York World inter
view.
Jerry Simpson run up against a finger
bowl for the first time in his life az To-
peka hotel recently. Thanks" he said to
waiter who placed glass of water be-
fore him, I've got water"
There is a consoling thought 20 most
Kansans who are afraid Of our new con
gressmen when they viii have reached
Washington, in the quotation that. Dis |
lance lends enchAntment 20 the view"
y great many people do not know that /
it is uncultured to say thanks" foI I
thank you" IL is not criminal 70 be 4
sure When anybody says thanks" TO
stickler for style, Bent Murdock, he re- I
plies "Welcs."
There is one point on which both Jerry 4
Simpson and Jim Hallowell have cause 1
for common congratulation. That one 4
man in the district who would vote for 4
neither Of them, voted for Grover Cleve-
land for congress
Bill Higgins viii advise the new legis-
lature IN his next report Bill Higgins
once told the farmers that corn would ad-
vance ID cents IN two months and they
laughed al him. II advanced y cents IN
stead They viii probably turn their ear
20 him this time
Governor Humphrey issued e proclaua-
tion yesterday. calling an election Decem-
Der 80. in the Thirtv-second senatorial dis
tgict, composed Of Cloud and RepIblie
counties TO elect a senator 70 Ill tie
) aCApcV caused mr. rhe death or senator
& + SWearingen- IL Is generally conceded
that be viii be al aati-Ingslls man
Funston owes everything 70 the Demo
-rais Of the Second district TX they had
sGcOrs-C tie Allzace Candidate and zePs