The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-25
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

OF course corn is still king in Kansas,
but the air apparent is hot after the place.
Kansas papers should not make fun of
Oklahoma. 1t encourages Oklahoma pa
pers to make fun of Kansas.
Farmer Funston is writing letter TO
every prominent man in his district. This
excerpts George I. Anthony, of course.
H. CLAY Park. the editor of the Atchison
Patriot. has been mentioned as the Demo
cratic candidate for congress from the
First district.
1t appears the strongest support the
Fort Scott Monitor intends TO give Eugene
Ware is by not saying anything good OF
Farmer Funston.
Atchison is accused of padding the cen
sus. 1t is refreshing to get something
scandalous from Atchison that is not
directed at the women.
The Fort Worth, Texas, Gazette is fight
ing Senator ingalls, Let's see; how many
representatives does Texas have in the next
Kansas iegislaturey
Sol Miller has written up Henry Stan
ley's wedding, but we will probably not
know how many subscribers he lost on &C
count of it until next issue.
A lecturer in western Kansas remarked
with all seriousness, as he wiped the great
beads of perspiration from his brow, that
high temperature developed Imagination
more than intellect.
The New York Sun says: There is said
to be case of Asiatic cholera in Kansas.
But the Asiatic cholera can do nothing in a
prohibition state 1t can be kept out by
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tional amendment.
The Atchison Globe man in the midst of
hot winds has succeeded in instigating a
discussion among his readers as to why
the Lord don't kill the devil. Between
advocating the propriety of such an act on
the part of the Almighty and trying to
abolish Jim Troutman the Globe man has
his hands full
There is to be a convention of negroes
in Kansas out in Salina soon, says Mr..
c. II. j. Taylor eX-minister to Liberia, lat
which my voice will be heard. There will
be 2l3 delegate. w T. McGumn, young
lawyer of Kansas City, Kan, is foremost
in the move and the meeting will demand
more recognition for the colored man by
the voters of Kansas. The blacks have
had nothing in Kansas since McCabe was
auditor and they want an office. Several
prominent negroes have been groOmed,
prominent among them being John l..
Waller. of Lawrence, who always hustles
hard for the party and then gets to be
guard at the penitentiary or a waiter at
the insane asylum. Bill Eggleston's Ok
lahOma colonization scheme by the way,
has dropped through. 1t died when the
president appointed George w. Steele, of |
Indiana, governor of Oklahoma, instead of |
McCabe of Kansas.
The people of the Second district would |
like to see Farmer Funston take the stump |
against George Anthony. Then there |
would be fun. But we could not expect |
that repartee from Funston that was once |
displayed by Alexander H. Stephens. 1t |
was down in Georgia in the fifties. Ben |
Hill, at that time belonging TO the Ameri- |
can party, man of fine physique and !
giant-like proportions and the brainy but |
frail ex-Whig Democrat were |
Stumping a district together. Stephens |
was just through his speech and seated |
when Ben Hill squared his huge body be- |
fore the assembly to answer his little OPP |
ponent, whom he started off to ridicule !
with some pleasantries about the size of |
his person. Look at him, ladies and gen
tlemen," he cried sneeringly, look at
him; why | could pin his ears behind his
head, grease him and swallow him
whole And while the crowd was ready
to burst into wild applause at this sally,
the high-pitched squeaky voice of Alexan-
Ter Stephens came piping in well, if you
lid, Ben, you'd have a blamed sight more
brains in your belly than you've got in
your head" And then the laugh was
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