The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-07
SUNFLowER SIMMER.

/ SUNFLOWER SIMMER
As usual. there was woman in the cas-
Mrs. Lease.
Senator Ingalls, to the Alliance: "Wha
have you done:"
Farmer" Kelley doesn't seem to be o.
! the Alliance stripe.
Mr.. Mckinley will never be forgiven fol
| the way sponges went up.
Two Alliance representatives were elect
ed from Governor Humphreys county.
1t takes mighty big uproar to drown
| out Whoop Tomlinson. But drowned he is
Willis utterance, Il am not fit to bt
| governor of Kansas, " will now pass from
a condition of ostensible buncombe TO ar
example of gubernatorial humility and
modesty.
The farmers in the country precincts are
said to have congregated around the poll
ing places and not until all were present
did anyone vote. They would then fall in
line and every man holding his ticket in the
air, unfolded and unscratched, would each
one pass the paper in to the judges. 1t was
systematized.
Speaking of Alliance oratory, one OF
Jerry Simpsons inimicable arguments is
related: Fellow citizens" he cried
Prince Hal can wear his silk under
wear, but (here he grasped his trouser-
leg and barred his limb to his knee can't
wear any at all" A shrill voice from a
rural throat Immediately after broke the
silence preceding the applause with: 'But
you will, Jerry, after the election"
The social and political event of the
season was a surprise party. Nowhere
was the astonishment more complete than
in the congressional elections. In the first
district Tom Moonlight, man with strong
personal affiliations and widespread &C
quaintance had been agreed upon some
time before the election as undoubtedly
the victor. though the natural horror of
the idea of Democratic congressman from
Kansas would not admit a doubt into the
minds of the most sanguine of $1,000 ma
jority born and bred Republicans, but that
Case Broderick would succeed.
And he did not. in the second
district, Farmer Funston, with a
large bundle of excelsior" in his bosom,
was thought to have been insuperable, but
the returns show that if Chapman, the
Democrat, had been out of the race, Allen,
the Alliance candidate, would have beaten
Funston. Funston, however, may ac-
credit part of the preservation of his
epidermis to the fact that he is a member
of the Alliance himself. In the Third
district Bishop Perkins splendid record
as hard-worker in congress, was regard
ed as impenetrable armor in the battle of
ballots, still a rafting fight was kept up
on Clover for weeks before the election,
probably for the variety of support it
afforded his organs by allowing them to
pound the opposition and not because the
danger of the congressman was considered
critical. Mr.. Perkins stemmed the tide of
the Alliance food, better than any of his
brother candidates. as it was. In the
Fourth district the thud with which Har
rison Kelley came down was dumb-found-
ing to those who made guesses by reading
the papers. The papers of that district ut
terly disregarded Mr.. Otis, so far as any
serious opposition to him was concerned.
Aside from an occasional ocular allusion
to the Topeka milkman,' they failed to
mention him at all. Harrison Kelley's
Mckinley bill record in the eyes of his
had rendered him invulnerable.
Out of the seven counties, he only carried
two. All this, two, in the face of prac-
tice of his of preiiXing Farmer" t. his
name. In the Fifth district, Colonel Phil
lips success over John Anderson, who
was considered a political Hercules, gave
him carte blanche to the election. Mr..
Davis was considered in the race only
He is elected by 5000 major
ity. In the Sixth district Webb McNall
beat Turner at the nomination and not
it was agreed that his OPP
ponent, Mr.. Baker, was not much of
politician, he made a pretty thor
ough canvass, occasionally breaking in
the sacred precincts of an Alliance
picnic. His confidence and strategy
both failed. Mr.. Baker was elected.
In the Seventh, James Hallowell, a man
frank, open and with rare personal mag
netism about him, a strong speaker and
clear thinker, made one of the most thor
ough canvasses to be found IN the political
history of the country. There was not
town nor hamlet in the district that did
not hear his voice. Jerry Simpson confin-
ed his efforts mostly TO Alliance picnics.
The result may not be recorded.