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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-12

TIE PLATFORM.
The Republicans OF the State of Insas,
now assembled in convention compos ID
of more TN an 500 delegates, each county be-
ing represented by duly accredited mem
bers, declaf their continued adherence to
the cardinal principles of the National Re
publican party: express their admiration
and gratitude for its past services and re-
cord their conviction that in its future ad-
ministratitn Of public FffaiTs. 1t will quickly
respond TO every demand OF the people and
guided by the light of experience its legis a
tion Will be dictated by a thoughtful regard
for the best interests of the whole people of
this Nation
TIL RepubI can party was born OF q great
public necessits. Its early youth was spent
in successful opposition to the extension of
slavery. 1t C mmeneed its glorious Iegisla-
tive career by the passage of the Homestead
act, tile most beneficial law in Its results
ever framed by the american Congress. IL
maintained National supremacy AMI pre-
served Natl nal unity against great rebel
lion at home and threatened interference
from a read, through four years of the most
colossal warfare re ride la history.
By It's guiding energies gigantic rebel
lion was suppressed, an indestructtble
union of States perpetuated aad the sn
premacy Il the Union over in 8 states COM
posing It forever established Through its
Efforts slavery went down in the ruins OF
the 81 uthrrn Csnfederacy. Asisver ce was
emancipated and gu ranteed all the rights
of American citiz .nship- It embodied the
political truths enunefateo IN tne OecidFa-
tion of Indeorndencc in constitutional pro
visions and Congress onai enactments
Il has extended our National domain
by the acquisition of Alaska and has
added TO the Union the magnificent
States of Kansas. West virginia. Nevada.
Nebraska. Colorado. North Dakota, South
Dakot Washington, Montana, Idaho and
wyoming. II las maintained the public
credit in peace and war. has largely de-
ereased the enormous pubIic debt created
by the war and protected the issue Of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
Smoothing Ioodlsrs-

From the Chicago News.
The Northwestern World, a paper pub
lished by the students of the North
western University, says in its last issue:
1.-The editor of the Kansas University
Courier has enriched the English Ian
guage by the work 'smoodle' He de-
leg of the professor in order to get his
grade raised Since doodle and
'snoodle' seem to Indicate that 'oOdle' is
the proper termination for new slang,
we suggest doodle as a name for the
student who has postponed his studying
till now. L can't go, dear boy; I've
'loOdled' too much in Latin and have
got TO cram Is A. a good scholar
He is a Ioodle' in mathematics, but gets
language on time.
Words are coined by the dies Of
exigencies, actuated by the lever of cir
cumstances. ''Smoodle'-a fawning
favorite-and ''loOple"-to postpone an
imperative duty-may be but the vagar-
ious inventions of college boy philolo-
gists. But they are singularly appro-
pirate when applied to city hall detec-
tives who are still holding the gambling
search warrants issued five days ago.
These ''smoodle" detectives have
"loOdIed" over this matter so long that
there are grave suspicious that the
noodles have been "boOdled." SmoOdle,
doodle, noodle, Doodle are words with
rhyme and reason and full of suggestive
ness. They should be placed in Every
Detectives Hand Manual and carefully
indeyad
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
zen can vote today.

The women can vote today.
Turnips are to Oklahoma what corn is
to Kansas.
The turkeys are in for it again next
Thursday.
Oklahoma goes right ahead Italicizing
the weather
The school election in Oklahoma takes
place today.
Governor Steele and his wife left for In
diana Sunday
Oklahoma Brown is the author of the
! Oklahoma code
We drew a blank Oklahoma City Times
for last Wednesday.
Guthrie will probably go to talking
street-railway, again.
Some of these days we viii hear some of
the Legislators applying for aid.
| The fishermen in Oklahoma blush when
| they meet a man with a cabbage lie.
| There were III teams on the streets of
| Edmond at one time last Saturday.
! Cotton is still marketed at Norman,
considerable OF it still being unpicked.
| The last legislature is falling into OBJ
| livion at the rate of about sixty miles an
/ hour.
There is one item that you are sure 10
always find in the Guthrie papers-"Guth-
RE still has the capital"
The editor of the Edmond Sun says that
while Ventura county was assassinated, It
Will live in memory.
When legislator talks to a constitu-
ent now he keeps both his conscience and
his pocket book out Of sight.
Now that the legislature has adjourned
the papers will go quarrelling again as 70
whose town is the Athens of Oklahoma.
There are very few papers in the country
that haven't taken occasion this winter to
run in a starvation" article on Okla
homa.
The dealers in soap in Guthrie say they
have experienced no perceptible change 10
business since the adjournment Of the
Legislature.
After looking over the libel law, the
Norman Transcript cannot get up any
more icourage than TO say simply "The
Legislature has adjourned"
The town site commissioners have
proved up on the town sites Of Noble and
Lexington, and will be ready TO receive
applications for deeds to property there.
When an Oklahoma editor thinks real
hard thought against the legislature and I
doesn't want 10 put in bis paper. he sends I
1t down TO the Oklahoma City Gazette.
Purcell Register: The man with the /
Winchester IL no longer a conspicuous fea- I
ture on trains leaving here. FOR nearly 1
two years train guards have been carried |
on all trains between this place and Gains l
Vile These have now been dispensed !
with, this service having been discontin-
ued by the company for the reason that /
the express company refused to pay part
OF the salaries OF the guards and the rail
road that did not feel ike meeting the en-
tire expense.
Oklahoma Journal: There Is a sleek
band Of horse and cattle thieves now oper-
atlug IN this part Of the territory, running
the results Of their thieying out of the Pot
tawatomie and Chickasaw countries espe-
ciaily. Who they are or where their head
quarters are seems 70 be mystery. sew
ersl Pottawatomie cattle men have re-
Gently lost large mum bers OF cattle ard feel
like throwing up both hands and giving
up IN oesp pair Ia consequence. Il would 20
extremely hard with any OF the thieves ~
they should be discovered.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
PROTECTION FOR TRAINMEN.

An article in the Baltimore Sun call:
attention to the useless sacrifice of life
involved in the absence of any provision
by the railroad companies for the protec-
ton of the conductors and brakemen OF
freight trains, who are now compelled tc
pass from one car to another along the
roofs.
In winter this practice, dangerous at
any time, is often doubly so from the
fact that the roofs of the cars are coated
with ice, snow or sleet. The suggestion
is made that an iron railing be placed
along the edge of the roof which would
enable man, in most instances, to save
himself from falling to the track. ii
practicable, some safeguard of the kind
should certainly be provided, and the
railroad companies ought not to wait for
the compulsory legislation which the
Sun thinks is necessary.
1t would also seem that American
ingenuity ought to be able to devise
some means Of coupling cars which
would render the dangerous duty of a
brakeman comparatively harmless.
Crushed while coupling cars has come
to be a common record in the list of
fatalities in railroad service, but auto
matte couplers have been invented, and
it is to be hoped they will ultimately be
the rule and not the exception.
We have referred 10 this subject here
tofore and if we remember correctly a
bill providing for uniform system of
coupling for freight cars, and other
safety devices, was introduced in the last
session Of congress, and the president
referred to the subject in his message to
the present congress. The matter is
fraught with such interest TO the public
as to urge it upon the attention of the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30

life and conditions of the country, and
the value or potency of each Of which
elements hinge, oftimes, solely upon
their ever varying and reciprocal rela-
lions with other agencies and all which
taken together are beyond the Ken OF
grasp OF finite minds.
No man knows the amount per capita
in circulation today. It's all matter OF
guessing and of approximPting. One
half of all the money in the country, to-
day, may be out of circulation IN every
commercial sense. All moneys that are
beyond the reach of a check or draft or
bill of account rendered, is not only not
in circulation, but there can be no
representative of it, such as the ordinary
bank paper, and on which paper, III
fact, is nine-tenths of the business Of the
country done.
What is desired and expected of con-
gress is such radical step in the d.
rection of increasing the volume of cur
rency as shall not only convince the
world that there is going to be more
money, but that it is going TO be just as
good money as that which is boarded
away. 1t is not question of the amount
per capita, but it is a question of GER
tainty that the thing is going to be done
and to that extent that the debtor of to-
day will be relieved of the demand that
he pay back twice the value of that
which he borrowed yesterday or last
wear
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
INGALLS, DIRECTNESS.
From the Kansas City Gazette.

From the Kansas CITY Gazette
Many of Senator Ingalls, expressions
are used with which to torment him.
He is full of thought and originality of
expression, and everything is given a
Jagged corner. The Rev. Myron W.
Reed, the great Congregational preacher
of Denver, IN a sermon on the Indian
Messiah comes TO the relief of Ingalls,.
Many of ingalls, statements of facts are
twisted by his enemies into statements
of belief. The Rev. Reed says: THE
Anglo-Saxon is notorious for bouncing
on the weak. His wars of late are most
" with Beers, Zulus, AbysSinians.
Afghans, Soudanese and the American
Indians. His last achievement is butcher
ing Africans in order to get at more
ivory and the photograph of cannibal
feast, the price of the victim-a girl
being a white mans handkerchief, or
six handkerchiefs. Let us either burn
our bibles or stop numbering" 1T was
an i'll day." he continued, "fOr the Sand
witch Islanders when they met Capt.
Cook. What we call civilization has
killed by poison the native race. They
have withered at the touch of a white
hand. When Jesus Christ laid His hand
on a man it was different. What is all
this cant about Christian nations? Where
is there one? 4 Christian nation is, in
the phase of Senator ingalls,, IAN rides
cent dream The methods of Wall street
do not suggest anything in the New Tes-
lament except that part of it where
Christ drove the money changers out of
the temple with a whip of small cords, a
sort of cato -nine-tails." The senator's
statement of fact is thus agreed 10 from
a wonderful source.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30

st. Louis is to have . union station u
cost 81 ,00o.0o0
Il : now possible - travel from -.
Louis 70 The City q Mexico 10 six days
without change Of cars.
The gross earnings 81 the entire Sickel
Plate system Tor the f--al year we're -. r
o6S-s53. expenses, $40 -. 30, net earnings.
s. o.3 -
The first trial TIN "a toe fl-st cable rail
road system was made Aug /, 1ss3. today
there are forty-tour cable railroads IN the
United State
The Baltimore and Dafo railroad pro
pose= 70 expend TO 90 ln getting the
Chesapeake aEd Oaso email ready Tor
operation s-ala
The great tunnel O. toe 0sfarso ard
Western ra4l-oad betwrsn S.dpey ard Wal
ton j. nearly cozBpietei The estimated
cos x TIE fEsrE s. szuabo
4 reoeHf suTenfiou = PLACED in the cabs
81 locomotives Il automatically records
me lsE-fh - al stOrs time q starting ard
other incidents Of each TRIP.
An eaCine which T-ceutiv wrns through
4 rra-e rear san Antaasa. Tex. bad been
ta-u's-.1 sess1 urzTs-ss rvre1ks r. MI ~
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
INSULTS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

1t looks TO us at this distance from the
national capital as if the financial policy
which the Republican party was going to
/ adopt to relieve the pressure for more cur
rency would be defeated. Between the
spectators in bullion, the gamblers in
| Wall street and the eastern gold standard
| influences il seems probable that all
! financial legislation will be defeated. Re
| publicanS in both houses should remember
that the people will hold the Republican
party responsible if congress adlourns
without giving the country a satisfactory
financial measure. TO fail, is to defeat
the party in 1892 as certain as the election
/ IS held. viii the party leaders see lt?-
Topeka Capital.
As will be seen by the above the
Capital is now IN full accord with the
EAGLE in its estimate of the importance,
to the Republican party, of prompt
action upon the part of congress for the
relief of the monetary stingency which
is carrying down firms, houses and
corporations every day throughout the
land ,Eand which today is threatening to
close half the banks of the west.
A combination of Wall street and
New England creditors, and capitalists
III oChCldls OCChi " nave sNAAh VIZ AAeb'N1
more influence with the congress, now,
than does any consideration of the wants
Of the people, or the gloomy prospects
for the Republican party in ''92, and its
demand for speedy action. As the EAGLE
once said, parties may come and parties
may go, but Wall Street goes on in the
Treasury Department, in the White
House and in Congress forever. If any
man in the country more than another
knows of the financial distress, it is the
comptroller of the currency, Mr.. Lacey.
Yet this man,,in face of his call for a
statement of the condition of the Nation
al Banks of the country for the 10Th
of December, and which was responded to
last Friday, and which statement shows
a shortage all along the line, appears in
the dispatches of Sunday morning, with
the declaration that everything is right,
with a most hopeful outlook. He simply
insulted the intelligence of the Ameri-
can people with lie. 1t matters not
what the proud record of party may
be, or how pure and lofty its principles,
or how closely its tenets may be treasured
up by the people, no party can sustain
itself and carry the load that the Repub- |
lican party is carrying today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
GIVE THE COUNTRY RELIEF.

People know when 1.-The times are hare"
"and when the times are good, but the
average law maker and average news
paper and stump fnancier have but the
faintest conception of what caused the
trouble or how it was relieved. Many of
the influences involving disaster. as also
many of the agencies which bring the
relief are little understood. except when
they come as great national incidents.
The papers OF the world are filed with
supposed financial wisdom OF men who
can't define the difference between a
greeuback bill and 3 treasury note. o be-
tween debenture bonds and cedulas.
Nine out of ten of these writers fix some
amount per capita which they declare 10
be necessary to an adequate volume Of
circulation, the figures varying anywhere
from $50 to $50 and 500. This attempt
to determine the exact sum per capita Is
all wild guess work, and unadulterated
ignorance, possible only with people
who do not know what they are talking
about, and who have but the slightest
conception of the thousand and one
elements which enter into the financial
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
PHENOMENAL GROWTH OF CITIES

Once a Week, an illustrated paper of
New York. of date December %, devotes
considerable space to discussing the
eleventh census, just completed, not the
least important part of which, it finds,
is the formal adjustment it makes of the
claims of the cities of the country
to precedence in point of popula-
ton. After giving by name
the twenty-eight cities having
above 100000 population, with the
figures for each, that paper re-names
eight of the number whose ratio of in
crease has been most remarkable. Fol
lowing is the concluding paragraph of
the article:
kansas CITY. for instance. now has
40 per cent more people; Denver, 203
per cent; st. Paul, 224 per cent; Min
neapolis, 256 per cent, and Omaha
actually $50 per cent, or three and a half
times more than its population in 1880.
But, great as such gains are, these are
dwarfed by the performances of some
places which will, no doubt, rise to the
100. 900 rank in the census of 1900.
Wichita, Kan. with %. 135 souls, shows
a gain of 3S3 per cent; Birmingham.
Ala, with 26. PAL, $50 per cent: Pueblo.
Col. with 2S.12S, IA per cent: Seattle.
Wash, now having 1874 inhabitants.
is /. $50 per cent, or eleven times larger.
and Tacoma. in the same state. bears the
banner as a progressive town in regard
10 population, since lis 35.S5S citizens
represents gain of $3.50 per cent. or
over thirtv-four times the number il
held in 1880.
This Is a great and growing country"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
A QUESTION OF LATITUDE.

The Newton Republican denies the
EAGLES mild intimation that it has
climbed down off its high protection
horse, as evidenced bv its editor joining
the knights of Reciprocity" and in
proof Of its claim that it has experienced
no change it reproduces from its columns
of SIX months ago. as follows:
THE man who uses the tariff system to
benefit the industries of this country. no
matter if to accomplish his design he free
list half the scheduled articles and reduce
the duties on the other half, is protec-
ZIONIST. IL Is wise to reduce or 10
remove entirely the tarh on articles of
easy production IN other countries, pro-
viued those countries viii admit in return
American breRdstuffS or manufactures.
but TO make any concession without some
such stipulation is neither business nor
craftsmanship. II we were TO trade for
markets the tariff provisions that operate
In the western hemisphere until there
would be none remaining we should be
all the more supporters Of the American
system; that Is the protective system"
The declaration is certainly enough to
entitle Its author TO full membership in
any tariff reform organization, but the
difference between that and free trade is
Just the same as that between tweedle
dunn nd tweedle dee. Ii cur neighbor
and confere demurs at this it viii please
bear in mind that as high an authority
as Mr.. Harrison. in speaking TO that
same point, declared that il was mo;
the length OF the step. but the direction.
etc. But in these latiudinous times we
are not disposed to be as restrictive and
critical as some are who would impale
the EAGLE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30

It cost 500, 976.42 more than the re-
ceipts to run the Kansas penitentiarv for
the year 1889, and $4S, 800 SO more than
the receipts To run it for the year 1890.
With binding Irvine factory set up
within the prison walls this expense &C
count could be greatly reduced 10y the
profits in the manufacture of that neces-
sary article, and ut the same time the
price could be brought down consider
ably from the combine rates that have
prevailed to the robbery of the farmers
for several years. And not only SO. but
such an establishment would also make
a market at home for the prolific and
profitable hemp crop. We are aware
there is a very strong sentiment against
employing convict labor in the produc-
tioh of anything that can be made to
profit 10y free labor and private enter
prizes, but it does seem that a burden of
fifty 20 sixty thousand dollars a year
right along, year after year, that is and
must be borne by the free labor of the
state TO support, in idleness. in a large
measure the inmates Of the prison, would
be sufficient TO produce some change in
the sentiment referred to.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30

repaired and again placed n servlc--
: NJ FELTON,. JT., the newly elected pres
ident Of the East tennessee. Virginia and
Georgia railroad IS only % years old. lie
has been IN the railroad business since
1898
Ebert Z. Jaycox. Of The Chicago and
Northwestern railroad. who has been ~
lec;ed A. tras.c manager of the worlds fair.
is "a years Old. lie viii recesTe &. OO0 a year
Until May and $4,000 year thereafter
il j. reported On good authority THAI the
Toledo, Ann Arber aud North M.ehigau
Railroad con pzCy wall construct several
hundred niies ~ new railroads "a north
ern Michigan during the coming Sumner.
Mr.. a Y CaTpente~. who recently re-
tired from the position 81 gsasral passsa ger
aEent Of the Chicago. Milwaukee and 81
Paul, had hsld the position since isl5 I'D
bad been II the railroad bushes fort ions
yearz-
Charles watt. Il the Pitts0urg. Port
Wayne and Chicago railroad. says thai
special train on tae road -scently ran Gfty-
tnree milcs - fcYer .fre MINUTES. eleven
miles belrg made "a seven rsfuutss-ar
average sped Of hlsssy -l9u- rallss Al hour
Tee Nichigan Central c3rpa-y Dow has
The larEest Locomotive ia toe world Il
has six drivers, sach 3 - inches IA Il
ar1eter. and - 20 o3ast -sctea that = r. .
great fusl saver. while capable q hsulIng
heavy trains and making grea, speed- !:
weighs abogt - 90 p>En1s-
The first electro "a way Ia sweden has
bsen completed u 81 sis1ate1 81, TIE Box-
hc.m iron isuneTy. aaa s1rks csfsst2liT.
] - whole Installation L-.s cZly c,ssz G759. u
whIch TIE iooomofiTe absgrosE1 49, u -
worked thr5aEB cvn41ses slroaslT "a H~F
ior fae e.scfTic Aghg. NEaea sccDsn5s Ter
rae cAszpEess.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30

The Topeka Democrat, erstwhile un,
compromisingly for Hill for president,
quotes the Atlanta Constitution, which
says: "The choice of the delegations OF
Che close Democratic state should be the
Democratic nominee for president in
1892" and adds, "This suits us. We are
perfectly willing to go into the next
Democratic national convention under
This compact. If the choice falls upon
Grover Cleveland, no Democratic paper
will extend him heartier and more I'M
qualified support than the Democrat"
This IS the first intimation we have seen
from the esteemed that it regards the
nomination of Cleveland as a foregone
conclusion. The unanimous consensus
Of opinion in its party, it seems, has
forced the conviction upon the Democrat
and from henceforth it will devote itself
20 repairing the damage its opposition
has done the cause of the Williamsetreet
politician.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30

The German emperor's policy towards
The socialistic element in his country is
just the opposite Of that pursued by the
Russian car in the treatment of that
question in his dominion. Probably the
experience, personal and otherwise, the
ear has had with that element in trying
TO suppress il, which seems to have aggra-
waited it and made it more determined in
its efforts to throw off the oppressive
burden of personal government, has had
something to do with helping the Ger
man ruler to more liberal and con-
sentative policy. But whether or not it
is from this. it is certainly the part of
wisdom, both as regards his own personal
safety and the continuance of his reign,
and for the peace and contentment Of his
people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
An Excellent Measure.

From the Anthony Journal
Hon. George l.. Douglass, of Wichita,
a recognized leader in the last session OF
the legislature, and one OF the few Re
puolicans reelected, has prepared bill
entitled ''An Act to Prohibit the Corrupt
Use of money and Corrupt Practices at
Elections" which he will introduce at
the opening Of the coming session. The
draft of the bill was published in full in
the Wichita EAGLE of Dec. 20. 1t is an
excellent measure, and if adopted viii
doubtless prove one of the best ever en-
acted in the interest of pure ballot. 1t
will insure moral reform in elections
and free and honest ballot.