The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-18
sUNFLOWER SIMMER.

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The opinion of the supreme court on
| some OF our Kansas judges would be in
teresting.
John A Anderson Tuesday carried
| Junction City and Geary county for con-
| gress against James NJ. Harvey.
Superintendent Meserve of the Haskell
/ institute has had the charges against him
/ repudiated, except the one that he is from
| Massachusetts.
! The Topeka hotels are not alone the bene-
| ficiaries of that anti-resubmission conven-
ton. The city haberdashers also exper-
! fenced great drain on the stock Of large
| sized hats the next morning.
Politics up in the Fifth district get along
! very smoothly, except when George Mar
tin, of the Kansas City Gazette, sticks his
head in. This always creates an atmos-
pheric disturbance and Mr.. Martin has to
temporarily withdraw.
Ex-Governor Robinson is still pounding
it into the prohibitionists at Lawrence.
MIR. Robinson has said that he was too old
to run for governor again. But his eyes,
apparently, are not so dim that he can not
see the hypocrisy of prohibition.
Sol Miller has recommended a cholera
mOrbus medicine and his testimonial is
published as an advertisement. Up in
northern Kansas this is of much more
worth than either PATHS or Henry Ward
Beecher's soap recommendations.
The Topeka Journal published picture
of Mrs. Henry Stanley and the man who
criticizes newspaper cuts from Rem
brant standpoint is ont making fun of it,
Frank MacLennau doesn't claim to be an
artist, neither does his foreman, nor his
devil, nor his devils chum.
An involuntary sigh forces itself upon
one when, in the possibility of prohibit
ton crusade at EmpOria, we think of
what will become of Father Eskridge and
his whisky ads. VIII the editor of the Re-
publican oppose the abolition of the pack
age stores on business principles?
The dividing line between sanity and in
sanity is underlined. We can be aburd,
yet not crazy. We can be conscientious
crank and yet bear a semblamce to sanity,
but we can not be an absurd crank and lay
claim to wits. This was suggested by the
action of the council of Olathe to boycott
and run down any one who is opposed TO
prohibition. If you live in Olathe and
have individual opinions, go to Russia or
to Thibet or some place where despOtic
rule has not yet reached the point where
convictions are prohibited.
The gist of one of the Topeka anti-resub-
mission resolutions was virtually a bid
for money to protect prohibition officers
from their own harum-scarum prosecu-
tions But the fact still remains and with
hope must be vain, that the prohibitionist
is a better conniver than supporter. His
hypocrisy makes it So He would rather
be a knowing leader than one of the crowd
of bamboozled followers. Succinctly this
is only additional evidence that the prOhi-
bitiOnist is better at winking than cough
ing"
Alex Butts, of the Kansas City STAR has
been over to Excelsior Springs recreating.
So has Major Hudson, of the Topeka
Capital. Alex has story on the major.
The principal attraction at the spa to Mr..
Hudson seems to have been the bathing
facilities and he was in the pool a gOOdly
portion of his time. lone day after pro-
Ionged bath, attended by violent exercise
relates Mr. Butts, che tainted away just
as he was about to enter his dressing
room. His companions laid him down on
the floor and proceeded to rub him vigor-
ously, while the frightened attendant ran
to the bar of the Films and quickly re-
turned with tumbler of whisky. The
men who were working with the major
were just about to pour some of the spirits
upon his ankles, when he began to revive,
and opening his eyes called out in faint
voice: Don't waste much of that stuff
on my feet" The suggestion was speedily
adopted and in a few minutes Joe was
feeling as clipper as a fighting cock. The
fellows all promised that they wouldn't
give it away, but things like that are
harder to keep than oysters in July
Wednesday Mr.. Hudson was chairman of
the committee on resolutions at the anti
ResubmissiOn meeting in Topeka, |
which resolutions denounced the men
who touch liquor. OF course Alex Butts
couldn't foresee that, and his anecdote
comes in very uncomfortably and mop
portunely for the editor of the Capital |
The only way open to explain for Mr.. Hud- |
son that we can see, as the whisky that |
was not wasted on his feet" was in Mis-
souri,, is to take up the original package |