The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-31
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Sam Wood will be in trouble tomorrow.
He is out of it today.
There are four Alliance lecturers in Kan
sas exclusive of Mrs. Lease.
The state codifying committee ought to
get hold of the Mckinley bill.
Moses Harmon, the editor of the ''Luci-
| fer'' is old enough to behave himself. He
| is sixty.
General Rice gave his senatorial boom
| too much rope and it hung itself. He IS
| out of the race.
| 1t would be serious mistake right now
to read any of the Republican state sena-
tors out of the party.
I Come to Kansas. The snow-drifts in
Alaska are two miles deep. The sunshine
| in Kansas ninety-five millions.
| To the man who has conquered the
| troubles and tribulations of the last year,
! it is nearly eighteen hundred and ninety
won.
| Two years ago Senator Plumb was doing
with one hand what IL is now taking Sena-
tor ingalls, TO do with both hands and
| feet.
An exchange says some of the Alliance
organs look like they were printed with a
lot of shoe pegs, "a cheese press and bucket
| of tar.
| A Topeka man has patented a machine
to prevent premature burials. The letters
! patent fail to say whether he is an ingalls,
or an anti-IngalIs man.
! Alex Butts: A Sumner county man
sold wagon load of watermelons in
Wellington the day before Christmas.
| Italian papers please copy.
/ Have you seen Buchan today" said a
Topeka editor to the reporter No" but
! | have run in the old interview that
'Ingalls is gaining ground every day"
! John j. ingalls, declines positively to be
interviewed by representatives of the press,
and says that he has lately acquired a
reputation for discretion in that direction.
Last Monday was great day for the
Republican politicians in Topeka. a man
| who was there says he never saw so many
men running at large with pie in their
whiskers.
The school teachers of the state have
met in annual session for twenty-eight
years and Kansas still sends men to con
gress who never graduated out OF the
second reader.
The Alliance members of the legislature
all pretty thoroughly understand that they
would have received something in their
stockings Christmas morning If Cliff Ba-
ker could have afforded it.
Senator Ingalls, is busy with the prepar-
alton of review of Hay and Nicolay' S
Life of Lincoln" He may make that
book one of the kind people read and re-
view of, to see what is in it.
There is danger of becoming too cul-
tured About half of the signers OF the
Declaration of Independence held a pen
with just about the same uncertainty and
awkardness that Jerry Simpson does.
Shortly after Jerry Simpson was elected
he went to Kansas City. A certain paper
there sent him note, asking him to give
his ''views on the politics, aims, ct cetera,
of the Alliance" by the next mail. After
quite a lengthy letter, he ended up by say
ing that the Alliance was going to steer
as clear of let ceteras" as iridescent dreams.
Speaking about jerry Simpsons socks
story, the Garnett Eagle says that Linn
county once elected a man to the state
senate who travelled to the capital in an OK
cart instead of by the stage coach, and
who, in fencing his farm, tied the poles to
the posts with hickory withes instead of
mailing them, because there was tariff on
nails
The appointment of Judge Brown to the
supreme court brings out the story of JUS
tice Brewers selection. Judge Brown and
Justice Brewer are old college-mates and
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Mathews death both were urged for his
place by several delegations, unbeknOwn
TO either gentleman. Brewer, one day,
however, was struck with the idea of rec
ommending his old friend Brown and sat
down and wrote a letter to one of the cabi-
net officers, urging Browns particular fit
ness for a place on the bench. The letter
was shown to President Harrison and
looking at the signature he said: Brewers
the mana man so unseltish ought to be
on the supreme bench"
Of late Senator Ingalls, has been greatly
worried with reporters who want inter
views They persue him unrelentingly,
sleeping and waking. day and night
There has been one representative who
has suffered all manner of rebukes for his
opportunities The other day he slipped
into the senator's room and bowling,
good morning, said: Senator Ingalls,,
want you to say something peculiar and
forcible to me for our paper" We'll, :"
said the senator, II don't know that can
say anything peculiar to you, but can
say something forcible, perhaps. "Yes?"
said the scribe all expectancy, and getting
his note book ready. Yes" reiterated
the senator. well, what?" says the pen
Gil pusher Get out" roared Ingalls,.
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