The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-16
SUNFLOWER SKINNER.

What romantic time the Democrats
are having with Moonlight and Clover.
In Geary county the Republican con-
vention was run by the Alliance. This is,
presumably, the tat for the late Topeka
tit"
Down in Oklahoma they call the drink
ing place with sawdust on the floor and a
spring latch upon the door kansas sa-
LOOM"
Friday, the last stone was placed on the
dome of the state capitol and the mason
who did it managed to keep his equilib-
rum.
1t is presumed that Mr.. Whaley, the
candidate for representative in the Topeka
district, uses sperm oil for his political
purposes.
Case Broderick had better take day off
and consult with Edward Funston as to
how to go to congress without the aid of
the newspapers.
Robert Moore, the chairman of the Re
publican convention, is not stranger to
the volume of Kansas history. He was
page" i'll the Lecompton legislature.
The prairie fires of western Kansas stand
alone this year as about the only thing
that can not be charged up to any political
party. Still they are burning question.
Mrs. Lease in a recent speech compared
herself to Barnum's elephant, Jumbo.
Woman-like, we suppose, she never goes
any place but that she takes her trunk
along.
1t does look little odd that such zeal
for the amelioration of hot winds should
be displayed at a time when people are
plastering up the cracks on the north side
of their houses.
Atchlson county wants to be separated
from Doniphan because they have nothing
in common. The Divine map maker and
the departed spirit of the defunct gerry
mander will have to reconsider.
Up in Harvey county the Republicans
nominated all the candidates for county
officers from residents of the city of New
ton. The Citizens Alliance" doesn't
seem to be much of a SLOUGH, itself.
Moses Harmon, the editor of Lucifer,
the free-love paper, is out of the pen and
taken to editing again with renewed vigor.
One way of gaining notoriety in this coun-
try is to be sent to the penitentiary.
Through some geometrical hook or
crook not taught in schools, when Colonel
Hallowell at Hutchinson proclaimed that
he stood ''squareIy" on the Dodge City
platform, he was ''roundly' applauded.
The Atchison Champion blames the de-
feat of w. w. Guthrie on Ingalls, 1t is a
wonder that the Champion hasn't tried to
persuade General Greeley that Senator In
gals is responsible for the "hot winds"
Speaking of history, have you ever no
ticed how the standard has changed in
Kansas? 1.-THE caterpillars are defoliating
the trees of Lawrence" Twenty years ago
Webb Wilder would have put that in his
ANNALS"
Over at a "cross roads in Barton county
is a sign board that reads as follows:
~ This road goes to great Bend-23
miles. .es@ This road goes to Russell-26
miles. Those who can't read will please
apply to the house for information"
The Democrats of the Fourth district
failed to nominate a candidate for con-
gress. While Quaker Otis, the Alliance
candidate for congress, is city dairyman,
this will be likely to make Harrison KEEL
ley's campaign a milk and water one.
1t is singular fact that most of the
Alliance candidates have for their cog
nomens the names of many agricultural
products or pursuits. There is Tillman,
Glover, Otis, etc. OF course
this is not true of the candidate for con-
gress in the Seventh district, but we think
it would sound better if it were changed to
Sorry Jimpson.