The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-09
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The more doubtful Kansas is in 'S2, the
surer iG is of more offices, thereafter.
Jerry Simpson says Plumb will have TO
go in four years And Jerry? In two.
AL" is an abbreviation for Alliance.
1t is appropriate II takes in everything.
Senator Ingalls, thinks the splendid
organization of the Alliance surpasses
even that of the Catholic church.
John Davis, congressman-elect. was in
boyhood days a pupil of Abraham Lin
coin in Sangamon county. Illinois.
However consistent in other directions it
may be, the Alliance does not allow the
office that is seeking a man to escape.
1t wouldn't do for all the Alliance men
TO be Senator. Some OF them will have to
represent the new congressional district.
The papers that ran full page portrait
of Willis, our next governor" are just
getting able to make an audible whisper.
George 4. Peck was to deliver an argu-
ment for the No-Man s-Land cases before
the supreme court at Washington, Mon
day.
John Willis is the national lecturer for
! the Alliance This makes him national
1
ity
There is a new toy rattle on the market
| for Christmas. 1t represents an Alliance
man sitting loosely in Senator ingalls,
seat.
Senator Plumb caught the prevailing
idea yesterday, says the Washington Post,
and dropped little change in the legis-
lative slot.
Mrs. Lease started out in public life by
writing poetry. This fact will gain many
sympathiZers for her from among the lit
crary folk.
The presidents message can be taken as
Ben Harrisons most conclusive argument
against Senator Plumb's presidential
aspirations.
The Topeka State Journal is not an S.,
600 majority Republican paper. 1t is an
anti-McKinley, anti-Lodge, still an anti
Democratic organ.
Attorney General Ives says the decision
of an election by drawing lots is illegal.
The election of a Republican in Kansas
has never been considered illegal
Judge Horton decided that the delegates
can not be admitted. If all ingalls,
enemies are not getting some fun out of
the state of affairs, it is their own fault.
Eugene Ware has not fully made up his
mind to remove to Omaha, but he says he
will probably go. 1t will take him until
April to clean up his business affairs in
Kansas.
1t is not generally known that dishon.
orably discharged soldier or Confederate
must be pardoned by the state legislature
before he can vote in Kansas. The law is
a dead-letter
Tom Ryan was in Topeka Saturday and
left for Washington Sunday. Mr.. Ryan
is described as even slicker than ever. This
is perhaps natural consequence of a long
residence among the Greasers.
The New York Sun opposes the McKin
ley and the election bill, but it doesn't !
like Grover Cleveland. Charles Dana
could move to Kansas and change into
Republican paper and never know the diff |
ference.
Manchett, the Osborn county patriot, |
whom the Alliance elected to the legisla- |
ture after he had removed TO the state of |
Washington, has returned to Kansas, and |
says he will serve. There is always some !
body to deplore the fact that Kansas has |
to go out of the state to get men to fill the |
offices.
Billy Buchan is saucy sort of fellow.
In reply to an inquiry as to how he figured
out any probability of ingalls, reelection,
he said he was not running authorization
bureau for the benefit of the Alliance
Nobody in the state is willing to concede
the accession of any considerable amount
of political capital in the last campaign to
Mr.. Buchan.
There is one question which is of con-
interest in financial circles"
asked Senator Ingalls,
recently. The fear is expressed that this
legislature will pass stay laws or effect
other legislation which will be detrimental
to the interests of investors here Do you
think there is reason for such apprehen-
sion?" 1T is we'll to speak of that" Mr..
ingalls, answ cred 1T should be under
stood that, although the Alliance has OBJ
tanned overwhelming control of the
lower house, the senate remains
as it was elected two years ago
and is still under Republican control.
The members of the senate include many
Of the brightest minds in the state, and of
course the concurrence of both houses
would be necessary to that or any other
such legislation. Even if it passed both
houses, by reason of some of the senators
having an eye to reelection two years
hence, we have a Republican governor
with a veto power. 1t seems that there ia
no present cause for uneasineSs -