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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17
WHAT'S THE MATTER, JEREq

Dir. Simpson in his speech in this city
Friday night admitted that if the Repub
hcans were sincere in their declaration
of principles as laid down in the Dodge
City platform, the Alliance or Peoples
party might as well draw off their can
dldate and support the Republican nomi-
nee, because the platform is substan-
TALLY the same as the Alliances. But
he denied that the Republicans were
and are sincere and in proof he quoted
from the last National platform and the
Dodge City instruments wherein he
found glazing discrepancies in regard to
the tariff question. This, per Sc. sounded
pretty whitening, until the speaker
stepped over on to his own party plat
form and went parading along with
sweeping strides until he struck the rail-
road crossing, when he stumbled and
fell sprawling over a misplaced switch,
so to speak. He boldly proclaimed his
partys demands for governmental con-
troll of the railroads, but when he under
took to explain what that means, he
had to acknowledge that he did not
fully understand 1t himself. So.
too, when he came to the money CUES
ton and the much Wanted sub-treasurv
scheme, he vehemently proclaimed the
demands of the party he represents for
reform, for change, but in what shape.
just how it was all to be done his own
mind was not quite clear; in fact he
didn't know. Still he thought he was
the proper person for the voters of the
Big Seventh district to send to Wash |
ington to reform the abuses that ap-
peared to be more imaginary than real, |
Judging from the speakers ability to de-
line them and suggest a remedy.
The Honorable Jere reminded the |
writer Of the little boy who went visiting
with his mother, and who filled himself |
up on green apples before dinner. When
Inner was announced and the little
elbow climbed up on a chair by
he side of his mother, she no.
iced he seemed to be in pain.
md to her question, whats the
natter, Jere; what do you WANT" the
title hero, between suppressed sobs, re-
lied: 'I--I-Ts got the belly ache,
hats what | want"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17
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a TENDER FOR LIGHT AND H

From the Engineering Journal
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pau
company has had in operation for some
! time on one of its passenger trains a
! special arrangement for supplying steam
/ heating and electric light on the train.
| This Is done by a eight and heat tender, :"
| which Is a special car designed by Mr..
| George w. Gibbs, mechanical engineer
of the road. This car, which is carried
next to the tender and is mounted on
! passenger car trucks, has an unusually
strong floor framing to protect it against
accident, and is covered outside with
steel plate one-quarter inch thick. the
end doors being also of steel. 1t is thirty
four feet long by nine feet wide. and is
divided into two parts by a partition.
which is also covered with steel plate and
divided with a steel door. The large
division is twenty feet in length. and
contains q boiler of the locomotive nat
tern, which supplies steam for heating
the train. and also for running the en-
CINE in the other compartment. Back Of
the boiler are placed the coal boxes. one
on cash side, leaving room between
them for the fireman. The water SUD-
ply is drawn from the Iocomo-
tive tender. In the smaller
division of the car IS a Westinghouse en-
glne of fifteen horse power, which runs
an Edison dynamo. This dynamo Is con
nected with a switchboard. from which
wires are carried to the cars for the cleo
trio light. The engine and dynamo are
placed on one side Of the car, and their
weight is balanced By a tank placed on
the other side, in which Is carried a sup
ply of water for the boiler, which can be
drawn upon when the engine Il de
tached, or IN case any accident should
happen to the couplings connecting with
the locomotive tender. When the car
was first placed in use q set Of storage [
batteries was carried. in case the engine !
or dynamo should break down. butthi .
has been found unnecessary. and the I.
batteries are no longer carried. The .
system has been found to work verv
well. In the summer time. when II l. /
not necessary TO heat the train. the
special car Is laid aside. and the DYNAMO .
and engine placed in the baggage car.
steam being supplied to the engine from
the locomotive boiler.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

Colonel Anthony has slipped the
halter and IS getting as antickv as an
unbroke broncho. He Just kicks and
keeps a kicking. and when he don't
see anything in particular to kick at he
kicks up both heels in the air. lust 10
keep in practice, we suppose. 4 few
short months ago he was merciless in
his rescripts at the EAGLE for its notes Of
warning to the party leaders against
further pursuing a line of policy that
promised only defeat 70 the party: but
now-well. just read this. which is bus a
fair sample of the Times daily terEiver-
stations:
If the Alliance viii place in nomina-
ton new men, honest, capable men. for
the various pos tions 10 be filled AT the
fall election IN this county, il Is thought
by many that the Republican county
viii quietly endorse their
action and thereby secure a new and
honest administration, which Will do an
IN Its power 10 stop the increase OF our
bonded debt, stop all eytravacance and
help hquidate our two millions al civ
ana county debt. 1t may be the wise
thing 10 do.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17
SUNFLOwER SKINNER.

All the Alliance nominees were formerl
Republicans.
If some of the politicians had Professo
SHOWS chlntz-bug reputation, how the
would lalligag the Farmers Alliance.
If silence is golden, then the Newto
Republicans support of James Hallowel
has the ring of the true metal, surely.
A southern Kansas man wants to know
where this country is going to get relief
anyway. Has he looked in the Dodge Cit,
platform?
1t is almost time for the man from the
sand hills to commence soliciting aid-that
is if he hasn't gone TO Oklahoma to receive
a share of their SIS. 900.
Some of these days Vice President Nor
ton IS going TO surprise the country by ap
pearing before Senator Ingalls, and asking
him to permit him to preside over the sen
ate day or two.
Mr.. Wlllet's advocacy, through the
Peoples platform, of a service pension.
does not come from selfish motives Let
US give him credit for that. He only
served two weeks in the army.
We haven't seen the Nonconformist this
week, but we suppose it is standing I'D TO
the principle implied in its name and
kicking" at something. A good motto
for the Nonconformist would be, What
is. is wrong"
In the opinion of Jake Stotler. Cliff
Bakers boom for reelection TO state
printer is going to be knocked so high that
Father Baker will have TO import a
medium before he will be able to hold
communion with its dilapidated spirit.
The papers of Atchison. moreso than
those of any other town in Kansas, pub
hsh long accounts of the Schweinfurth
scandal. The mistake Schweinfurth made.
was in not making Atchison, or town of
the same temperament, his Bethlehem.
Charlie Scott, of the lola Register, ought
to get something splendid from Farmer
Funston. The only trouble, however, is
that Mr.. Funston, from the actions of the |
other papers in the Second district. is
liable to underrate the value of journal |
istic influence
ingalls, has issued an order prohibiting |
smoking in the corridors of the senate end |
IF the capitol. The senator can prohibit |
men from smoking in Washington but he
amt stop them in Kansas. 1t is probably
or this reason that General Rice fumes
away, trying TO work up little blaze
The Winfield Courier says the Peoples
met in Wichita Wednesday
md nominated John Willets for governor.
This, of course, is a typographical error.
t is not possible that Ed Greer could over
ook the fine Italian hand" of the Topeka
oliticians in the proceedings of that con
ention.
One of our esteemed exchanges, the Ar
ansas City Dispatch, doesn't like the way
he Republican papers of the state jump
round. The EAGLE regrets that the Dis |
atch is not pleased. But then the Dis
atch is not the only Democratic paper .
nat doesn't like the activity of the Re !
ublican papers of the state.
Last Wednesday Henry Inman, of Ellis I
orth, who is we'll known in Kansas, '
loved his family from the house they had
ing occupied TO another in the same {
On the evening of the '
me day while sitting in front of his new
ome he was dumbfounded to see his late t
sidence knocked all to pieces by light q
ng.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

only federal question presented was
whether intoxicating liquor Is 50 far diff
ferent from other property as to be the
subject of police regulation. That it IS.
there can, 1t seems TO me, be little doubt
for so II has ever been regarded in Amer
lea. and so it has been for centuries in the
mother country. 1t seems to me that the
just conclusion is that under our Amer
lean constitutions there is neither exclu-
slve central power nor absolute local in
dependence. 1t Is. at all events. quite
safe TO affirm that it can never be expe-
dent to build up a strong central power
at the cost of municipal independence.
If there Is a right SO old and so firmly in
terhuked with free institutions as 10 be
known Of all men it Is the right Of self
government"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

The frey kiss of the sun upon the
brown bosom of the earth sends thrill of
intense life along every vegetable fibre
and the long blades of the corn rustic with
delight in the warm and languorous air.
w hat is short period of personal discom-
fort when each day of the heated term
adds millions to the nations wealth TO
ledo Blade.
Ii the conditions in northern Ohio have
for the past two months been similar to
those that have prevailed in this part of
the footstool the writer of the foregoing
rhapsody possesses the very essence of
logic and philosophy. There is no de-
nying the fact that the heated term add
ed millions to the nations wealth by in
creasing the prices of all food products
already on hand, but who can estimate
how many millions have been lost to
growing crops by reason of the heated
term supplemented by an unusual
drouth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17
THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE


Prom the IcdisDspo.ls News
Judge Elliott Of the Indiana suprana
court. one Of the most popular Repuoll-
cans IN the state, created quite a -ensa-
ton IL his discussion Of the local self
government. before the National Bar as
ISOLATION. He spoke Of the self-evideut
proposition that a free government l.
necessarily one Of checks and balance.
and continued:
in asserting federal supremacy in re-
cent decisions. the highest court Of the
land has moved through a new chauneI.
and while IL did wisely and well 10 de-
stroy heresv that threatened 70 DESTROY
the commercial affairs Of the nation Il
has carTed the doctrine Of central pow
st TO the utmost verge Of safety. ven
tGre II the exercise 81 4 citizens ri-ht
10 say that IN one notable instance. al
least. the current Of It's thought has ont
run the lines marked for il bv principle
aud precedent. The decision II The court
IN the original package case Is "a strong.
and. with profound d@fTereuc@.
suggest. danEerUu. assertion 81
central power. i the police power -
sides IN the states, and that il doe. has
been time and tine again adjudgel, tie
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

The resemblance between the late
Samuel J. Tilden and the late Cardinal
Newman is said to have been so striking
that some of the New York papers,
which are always over jealous of any
thing that looks like trenching in anyway
upon the Sage of Grammarcy's preserves,
were prompted to accuse the World of
using an old cut of the latter in its col
umns as likeness of the decease cardi-
nal. The friends of the latter had too
much regard for the proprieties to COM
ment upon the imposition, if, indeed,
there was any practiced.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17
LABOR TROUBLES EAST.

A report on labor troubles in the state
OF New York has just been issued by the
| state bureau of the statistics of labor.
which report is lent special interest by
the present disturbed relations between
labor and its employers in that state and
the threatened rupture in other states of
that quarter. The bureaus investiga-
lions has led it to the conclusion that the
hope that the day for strikes and labor
disturbances is drawing to a close is
drawing to close is purely optimistic.
There were in the five years covered by
the bureaus statistics 1884 strikes in
5,223 establishments, employing ia. 729
employees. OF the whole number nearly
two-thlrdS were successful, while over
One-thlrd were unsuccessful. The pre-
dominating causes of strikes were ques-
tons OF wages or Of hours of labor.
Forty-One per cent of the whole number
OF strikes were either for an increase or
against reduction of wages, and of
these little over 20 per cent were sue
cessful. Something over Is per cent of
the whole number of strikes were for
change IN the hours of labor. and of these
nearly II per cent were successful.
Among the strikes recorded 59S were
threatened" strikes, and of these over
VI per cent were successful. On the face
of these statistics it will be seen the bal
ance Of advantage has inclined in favor
of the striking employees.
1t Is notable fact that a large prepon-
derance of the labor troubles in this
country occur in the industrial districts
OF the eastern states: we might say this
Is almost exclusively the case outside of
a strike on some railroad or railway svs-
tenn IN the west. There is point in this
circumstance that is worthy of the spe-
clal and very earnest thought of our
statesmen and leading social economists.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

Congressman Peters says James Hallowell viii
not save any of his 5000 year either. Mr.. Peters
Is probably right. But besides the $500, Prince
HAP will give the people Of Washington about ten
thousand dollars worth OF whole-soued joviality
additlonal.-EAGLE
1t will cost him more than ten thousand
dollars worth of jovialty to get there and
should he by some miracle. succeed
Jovialty is about all the Seventh district
may expect from him. But he never can
be elected. No, sir. He can't come any
nearer than Perkins can.-Arkansas CITY
Dispatch
The only comment upon this rejoinder
that seems necessary is to simply state
that it is the opinion of Democrat who,
OF course, is fernint everything and
everybody else is for.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

Senator Spooner thinks that if the
country is bound to have high duty on
tin plate there ought to be a little COM
mon sense in the proceeding. He thinks
that after fair chance the tin plate in
dustry does not develop as promised the
duty ought 10 be remit, ed without
further legislative action. The amend
ment introduced by him as an additional
provlso to the tin plate paragraph would
give the Pittsburg syndicate three years
to make good its claims that the industry
can be built up in this country. That Is,
If at the end of three years one-half the
TN plate used in this country is not pro-
duced in this country then the tariff is to
be taken off by presidential proclama-
ton. To our notion Senator Plumbs
proposition to remove the duty and give
the home industry a bounty equal to the
proposed rate of duty for a sufficient
length of time to develop it here and
place 1t upon its feet and enable it to
compete with the outside worlds pro
duct. IS equally as practicable and in
hnltely more practical. There is no
single article in the entire tariff schedule
upon which the protection issue can be
so clearly and pointedly drawn as that of
tin plate, and on that the issue Will no
doubt he made: there Is no use to 90
farther for q salient point.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

How foolish and worse than foolish at
this distance the quarreling and fighting
among the Central American states ap-
pears. The people are credited with
possessing at least an average degree of
intelligence and they have as fine coun-
try and one as susceptible of improve
ment and of producing great wealth as
any quarter of the globe. None of the
belligerants can afford the exhausting
strain of war, and since there is nothing
substantial to be gained by the con-
tinuance of hostilities it is criminal not
to stop the fight.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

The public is warned not to place con
fIdence in the statement of the relative
numerical strength of the different re-
HgIous denominations that is now going
the rounds of the newspapers. The
work OF the census bureau on this point
has not yet been completed, and any
figures that are now presented are I'M
official and Inaccurate. The statistics
covering this field are awaited with a
great deal of interest, and should prove
abundantly valuable if they have been
secured in a complete and reliable man
Dpr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

The Peoples party nominated a colored
man for auditor and yet one of the cardi-
nal prlncles of the Farmers Alliance is
that no negro can be member.-Salina
Republican.
And this isn't all; that party also put
up woman for state office knowing
full well that the women cannot vote for
her. An effort was made In give the
nomination in question to Mrs. NJ. f.
Lease. but that lady had the good sense
and we might say the interests of the
party sufficiently at heart-to decline.
for the reason that she was not willing
TO be made handicap for the party in
the pending race. As it is. the race ap-
pears To be made up, on their part. on
the hippodrorle order.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

Sending the green goods" circular to
prince Russell Harrison must have
been practical joke perpetrated by
some outsider. 1t is not at all likely
that any sharper5 would think it posi-
bic for the son of a president of the
United States to be so viciously verdant
as to become the agent and accomplice
of counterfeiters. Harrison the younger
could scarcely be believed to be that
kind Of a fool, whatever else may be
said of him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

With all the evidences-and there are
many-of insincerity on the part of the
Alliance in its politician aspirations. and
in its demands for the righting of the
peoples wrongs as well, it made one
very emphatic denial of the mild inn
parchment when its convention in To-
peka snubbed the Democrats by reject
ing their protfered assistance if the ALI
ance would only give them the chief
loaf, l. e., nominate their man for gov
ernor. 1t may have been a Sampson
act, but it took nerve to do it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

j. F. Hughes, of Hamilton, Iowa, de-
ivered at this office last week the two
volumes entitled ''In Darkest Africa. -
written by Henry NJ. Stanley, the great
African explorer. They are the hand
soonest works that have been placed in
our library for a year or more, are
printed on beautiful paper and contain
many handsome engravings and steel
plates. Several large maps also accom-
pany the books. Mr.. Hughes has had
remarkable success in making sales
through his territory and Is now busy
with his first delivery.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

When such old chestnuts as P. P. Elder,
John Davis and P. B. Maxon are planted
with their toes to the DAISIES, there will be
a chance possibly for reform party in
Kansas, and not until then.-K. c.. Ga
Zette.
Well, didn't the Topeka concIave per
form that service TO the worthless men
toned with neatness and dispatch? And
not only so, but didn't it add to the trio
that other brace of Democratic chinou-
pins, viz: Robinson and Click, with com
mendable dexterity? And yet every
thing don't appear to be altogether lovely.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

with the car expatriating the Jews
and the sultan batting the Armenians
the east Is part Of the world that will
bear close watching these days. Aside
from their natural enmity. the ''unspeak-
able Turk and the 'unspeakabie@ Rus
sian ryal each other in their conrrayen-
ton OF the humanity that characterizes
modern civilization.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

Three Of the Georgia Democratic con-
gressmen. towit: Turner, Blount and
Crisp have been renominated despite the
fact that they fatty refused to indorse
and advocate in congress the Alliance
subtreasury scheme. And the Alliance
in those districts is 50 completely under
the ban of the Democracy that it
daren't make independent nominations.
And 50 it goes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

The Democratic champions of Gov
ernor Robinson still have a chance to
show their faith by their works. bv press
ng his nomination upon their party at
the state convention. VIII they. not
withstanding the fact that their consort.
the Alliance, didn't 50 Willett: We
gueSS not
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

A failure of the potato crop in Ireland,
which Is said 10 be imminent. would
bring about a serious condition of affairs
IN that unhappy land. Such an event
would recall the famine that devastated
Ireland a generation ago, when United
States man-of-war carried over supplies
10 the starving people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

The Sioux City Corn Palace this year
will be Illuminated both day and night
by thousands of incandescent and arc
electric lights, a feature that is not only
new and worth travelling miles to see.
but one that will insure the great enter
prise against the accident Of fire that
frequently occurs in such structures
when lighted by other and ordinary
means
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
The Inevitable.

ike The man who faces what h~ r-a.f
W IN step tyiaru plant and a heart ~ rhrfr.
who hEhts the daily battle without fear
sees DIS hops fAil yst keeps gua.t frlnx Trust
~ God i God; that sDuet0N true and flst
Ills p ais work cut Tor uuofts 10. Hot a tear
- shed when fortune. which the r4rtd taffs Gsaf
FAiIs from his grasp better. with Ioge a crl!.t
man I've Do d.shuu1r- euvIcs not-
s"f loses iatih iL nsu. h1t does h'- bees
Sgr ever muruiurs Al hls humber .9L
b1t Win smile and word ~ hope gives rest
~ every t9ilrr- Do alone is great
" DO. - a Ifc heroic, conquer s4te
-I04ths Conpanlo
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17
A Revision voice Prom Ns5rask.-

From the Omaha Bee.
The west has demanded. and stiIl de-
mands, a revision Of the tariff. and u
insists that 1t shall be downward AMI
not upward. la this western country
Republicans are IN harmony with ,hs
only rational and logical Interpretation
Of the pledges u the party 70 the coun-
try. and urge the only policy which will
not be menace 10 the stability and po-
tency II the party.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

London Is about TO appoint inspectors
to 90 around and look after the morals
of the music halls. We have no doubt
that the morals of the music halls are
quite capable Of taking care of them
selves, and that they viii keep right
along, iust the same as before there were
any inspectors. No wonder that the
London public looks upon the affair a. a
hinge 1oEa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

Nice-President Reinhart of the Atchi-
son Railroad company says that the St.
Louis ana san Francisco road is increas-
ing its earnings at satisfactory rate.
and Its expenses are being reduced in
DroDortiOn.