The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-09-30
LETTER FROM KANSAS.
A NORTH CAROLINIAE NOTES
THE POLITICAL DRIFT
In the Mining Towns of The Banner
Republican State They Don't Allow
Negro to Live--Kansas Agriculture
and Kansas People.

and Kansas People.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.l
BURLINGAME, Kansas, Sept. 17.-Your
correspondent having recently been
through eight or ten South Western and
Western States, came into Kansas more
| than month ago, where he was pleased
| to see such wealth OF sunfowefs and
such wildernesses of corn.
Both grow all around you and every
where, and you are uncertain which is
the more admirable, the golden glory of
| the flowers, or the music of the rustling
corn:
Indeed Kansas should be called ''the
corn and sunfoWer State"
Here it may be said, with "Puck" that
"With the shuck they stuff their bed,
| Of mashed grain make their liquors:
! They put the stalk in the old COW shed,
| And the whole grain burns and fiickers." +"
But while Puck tells Us that corn is
sometimes more plentiful here than coal
or wood, he does not intimate how the cob
is utilized.
1t too is consumed for fuel, and it
looks strange to southern eyes to see a
man 90 out with his team and haul in
great loads of cobs for wood, and
they are preferred for summer cooking
to coal or wood, and bring good price.
The soil here is deep, black and rich,
and here is the plowman's heaven; for
he can run his furrows for miles without
striking a root or stone.
The mistake here of farmers con-
sists in not dive "sifying their crops, so
that when corn fails, the drought may
not destroy the wheat, oats and potatoes.
The people of Kansas are, in the Ian
guage Of the Texas wag, 'much like
other people, except that they are diff
ferent." In the smaller towns they
care little for coats or cravats j. i 1.
mer, and many come to their meals, al
the village hotels, with the skin plainly
showing through their half buttoned
shirts. and even the tidy white waiting
girls do not appear to think it very
"poor compliment" to their sex.
After all the talk ald scare about the ne
gro exodus to Kansas, the American citi
zen OF African descent is q scarce ar iclt
here Topeka and the larger towns
you will fad them, but III mining towns
THE NEGRO Is NOT ALLOWED TO LIVE.
At Scr anton, Kan, coal mining town
!. adoz9n cigars distributed among the Goa
diggers gave me welcome into a shaft
. and when | had been pushed along th
under ground track, through dark ant
winding passages, came to where the
were digging aad was soon talking witt
them. Among other things, [ asked
burI fellow Why there was not sin
gle negro in the town of Scranton. H
said: Because we make it too hot fo
'em here" I asked him how they man
!. aged it. He replied: I'VE jis tell er
: to GIT and they GIFTS "
e And yet the "Rebel Skinner" as Ser
ator Ingalls, is popularly known here
. inform alton! Why? Kansas is a Re
publican State.
:, Business is curiously mixed up
= Kansas You will see things in Or
. goods stores which you had thought
find in drug stores. and in drug store
articles properly belonging to the hare
ware line. The signs in front of tt
stores indicate this strange mixture. 4
Dunbar, Neb., (and | saw some equal
as amusing in Kansas) appears the fC
; lowing sign: Commercial Hotel CIR
S ceries, Provisions Bakery Wagons Nov
10 ers and Hay Rakes," with never pun
l- tuation point.
d The common schools of Kansas a
Q. as good if not better, than any | have ev
IS seen, and are on as safe footing fipant
n ally, as any in the country, unless it
those of Texas I have visited the sc
sions of several of the county norm
Institutes. They are uniformly W,
attended, and the closest interest is ma
ifested. The Kansas people seem
lis think, with the philosophic Emerso
n that ''the highest end of government
the culture of men"
:. 10 The politics Of the ''Sunfower Stat
~, is much like her business-mixe
u on though her 900 majority for Gene1
= = Harrison, making her the banner Repu
- lican State, would seem to indicate tt
~ she knew her sentiments' pretty W
two years ago, whether she does now
not But it must be remembered tt
then banners we're carried through
the Kansas towns bearing the mot
A. GA pension for every Union soldie
Well, not one in ten has gotten the p,
'ge sion promised, and the niue are con
nd quently mad about it.
ise Other causes have contributed to {
Ter affection among the Republicans; no
ad bly,, the growing feeling of the necess
for for tariff revision, which sensible peo
here understand to mean reduction.
intelligent and thoughtful sentiment
ay the entire West is with the So'
on the question of Tariff Refol
And while it is a little singu
NJ that the Democracy gained vo
NJ. N on President Cleveland ia
;ns nis message in every manufacture
lng center throughout the country, save
ae st. Louis, it is still more strange t
the greatest gains for the Republica
70 in favor of the grinding (so-called) F
tective (0 policy, were made on
plains of Kansas, among the agricu1
:, raj classes. on whom falls the grea
ola burden of the taxa class of men W
til under the Morrill, tariff, as under
;er Mckinley bill, are forced to sell in
,is- lowest and buy in the highest market
)O.- the world. Is it surprising. under s.
y & legislation, that l have seen corn sell
|. the West for fifteen and eighteen &c
per bushel? Many of the farmers
now openly express their regret
thew supported General Harrison. an