The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-04
sUNFLoWER SKINNER.

Professor Snow has been put on the
scent of the Hessian fly.
Corning, the Peoples party editor, IS
scoring" for the senatorshIp.
Senator Ingalls, has announced his inten-
ton of fighting in the Lodge BILL
Speaker Reed has begun 10 see quorums
sin the clouds and hear them In the wind
Most of the Alliance papers in Kansas,
were Republican papers last year with an
Alliance column.
Henri Watterson thinks Senator Plumb
is one of the few men who can save the
Republican party.
BY phonetic license, it is possible, with
some straining of the imagination, to call
J. r. Burton profit"
Another aspirant for the senate is ID. j.
Cole of Hutchinson. Somebody told him
that coal was in great demand
1t is authoritively stated that Dan Voor-
hees' name is not down on the Atchlson
Champions subscription books.
The peculiar complication of affairs is
the only apology apparent that Henry
Booth has not been mentioned" for the
senate.
The president defends the Mckinley
bill. Harrison made mistake by not
deferring his visit to Kansas until after
the election.
There is no difference between Plumb
and Ingalls, Ingalls, is alwaysin the hands
of his friends. Plumb always has his
friends in his hands.
Perkins and Glover are still fighting.
Perkins, it is said, did not take his defeat
so easily as the rest of the delegation. He
wants somebody to be senator.
If the delegates are seated, nineteen of
the regularly elected members or the legls-
lature will have to be ouSted. All this
causes confusion, as it were: the delegates
ajar.
Judge PETERS idea of fight is that he
can best advocate his own candidacy for
the senate by declamations of his love for
his opponent, Senator ingalls,. 1t Is not
bad idea.
Senator Plumb's first bill this session
was free coinage act and Senator ingalls,
one for distributing seed wheat TO the
drouth stricken districts of Kansas and
Nebraska.
Tim Mccarthy wants to be the next de-
partment commander of the G. a. r.
Timothy hasn't that French military air
that Ira Collins has, but his name Is just
as Frenchy
All of the Peoples party's congressman
have had it said about them that they are
'nobody's fools" Many people would
feel relieved if they were sure that Polk
was not nobody"
Mrs. Leases father did not die in Ander-
sonville prison. Mrs. Lease was very
little girl at the time of the great uproar.
Had she been older then and seen more
bloodshed, she would not probably be 50
fierce now.
1t is not at all impossible, in the exulta-
tion of his recent success, that Farmer
Funston may appear at the door or the
senate with large rose in his button hole,
this session, and ask the presiding officer
to change the senator's vote.
Attorney General Ives has appointed his
! first assistant. His name is George W.
| Clark and he is Democrat. Mr.. Ives has
! only been in the state four years. and this
may account for his inability TO tell unit
of the g., 000 majority when he sees II.
! Senator Ingalls, is very brilliant and a
very daring statesman. This is enough to
make some people believe that he will
make a speech against Reedism, Mckin-
/ leyism and Windomism, this session, that
/ will be the effort of his life and make him
/ the Wellington of the Waterloo.
| The Duke Alexis is buried somewhere
/ in Siberia. while p. p. Elder is to be the
| speaker of the house of representatives, o.
| the grandest state in the grandest nation
on earth This only shows how little
| bearing grammar" and Latin" have on
| the amenities of life.
Charles A Dana in the New York sun
! Mr.. Cleveland hates Mr. ingalls,, not oil
account of his insults to our party, but
| because Mr. ingalls, has spoken at certain
times concerning him. Mr.. Cleveland, IL
! language which his vanity has never been
| able TO swallow, and to which his intellect
uals have never been able to frame an eff
! fective retort. Mr. Cleveland is congenit
! ally and constitutionaliy the predestinec
victim of such satire as Mr.. ingalls, some
! times yields almost mercilessly. This Is
rather Mr.. Clevcland's misfortune thar
/ Mr.. Ingalls, fault-nether can help it
/ but the fact is a sufficient explanation of
/ the passage published by Mr.. Acres from
! the letter which he has received from
/ William street.