The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-20
SUNFLoWER SIMMER.

Kansas is Kansas. The Missouri trair
robbery ought to remind everybody forci
bly, of that
1t looks like irony for the papers that
run Alliance columns to reprint that arti
Gle headed, ''Stick to the Farm, Boys"
This is all there is in it. The Newton
man who found twenty dollars in a can Of
prunes, on second thought didn't eat the
prunes.
The question with Farmer Otis, of the
Fourth district, is not, rs he milkmar
now" but Can he herd the cattle OIL
election day?''
And now, the Lyons Tribune comes out
to fight ingalls,. Isn't it bit soon for the
Tribune? Why didn't it wait until
! ingalls, had served his next six years?
After the original package stores and
their advertisements are gone, Brother
Eskridge in a spirit of devout piety rises
up in meetin' and exclaims, Lets be
| honest
| An old settler of Lyon county remem-
bers that when he left in IA, Emporia had
no street cars. As for that he might say
81, and so far as the street cars are con
NCAACA NOtt4u uOG DO hui lAuS LIS
conscience.
1t took five bushels of corn to get into a
circus in Kansas last summer. This
summer you can get into the main tent,
stay to the concert, go to the side show
and get a picture of the Circassian beauty
all for one bushel
The AtchiSOn Patriot issues Cove to
"a whole raft of Republican papers" who
ARE treading on Democratic grounds"
But before we go farther with this dis
cussiOn, let us stop and ask the Patriot if
it ever saw a raft tread.
Quite alone, the Emporia Republican
thinks that the Republicans OF Kansas
are not with the papers and politicians on
the tariff reduction question. The now
apparent end of the anti-Ingails fight APP
pears to have discouraged the Republican
on the success of the Opinion-moulding
business.
Wrghtmire, the alliance candidate for
chief justice, has been practicing law six
years. This is a short preparation for the
weighty legal post of chief justice, it is
true, but maybe the alliance in this case
is going on the principle of, Truth is
mighty and will prevail"
j. R. Burton is out again after his long
spell of silence, but he is changed man.
He is talking out of the other side of his
mouth. 1t has also developed that his
brain is located on this side of his mouth.
He says: Nothing on earth will defeat
that man" Qngalls). Mr.. Burton is to be
congratulated on his discovery.
On Saturday night, while Congressman
Perkins was acting as speaker pro tempOre
of the house, he rushed through Isl pen
sion bill in $50 minutes. The Kansas
cyclone may be extinct, but it can not be
denied that the old Kansas characteristic
breaks out in her representative men oc-
casiOnally.
Mr.. Edward H. Funston, known by the
press of the Second district as Foghorn
Funston, is chairman of the agricultural
committee. This committee can not get a
hearing. The acoustic properties of
Representative Hall must indeed be in a
sad plight when a Reed can drown out the
protestations of a well-intonated FoghOrn
The anti-Ingalls organs all have several
sledge hammer arguments as to why
Senator ingalls, should not go back to the
senate, but the only one that develops
with any distinctness is that he has been
there eighteen years In this respect those
reasons for not going to the circus: ''Fust-
ly, | hadn't got no hat dOl'r, and secondly,
well, fustly's huff -