The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-18
THE BIGGEST JOKE OF THE SEASON.


| Marsh Murdoch is laboring to prove
| that il was his rebellion and all the rest of
the state is laughing at Marsh. It's no
use Marsh; you didn't see any farther into
it than the rest of us did and you only
make yourself ridiculous by making such
claims.-Leavenwor Times.
Oh, Of course there was nothing in the
Rebellion. The Times and number of
other papers at the time said there was
no Rebellion and wouldn't be any, and
everybody knew that the Times and
the other papers were right and the
EAGLE wrong. The late little furry by
which Kansas,-Kansas, begotten of
heroes and sprinkled with the martyr
blood of John Brown-lost five Republi-
can congressman was no Rebellion, not
so much as an insurrectionary kick. The
EAGLE was only testing and didn't see
any more than the Times, which
admits its blindness. ingalls, threatened
defeat comes only of playful
idiosyncrasy of the people and the defeat
of the prohibition attorney general and
attorney generates by thirty or forty
thousand can hardly be dignified by the
name OF mild protest, much less a Re
bellion. You are mistaken. We have
not been laboring to prove that there
was a Rebellion, or that we ever said
that one was impending. We were only
Jesting- to hear tle bows talk
back. The first thing that the Alliance
house viii do after organization will be
to pass resolution unanimously re-
affirming their faith in the Id crowd.
the old ring, and in the Republican party
as redeemed and purified by prohibition.
We can hear the storm of the applause
now, and see the roof of the state house
gently rising and sailing away
over about fifty Kansas counties where
Democrats will rule and reign for the
next two years or more because there
was no Rebellion.
Oh, no, there was no Rebellion and we
never said that there was, nor ever
prophesied that there would be, the only
indication of a Rebellion anywhere this
fall being about ten days before the
final roundup when Anthony took
down the name of Humphrey which
everybody knew wouldn't amount to
and it didn't, unless the fact
that Humphrey got a few dozen more
votes in Leavenworth than was expected
at that time, amounts TO something, and
we are not the man to say that it did.
That ''all the state are laughing at
Marsh Murdoch" but proves that every
body appreciates the joke. Attorney
Generates Kellogg wouldn't be guilty of
guffawing right out, it wouldn't be
ladylike, but the way her husband and
Harrison Kelley, VIM. A. Phillips,
Judge Perkins, Webb McNall. Colonel
Hallowell and about two hundred other
defeated Republican candidates in the
various counties of the state are splitting
their sides and breaking wide open with
hilarity over the joke of the season is |
hardly less than a visible joke itself.
1t is the jokiest time we ever expert |
enced. The air is full of smokers,
smiles and Civilizations. Everybody |
seems to be on it bigger than |
4 grinning Cheshire cat. Billy |
Buchan is chuckling over the clear field |
eft for Ingalls,; Barney Kelly is tittering |
% cackle over the funeral of the Result !
and joe Hudson's jubilee of |
merry making is little short of the |
of Percheron stallion. And |
SO they all go chirruping and caroling, !
lugging and huTrahing over the picnics |
and parsetemps of the waning year.
Oh, of course, NIurdock's Rebellion
was the biggest joke of the season, ex-
seeded by no other than the fact that it
should be taken as joke, which we ac-
it to have been.