The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-06
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Who killed Cock Robinson9

Who killed Cock Robinson9
The farmers were "sotn on an idea
Senator Ingalls, runs ahead of every
thing.
Dan Anthony has scored another bril-
liant defeat.
Charles Robinson is still the first gov
ernor of Kansas.
The Peoples party is intense. Willis
and Is-its for example
The Alliances great poll seems to have
knocked the per-Simpson.
| Now the police commissioners will prob
ably all De turned over again.
How distant the next legislature must
seem to the defeated politicians.
Thanks to the Alliance, politics in Kan
sas is getting to be ''some pumpkins"
| There were few men out yesterday
morning claiming that the country was
saved.
1t is not probable that Senator Plumb
will take Bill McKinley's defeat as a COM
pliment
Sam Peters probably wouldn't say so,
but his feelings must be somewhat COM
plicated.
In some districts in Kansas it frosted
heavily Tuesday morning and was snow
ing by night.
1t appears very much like the persim-
mons were not the only thinks that were
knocked this election.
If the early reports are correct it looks
like there was no little ''robbing son"
going ON over in Fort Scott.
Any number of men reason it out logic
ally that if they hadn't lost their heads,
they would still have their hats.
Grant township, Robinson's home, gave
HUMPHREY a majority of one. Willitts was
beaten worse than that at his home.
God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb" That is probably why Eugene
Ware was beaten for the nomination.
With so much scratching and so much
vest-pocketing, it has been confirmed in
Kansas this year that the vote is a sacred
write"
In the next congress it will not be pos
sible to find all the Kansas congressman
grouped together in the ayes or Nays, as
the case may be.
Voltaire once said that England had
revolution every eight years. Voltaire
would have called the United States an
iridescent dream
J. r. Burton says he has sifted the mat
to the bottom and found that ]. n. Ives,
opposition candidate for attorney general,
is fictitious person.
inexperienced people are very liable to
regard selection" and election" as syn
OnOmous terms. The election does not al
ways fall upon the select.
As Ben Glover has been miller and has
the reputation of barn-burner, he ought
not to have any trouble in providing him
self with sack-cloth and ashes.
a good many of the boosters" you will
see this week in the successful campaign
organs will be borrowed from the esteem !
I'd contemporary across the street, that !
lidn't get there.
J. +. Keeney, who founded Wakeeney, !
,ne of the boom towns in western Kansas !
n 1878, is now the half owner of big $780, |
100 hotel now going up on Rush street, |
Chicago Keeney was a Chicago man |
colony of Chicago people to Trego county, |
)ut the hardships of frontier life were too |
much for the city-bred people. After one
eason of hot winds and crop failure the
chicago colonists fled. J. +. Keeney fol-
owed them and has resided in Chicago |
yer since, where he has made money.
still remains small village on
he Union Pacific, Trego county being the
My county in the state showing falling
If in population since 1880.