The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-16
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This day, the 10Th of July, viii probably
witness the biggest convention of cork
| screws that was ever held in the state O.
Kansas
The thermometer at Hiawabha cir
up to los in the shade every day. This !
a great deal hotter than the insurance men
ever succeeded in making it for Webb
Wilder.
Tomorrow is the day that the st. Louis
prophet and astronomer, Irl Hicks, has set
for Mars and Jupiter to conjoin. 1t will
be acceptable. Anything for little ex-
element.
The potato crop all over the country, re-
ports tell, is very poor. And yet the num-
Der of Kansas men who think they could
live in Washington on 5000 a year in
creases daily.
Milt Reynolds, down in the territory, is
fighting Ingalls, This makes four papers
fighting the senior senator-two we'll
known Kansas papers, an Oklahoma paper
and Missouri sheet.
A Washington correspondent says that
Bishop Perkins is the life of the house
that he is always for work. The papers in
the Third district that are opposing Mr..
Perkins are almost wholly Democratic.
Ex-Governor Osborne thinks that ingalls,
will have a hard time TO get back to the
senate, but that he viii succeed. "A man
that has been the success at getting there
that Governor Osborn has, ought to know.
This is the 10th. The prohibitionists
convene at Topeka. There is great fear
that the original package business at the
capital will be cleared Out-uuleSs they
have an extra amount of packages on
hand.
A Concordia paper declares that a car
load of beer was consumed in that town
weekly before an original package house
was opened. Since then the local prohibi-
tionists have become so intense in their
cause that it takes about two car loads.
George Martin has succeeded in getting
all the Kansas papers but three TO call
Kansas City, Kansas, 'Kansas City" He
had better let the obdurate three alone
and see that the Missouri town across the
line is keeping up its reputation as a first
class suburb.
Since Sam Peters promulgated that he
could not live III Washington on 5000 a
year, the important fact has come to light
that he doesn't like pie. This will prob
ably result in new swarm of candidates
for the congressional nomination in the
Seventh district.
AT the prohibition meeting at Topeka
today that portion of the audience who are
not up on stage terms are informed that
the side of the stage to which the speakers
will retire during the addresses, evidently
for replenishment, Is known i'll stage par
lance as the o. p side
A man at Clyde sent $50 recently for
original packages. The liquor came in
half pint and pint bottles, thirty -eight
cents being the charges of the express com
pany on each package The transportation
charges amounted to S6S, SIS more than
the original cost of the liquor. AT last ac-
counts the goods had not been lifted and
the proprietor himself is the thirtiest man
in town.
Senator Ingalls, is a bigger man at the
capital than he is in Kansas. He looms
up on near approach and his individual
genius and strong personality Overshadow
men who hold similar opinions and vote
the same way This man is regarded as
partisan because he voices the future
Senator Plumb has reputation for greater
because his finger is on the
pulse of the present. The one man is
prophet, the other general; one may be
called a voice crying in the wilderness, the
other hand shaping the caucus. Wholly
unlike, yet never at variance, each the ad-
mirer of the other, yet neither being lead
err or follower, these two western senators
present a most interesting study, and an
analysis of them, however subtle, refuses
to determine either as the superior of the
other.
Florence Huntley a, Washington CORES
pendent, gives her opinion of the two sen
itors from Kansas. She says;
what will Ingalls, say" What will
Plumb do?" are the questions involunta-
rily asked whenever crisis is reached, and
the flashing pronunciamentO of the one is
crystalized into resolution by
.he other.
If ingalls, has been called the voice of his
people, Plumb may be called their vote.
While Senator Plumb may Ia k the
wit and scathing eloquence of
ingalls,, he makes it up in statistical re
sources, unerring judgment and shrewd
diplomacy. Plumb has greater patience
n digging about the roots, less skill in
the branches. In reaching the
laws point Ingalls, disdains compromise.
Plumb is the master of circumlocution
The one promulgates his doctrine on the
start, the other manifests it in the finish
ingalls, captiyates the public. Plumb uses
t. The one creates sentiment, the other
frames sentiment and calls for vote.