The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-25
SUNFLowER SIMMER.
The Alliance has never said anythil
against Prof CopfiaId

The Alliance has never said anything
against Prof. Garfield.
Web. Wilder thinks the legislature will
be controlled by a secret caucus.
The Alliance papers have begun to talk
Frank Doster." 1t is the plan.
The prayers for rain in the next legisla-
ture will be confined to the chaplains.
The Atchison Champion is running Mr..
Practical Utility against Senator ingalls,.
Webb McNall called on Senator ingalls,,
Saturday. They both smiled when they
met
Sol Miller had to lick man last week,
because be did not like the style OF the
Chiefs journalism.
The members of the Kansas legislature,
this winter, get six bushels OF corn each
day for their services.
But few conjectures in Kansas are reli-
able just at present, unless they have the
great seal of the Alliance.
Nobody seems to be able to explain the
alarming paucity of Firemen's tourna-
ments in Kansas, this year.
Beyond question of doubt, there Is
only one Rush among the Republican
members of the state senate.
Judge PETER can give Frank Doster six
or seven good reasons why he (Doster)
would not make good senator.
Since Mr.. Simpsons advent, the old an
nouncement of "leg-show" will not draw
any more down in this part of the state.
The possibility of the senatorial contest
lasting ten or twelve days in the legisla-
ture may make the lucky man a Valen-
tine.
Some people are totally devoid of
method. No genuine boomer would ever
try to boom a place with five-story name
like 'ToDolboampo"
Mr.. WellhOuse, of Leavenworth county,
Melted s37, 600 from his apple crop this
fall. Mr.. Wellhouse has enough sauce for
both the goose aud the gander.
Senator Ingalls, coined the words "Ad
Astra per Aspera." At present it seems TO
be "Ad Senatum per Aspera."
a young Alliance member of the legisla-
ture elected from a certain county in Kan
sas is said to be decidedly tough" y
sort Of "hay-rake," presumably.
If there are only four lawyers in the
house, it is safe TO predict that very few
over that number of members will pull
their coat tails up when they sit down.
p p Elder, candidate for speakership of
the house, is said to be the only member of
the Alliance in the legislature who likes
parliamentary law as much as he does pie.
The only difference of opinion in regard
to Senator Plumb among the Kansas news
papers is which side of the head of the ma
tional ticket to put him, when Blaine is
mentioned.
One of the worst Indian wars in the his
tory of early Kansas is said to have orlgi-
mated because an agent sold some Indians
a piece of calico with the stripes running
the wrong way.
Jerry Simpsons chances for reelection
will certainly be slim, if the Republican
newspapers, in the intervening years can
get nickname tackled on him something
like Prince Jerry"
Luther Challis' statement that Preston
Plumb will be the senior senator from
Kansas after March is very conclusive
declaration that the Atchison Champion
is not supporting General Rice.
Chicago News: Senator ingalls, will be
grea ly missed at the national capital. He
was the ornament of congress. Few men
can be picturesquely useless, but ingalls,
was brilliancy without action: he stood
like fixed star in the economy of space.
Everybody admired MIN. None except the
wise men knew whether he was sun or
Yet the country is indebted to
him. Occasionally he scratched the veneer
from the courtesy of the senate to expose
the hypocrisy beneath. He dared to burst
through the serene stupidity of senatorial
debate and has studded the melancholy
of the congressional record with
epigram and wit.