The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-30
suNFLowER SKINNER.

The day of package original joke seems
to have gone.
Newton registered 1854, exclusive of
Judge Peters.
In the bitter lexicon of ''off'' years. there
is no such word as certain"
Ingalls, thinks the best way to purify
politics is to purify the Democratic party.
Fred Willard was marshal of Leaven-
worth just one hour and forty-eight min
utes
A man recently described a certain Kan
sas town by saying it was like Troy with
Sol Miller left out.
Some of the candidates win be more on
the spit" than they ever were before,
when they see the returns.
The Kansas City Times is not taking part
IN the present campaign in Kansas-but
wait until after the election
Distinctions differ Nobody ever called
Ed Howe, the editor of the Atchison
Globe, major" or colonel"
Senator Ingalls, has not done much for
Noah Webster in Kansas this fall. He
uses very small words in all his addresses.
The Emporia Republicans objection TO
Senator Ingalls, can be summed up shortly.
1t is: So long Scion. It's plea: How
long?
Luther Challis says the Democratic
party of Kansas may always be depended
upon to do the wrong thing at the right
time.
There are no mutes at political funeral
in Kansas Everybody, including the
corpse, is willing to tell you how it was
done.
1t may yet be discovered in Kansas that
the ''old ring" and the new ring" if given
''largo tempo" will not make discord-
ant duet.
Is there a military title higher than
"general?" This is suggested by the pos
Sbility of Col Tom Moonlight being elect
ed to congress.
The important discovery has been made
that the letter "A" occurs in the name Of
every president of the United States ex-
cept Tyler. This includes Blaine.
The toll bridges on the Missouri river
ought to charge twenty-five cents to a man
who wants to go over into Missouri and a
dollar should he desire to come back.
John Anderson has come back to the
sunfower realm. His Identification with
Kansas would be more startling, however,
if President Harrison should make him
first assistant postmaster general
Under the present apportionment of
representation, Kansas gains one congress
man by the new census The chance for
politicians going to Kansas is increased
one seventh. Still immigration is not
considered in the DOlitical line.
PA" said a little Salina youngster who
had played ''hooky" to go and see Senator
Ingalls,, ut amt so; it's as white as snow"
What amt soS" the stern parent demand
ed. why, that what you said about his
head; there amt any copper about it.
Senator Ingalls, says every man had the
right to invent the Bell telephone When
a boy he placed his ear to the end of r
sixty-foot rail and heard a companion
stratch the other end with pin. Nature
was trying to tell him her secrets. 1t was
not the opposition of the Republican party
that prevented him from inYenting it. He
did not know how.
The counter-hoppers talk Mckinley bill;
the dry goods merchants harp on that
string; the picture frame men apologize
liners and grocers. The women are all
stirred up. The Mckinley bill is doing a
wonderful work for woman suffrage.
There is one counter-p point, hOwever-cheap
sugar makes cheap candy.
Senator Plumb said something at En-
poria last Friday evening that Senator
Ingalls, never said at AtchisOn. He re-
marked: when in a short time / shall
relinqush my position to younger and
more efficient man, will come home to
Emporia and the state of my youthful
choice, and wish at that time to come
among you as friend, as a neighbor and
as permanent resident, and spend the
remainder of my days in my home"
The house of representatives in every
legislature since Kansas was admitted as
a state, has contained "A majority of farm
ers-some of them very large majorities
The smallest proportion was one legisla-
ture when the number of representatives
was seventy-five, which contained forty
one farmers TO fonr of all other callings,
being majority of seven over all others.
The senate, as a rule, has not contained
so large proportion of farmers as the
house.