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The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
THE KANSAS ALLIANCE.

The Kansas Alliance held its state con-
ventiOn at Salina last week and here Is
the result of the meeting, as summarized
by the Salina Republican, whose editor
was on the ground and mad every oppor-
tunity of seeing and learning the true
inwardness of what was done:
The Alliance state convention has
closed and we are glad that it met in
Salina. 1t was discordant from the be-
ginning to the end, and the semi-anarch-
ist wing triumphed. McGrath and every
conservative leader was defeated. The
Vincents, who are in fact socialistic ag-
itators, ruled the convention. The real
farmer was not "in it." The Non-Con-
formist gang run things with high
hand. There was not an agriculturist
hardly recognized, but the loud-mouthed
demagogues have the state organization
in command. McGIath represented the
most sensible, conservative element; he
stood for the real farmer, but any man
who was not in favor of reputation,
either directly or indirectly, must be
downed. And they were.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
JUDGE REID AND THE MONEY
SHARKS.

The Democratic contingent who fixed
up the slick sheriff job, in the interest
to Rufe Cone and the old crowd, now
howl because Judge Reed did not permit
a rush of foreclosures by rapacious
money sharks. and then howl because he
did permit such suits at last to be de-
termined. The truth is, and about
everybody knows it, Judge Reed went
Just as far as he could so under the law
in protecting and saving the debtor from
the creditor, when unexpected hard
times came, and he saved the debtor
without reference 10 the desires or the
fees of the attorneys in the cases, and
that's what's the matter. Hundreds of
good men were enabled TO make turns
whereby they saved themselves from op-
pressive judgments. OF course there
came a time when there was no longer
hope for great many cases and when
that time came these were duly dis
patched
The EAGLE lost between four and FIVE
thousand dollars in sheriff's publications
through Judge Reeds humane policy Of
preventing eastern creditors from taking
advantage Of the extremities Of honest
men caught in the collapse of 8 boom.
And all those publication fees afterwards
went 10 paper established by Rufe
Cone and his crowd for that purpose; but
who ever heard the EAGLg whine over
the righteous course Of Judge Reed. even
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
NO FUSION THERE.

The Democratic committee of Saline
county met last week and resolved that
in view of the fact that that party stands
no show of electing any candidate they
might nominate, it was unwise and in
expedient to make any nominations; but
they did not stop there and leave the few
members of the party free to go on the
market and dispose of their suffrage5 on
the best terms obtainable or form combi-
nations with the Alliance as might have
been supposed and as they usually do
under similar circumstances. On the
contrary the committee unanimously
adopted this resolution which speaks for
itself:
We positively and emphatically declare
that we cannot and will not support the
ticket of secret political organization
with its obligations. grips and passwords,
the temporary success of which organiZa-
tion has already injured the credit and fl
nancial standing of our state in the short
time of its existence far more than all the
hot winds, droughts. grasshoppers, prohi-
bition has done or could do in many years.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

When Alliance orators talk about Kan
sas starving % death, every individual
potato winks its eye.-Stzte Journal
And every stalk Of corn pricks up It's
ears.-Wichita EAGLE.
And every cabbage mods its bead
Lawrence Journal
And every beet gets red in the face
Clay Center Times.
And every squash crooks is neck
Clyde ArguA
And egery onion grows stronger
Clifton Review.
And every fruit tree gTozns under its
Minneapolis Commercial
And every 1eld o. wheat u sh0cked---
LeavenwoJth Tines.
And every pumpkin vine runA
And every cucumber gets Ia . plckia.
And tho beans climb poles.
And the hops get - tired they creep.
Ard the farmers cot soap has 100
much lie
And cslamityi.s farms wear wssds q
mourning.
And the ooz-hI3ss Ia the tannsrs VA
And the granger sess the beans
talk
And thoss who don's b1l0ag % ths Al
lance raise cane
And strzws tel which vay Tie Eind
blowA-KanaAs City G4zstte
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
WON'T SCRATCH IKE AULT.

They are on the run, and all along the
line. That boasted, solid phalanx, with
its directing spirit up at the Jail, and its
ready tool around on Market street, has
dwindled to mere faction whose only
cry is against Reed and for Mosbacher.
Two weeks ago they were impudently
asserting that they would carry the city
for sheriff on Mosbacher's personal pop
ularity and carry the country through
Rufe Cones tremendous leverage in the
Alliance. The truth is, and everybody
sees it now, they will do neither. The
country with ITS Alliance may be a
somewhat doubtful quantity, but it is
Just as certain that the Cone-Mosbacher
crowd are not in it. That coalition is re-
ferred to everywhere in the country as
the Cone-game of that town set. In the
meantime as the election approaches
voters in the city are expressing them
selves and it is evident to everybody that
it was the silliest kind of flap-doodle to
have ever claimed that Cone-Mosbacher
could get the seven or eight hundred
Republican votes necessary to give them
an equal show in the town. 1t is very
hard to find a Republican who will
scratch the honest, sober, industrious
and stnaight-out farmer-boy Republican,
Ike Ault.
There is no reason in the world why
Ike Ault should not carry the Republican
vote of the city, in which event he will
have from five hundred to seven hundred
plurality in Wichita.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
ALLIED TO WALL STREET.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
What next? We see by the press re-
ports that at the Kansas Alliance con-
vention the Alliance people, regardless
of the report of their committee, decided
to try the merchandise and insurance
business and backed up by New York
capital wall street.) From what we
had read and heard about the Alliance
and Peoples party we supposed they had
it in for Wall street and all monopolies.
bu it appears we were off, and that they
rather favor a monopoly if it is thus.
But we don't think all the farmers can be
fooled by New York and Kansas City
schemers
The great amount of money they say
they will save their patrons is all bosh
as any person that will think it over
carefully will readily see. They propose
for the Alliance Exchange company at
Kansas City to get goods direct from the
manufacturers, then ship to their local
stores and the local stores sell to the con-
sumers. The present way of doing Is as
follows; The Kansas City jobber gets
his goods direct from the manufacturer,
sells to the local merchants and the To-
cal merchant to the consumer. Now
what is { a difference! None only n
change of firms and the only possible
way for the Alliance peop.e TO
save anv money by the operation
is to get the use of this $50, 900. 900 with
out any consideration or to get the Kan
sas City firm to work without any wages.
Men can't work for nothing, and New
York capital will not. All the Kansas
City managers, clerks, porters, dray-
men expenses, etc, will have to be paid
by them Just the same as the Jobbers,
and at probably the same prices, and our
advice To the Alliance members Is 10 not
pledge or bind themselves to trade with
any firm, but trade where You can get
Just what you want if prices are satlsfac-
tory. Other merchants generally will
be able to compete, and will, and the
only hope of success of the parties that
are going to do this great merchandise
business is to get the members of the
Alliance pledged to trade with them.
Don't do it-but trade where you can do
the best. As To the insurance depart
ment, all we have to say Is we tried the
mutual plan once, and have had an ex-
perience: the other fellows got the
money. and we have no doubt this will
be the final end of the Alliance Union
Mercantile Insurance scheme. The Far
mers' Alliance will have the experience
and the New York and Kansas City
fellows will have the money.
Kinsley, Kan, Oct 26.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.

The appointments for meetings, under the
direction of the Republican Central COMMITTEES
of Sedglyick county, Kan, and the names o.
the speakers, are as follows:
Colwich. Oct. %, Colonel J. r. Hallowen.
SedCwick City. Oct. q, W, L. Stanley. 49,
Union school house, Kechi township, OCT. "a
Hon. o. II. Bentley. Captain w. I. Burgess;
Gem school house, East Park township, Oct
%. George L. Douglas, A. X. Museller.
Mulvane, Oct. ., Col. j. r. Halloween and j.
+. Henley.
i. o. L. school house, Wichita township, Oct
@. J. NJ. Baker and p A. ROhrbaugh-
Oatville, Oct. %, J. I. Henley and 5. NJ
Tucker.
Maize, Oct. %. George L. Douglass and G,
w. Clement.
Farmers school house, Delano township
Oct 30. A. r. Museller and J. ;. Carson.
Waco school house, Salem township, Oct. 30
W. L. Sturdevant and .. g. Eckstein.
Sunnydale, kechi township, Oct. 81, Hon
Rodolph Hatfield and II. L. Gordon.
Clearwater, Saturday, Oct. 81, 1881, Col. j. H.
Halloweu.
W. 6. MORRIS, Chairman.
w. l. HAZEN. Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
LOOK OUT FOR MUD.

The local Democratic bosses announce
that they will inaugurate formal cam
paign tonight in the interest of their can
didate for county commissioner, and that
they will keep it up hot until the cleo
ton. This simply means a fight on
Johnny Allen, for the bosses aforesaid
realize that he is, as matters now stand,
as good as elected, and with him in the
board of county commissioners there will
be no chance for working schemes for
their personal benefit at the expense of
the county. Republicans of this COM
missioners district want to be on the
alert, ready to meet any trick that may
be concocted and to nail on the spot the
lies that are almost sure to be put in cir
culation.
John NJ. Aliens life in this community
throughout all the long years he has been
a citizen of the city and county has been
as an open book, without blot, but fill
ed with all that goes to make up the life
and character of the honest, honorable
and upright man, and his opponents in
this contest know it, and they know,
further, that being thus unassail4ble per-
sonally, they must resort to some sort of
scheme or schemes to prejudice voters
against him, and it is against this that
the Republicans of the district want to be
on the lookout.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
BUSIEST S'TORE
IN WICHITA
LOW PRICES
DOES IT

The Arcade made
one of the happiesthi
of the season IN secur-
ing for Wichita the
Agency of the New
York ailor made
Cloaks 1t is notica-
bic when a lady after
looking at the usual
hand-me-down Cloaks
kept by other houses
visits the Arcade, and
puts on one of these
merchant tailor made
Cloaks for the same
price. But the Arcade
is not satisfied with
selling cloaks at the
came DriCe Of the
other stores. The
Arcade will sell the
usual $Io. cloak only
aiIor made for SIS. so
and the usual $I7 Seal
Plush only Tailor
made for SIS 90, Our
$50 fine fur trimmed
cloaks are simply
catchers Of trade. If
you want the finest
made cloaks in the
city, come to the
Arcade.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Anent the rape case and subsequent
lynching in Omaha, the Republican
says; "The proper punishment, as well
as the proper remedy, for rape is emas-
culation. This should be provided for
by the statute and done according to
law. The justice of it would be generally
admitted and the guilty would rarely
escape punishment. Moreover, it would
have more effect in preventing this kind
of crime than any other punishment
however vigorous" There is no doubt
of the effectiveness of the remedy sug-
gested as preventive, and it is not i'm
probable that it will be adopted and
enacted into law in the states at no dis
tant day.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

King Oscar proposes to use force, If
necessary, to prevent the threatened dis
union of Sweden and Norway. The
Norweglans would naturally prefer TO
cast their lot with Denmark, with which
they have been united for centuries, but
since that is not possible, they indulge in
talk of establishing republic. So long
as they remain satisfied with mere talk,
nothing serious is likely to occur, but il
is now said that an overt act will be the
signal for a Swedish army to march on
Christiana
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

John Peter st. John the political apos-
tate, and Prohibition hypocrite, at whose
door lies most of the states political
troubles, is in New York again this fal
in the employ of the Democratic party,
preaching against the Mckinley law and
arging the Prohibitiouists to so vote as
o keep the whisky par ty of that state
in the aScendency.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

A little incident occurred in the Fifth
ward, West Side, few nights ago that
goes to show that the Alliance is honey
combed with scsms; that there are rings
and cliques and secret circles without
end in the political Alliance. One of
these ''clrcles" held meeting at the
time referred to, evidently for the pur-
pose of consummating deal with one
of the old parties-the only one that is
in that line of politics" A member of
the regular organization went to the
place of meeting but he was denied ad-
mittance upon the plea that the meeting
was one of the ''Secret Friends" of
which he was not member. The real
reason why he was refused admittance,
the gentleman afterwards learned was
because he was opposed to the deal the
meeting had been called to consummate.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

1t is an open secret that the Alliance
don't expect to elect the whole of their
county ticket, nor half of it; but
having adopted the Democratic tactics
are concentrating their strength and ef-
forts to save one or two. 1t is confes-
sion of defeat in advance.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Bets oa the result of an election signify
little or nothing further than the per-
sonal opinions Of the betters based
usually upon the opinion OF guess of
some one else. But il Is noticeable that
neither Democrats nor Advancement are
offering to lay any wagers on the sue
cess of their tickets. Republicans are
not betting On their ticket. either; but it
is because neither of the others will
take any that are offered.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

if it did lose us a sum that was most
sorely needed at that time.
The more the opposition shows up the
record of Judge Reed on these mortgage
foreclosures the greater will be Judge
Reeds majority.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Fassett of New York surprised his
audience and agreeably so, last Friday
night, by taking off his coat in the mid
die of his speech. This may be necessary
in Fassett's case, but Mckinley will get
there with his coat on.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

The candidate of the opposition are in
sard lines. Not one of them dare trust
ther, for each believes that the others
r- ready 10 trade ana dicker in order to
ecure support There is little sympathy
Tween them that the condition of af-
.Irs Is not 70 be wondered at
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

The big race between the Democratic
and the Peoples party in Sedgwict coun-
ty as To which will be the fartheSt be-
hind the Republican party is getting to
lie quite exciting. Bets are offered that
neither will ever get within a mile of
the ticket headed bv Judge Reed and
backed bY JOHNNY Allen.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Johnny Doran made his first Republi-
can fight in the sixties. 1t lasted four
years and he won. Is there much chance
for him to lose in four weeks combat
with the emasculated shadow of Dem
Ocracy in Sedgwick county?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

4 citizen Of Minneha township, an Al
.ance man, who was in the city yester-
ay, virtually acknowledged that his
p rty is not in the race in that township;
tiat Judge Reed would make almost s
clean sweep Of it. And of course the
balance of the Republican ticket will so
through with the head of it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

A victory for the Alliance next Tues
day is an endorsement of old granny
PETER. A vote for Babb or anybody
else on the county Alliance ticket is a
vote of approval of the course of the old
bewhislered defamer.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Per necessity there will have been
about thirty candidates in Harvey county
this fall who viii be defeated. But they
will remember how Charley Schaeffer
dad, and they will move down to Sedg-
wick county and try it again.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

One Of the "reforms" proposed by the
Demo Alliance legislature Of Georgia is
TO return to the annual session legislative
plan. Such proposition in Kansas. if
it were understood that the regime OF
the last legislature should continue,
would come pretty near provoking
revolution. That is one thing the people
Of Kansas would not stand.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

The only time Judge Barrett desired
to go south was for the good of his
country. The only time c. Schaeffer
wanted to 60 south, he was headed for
Topolobampo. This would have proba-
bly, been for the good of this country, too.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Fror q. Exaszs Ci-F 5ssra&L
We YANKEES viii have 70 rake Up
We have thought iha, We had TIE start
of al the world u she matter q Fapsi
transit and other fat modern iuveutions
hos Vienna man - going - 70 ~ cOn-
slderAbly Desi@g ass1 Oilers q ssEl8 cars
from Chicago g - LoGis u thses boUrk,
hr e1ectrsclfY
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Young Laughlin, the Alliance candi-
date for surveyor, realized from the start
that he stood no show in race against
such man as 7. A. Bayley, the Repub-
hcan candidate for that important posi-
ton, and has very sensibly and wisely
attended to his duties as teacher of one
of the county schools, leaving Bayley
practically a clear field. If clean per-
sonal record and capability, both theo-
retically and from long and successful
experience in that line of work, are suf-
ffcient recommendations they sure
ly are-T. A. Bayley should receive the
suffrage of every voter in the county.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
A Psrunent Query.

TT-r
Railway wrecks are coming 70 bs such
a common occurrence Of late that teie-
graphic announcement Of a snlashup IN
volsing the loss Of from score 70 LOO
Iives creates little surprise Therefore.
il is pertinent to inquire what railway
commissions are for anyhow.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27
Here's a Pretty Eoxdz-ao.

Prem TIE Abl.zs EsesCt1r-
Where i Judge Nicholson in this great
and glorious hght FOR fAs money, sub
treasures aud repudiziions He hAs
lodged ali the Alliance meetings 10
tins countv and seems = be ashamed O.
his coEap paEy.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

N. A. Carvin is making a strong run.
He was elected the day he was NOM
mated, and his work now iSonly for a
reasonable pride to see how big he can
make his majority.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Charley Schaeffer, the Democratic can
didate for register Of deeds, is doing 8
great deal by his candidacy to bring peo-
pie from all over the state to reside in
Sedgwick county. He ran for Office in
Harvey county and the people repudiated
him. Now he moves TO Sedgwick and Is
run for an Office. Men who have been
set down on. all over the state, viii now
rush for Sedgwick county.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Fro-s "a PAEs1sipsiz Ls1Esr-
Miss Frances Z willard proposes rais-
ing a fund By which % attach pro
fessor Of total abstinence - ths new
American university IN Washington.
Not few persons profess that way more
than they perform.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

President Harrison has the reputation
of being a cold man, but before Chill
gets through with him, the bumptious
little republic will not think so.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Ignatius Donnelley, the head of the
National Alliance, and frequently spoken
of as the brains of it all, has fallen from
his high place. The Alliance seems to
be something of a hoodoo.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

There are a good many rumors on the
street that Ike Ault is slaughtering
somebody. No sensible man will doubt
it. He is slaughtering the opposition.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Two years ago the Alliance joined
with the Democrats to defeat Clark, the
colored man whom the. Republicans
nominated for coroner. Being defeated
by the combine Clark at once Joined the
Alliance and that party put him up for
the same Office, calculating no doubt
upon the same sort of combine to elect
him that had defeated him before, and
at the same time using the circumstances
of his former defeat and present candi-
dature to influence the colored voters of
the county to support Clark and the
balance of the Alliance ticket. But it
won't work. Clark having deserted the
Republican party he relinquished all
claim, of whatever sort, upon it and has no
right to expect or receive the support of
any Republican. NJ N. McAllister is
true and tried Republican, is worthy and
well qualified, will receive the united
support of his party, and will be elected.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Judge Reed is the friend of the poor
man. And the vote next Tuesday will
show that the poor men are the friends
Of Judge Reed.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Poe's Raven was a sagacious bird.
1t was he that quoth: "Never Moore" "
he probably got his pointer from a Reed
bird,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

Personal item: Charles Schaffer of
the registers of deeds Office will spend
the coming winter in Topolobampo, for
the benefit of his health.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

An old subscriber in Grant township
who says he was too young to help put
down the rebellion but whose three
brothers marched with Sherman from
Atlanta to the sea" writes that neither
of those brothers have any use for a
party whose head commanded Salisbury
prison and whose tail is big pair of
Kansas whiskers. He signs his com,
munication III" and by the recollection
of the man whose name his township
bears he adjures the Republicans of old
Grant TO send up an old time Republican
majority for Ike Ault and the whole
ticket
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

The extent of the political convictions
of good many voters comprehend the
idea of success only: they are usually
found with the party that they become
convinced will win; their highest and
only aspiration is to be with the winning
crowd. AT the polls their votes count
for as much as any others. For this rea-
son we give them, or such of them as
may not be posted. pointer: to be on
the winning side at the election next
week you want to vote the straight Re-
publican ticket. 1t is going 70 win, with
a good margin.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-27

The Atchison Champion suggests that
"politics this time next year will be red
hot in Kansas governor, state legisla-
ture and presidential electors to be elect
ed" That depends, somewhat. If the
Republicans are uniformly successful
throughout the state in the local and
county elections next week, as it is now
certain they will be, there will be little or
no occasion for red hot campaign next
year, nothing to make it red hot. Should
the opposition succeed or partially sue
ceed next week it will encourage them
to more determined efforts next year in
the state and national elections. A
sweeping victory this year for the Re-
publican party will be half victory for
next year already won. These facts vest
the present contest with special concern
and importance to Republicans in every
township and precinct in the state, aside
from the Importance of present success.