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The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
THE ALLIANCE FAILURE.
A Few Straight Forward Questions fc
the PEOPLES Party

From the Ell Dorado Republican.
If the late house of representatives OF
! the Kansas legislature-92 of the 125
| members being members of the Peoples
| party-wanted to save money to the tax
payers of Kansas, and thus Tighten the
| burdens of the farmers, why didn't ii
pass the senate state printing billI
| If the house of representatives wanted
to protect the farmers against the shy
| lock insurance companies, why didn't it
pass the senate bill which compelled in
sarance companies to pay the full face of
policies when property was burned?
If they were the friends of the farmers
why didn't it pass the senate stay law.
1t was a simple measure. providing that
farmer should not be foreclosed for the
next two years if he paid his taxes and
interest and was not in default to exceed
six months
If this reform party meant to carry
out its pledges why did it not pass the
senate free school book bill and give the
people cheaper school books:
If this Peoples party wanted to have
something 10 say as to who should have
sontrol OF our agricultural interests, why
didn't they pass the senate bill which
pEONlueu lIial kIe secretary Oh aETfCUh-
ture should be elected by the people, at
the same time and in the same way that
the governor and other state officers are
elected?
Ii this party Of big pretences was in
earnest and meant business, why didn't
lis house of representatives pass the sen
ale fee and salary hiIls Il was fair and
just bill and ought to have been en-
acted into law.
If this railroad smashing party want
ed 10 put these corporations on fair
taxable footing with ''other people:
why dIdn' the house Of representatives
pass the senate bill which compelled the
board Of railway assessors to assess all
railroad property IN the state at rs true
value IN money.
If this house Of representatives wanted
20 put a stop = bond voting, and all that
sort Of thing, why didn't i pass the
senate bill, which provided that mo IN
debtedness shall hereafter he contracted
against any county. township CT city,
which. with the other outstanding LA
bilities would render the total indebted
ness Of such county township or city in
excess OF per cent. Of its assessed yaiu-
atom
II this Peoples party house CT repre-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
csmsst stronger Thaa stss..

From a number q careful tests made
10 ascertain the precise strength of an
chor bolts set In Portland cement In the
ordinary way, ths fact appeared that ths
joint was really stronger than the stone.
Ia this demonstration pinch iron rods
were SET into the stones some III fnches,
and then subjected 20 the test The arns
rod bad a screw thread % improve The
grip q the cement. and the cement b.
gan 70 yield at load u S2.O00 pounds.
the breaking u the stors taking place az
50.ooo pounds With = plain, smooth
rcd il vas found that the cement bsgaa
% yield a. q load Of 1900 pounds. bEt
the rock broke - 81 900 poonAA Thns.
though the strength q the cement joint
was not developed. II was inferred that.
IN suitable setting. tbs esDsnt joint On
q smooth rod might bs uads 70 break
toe rOd--Sex Ys.k S1n
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION.

From the Atchison Champion.
| When the Huntington plea for a con
solidatiOn of all the railroads of this
country appeared, few weeks ago, the
Champion discussed the matter at length,
| The opinion expressed at that time was
that the matter would not be seriously
entertained; that Mr.. Huntington made
his plea simply as a sort Of feeler. II
now transpires that there is actually a
movement on foot to secure just that
consolidation which Mr.. Huntington
pleads for.
AS the Champion stated at the time, it
now repeats, that such a consolidation
would be an indefensible outrage upon
the rights of the public. 1t is not simply
that a stupenous monopoly would be
created and so all chances of competition
be destroyed. 1t is not probable that
rates would materially advance. Under
the radical reduction in expenses posi-
ble to such a combination, rates might
even be reduced below those which now
obtain. This has been the case with the
consolidated oil interests of the country.
The danger from such a consolidation,
we say, does not lie chiefly either
in the destruction of competition
or IN the possibility of higher
freight rates, but in the tremendous
power, financial and political, which
such a gigantic corporation would weld.
And this fact constitutes a great and un-
answerable argument against the pro-
posed consolidation.
Such a consolidated corporation would
have an income several times greater
than that of the government and an
army of employees larger than that of the
largest standing army in Europe. Its in
fuence would be more powerful than
that of the government itself. Under
such a regime what chance would there
be for any individual or firm getting jus
tice if the consolidation should deter
min, as it is very likely would whenever
its interest SO dictated, to be oppressive?
In case the head of such a corporation
were ambitious of political as well as
railroad power. what possible headway
could the rest of the country make
against him? This country wants no
such consultations. The largest of the
railroad systems is already large and OPP
preSSive enough.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

sentatives desired to save TO the tax
payers of this state large sums of money
annually, why did it not pass bills to-
Cut down the judicial districts from
thirty-five to twenty-five.
Put the state educational institutions
under one management.
Turn the Hutchinson reformatory into
an insane asylum.
Consolidate the state historical society
with the state library.
Put the charitable and reformatory in
stitutions under one board.
Abolish the state board of pharmacy,
| the state board of dentistry, the state
board of health, the state board of ami
NAL industry, the state coal oil Inspector,
the state veterinarian, the professor of ge-
/ ology and the commissioner of labor sta
tistics.
Pounding teachers desks in country
schoolhouses and damnIng the Republi-
can party don't help the taxpayers.
1t takes legislative enactments to do
this. It takes careful, prudent, pains
taking work to do it; and it can only be
done in a legal and constitutional way.
The senate had the experience, the
courage, the good sense to either pass or
report all the measures mentioned above;
and had the house possessed any of the
honesty, the courage or the patriotism
that it claimed to possess, all, or nearly
all, of these measures would be laws to-
day.
And we wish to say right here that
there is no other way for Kansas legis-
lature to cut down expenses except in
the plain and common sense way out
lined here.
The Republican senate did its duty.
The house failed, and here we are to-
day fighting last years battles over
again, because of such failure.
Truth is truth, and you can's get away
from it. Men may meet in secret, be-
hind closed doors and may seek to ex-
plain these things away to others, who
if they don't want to be deceived act
very much like it, but it will not answer.
The Peoples party house of representa-
tives of the Kansas legislature tried to do
three things:
Repudiate the mortgage debt of the
state;
Destroy the railroads;
And abolish the banks.
They failed in these, as they failed in
everything else, and no amount of .ex-
PLANTATION will prove that they did not
fail. Its history is written; the people
have read it, and they will render their
verdict at the November election.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
"PRAIRIE FLOWERS.D

There has just issued from the publish
ing house of Crane & Co., Topeka, a
pretty little book of poems, of two hun
dred pages. with the above title. The
author is Mr. John w. Beebe of King
man, who has contributed number of
bright rhymes and poems to the EAGLE.
several of which appear in prairie
Flowers" OF the hundred and thirty
or forty poems, historical, sentimental,
descriptive, dialect, etc., there is not one
without merit. 1t is a purely Kansas
production and should have place in
every Kansas home library. This book
contains picture of the author, who
dictates to his wife, adding an enter
tanning preface. One curious and ex-
traordinary omission occurs in this vol
ume of flowers plucked from the prairies
of Kansas which lies on our table, and
that is the title page nor any other, SO
far as we can find, states the price of the
work
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
Let Us Hope So.

FROM the Soutn Haven New Ira.
Topeka, the capital city of the best
state in the Union, is a nice city, and
after people have lived there awhile they
become wonderfully considerate of the
feelings Of other people. During the
past twelve months three murders have
been committed there, and in each case
the murderer promptly blew out his own
brains. In each case the victim was a
woman. and thu murderer realizing the
disgust with which he would be regarded
by his fellow citizens, took this method
Of relieving them Of his presence. After
awhile they will improve the breed of
women slsyers until they VIII shoot their
own heads of first.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
A HOT, DRY SEPTEMBER.

Chancellor Shows observations at the
State university for September says that
only four Septembers on our twenty-four
years record have had higher average
temperature 1881, '62, "a and '86); but
the mean temperature of the second half
of this September (71.6s deg.) was 5.34
deg. higher than that of the first half
and higher than the second half of any
preceding September. The sky was ex-
traordinarily clear, only one preceding
September having been clearer 1885,.
The rainfall was more than one-third
below the average; and the barometer
had a very slight range.
According to the university measure
ment the rainfall in Kansas for Septem-
Der was 223 inches, which is 137 inches
below the September average. Rain fell
in measurable quantities on five days.
There was one thunder shower. The
entire rainfall for the nine months of
1891, now completed, has been 1875
inches, which is 9.8S inches above the
average for the same months in the pre-
ceding twenty-three years.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

The pleasure and enchantnent CT style
first appealed 10 me at about the age On
fifteen, when one read for the first time,
So all day long the noise OF battle rolled
Among the mountains by the northern sea,
Until King Arthur's Table. man by man.
Had fallen in Lyonesse about their Lord.
Next l tried Tennyson, and instantly q
new light Of poetry dawned. new music
was aGdible, a new god came into my
medley Of Pantheon, god never 10 be
dethroned. Men scarcely know how
beautiful fire Is" Shelley says / am
convinced that we scarcely know how
great a poet Lord Tennyson is; use has
made him too famihar.-Andrew Lang
in Scribner'A
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

Some S65 abandoned farms have 81
far been reported 10 the Massachusetts
State Board of Agriculture for adver.
tisement of sale In the circular which is
soon to be issued IN an effort TO reponu.
late these places. These are the nick of
such farms, and do not embrace all that
have been deserted. Already the project
says the Springfield Republican. seems
TO have created quite market for these
lands. Letters of inquiry about them
have been received in large numbers
from the larger cites Of Massachusetts.
New York and other states, from people
evidently wishing to secure a summer
residence. While this may DO regarded
as encouraging, in the sense Of having
these abandoned farms re-tenanted, the
fact is it presents anything but a graft
tying situation, since these farms are to
become but so many country holdings
for men of wealth in the cities after the
fashion of then Eglish lords.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

The reasons present& by the Atchison
Champion. in discussing the proposed
railroad consolidation, in opposition
thereto, apply with equal force in the
main against the ownership and control
of the railroads by the government. The
patronage of the government is already
dangerously large for republics and it
would be doubled by adding to its con-
troll the transportation lines of the coun-
try. And the paternalism involved in
such scheme is not less harmful in its
effects upon the people. If the govern
ment may own and operate the railroads
and telegraph lines in the interest of the
people, why may it not, also, the manu-
featuring and industrial enterprises of
the country for the same purpose? This
does not imply that there should be no
legal restraints thrown around the rail-
roads; on the contrary there should be
stringent laws against railroad and all
other combines, and such laws rgidly
enforced.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

After the great pow WOW of the howl
ers in Topeka Thursday night the Demo
crat of that city made a careful survey
of the field to ascertain the effects the
effort had upon the sentiment of the
community. The Democrat says it finds
that many voters who were friendly to-
wards the calamity party are now most
bitter in their denunciation of the sena-
tor who succeeds ingalls,, and the ''sock-
less statesman" from Madison Lodge. +"
This condemnation comes from Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike, and those
who were heretofore wavering will now
rally to the support of one or the other
OF the old parties.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
a jest Made sersousir.

rtotn t4e iopeka democrat
Senator Plumb tells the following good
story on the venerable Judge 4. ). King
man, Of Topeka, one of the three sur.
vlving members of the original suprems
bench of Kansas: Plumb and the late
Colonel John A. Martin acted as secre-
taries of the first Republican state con-
ventlon which was held after the admis-
sion OF Kansas into the union. DR..
Charles Robinson was nominated for
governor, DR.. John p. Root for lieuten-
ant governor, and Dr. John ". Robin
son for secretary Of state. After the
first three candidates on the ticket had
been chosen, Judge Kingman who as
pired 70 the office of associate justice.
leaned over 10 where Colonel Martin was
sitting and said in an audible whisper:
John, for Gods sake call me doctor
when you propose my name TO the con
vention."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

Jerry Simpson, whose reputation as a
speaker came of his buffoonery on the
platform, attempted the roles of logic
and figures in a speech the other day at
Topeka and fiattened out, of course.
Jerry's last hold, his only hold in fact, is
as ranter, wild-eyed and frothing, and
when he ceases to rant be ceases to be
Jerry Simpson or anything else.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

Sam Jones and Sam Small, the well
known sensational preachers, according
TO whom the people of this country are
fsst going to the devil, have been
brought to book in Rome, Ga. where re-
Gently they held forth in their peculiar
style and made all sorts of charges as TO
the general immortality of the people.
The grand jury. charged thereto bv
Judge Maddox, has summoned them to
prove these charges; in other words. s.to
put up or shut up" They must. in the
words of the telegram from Rome, sub
stantiate their utterances or else back
down. We look for them to back
down.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
THE FAIR.

The program of the Southern Kansas
Fair having failed by two days of being
filled out, owing to inclement weather,
the fair will resume tomorrow morning
and continue two days. The heats of
the unfinished races of Friday will be
run, also all the races originally named
for Saturday. The exhibits have all
been retained on the grounds.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

Two-thirds of the Indebtedness of Kan
sas, lately parsded before the eyes of the
world, is owed by corporations whose
stockholders live beyond the boundaries
of the state. One-half of the remainder
Is due citizens of Kansas from citizens of
Kansas. When the reverberations of
the howl set up by the calamityites shall
have died away it viii be found that the
residents of no state are so free from
personal debt as the people of Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

If it is true, as the London Chronicle
says, that the leaders of the British Lib
erals have determined to add as plank
to the platform they are preparing for
the long threatened campaign the pay
ment of members of parliament, there
will not be any room left for any one to
doubt that Mr.. Gladstone has become
completely possessed of the spirit of De-
mocracy, and that he intends to secure
the help and support of the working
classes by every possible concession,
guided, no doubt, by the workingof our
institutions and the result Of our system
after one hendred years of such trials as
few nations have been subjected to. The
next general election in Great Britain
and Ireland may well, in view of such
radical innovations as this, be regarded
as the most momentous in their political
history. The result cannot fail to be a
notice of doom to the monarchy and the
classes that profit by it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

This is a world of continual changes.
Change is the order of all creation. The
rule applies to diseases as well as every
thing else. In this catalogue the latest
is the cataleptic fit. The only victim so
far known is man in Barber county.
The public viii feel somewhat relieved.
though, by the information that the new
ailment doesn't kill, but gives a person a
chance to back his boat up to the bank
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

The Sedgwick county Republican con-
vention, made up of representative men
whom no calamity howl ever intimidated
nor hard times weakened, set out to
name ticket composed of their neigh
bors such as the public business could be
safely entrusted with. The satisfaction
of the party over the work is practically
unanimous, and the party being undi-
vided by any issue. a sweeping victory
seems assured. The Democrats know
that they have no show to defeat the
ticket as whole. They count on rails
ing big dust and then throwing their
energies for the election of one man.
Zone Office at time" has been their
policy for years in this county, hoping
that in time through each additional
place gained to capture the entire situa-
tion. But this fall both the Democrats
and Alliance will be confronted by the
with a solid front.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

Judge Hiram Stevens, who held by the
grace of the Republican party So, 800 a
year Office in Kansas for twelve years, is
now roaring calamity and declaring that
there must be blood unless the demands
that he makes are granted. The Law
renee Journal thinks that in Judge
Stevens case it is not lunacy, but pure
cussedness. The circumstances give
room for such impression, unquestion-
oblv
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
Should Think So, Indeed.

From the Lawrence Journal.
So far the Republicans have found it
impossible to get a calamity howler to
meet them in JOINT debate. Some Of
them have offered to meet Republican
speakers, but have always managed in
some way to get out of it. Yesterday
Willis was billed TO meet General Brad
ford at McLouth, and ran away from
town before time for the meeting. When
the calamity howlers get afraid to meet
Bradford they are getting pretty well
acarad
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

There are one hundred and twenty
six million dollars more in circulation
than there were the day President Har-
rison was sworn in president. To Re
publican congress and Republican ad-
ministration is due the credit for this in
crease in the volume of a safe currency.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

Jay Gould may be sick, and If that is
the case there is no license for levitv.
But 1t has been often observed that
Gould has failing Of getting sick al
most as often as retiring from Wall
street. Some day both events will occur
at once.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

One of the cheapest things in this
world is advice, and yet it sometimes
proves the most expensive, both in its
rejection and in its acceptance. Some
weeks ago, when it was known that the
worlds bread crops would be far short of
the demand, the farmers of this country
were advised to hold their wheat, with
the assurance that they would receive
better prices by so doing. Some have
done so and they viii unquestionably be
rewarded. While Others, acting upon
their own judgment or under the pres
sure of necessity, ignored the advice, let
go their grain and are already losers to
the extent Of whatever advance the price
OF wheat may reach. Now it is evident
that there is going to be an unusual de-
mand for American corn beginning
early in the new year. and farmers are
advised to hold that crop for the better
prices that viii be paid for it later on.
But what took place in regard to wheat
VIII no doubt occur in the corn situation:
some viii profit by it, while others VIII
not, to their cost and chagrin.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

Garfield, who couldn't rest because of
his political ambitions while connected
with the university of Kansas, and who
was half a Observation-Disclosures
and the other half swen-head, has since
his removal to Nebraska taken the PETER
chute and become an Alliance advocate.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

1t is beyond rational limits or the
searchlight Of mental presentation to
always discover what objects John ).
Ingalls, has in his purposes, but is some
thing of query that he should do most
of his lecturing in Missouri.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

A Canadian member of parliament has
been expelled from the house of com
mons for taking bribes from government
contractors. 1t is time for the Canadian
journals to taboo those lOng-winded
editorials on the iniquity that prevails
in United States political life.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
Internal Irrigation
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

FftIL INC bIOOhIYu q Edglt
General Dyrenforth went Gown to
Texas to supply the farmers with rain
water. AT San Antonio they gave him
a banquet with lots of champagne. 1t
is the public opinion of Texas that the
irrigation of Dyrenforth was much
better job than Dyrenforth's irrigation
of the farn1s
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
When Woman is Most Irresistible.

Olive ScbreiDer-
The pretty woman fades with the
roses on her cheeks. and the girlhood
that lasts an hour; the beautiful woman
finds her fullness of bloom only when a
past has written itself on her. and her
power is then most irresistible when it
seems going.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

The idea that Balmaceda's suicide sug-
gested that method of alleviation to
boulanger Is erroneous. Boulanger was
not the kind Of man to copy in any
thing, much less to offer the world a
secondhand suicide.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
In the Procession.


The protected tin-pail Of the American
workman contains a big slice Of protect
ed beef, protected biscuit. chunk of
protected butter, a protected egg, and a
cake made of free sugar-and the West
ern Reserve" Is with Mckinley in his
"march down the Scioto valley"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

If Boulanger had lived in Kansas he
could have spent his whole life in carving
his name on public buildings of his native
town and died a natural death.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

An exchange remarks that this season
is wonderful. One can harvest two
crops of hay fever this year, and not lose
the grin.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04

In the entire United States senate, it as
quite plain that no member thinks more
of his title senator" than PETER.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-04
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Judge of the 18th Judicial District,
G. REED.
For Sheriff,
ISAAC 7. AULT.
For Treasurer,
JOHN A DORAN.
For County Clerk,
N. a. CARVIN.
For Register Of Deeds,
S. L. BARRETT.
For Surveyor,
T. a. BAILEY.
For Coroner.
NJ. NJ. McALISTER-
For Commissioner-Seco District,
J. N. ALLEN