The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24
SUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES.

p P. Elders initials probably stand fol
Peoples Party.
George r. Peck's lecture is entitled
"Kansas eyes in Europe"
p. p. Elder dyes his lair, but he has
never succeeded in keeping it dark"
Glover, in his autobiography, says he is
( of retiring disposition. He will be even
more SO, by November.
After man has gone through a Kansas
campaign he begins to think that politics
ought to be spelled ''politricks."
The little town of Hope, in Dickinson
county, is hopelessly Alliance, and there
is talk Of changing its name to Despair.
The Salina Democratic convention in
dorsed Grover Cleveland and free silver.
This is good deal like sugaring vinegar.
A colored man took an oath il a Kansas
court the other day that he was 40 years
old. He was old enough to have known
better
Ed Howe says reading Carlyle tires me
like studying a problem in the puzzle de-
partment of paper: it rests me to read
Macauley."
Jerry Simpson is for absolute free trade.
In his anxiety to catch the Democratic vote
Jerry'has become more Democratic than
the worst Democrat.
Ii man wants anything in Kansas this
year, it is generally believed that he will
have to be on the track. The dark horses
will all have black eyes.
Altogether the Kansas Alliance men,
bers in congress have introduced thirty
financial bills, and it is just as hard to get
hold of a dollar as ever.
Mrs Lease is out in letter in which
she opposes the idea of fusion. Mrs Lease
| is a woman and is not hankering after
office, and takes an honest view of it.
History is strange. After centuries things
get generally mixed. Senator PETER will
probably live in history as man who was
named after President Harrison's goat.
Senator Perkins will be on hand at the
Republican state convention to be held at
Hutchinson on the 9Th of next month for
the election of delegates to the Republican
national convention.
Harrison Kelly believes that he will
practically get the Alliance nomination
unanimously on the first ballot, provided
Congressman Otis makes two or three
more speeches at this session of congress.
"The railroads are against US this year,
said one Alliance candidate TO another.
''How's that"
''Why, they won't send US passes and
give US chance to refuse 'em, darn 'em. !"
The evolution of language is wonder
full thing to think about. The word can
didate comes from the Latin ''candidus,"
meaning glittering or white. The candi-
dates for Office in Rome used to wear the
white toga.
No thinking man doubts longer but what
climatic change is taking place in Kan
sas, which will affect the vegetable life of
the state. On the prairies of western Kan
sas the buffalo grass is being crowded out
by the blue stem, which cultiyates the
soil, aud the rains soak into the ground.
The buffalo grass sheds rain like ducks
back. Streams that formerly ran bank
full after every rain, are now unaffected,
the water soaks into the ground.
Eugene Ware believes he has discovered
in homeless child at Santa Catarina,
Mexico, the orphan of Mr.. and Mrs. Judge
McComas, who were massacred in the
Apache raid near Silver City, Mexico, in
1854 On that occasion Charles McComas,
3 years old, was Kidnapped by the savages,
and has never been heard OF since The
homeless child at Catarina answers the
boys description, and Mr.. Ware, his
uncle. will attempt to identify him.
Geo. w. Maffet of Anthony is running
for state senator with queer plank in
his platform. 1t is compulsory Kelley
cure. When man is sent to the peniten-
tiary for crime committed under the in
fiuence of liquor. he shall be cured by the
Kelley system before he is released. Mr.
Maffet's other planks are kansas rail
roads must work for Kansas interests" and
relief bills for sundry counties victimized
by fraudulent bonds.
Ewing Herbert from Washington: 1t
amounts to very little-being congress
man. Congress is very much like the
legislature of Kansas \ few men run it
aud the other members sit around like
knots on log. At home the average con-
gresham looks big and is man of in
ttuence. In Washington he cuts no more
figure as he moves about the city than
day laborer. Nobody gets out of the way
for him to pass. An Alliance member
that / noticed had to stand in street car
because its seats were filed with negroes.
Greatness is local Fame is earthly,
Genius is immortal
There is a story about J. r Burton and
John j. ingalls,. II was in Washington,
before the Alliance avalanche came.
Burton and Ingalls, were sitting opposite
each other when Burton expressed a doubt
of Ingallt reelection. ingalls, straight
ened, drew himself up, and screwiug his
piercing eyes into Burton's said: Mr..
Burton. am fstslist, ! know will be
reelected. / don't know how | know il.
but | do" Barton drew himself IN.
screwed his darting eyes into ingalls, and
came back in an equally oninous voice:
Mr.. Ingalls,, am fatalist. l know you
viii not be reelected to the
United States senate. |. too
do not know how know it, but l know
it. And-while the two men sat glarius
at each other. the paper could be heard
sticking to the wall aud the molecules in
the atmosphere IN. the room humping
against one another