The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-26
AN OPEN LErrsR TO IRoNoUILL.

1
Hon. Eugene Ware, Poet Paclfcator, Member Of
tie Conference Committee Extraordinary, Etc.
DEAR SIR notice that the eminent
statesman, Hon. Dunsm ore, still persists
in scratching bis ear with his hoof and
eating chestnuts in the speakers chair,
your efforts TO the contrary notwith-
standing. I write to suggest that in
stead Of attempting to relieve the situa-
ton of It's romantic and picturesque EN-
belllshments, you address yourself to the
task Of extracting from it whatever Of
poetry it contains. You have nearly lost
| the opportunity of your life in trying to
! squelch Dunsmore while he Is in the
! chrysalis state and is about ready to
emerge a fulfilled ed parliamentary but
| terfiv with far-away look of Tom Reed
| IN his visual organ. There is so much
| talking of the ''muliitudinous seas
| incarnadine" and whispering Of the
| tive moons that are nightly seen
at Topeka with the fifth whiriing about
the other four IN wOndrous motion, that
your we'll meant efforts seem likely to
prove uufruitful. The prospect is good
| that While On throne of royal state,
/ high exalted, Mr.. Lewellng SITS, Mr..
DunsmoTe like Zacheas Will certainly re-
fuse to come down. You owe it TO your
self to make composite photograph of
the groupof statesmen hat now seem 70
be flying high in the laudable work of
purifying Kansas politics. There is Iago
Simpson bObbng around ready to slyly
suck friend or foe under the fifth rib
with bis little smoker snee; the late
congressman from The First district, !
exercising his vocal organs, bawling |
message from the governor in writing" |
into the ears Of noble senators; Mrs. |
Lease, the intensely intense I'M |
press:onist leading in one Of her |
most tTagical skirt dances, with a !
sound of mastering squadrons in the |
distance; the adjutant general Of the
state pTomenading with a Gattling gun
under each arm and talking as familiar
~ of roaring lions as babes Of thirteen
20 of puppy dogs; with Clemens, that
mighty foreuic force of the commune
working his salivary glands and hun
gerng for gore, there should be material
for national epic which you should
not be slow 10 catch on to, if you will
only let your eye in fiue frenzy roll for a
few minutes. instead of standing around
with your hands in your bTeeches peck
cts crying peace when there is no
peace" or as John j. Ingalls, would say,
'frowning with homogeneous menace
upon the pastoral landscape" of popu.
ism, You can put the song of the
way in the soup if you
will only get move on yourself. feel
like saying to you, as Webster remark
ed on another occasion, venerable
man, you have come down to us from
former generation. Heaven has bOunt- ,
eOuSly heightened out your life that you
may behold this day" and perpetuate its
glories in blaze of poetry such as was
never seen on earth or among menl For
a theme | would suggest, "Dunsmore's I
Last Rally, or the Dual Legislature:' or ;
The Charge of the Populists on Hot ,
ranlalas'." (You can substitute ham
sandwiches, it that strikes you as more E
l do not wish to dictate, of
course, as in such matters much must :
)e left TO the inspiration of the moment. ,
Use your best judgment on the point, f
Jut grasp the situation at once, and 5
lon't stand on the order of your grasp ,
ng. Your motto should be peace, if c
possible, but poetry at any rate" /
Sincerely yours, GERANIUM, J
In Seneca Tribune. '