The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-08


Hill is sly one.
ANOTHER Populist senator, this time
from Nebraska, Whittier are we drift
ing2
KNoCK.ABoUT NOTES.
In Chicago 1 lin with ssnator.elect
Martin, OF Kansas, on his way to WASH
ington, and iourneying together from
the Worlds Fair city afforded an oppor-
tunity to chat with one OF the products
OF the remarkable upheavalin the once
Republican state Of Kansas. Senator
Martin is man OF medium size, iron
gray hair and mustache, an eye that
Wrinkles merrilY, decidedly handsome
man and Of most pleasing manner. He
Is Tennesseean who came TO manhood
in Kansas and has since lived there.
lie is a Democrat of Democrats, and has
thrice been his party's nominee for gov.
ernor, the last time in 1888. Though
elected by combination OF Democrats
and Populists he goes into the senate as
q Democrat and will enter the Democra-
tic caucus. This he made clear to the
Populists when he appeared before
their caucus in Topeka before they
voted for him for senator.
Senator Martin will stand aat-footed
on the Democratic tariff plank, about
which he has no misgivings. He gave
me some idea of his tariff speeches in
the recent campaign. Holding in one
hand wooden coat and n wooden hat he
told the farmers that the Democratic
party proposed to take tho tax of those
necessary articles. Holding in the other
hand a piece Of dog.leg tobacco and a
pint flask OF whiskey he said tho Repub-
licaR party proposed to take the tax of
those articles. "That," said the sena.
tor.elect, was an unanswerable argu.
ment, and the farmers saw the point.
| made that speech in at least ninety OF
tho more than one hundred counties in
tho state" Imade bold toask whether
in thatprohibition state hewas abletogo
safely through ninety counties preserv-
ing unimpaired the integrity OF his,
flask OF whisky. Senator Martin said,
"Yes, and l have it yet" Senator Mar
tin was frank enough to admit that he
appealed to tho Kansas farmers solely
as consumers OF manufactured pro-
ducts, and with equal candor he admit
ted that the argument would not suit q
manufacturing community. He added
that the Popultsts are even more adj
vanced than the Democrats on the
tarifT-for-revenu line, being for the
most part radical free traders"
1t is Senator Martins opinion that
the Republican party Is gone in Kan
sas, that the Democratic-Populist com.
bination will hold until by natural
process the Populists shall be swallow.
ed up in the Democracy, '@lhe Repub-
lican party being in power" no said,
"the five great trunk lines that operate
in Kansas fastened themselves on to
that party and dominated it. In turn
they were differed and managed by
Republicans. II the legislature was
asked for relief the railroads throttled
every relief measure hat was propos-
cd" II will be worth while TO look on
and sec how much better shippers will
fare.by reason OF the Democratic-Popu-
list combination.
Replying TO a question as to Mrs,
Lease, Populist leader and candidate
Tor senator, Senator Martin said: Mrs.
Lease is woman of great talent, in my
Judgment tho finest woman stumper in
tho country. She is thoroughly good
woman, decidedly in earnest, believes
in the people and they bGlieve in her.
She is logical, forceful, witty aud never
fails to please and impress her audi
once. No, don't think she would have
been seated II she had been elected
senator; the plain intent-of the consti-
tuition would be against seating wo-
man."
The civility Of handing gentleman
match in tho smoking compartment
OF the sleeper opened up mine of in
teresting information. 10 my surprise,
instead oil saying 'muchas gracias,
senor," he thanked mo In English OF
the frat grade without the suspicion OF
a foreign accent. My scat in the car
was behind this gentleman and his wife,
and they had been rafting off Spanish
at tho rate OF mile q minute or there.
abouts. Putting this together with the
heavily blanketed parrot cage thoy had
handed over to tho porter when they
boarded the train, | concluded that l
was fellow passenger with Spanish
grandee and his fair lady, possibly a
high iunctionary accredited to the
Worlds Fair. The gentleman was in
fact an electrical engineer from New
York who had spent four years in the
United States OF Colombia installing
electrical plants, and is soon 10 return
to that country. The natives Of Colom-
bia went almost wild when the first
electric lights flashed on them. They
could not determine whether tho man
who produced the marvellous effect was
demon or merely an extraordinary
sorcerer TO calm them for the moment
u was necessary TO cut of the current.
Convorsing on this subject the ongi-
noer said that to-day, with all that Is
known about electric lighting and with
the improved appliances, there is no
reason TO have trouble with the service
and very little excuse for accldents-of
which carefully made a note TO bring
homo for future reference.
Ho told Of tho remarkable wall around
oartagona, we'll worth visltto SEQ, OF
an average height Of forty foot, hun.