The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-19
MORE KANsAN TEAM POPULIsT,

Jesse Harper, a Populist from Illinois,
is nosing around Kansas. He ought to
be fired out of the state. He ought to
be sent home. The most miserable OF
all Pops are those outside Of Kansas.
The Kansas populiSt leaders are bad
enough, but the average Populist scala
wag in any other state is a miserable
principled leaders, there has always been
something diverting about the Kansas
! Populist voter. His mind is stuffed
with imaginary wrongs, or exaggerated
wrongs which are not imaginary; he has
chapter or two of Carlyle's French
Revolution crammed away in his mem
DRY, and sharp thing or two from
Mrs. Lease and a rock-bottom coz
viction that some day he may get office.
| Outside of the weak and corrupt
shysters who run the Populists and lead
them around by the nose and play on
their prejudices, there is always Turk
ing hope that the Kansas Populist is
more of kansan than Populist and
that he will some day come around and
laugh over his detection as hard and as
loud as anybody else.
But these imported pigmies that some
times stroll into Kansas. They come
from Illinois and Ohio and Indiana.
They amount to nothing in. their own
states. They are never heard from
there, for the good and sufficient reason
that they are destitute of either sense
or amusing characteristic. They are not
even first-class cranks. They are simply
lowgrade, sloping- browed dead beats
who are satisfied to sponge meal off
someone, and if they happen to get rail-
road transportation, fairly crack with
ecstasy.
As matter of fact, the Kansas farm
er who voted the Populist ticket, and
talks Populism, can give a man of
Coxey's calibre cards and spades and
out-talk him, out-think him and out
reason him on any subject under the
shining sun. The Kansas farmer and
the Kansas citizen are naturally bright.
If they have lived in this state and
breathed the free air of the prairie they
come to hate dead beat and shyster.
And moreover they are very quick at
detecting those kind of people. 1t will
be remembered, IN this connection, that
old Polk suddenly CEASED his visits to
Kansas. Some how the people, even
the Populsts, and the most rabid Pop
uli5ts, did not take up with him. 1t
will also be remembered that General
Weaver very suddenly changed his
mind about coming to Kansas and run
ming for congress. 1t will also lie re-
membered that Lewelling chased into
the state as a professional politician |
from Iowa and the Populists, the Kansas
Populists, notably Ben Henderson, Judge |
Allen, Cyrus Corning, Mrs. Lease,
Rightmire, John Willis, ETC., are very
sour on him. Most all the Kansas Popu- |
lists have said bright things. They have !
been quoted good naturally all over the
country, time and time again. But |
Lewelling has never said anything or
done anything but that his demagogy
has been so crude and so apparent that |
even his partisans were Disguised. 1t |
was the same with Artz.
The mercenary dead beat Populsts |
from other states uniformly fall down |
when they come TO Kansas. The Kan |
sas PopuIists and the Kansas people who |
are not Populists have no use for them.
The Kansas bred Populist loves a kick
when it is artistic. They love to gar
nish sentiment or an opinion with a |
sprighlly couplet from Shakespeare or a
flash of irony from Thomas Carlyle. |
But they do not love kick which is
made solely for an Office, OF railroad /
transportation to the next town, or if |
that cannot be obtained, the price of a
meal at a lunch counter. And for that |
reason the Populist buns from other
states are usually frozen out in short
order, just as Jesse Harper. with his
spurious claim that he brought out
Abraham Lincoln" will be frozen out