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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
CALLED A CONVENTION.

The hunchback Aesop or some other
NEUROLOGICAL or Historical fable writ
er, recites a pathetic story of man
who warmed snake in his bosom only
to get bit for his pains. The Repubii-
can party Of Kansas has been scratch
ed out of countenance and torn and
knocked OUT times innumePable and
continuously by the Prohibitionists OF
the state. But like the Roman boy
who held his stolen fox under his little
tunic until it had torn out his life, the
Republican party Of Kansas has al
ways desperately Rugged the Prohibl-
ton contingent, preferring rather 60
ing without bowels than be denied the
heroic role of clinging to a crowd of
irreconcilables styling themselves Pro
hibitioniStS, the leaders of which OIL
shoot from John Peter St John, the
original apostle of demagogy, down,
have been for pelf or pap. Morrill, Is
the latest victim. He thought he could
hold both the snake and the fox and in
the meantime head the body OF the
Republican party. Now the ProhiDl-
tionists. who would never have been
more than the dust to a whirlwind,
have called convention TO nominate
a state ticket The idea is TO do up
the Republican party. Not that the
cause of. temperance thereby would be
conserved, or that the Democratic
party in succeeding to power would
furnish them more pap and less wills
ky, but simply to make good the old
saying that the meanest enemy is the
man whom you have the most befriend-
ed. John Peter is back. and old Dick
Wake, that scion Of Britain, whose
principal business ever since he first
landed in America has been to collect
salaries as a preacher or as a profes-
siOnal ProhibitioniSt; is on his war
horse, and the Republican party is to
be done UP. These are the claquers
who have made fool of poor Morrill,
and jeopardized the future of every
man connected with his adminiStra-
ton. Indeed, by the Vaccinations Of
this same crowd, the only hope of the
Republican party in the state, seem
ingly at present, will be in the nOmi
nation of new men all around. These
professional mischief makers will from
this time forward pass the hat with re-
newed vigOr and confidence, especially
in view Of MorrilrS new dispensary
policy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The motto OF TIE z Reno Globe IS. Il;
Revolves for AL
DR.. Furloas OF Oklahoma CITY. may
be a candidate for congress next fall
Judge Burto-d has approved the rev
boasss OF Canadian county 10 the amount
0: $sa.ooc
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delegate from Oklahoma % the ces7
water convsocso1-
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talking q supporting PoYui-ss zews-
paper for THAI vicinity.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
BLIND PARTISANSHIP.

Ex-Spsaker Crisp harangued the
house 10 vote for a proposition which
he acknowledged himself to be against
1t WAS the most ridiculous spectacle in
all the history of political jugGiery and
demaeo-y. In the discussion CT the
bin which finally passed the house for
financial relief, every Democrat speak
ing upon the question declared that
the revenues were sufficient. There
stood Cleyeland's message and the
figures TO the contrary. and there stood
these Democrats bowling that il was
not 1r5le. But Dingley put them down
and rammed them into hole by SIM
ply presenting the startling record OF
S125.oso.ooo deficit since July 1. 1893:
Of Sis.5o9oo deficit for this much OF
the present month lie might have
shown them thar IN their blindness
they had run the government into a
total Increased Indebtedness. under
this administration. of SSoo.ooo. 900.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
arating your theories and actual con-
ditions will be too wide TO gracefully
WIND.


This is truly the age of wind. Wind
is a factor and has ever been, in the
physical world, without which disease
and pestilence would depopulate the
earth. The native element has never
changed. and never will The gentle
breezes which played round the min
arets and towers of old Assyria's for
gotten capitol, still blows the swaying
palm of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
The chilly blast which came down
from the hidden sources of the Nile TO
rock the surface of the Red Sea, and
whirl the Chaldean and Arabian sands
into a binding storm, are doing the
self-same thing today, and will till the
end of time. Science backs up the as
sumption that the wind and weather
of today are the same as in the pre-
historic ages and cycles in this new
western world "The wind bloweth
where it listeth"-literally translated,
where it pleases-and will with the
same disregard Of our fear of lorna
does and billiards. that it has since
the morning stars chanted the song OF
a new born earth. but it is the old
wind-the wind Of science of which we
write.
The wind which fixes this as the age
of airy nothing is not of the gases,
oxygen and nitrogen, but rather the
effervescence of the ever revolving in
genuity Of men. 1t proceeds from the
desire TO make something out of moth
ing-to materialiZe the scheme and plot
into cold cash. 1t is interminable 81
lence broken by the clink Of dollars
and ducats. 1t is storm and fury, the
center of which may be. traced to Yam
kee ingenuity and all prevailing ayar-
ice.
Legitimate business. in every line, is
diluted and inflated with wind. Mines,
railways and industrial enterprises are
capitalized and bonded for many times
their value This wind increment is
put up on the stock exchanges and sold
for actual money, only to be thrown
into the waste heap when their real
value, or rather want of value is as
certained. Food staples, fabrics and
the thousand articles Of daily supplies
are played before the investing public
as the mere excuse for creating mar
gins" and paper profits. The goods
| never change hands. but the wind is
the sole and only commodity noted in
the bill of sale.
The professions, too, have their
apostles of wind. The quack with a
bogus diploma, the pettifogger with
more brass than brains, the lOgician
with no logic at ALL the theorist with
out a theory, and even the sensational
divine without the first inspiration or
imitation of divinity, play their part
before the public; their end and aim
| concentrated upon the one object Of
converting their spurious wares into
| cash. The social system is permeated
with all manner of noXious vapors.
Literature contributes no small share
of moral and mental malaria, and the
press SwarmS with parasites who
die of suffocation in healthy atmOS-
phere. 1t is wind, wind, wind, largely
of the kind that blows good to nobody.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

The Gothenburg system comes from
Sweden. 1t will not take the Pro-
hibs long 10 discover that Stockholm
leads the cities of the world in tile
climate births, not excepting Paris.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Next year is the only leap year we
will have in the next eight years. 1t
is too bad that leap year is a fake, for
If it wasn't it would spur the old maids
UP with desperation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Queen Victoria says: ''As long as /
live Britain shall not go to war with
America" Just as we have said all
along. we can bluff to our hearts con-
tent without danger
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Mademoseille Razafin Karefo. dauch-
ter Of John Waller. and wife OF a
French officer in the Madagascar army.
has arrived in this country. Johns
French relatives ought TO be able TO do
something for him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

1t is worthy of note that the comic
papers. Puck and Judge have forgot
ten Jerry Simpson and Mrs. Lease and
even PETER. but they still cling to the
memory of John J. Ingalls,.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

All the Kansas congressman opposed
the bond issue except Dick Blue and
Calderhead. The Populists and silver
Republicans should give these men
credit just 10 be honest with them
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

The difference between Antarctic and
Arctic exploration is that the Arctic
explorers simply lay down and die,
while the Antarctic explorers freeze to
death standing up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

The newspapers are not always right
There were several instances in this
country where wives bought their hus-
bands cigars for Christmas and they
were good cigars, 100.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

The Prohibitionists Of Kansas will
nominate their state tickets next July.
Until that time they will make siren
uous efforts % run the Republican
party.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

From the number OF men over the
country who are receiving invitations
from President Cleveland. it appears
that Grover contemplates appointing
about S11 men on that Venezuela COM
mission of three.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

That Wichita well has demonstrated
one thing. 1t is no longer possible To
excite the people of Wichita until it is
proper time to become excited.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Some more Armenian Christian wo-
men have been carried off to harems.
Can't those Constantinople CORES
pondents see that our cup OF indigna-
lion is already OVERLOOKING?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

As Morrill, changes every six months,
his Prohibition Mr. Hyde will probably
succeed his anti-Prohibition DR.. Jekyll
about July 1, 1896.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Although the Santa Fe has changed
hands, it still possesses that subtle in
fluence which enabled it to persuade
the legislature not to meet in special
session next month.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

The man who yelled fire in the Bal
timore theater is almost as much of a
criminal as Holmes. and the time will
come when such culprtts, as he, will
be tried and punished.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

Rent Records, Laundry Registers
Poison Records, Loan Registers,
Collection Records, Remittance Records,
Discount Records Notary Records,
Registration Books, Poll Books.
And complete line OF Blanks and
Supplies for County, City, Justice of tho
Peace and Township Officers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Among the most distinguished fanatics
that ever had 10 do with Kansas poEtics
TX Ex-Governor John p. St. John. to who's
mistaken efforts in the cause of temper
ance Is due the existence of the rottenest
aggregation of corrupt politicians that
ever DETAINED the fair name of a sovereign
state. Tammany, IN Its worst days. never
equaled the absolute debauchery of law
that was perpetrated by the Populists in
Kansas when dwellings, gang used the
prohibition law as a club 10 extort money
to enrich public officials. to provide cam
paign funds. And now. when the whole
state of Kansas knows that liquor is sold
in almost every county. despite the law;
when prohibition has failed miserably,
piHably. completely. in every state in
which IL has been tried: then John T. St.
John, repudiated by the state. seeks to
impugn the motives of Governor MorrlN
when he takes the position that St. John
was wrong. 1t Is a noteworthy fact that
IL you gte the best OF a fanatic, he Will
attribute wrong motives to you. So with
St. John IN his ridiculous prohibition
speech in Topeka He does not meet Nor
riN fairly on the merits OF the question;
ne discordantly shrieks that Morrill, is not
sincere.
With the controversy between 81. John
and Governor morrill, The Times has moth
ing to say save to remind Ex-Governor
st. John that the prohibitory laws are
graduating more sneaks In Kansas than
open saloons would graduate drunkaris.
Ii is better to be an honest drunkari
than a dishonest temperance advocate,
What's more. the prohihi.ory laws now.
and always have graduated a great school
of combined sneaks and drunkards. cor
rupt officials "A high places and low
places thieves IN Office. boodlers IN Of
fee. Ears in Office, scoundrels IN Office.
And Kansas whisky Is the poorest whisky
on earth. Let Ex-Governor St John re-
feet over Kansas pass since the prOhsbi-
tory Avs have been enacted. Jet him
give ali men their dues; let him remember
20 judge not lest re. too. be judged: then
let HIN consider that the ordinary gopher
in the animal world - about his size IN
the political world. and think OF the Phsr-
isee who considered none good save him
ssf.-KanSas Cs;y Times
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

If Prohibition is such a bowling sue
cess in Kansas, the Republicans should
nominate John z. st. John for COVER
nor by all means.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

1t is best not TO make any resolutions
tomorrow. 1t costs money TO work
I'D yourself to the point Of breaking
the resolution.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

The position taken by Governor Morrill,
in favor OF the state dispensary system for
the liquor traffic is bound to cause trouble
in Kansas poktics. There are good argu-
mersts in favor of the plan and II VIII be
well supported, but the Prohibitionists as
a rule will declare 4 IS treason and the
liquor men viii consider Il damnable. So
that instead OF having two faces TO the
liquor question II will doubtless have three
or more sides. each fighting the others.
Its first effect VIII be TO divide temper
ance people and weaken prohibition.
There never viii be a way devised by
which the Tquor traffic can be perfectly
controlled, regulated. prohibited or sup
pressed. The men who sell liquor always
oppose the law. In New York City they
violate the Sunday closing law. In Ne
braska they violate the high license law.
In Missouri they violate the low license
law In Kansas they vfolace the pro
hibitory law. When thousands OF years
have passed ard the angel Gabriel plays
the prelude 70 the grand finale. there viii
be a temperance party. and \ personal
liberty" parry: there will be laws against
liquor selling and there viii be men sell
izg It.
II she disoensary system should be
adopted IN Kansas < VIII be resisted ard
violated jus; as ); is IN South Carolina
The people down zhere talk about the isw
just Ike the people Of Kansas do the pro
hibs.o-y law Some say x il farce ard
q failure. and Others that 81 - 4 great
success The dsspenszry plan would make
the Temperance question the scttve one n
every cs-npstg1. There would probably
be state 6ispeoser a. Topeka and sub
dispensers n every county Every tine
there was an election the voters would
be told that this man viii Be stree
dispense OF -our candidate - 10 crank:
x the boys are wrong ne zfH dispsose =
hrtIe for the stonacA's sake or vote for
John Doe, who VII see that ths poor
man g@ss as mach from TIE dsspensa-y as
the rich" The governor would BE b.
sought 20 appcs1< temperance S.svsrser
n wichita and the newspapers would cs-
clare that Qe tosn was ruled Il he did
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

The sober second thought of
which the London papers spoke. has
come TO the American people. 1t is for
a Republican president who will be for
war and for no bonds.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

The duchess of York has another
baby-a boy. He is the second, and
will grow up and wait patiently for his
brother to die so he can ascend the
fhrnnn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

When our army does march on
Canada, it will probably find that an
army of ex-bank cashiers has already
subjugated the country for us.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

If there is oil in that well it will be
an easy matter to pour it on the water
of the three subterranean rivers just
above ir
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

While the dispensary system may not
be the thing Kansas needs, some kind
of a system that will dispense with
prohibition, is.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

1t is possible Of arithmetical demon
stration that John ]. ingalls, is making
one hundred friends for every day that
he SAYS nothing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

While Morrill, fiuctuates, Dawes con-
tinues to favor both prohibition and
characterization with his old-time YER
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Bismarck says that Gladstone has
played so long with words that now
words play with him. And he has old
man Gladstone down about right.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Leap year is great fraud. The wo-
men who are brazen enough to pro-
pose to a man are not modest enough
10 wait for leap year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Doxa-fNr Ffroase- ssFs ~ = vars s-<ss
Lac . flst c1tef E7-tsr r7szsS - - H4th -
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Governor Morrill, appears to have
misunderstood Abraham Lincoln's cpl
gram and is trying to fool half the peo-
ple half of the time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
PRESS AND MoRRILL'S CHANGE.

Governor Morrill, says that while he does
not believe prohibition is effective. ne VIII
never consent to return TO the old Ii
cersse system; he believes the Gothenn-
berg system as applied in Sweden would
be the best thing possible. In saying
that prohibition is not a success" the
governor said n a recent interview, i
am only expressing a belief in the records
placed before us. In rural communities,
where the sentiment is largely for tenn
perance, prohibition is enforced, but this
is not true of the cities of Kansas. The
man who pretends to believe It is true, Is
dece:ving himself; the man who believes
il to be the fault of the officers, is even
more deeply deceiving himself. One year
in my present office has convinced me that
the police commissioner system as applied
10 our cities of the firSt-class is not gen.
orally effective. The cities resent il as
an unwarraated interference with local
government. II is confronted with a re-
bellious spirit on every hand, and fails 10
work its intended ends. unless the public
sentiment is so strong for temperance that
prohibition would be enforced without as
well as with the system. 1 have been in
VeSllSal-lS the liEeElldl revenue IeCOruS,
and find, in round numbers, that outside
of drug stores, 1900 Kansas joints are
carrying United States licenses. Suppos-
ing each of these joints sells fifty drinks
a day; that amounts to 5000 sales for
each twenty-four hours, or $4,000 separate
offenses each week against the Kansas
law. 1t has been said that the prohibitory
law has been enforced as well as the law
against petty larceny. Is 1t possible that
there are $4,000 cases of petty larceny
each week in Kansas? OF these J, 800
joints there are possibly 400 in cities gov
erned by pokce commissioners. The re-
naming 800 must be scattered through the
rural communities, where the police law
does not reach. How can the people
blame the state authorities for not being
successful in closing the 400. when they,
with the machinery of the law in their
own hands. are impotent against the s00?''
-Atchison Champion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Mr.. Bayard will not be recalled al
present. A Republican president VIII
attend TO that matter later on.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Richard Blue should remember that
that part of Kansas lying east OF the
Mississippi river is mighty few.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

Governor Morrilrs policy has too
many postscripts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

England understands fully that we
are bluffing her, but that the bluff has
a fight behind it, if it doesn't work