Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
KANSAS TOPICS.


Breidenthai says Willis is "a reformer
for Doodle and traitor for pay" WlIits
says Breidenthal Is "a putrid slimy Old
political prostitute, a gangrened, petrified
relic Of political rottenness." Both of these
estimable gentlemen might have saved a
great waste of the English language BY
simply calling each other Pops.
How, we stop the press to inquire can
the Prohibitionists of the Seventh district
expect to make headway when both Mr..
Beers and Mr.. Bulge are on the opposition
stump?
1.-The fight which Charley Curtis is put
ting up in the Fourth district" remarks
the Wichita Eagle. '.is said to have
bangles on it,
That Jackson county hen which news
like a cat will cut no ice as phenomenon
until after that ''non-partisan Bryan meet
ing which Is advertised at Arkansas City
retires to its dressing room.
Bryan is whipped IN Kansas and the
Popocrats might as We'll become reconciled.
In the spelling match at the Weir City
schools the Mckinley side won. and in the
Colby baseball game the Bryan nine never
got a score.
The boys are betting that Kirkpatrick
carries Crawford county by 200 majority
This is the home of Ridgely, the Popocrat
nominee
''It makes me weary" remarked Attorney
General Dawes after reading lot Of elec-
ton predictions. Ito hear a candidate max
ing estimates of the result. The man who
knows least about the situation Is the man
who is running for Office, and the man who
knows mighty little more than the candi-
date is the speechmaker Both are con-
surrounded hyy thetr fr+a nd
have little opportunity to judge the real
conditions"
Ed Little confidentially Informed the edi-
tor OF the Gypsum News the other day
that the chances appeared very favorable
for the election OF Mckinley. and right
then and there the Popocratic sculptor
commenced a new headstone for the ceme-
terry which contains the reasonable re-
mains of Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arnold
and John Sherman.
Webb McNall is the latest Pop leader to
give out bulletin on the Kansas election.
He says Bryan will carry the state by
10000 majority and Leedy and Doster by
nearly II not quite as much. In betting
on these figures it should not be over
hooked that Mr.. McNall Is something Of al
in1ationist. When serving as deputy sheriff
in Smith county some years ago It Is said
he made oath that he had ridden one horse
ctV HiiicS III one Udy-OT at leaSI IQe nile
age bills which he presented to the county
commissioners for summonng jurors and
witnesses were reported to have footed up
that much. Mr.. McNan has probably ar
rived at his Bryan majority after the same
system of figuring.
The Topeka man who has a cane which
he claims was presented to him by the
sultan Of Russia. who got 1t from the czar
of Turkey. takes no rank with the Leaven-
worth man who has paper collar which
was tossed out of a car window by George
Francis Train when he was running for
president
At the Popocrat parade in Burton tho
other day sixteen Union veterans were
dressed up In white and mounted on gray
horses to represent free silver. In the
midst Of the sixteen a battered old Con-
federate soldier mounted on flea-bitten
dun pony and garbed in yellow. was placed
to represent the cause Of gold. The in
congruity of@this ensemble will readily sug-
gest itself when it is remembered that sill
yer finds its most numerous supporters
among the ex-Confederates and has
precious little hope Of carrying any states
outside of those in rebellion in 1851
Kansas has wisely adopted a law which
prevents wife from testifying against
her husband, burt still falls short of pro-
tecting all Of those relations which should
be held most sacred. At the trial of Mrs.
Crandall, the ambitious but impecunious
poetess who blew up the Waterville bank
to secure money with which to publish her
book of poems. the charge being insanity.
some Of the verses in question were sub
mitted to the jury as evidence, and upon
them the verdict was found which sent
the author to the insane asylum. The les
son this affair teaches - too plain to re-
quire the slightest enlargement. With such
a precedent established In the Jurisprud-
ence Of the state the danger to every poet
is manifest. What Kansas needs Is law
which will prohibit a poem from testifyins
against its own progenitor.
sss
Whatever may be the result Of the Okla
homa election, Dennis Flynn, the Repub-
lican nominee for congress, cannot say
that the contest was entirely devoid of
pleasure. Dennis had a Joint debate with
Callahan, his opponent. at Mulhall the
other day. and the following account Is
taken from the local paper: He liter
ally mopped the earth with Callahan.
When Dennis had finished talking, 200
women formed in line and marched on the
stage. Every one Of these women took
turns at hugging and kissing Dennis. 1t
was q great time for Dennis" From the
conservative distance Of 400 miles the re-
mark that Dennis had a great time
would seem to be abundantly justified
And II Is not entirely improbable that Den
turned to Guthrie and tried to explain
matters to the charming little Kansas girl
who holds q probate Judge license for do
ing the hugging and kissing in the Flynn
family.
Chester Long Is a phenomenon. While
most Of the political campaigners go about
over the state looking as though they had
been pounded for ages by the storms OF
misfortune-unshaved. unwashed and SO
husky-voiced their tones sound like the
asthmatic protest Of a broken down thresh-
ing machine engine-Chester Is as fresh as
a daisy. His dress Is immaculate at all
times, his voice Is as clear as a bell, and
not the slightest sign Of fatigue has yet
become apparent. 1t is q wonderful con-
test that Is in progress down in the Sew
| enth district. On the one side Is gentle
man who Is proud of 1t, and upon the other
| q clown who is striving to appear as lout-
ish as possible.
A fine example Of the man who was
| hoisted by his own petard may be seen at
| Wichita. One of the tinhorn gamblers Of
| the town, who thought he had discovered
! "cinch.' offered to bet that Chester
| Long would not get ten votes in Butler.
| Without stopping to think that Butler
| county was not in Longs district. a num-
! ber of the Republican boys about town
! took the bets until large sum of money,
| collectively had been placed Then the
| tinhorn rejoiced with exceeding great joy,
| forgetting. to paraphrase the poet that
| others might also say. "they reckon Ill