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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25
BRYAN-sEwaIL-wAFsoN.

There is farce, comedy and tragedy
in the Popocratic liz lis roper
toire. tits a performance in which as
much of the pathetic as Of the ridicHl-
OILS occurs, and more Of each behind
the curtains than in front Of the foot
lights. The star of the combination
in his Democratic robes, strides the
stage from front 10 back, from side 10
side, ever reiterating the declaration
that he is what he seems and that ne
is not what he is represented, the while
his principal supports halling each
other from the wings with side cpl
fhets. The audience is left in bewii-
der1nent as to whether it is all real life
or but talbleau viyant- Every incl
dent Of the bewildering performance
bul adds to the perplexity of the situa-
tons and to the uncertainty of the de-
noument. Bryan's role is Of the heroic,
SewaIl's that Of the jester. Watson the
puppet. The nation grinS and Sroans
by turns, and the show goes on. The
orchestra never varies its tune OF high
diddle the silVer'S in the fiddle and its
l6 to 1. A whole candidate for presi-
dent and two half candidates for vice
president. The head represents the
whole silver dollar and the tail the
same dollar cut in TWO. They all tit
the platforms and the platforms ut
them all. President Bryan is TO hold
down the White House and Sewan and
Watson preside over the senate. turn
about. The national Democratic party
declares the whole thing is off color,
and the middle-of- the-road Pops that it
is a swindle. For sixty days the play
has gone on and for nine days more
must the scenes be shifted until the
curtain finally goes down. Who VII
say that the show has not been worth
the money, who will dare affirm that
it has been?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25
ALONG THE KANS As NILE.

JR Burton holds himself subject TO th@
state committee. ingalls, makes his own
dates.
The Pratt county Republican was the
nrst paper out with ne Official ballot IN
Kansas.
Tie Chicago Resorts postal card cleo
ton shows Kansas Overwhelmingly foE
both bryan and Mckinley.
&c Branine OF Harvey county has also
been induced this year 20 come out ssd
sock & TO rne voter with orstory this year.
James Bradley OF Burton announces
that as neither one Of the national parties
threaten to raise the amount OF Cog TAX
N - no7-pa-tIsan-
Wan from s.nczs OF re Caldwell News:
"A nan might as well 20 lzt0 graveyard
and talk TO TIE tosnbst0ass. as argue wiL5
People dead 20 reason"
I-zzls tells his au9serc~s; AS cas-.
ny yeyes o-s- tnss Intelligent audience ]
Sc here neither ssrf nor Save" AID
then ire Republicans Il tie crowd cheer
TEss week Farmer Sn.th. xccGlloch.
Ch~sser Loax. AsabzEga. ". & T~trsek. J.
2 Lazsco. ". n wallace. ]. X cGss;-
soa ard George I. Hay vii spe~x Il King
r1zn co11ty.
A; Wellington Q zza Vas ezEa<et h
talking free silver yesterday xheu Re I'D
seasy jumped into Ire air and Eel IN q 81
he had fo-gottsa 20 register snd .ss;
,AoaSAt o. -
berry Ssns%o-. Z, Il sad. n r-spsa=fol>
Tor P1Iz-@-'s esectoz - senator s-oz H.
-ass. c-ss Po5uliss a. Preston ~ least says
Jerry 3 and TIA; Se stli vote a<z1zss h-z
OF that account
--ge-ne-n5e-." SAID Harvey eogzty z2a
WAC AS &5osos1z-rg fcs the kiz2 Ss .
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25
The qaiehita Daily eagle sunaay ornug etober IS 1885,

admission fee as has Bryan The
charge of a few hundred before the
train in which Bryan is flying is suffer
ed TO stop amounts to an admission
fee. This is singularly appropriate,
however, when It is considered that
Bryan always has had an itching for
the show business. But this it not al
that makes the candidate unique. He
is the first man ever known TO offer as
a cure for too much fat tie same dose
he offers for excessive leanness- Free
coinage, according TO Mr.. Bryan, Is TO
raise the price of agricultural products
fer the producer and keep them down
for the consumer. No such political
economy was ever taught from the
stump since stumpins was begun Free
coinage is to make cheap money, yet
siFler is to Jump up to s1-29 per ounce.
The man, his utteranoes and his plat
form are all a tumble OF CONTRADICTIONS
and his party is an acknowledged fu-
sion Of adverse elements. The farce
ends with a week and a day hence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

The balance OF trade is in favor of
the United States, so far this year. by
a sum abou; s2oee oo.soe greater than
the balance ON our side up TO the cor
responding date in 1895 This els a
fact so stupendous that il is quite
enough to account for al the imports
Of gold which have been arousing so
much wondering interest The Ameri-
can people arc simply using their old
and always successful method OF ex-
Treating themselves from international
business embarrassment, namely, sell
ing as much IS possible 10 foreigners
and buying less than usual in tie mar
kets OF the old world, where luxuries
rather than necessaries are produced.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25
President.

watching them and the average eastern
correspondent spends just twenty min
utes an Topeka Sing the situation uc.
When David overmeyer spoke In Law
renee twenty-one studeats marched down
in a body to hear him They made 80
much racket that several people out OF
curiosity counted them. After they had
gotten themselves seated ovcrmeyer refet-
rd to the Ing students who were out to
hear HIM That was TO good 20 lei pass
and they arose In a body and cheered to
Fhe Echo.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25
NEW LIGHT.

The present campaign has really
who have advocated free silver because
they believed this policy would give
more redemption money, would tend
TO raise prices by adding coined silver
to our existing gold stock, thus increas-
ing the number OF dollars in eircuia-
ton. would give concurrent and SIN
ultaneous circulation Of both gold and
silver coin are forced TO modify this
position or quarrel with their own
propagandists. Bryan said in his New
York speech that, Il am firmly con-
WINGED that by opening our minis 10
free and unlimited coinage at the pres
ent ratio, we can create 4 demand for
silver which viii keep the price Of sill
yer bullion al Sl.29 Per ounce measur-
ed by gold throughout the world" and.
"a silver dollar viii be worth as much
as = gold dollar the world over" in
this he followed Coins power of IN
limited demand" Strange enough he
has not set the pace for his adherents.
The New York speech has Intentionally
and Internationally been riddIed by
friend and foe. The Populists have
booted at the idea Of 4 dollar good in
Europe or throughout the world" and
turn white with rage NJ the idea that
a silver dollar should be measured IN
gold.r
Bryan's New York speech in The
enemy's country" in the main has been
parting shot. for he too has ahan-
oned the essential test OF practical b.
netallism-in the common meaning -
concurrent circulation Of gold and sill
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25
NOTHING LIKE II.

There art several things for which
the histrioric Bryan will ne rel1em-
bered few. months after November ).
Among presidential candidates be is
UNIQUE. a veri,able sui generis- No
man who has ever ran for the exalted
office was ever known 10 make holy
show CT himself. virtually charging al
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Mary Elizabeth Lease said IN a
speech in New York recently that il
Mckinley is elected, the people should
rise in their might and overthrow the
government. This talk may please
Pupul;Sts. but it makes every decent
Democrat ashamed OF fusion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Those Kansas PopulistS who now say
that Bryan will carry all but three
states are not ging to be able to throw
out enough ballast Nov. 3 to keep them
selves from hitting the earth pretty
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

The story that Bryan once contem-
plated travelling as advance agent or
dramatic troupe has lost him the sup
port of the Pop Prohipitionists in Kan
sas, since they learned the troupe was
not playing Ten Nights in a Bar
room -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Grover Cleveland is not wholly for
eign to Populism. He gave his chief
appointment to Walter Gresham. a
man who just missed being the Popu-
list nominee for president, in 1892.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Senator Morrill, of Vermont las been
elected to the United States senate fer
.hirty-six years-the longest contlnu-
BUS service on record. In some re-
spects John ]. Ingalls, considers Yer
mont an ideal state.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25
Archbishop Ireland denies the reno,

Archbishop Ireland denies the report
purportiDg to como from Rome, in
which it is made to appear that the
pope disapproved Of his tIreland'si re-
cent letter on the political situation in
the United States. He follows I'D the
denial by saving that he has not chang
ed his mind in the least. but renews
his statements with emphasis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

There are 735.O13. $4,000 different
whist hands In pack Of cards. There
are just twice that many sides 10 the
financial question and no two disput-
ants were ever known to be talking
on the same feature at the same time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Jerry Simpson, like Bryan. was
against the plutocrats when on the
stump. When he came TO CleTeland.
however, he donned swalio-tan coat
and partook of a champaign supper
with Tom Johnson and other pluto
O., Leader.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

When a mans house is afire many
men run 10 II; some 10 aid; some from
curiosity; some TO rejoice over the
mans misfortune. In this campaign
Altgeld, Tillman. Debs and Sovereign
lre rejoicing in the nations peril.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Tom Anderson was to lead the Kan
sas crowd at Canton. He didn't ap-
pear in the dispatches. Horrors! Could
the reporter present have mistaken
Tom Anderson for one of the plain
l.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Suffrage is not all it's cracked up to
he. Could women vote, Mrs. Lease
would have to come from New York TO
register.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Bryan speaks of Altgeld as lone of
he ablest champions we have" 1t is
true that Altgeld knows more in min
ute than Bryan does in year He is
Dot bHDd follower of theory. He
Is yiciouS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

The Kentucky people egg John u.
Carlisle. but listen respectfully TO VIII
liam breckenridge Is this justice!
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

The editor of the New York Evening
Post in writing up Temple Houston of
Oklahoma is devoting entirely too much
time to the supposition that Houston
will never visit New York.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

In Chicago the Popocratic managers
are admitting privately to their friends
that the jib is up with Bryan. The bat
tie in the nation was practically over
last evening.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

The whole business of the country
awaits on the election; awaits with the
confidence that it will be Mckinley. IL
Bryan had q show today we would be
having q hot time right now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Crisp of Georgia was fine man.
There are few men passing before the
public eye for brief space who leave
SO good an impression on the public
mind behind them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Altgeld and Tfllman are not engaged
In ores at all at present, but Bryan
election would be gold mine to them
holm
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

McKinley's warm welcome TO the
Kansas crowd was sincere. Mckinley
loves Kansas. 1t led the procession
for his nomination and he will never
faroaf II
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Political agitation is as dangerous as
a prairie fire at first. Fighting it one
place permits it to grow everywhere
else. And yet prairie fires burn them
selves out and die away.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

All Republicans should unfurl their
flags to the air October 81. If any
Democrat wishes to follow suit let
him do so. 1t may help lead him to
the light.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Those southern negroes who can read
persue with awe and wonder Arkansas
Jones' talk about the crime of coercion
at the polls.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Tom Reed will speak at Wichita, but
will skip the rest of the state. He
seems to be particularly fond OF Ches-
ter Long.-Emporia Republican
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

Another gem from our colored friend
s'Doc" Kelly: you elected Grover
Cleveland. Yese, you did-and your
dog bit YOU"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25
Dn.x,~o, Copnty Ticket.

She's a sweeper for McKiniye. only
nine days more.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

60 right on with his outcry until he
finds that people listen to his rawlings
no longer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

If procrastination is the thief OF time,
then street politics is an embezzier.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25
Fur Capes,
Cloth Capes,
Plush Capes,
== -
BOucle CapeS.

In addition to these mentions we now
have full supply of Ladies' Ready
Made Skirts.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-24

journey home, settin' alone on the deck,
and she dead below"
Becky drew long, clicking breath.
Il wish you'd get at those letters" she
said, with a strange fierceness. whats
the use of rakin' up the past2' and she
wrung out the cloth with touch of
desperation in her energy. ff
Emmeline unlocked the desk and
paused. AS its heart was disclosed to
view once more TO view, a scene of .
morning long past came to her with
the scent of withered flowers. She
could see childish little figure with its
bright head bent over a letter, the radi-
ance on brow and cheek inspired by
more than the Pickering sunlight in the
doorway, or the reckoning joys beyond.
She could hear the plaintivc cry of the
Phoebe bird again and again from its
fitting place in the orchard. II seemed
TO her like a spirit voice calling with
ethereal and unchanging note the spirit
Of her Phoebe girl 70 paths leading
away from the sordid and earthly life
she herself bad lived
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-24

cry Of natural feeling and offended
vanity. dearest Phoebe: Can you ever
forgive me for adding to your list OF
acauaintances that of Manton Burns.
I am so glad you did not respond to his
overwhelming infatuation for you, as
/ see you did not. By the same mail
which brings this letter, you will learn
what q wicked man he was, but he
seemed good, and even mamma SAYS
that his manners were irresistible.
Why, the last time he was here-and
may God forgive me for ever entertain
ing him-he stood in the doorway with
the softened light of the leaves casting
shadows on that white forehead of his,
and his eyes We're as true as steel as he
talked of YOU He knew how much I
loved you. All, WE'LL can only thank
God you did not care for him."
Miss Emmeline gathered all the let
tiers and scraps Of paper together with
cold fingers. With her crutch she drew
toward her little old iron smelling
pot. Into this she dropped the pile and
lit it. 1t blazed, like the passion of long
ago, but for moment.
"Have you got through so soon, En-
meline?" called Becky from her corner,
as the breeze from the window blew the
white ashes toward her.
"Yes; it's all over"
Her voice sounded old and thin as the
voice Of one who had just seen the last
cIod drop on the breast Of dear dead
one. But listen! On the breath of the
light wind that scattered these ashes
of the past there floated the melody of
old--the spirit bird of long ago-and its
liquid note thrilled faint and far Phoebe
1.-THE Phoebe birds got back again."
said Becky.-Leslie's Popular Monthly.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-24
EXCHANGE FOR Mendoza
Scenes I'm Bowery Den III, "''

wny Den Whera n
=, Most Do congregatsse hegss|
Inc oowery, in spite Of It's 80,
ton, still holds some oro as reforn}
one :, Of the many is saloon mean na "
nam square patronized by that atu aV chaI
OF the community known ma. porto
s no! 1t is in reality an s e,,, faj
Tor "made-up" cripples. Tho e enenan 4
deaf and the halt can ba so ollnd III
ing the resort, but if one follows sn s ts.
q lightning change in their O ns meg
condition can be witnessed n, pnyslcd
in, the blind see, the deaf U has
lame walk, the paralytic beco aeal' =
Bile. OF course the saloon is p ~. nlnI
pleasant place to patronize !. aVer
anything, dirtier than its neia !.
which is saying a good deal S en'or
all that, it is one of the extr,o na. \
sights of this great citv, Tha al
odor comes partly from the bad II IT,, "
which is sold at five cents Glass N "
~ from the free lunch, the rss;i ps'
piece Of which consists Of c,hh sls'll
pungent species, and partly from s 4
patrons themselves. There is sion !
the sidewalk in front announcing 81 ~ J.
this particular place dispenses u u
charge of five cents per Glass. tba I
whisky of that sort obtainabla ~ W. v
York. The frequenters of this beaa ~
exchange are very interesting 10 s,na
II you care to approach near enous
for that purpose. A0us
A visit will convince Won Tho, !.
not q very difficult matter to heoo.
q cripple without injuring yourssl
providing you go about it in the MI
way. For the purpose of obtain;a
substantial charity it is only necess,r
to make yourself appear miserable "
helpless. The modus operandi can
had for the looking on at this Rover
"boozing den." The pockets a. n
palnstaklng rogues who frequent thi
place are as rule well filled, especial|
those of the blind beggars who MI
be seen playing checkers and car
there. At another table perhaps NJ
viii see group of deaf men hearth
enjoying some tale cleverly related N
member of the company. Among N
frequent visitors to this resort arp
number of lame men who lightly tos
aside their sticks and crutches on II
tering and resume a sound condition
body. One might imagine from I'll
ease and suddenness with which mi
transformation is made that miracI
had been worked. Broken arms M
also mended in an astonishingly simp|
manner by the very easy process q
removing bandages. Great sores anl
scars are cured by the hasty applica
ton Of a sponge. Sprained ankles
rheumatism, dislocated shoulders ami
other Affections are remedied in al
equally simple and effective manned
The busiest. hour at this REMARKABLE
resort is after II o'clock at night, whe
most of the "fake cripples" knock d
work. If you would learn thing d
two about the fruits of indiscriminat
charity take a peep at this queer rel
devious on the Bowery, near Chatham
square.-N. Y. Letter to Pittsburgh Dis
match.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-24
RECoMPENSE.

Straightway through my heart this fact t.
day.
BY truths own hand is driven;
God never takes one thing away
But something else is given.
did not know in earlier years
This law of love and kindness;
But without hope, through bitter years,
mourned in sorrows blindness.
And ever following each regret
For some departed treasure,
My sad repining heart was met
With unexpected pleasure.
j thought it only happened so,
But time this truth has taught me:
No least thing from my life can go
But something else is brought me.
1t is the law, complete, sublime,
And now with faith mistaken.
In patience but bide my time
When any joy is taken.
LEILA w. Wilcox, in Young Mems Era.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-24

your mind to git bilious. You remem
Der the doctor told you to take three
grain pustule every four hours. AS Icl
me, hev got too much to do to brooc
over what's past and gone. know
though, those letters had better SO
A house is just like a person. 1t gets
| more In its insides than 1t can digest
| and it has to take little medicine OF
fire once in so often;" and she laughed
grirnly at her joke, but the laugt
quavered with a suggestion OF tears.
Her sister looked at her plaintively.
~You never felt Phoebe's death as
did. She was is years younger than me,
and. KNOWN with my crooked body thai
I'd never be married, she came into my
life like my own baby would. She
looked so different from the rest OF US
too. l can see her little face now
shaped like a pansy. You remember she
had uncommon eyes--like them agate
stones in the parlor--nor yet gray nor
vet brown, but with lights alius piayln
in 'en like sunlight in brook, and her
hair, though it did hev little touch OF
red. made the house sunshiny-as good
as sunshine" 4
She wiped her dimmed eyes with the
bundle of towels. -4tA
Becky was moving the old cradle IN
the corner preliminary to her onslaught
with brush and broom. Perhaps that
was why her usual sharp retort to En-
meline's sentiment was not forthcom :
ing. Possibly, though, the little cradle
itself brought back softening memo
ries of the bright head once pillowed
there.
Emmeline still continued her remin-
iscences as she slowly dumped over TO
the desk in the corner:
81 was bound from the start that she
should hev advantages; you remember
that saved and scrimped for it, and no
one can deny she did well at school,
/ shall never forget when she came
back, lookin' so sweet and pretty and
tallSin' like lady.
''She could play, you remember, The
Maiden's Prayer on the organ. Idunno
as 1 ever heard anything sound sweeter.
| dunno how it is that when some pco-
pie play it gives you thoughts and feel
ms you never he'd before, a sort OF
yearnin' for somethin', you don't know
Just what, while others-like Maria's
daughter-can only make it say: It'd
tiddle-de-dum.'
She pulled out little drawer in the
side of her desk, and taking from it the
key, she swayed it backward and for
ward on her long, lean finger before she
opened the lid.
II allus thought she'd be married.
You remember, don't you, how, after
she'd finished school, she visited d
schoolnate in the city, and don't you
rek'lect how told you she seemed as il
she'd left something of her behind when
she came home? Twas just foolish enulf
to think mebhy it was her heart, but be-
yond few letters it didn't seem to come
to nuthin'. Then she settled down at
home, played the organ in church and
see med to be allus tryin' to do all the
good she could, but ust to wonder if
we were entertainin' enough fer her,
she seemed to peak up so after she came
home for good. She lost her color and
her merry ways. ! want took by sur
Prise when the doctor told me to go up
the lakes with her. I'll never forget the