The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-19
OKLAHOMA OUfLIN s..

| The Ell Reno Globe wants Dennis Flynn
to lay down.. telling him that he can not
afford 10 contest
| In Pawnee county the Republican cands-
date for treasurer splurged into Office by
Just two. votes majority.
II is said that Oklahoma IS the only place
! in the United States where silver made
gains. in the last four years
! Tom Ferguson and John Dillon put up
| fight in Blaine county this year that IS en-
courae.ng 10 the whole territory.
| Professor Randolph has been appointed
principal OF the kinfisher coiored school.
1 He is also principal Of the Choctaw Normal
/ school.
Every once IN a while an Oklahoma farm
er tres the experiment of feeding cotton
seed meal to his hogs and comes up minus
/ the hogs.
CLYDE Nattox now has position in the
library at the penitentiary. Mattox has
been exceedingly fortunate for man OF
his disposition.
Blaine and Custer counties are Repubh-
| can. They are western counties and depart
/ from the Kansas habit of getting Populist
as you get west
The Manchester Journal is the only Popu-
! Est paper up to date that goes on to show
that Callahan viii push a free homes bill
! through the house.
Otto Bekemeyer guessed closer what
! Flynn's majority in Logan county would
| be than any other man there. and won a
| box of cigars on it.
The Okiahoman says that unless the levy
for the court expenses prove inadequate.
Judge Keaton will clear up the docket
there in another term.
One Democratic paper in Oklahoma In
sists that the message which Bryan sent to
Mckinley congratulating him was never
sent; that Bryan never wrote it. that 1t was
a fake, paid for by Mark Hanna.
j. NJ. Simons, the editor of the Manches-
ter Journal. had to wheel Mr.. NJ. T. Rob
erson in a wheeIbarrow down at Manchester
the other day. Every fifty feet Simons let
the wheelbarrow down and yelled: ''Hur-
rah fo- Mckinley" Simons bet on Bryan.
Thomas ]. Klima, Joseph Serad. Wesley
Hajek Jr Wesley Hack. ST., Anton Pich.
| Wesley Salabak and Joseph Buresh, Pol
acks and Maygars living in Grant county.
are out in letter in the Medford Patriot
denouncing a public speaker named Van
Peterson for saying they were ignorant.
Chandler News: The ten days follc wing
November have been crowded with such
suspense as the people of Oklahoma have
never before been called upon to endure.
The ever torturing fear of Dennis Flynn s
defeat kept men and women on the rack.
The turning down of the free homes cham
pion. they felt would be the saddest. most
ruinous event which could befall them. The
workers on the Flynn and free homes news
! papers have been witnesses Of some of such
/ intense feeling and anxiety as seldom is
seen. Many times a day eager feet have
climbed the Stare leading to the News Of
flee and voices vibrating with earnestness
and apprehension have inquired for the lat
est news about Flynn. Old men, young
men, mothers, school boys, all sought with
| touching eagerness for the intelligence
which would assure them their homes or
crush their dearest aspirations. Some came
many times during those painful days. Old
feet toiled up 10 the office and old eyes
frightened dimmed pathetically at, the
word the editor had for the honesteaders
But how hopeful and patient they were,
1t was a lesson for pessimists. Not one OF
the many would despair while a chance re-
manned for their champion. They rejoiced
in Mckinley. but their joy was passive
withou: Dennis Flynn's triumph stranger
in the land could not have grasped the sig
nificance of this suspense. Neither could
those human political parasites who had
for their own selfish ends. worked up the
Flynn revolt. But many in the rank and
file of the fusion repented when II was toe
late, TO pray-if Fusionists ever pray-foI
the vin6ication OF the true and tried-'the
best delegate that any territory has ever
sent TO congress-