The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-09
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

ALONG THE KANSAS NILE
Bryan carried Coffey Geedy's) county by
200. Leedy carried it by SO.
Congressman Brodenck will take n hand
in getting recognition for Cuba.
The Kingman Journal (Populiso says:
Now let the agitation for paper currency
go on
L. c. Noise. the Emporia travelling man
and chess player, is running for place on
the Stat. Board of Charities.
II ". l.. Brown of the Kingman Journal
gets anything in Topeka, Judge Bashore
will take charge of the paper, it is said.
Frank Roe of Arkansas City, youth
with bad inclinations. viii be sent to the
reform school. Is he any relation to the
famous Richard?
Charles Curtis of the Fourth district is
said to have desire TO see Tom Anderson
do penance for making trouble for him dur
ing his campaign.
1t is not true, as reported in some of the
Republican papers of the state. that Jerry
Simpson will introduce an anu-option bill
N the next congress.
Senator Baker believes that the Republ-
cans viii carry out the spirit of the St.
Louis Platforms declaration in favor Of an
International agreement.
The neither regions of the newly elected
governor OF Missouri used to resound TO a
wet shingle in the hands of schooi-marm
who now resides in Winfield.
There is a great amount of wire pulling
ar- tha n h1icap
nomination for governor in 1888. based on
the slrpcsition that Leedy will make mis-
takes
Senator Feffer was getting s12 q week
whea he was elected to the United States
serate six years ago. He will never again
see such years of prosperity, although IL
was under Growers administration.
Mr.. weinschenck is the Kingman county
man who has the pull with Governor-elect
Leedy. He drove Leedy all the way from
Kingman to Hutchinson one night during
the campaign, and his stand-in is gilt edged
with bangles on 1t.
Tom Morgan of Eureka says he has
heard no one blame Mckinley for the bank
failures since the election. Tom ought TO
extend his observations outside of Green
wood county. In this part of the state the
Populists openly charge that McKinley's
election closed the doors.
The Chicago Inter Ocean, in speaking OF
Charles Moreau Harger's article in the cur
rent number of the North American Re
view, says:
The North American Review for Deem
ber publishes an article from the pen OF W.
J. Bryan entitled Has the Election Set
tied the Money Question: There Is moth
ing new or startling in the article. II IS
simply an elaborated reiteration of Mr.. Bry-
ans announcement that he IS as full OF
fight now as ever. and be hopes that the
issue of 1896 will be repeated, so far as con-
Germs the money question. lie makes no
allusion whatever to the attack on the su-
preme court, and other features of the plat
form on which he stood He finds great en-
coura cement In the large vote poiied for
free silver, especially in the western states,
He seems TO think tina; the farmers Of the
far west have espoused the silver cause.
and that on account of their long and care
fu study of the subject.
IL so happened the very next article In
the same magazine is entitled a Problem
Of Aridity." II Is not given a political turn
at all but II none the less explains the car
rying OF Kansas and Nebraska by the Pop
ulists at the last election The arid region
did - The writer. c. NJ Harger. is evil
IDENTIFY a ksnssn. His references 20 Ne
braska are general He puts down third
OF those two states as belonging 10 the arid
region They are not suited 10 ordinary
farming except as they can be ard are irri-
gated Without irrigation they should be
given UP 20 grazing. Occasionally fair
crops can Dc raised without irrigation. but
not with sufficient regularity 10 vsrrsn; the
effort This generalization Is nct rev. bu;
the details given are worthy OF considers-
ton.
No fewer than tventy-o1e counties y
western Kansas have a raUch less popols-
ton now than IN issz There may be others
besides the tsen;y-one enumerated Kan
sss has lost a quarter Of million sn popu-
lstion through encouragement eaGsea ~
aridity This is a startling statement East
err Kansas has increased 81 population %
course the entire state Is depressed oy isese
e1orrnoas losses No wonder they were rice
FOR anything that had in If The promise Sf
change II l. inpossibl. for pe0pie "a a
state IKE Illinois 20 realize Row serious =
matter SBch ios-es are. In oze coantT two
hfshs of fse lard was soi3 tbs yes- fo-
tsxes Kafr- corr nay bring some reiet.
Bat The great thlaz = % solve the irrigation
prcblem- No doGbs Kansas AID SeS-Asks
SsI resume their places IN tae tisi % Re-
rssbIcSn states 50 ioag az q thiri of
these stat-s 20 or ssstiEg poorer znt g-oo--
sr the-e szn Be e-c0a-azezsat fof Bryan
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