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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
AN ABSOLUTE BOSS.

The Dagle has said and repeats that
solute boss in politics on the American
continent. today. We know that the
Sheehans can swing portions of Tam
many; that the slightest nod of Tom
Plat in New York is a s ignal for
scores to do something: that Altgeld, by
the wink of an eye can swing hun
dreds of Polish and Magyar socialists
into line at Chicago. But compared
to this absolute boss, Briedenthal, they
are children. Our Kansas PopulistS
are not Bowery toughs; they are not
foreign socialists or ward bummers.
On the contrary, they are the best edu-
Gated, the best Informed people, on an
average. of all the states of this coun-
try. But informed as they are, edu-
Gated as they are, bright as they are,
our populistS suffer this man at Tope-
ka TO direct them not only, but to tell
them what they shall think on all sub
jects.
Watson is a better Populist then
Eriedenthal ever dreamed of being.
Watson has been wronged. Every Pop
ulist in Kansas knows it. But Bried-
enthal says: Watson has not been
wronged," and that settles it.
No Republican boss goes to this ex-
IRENE. No Republican boss would
dare limit the exercise of free opinion
among Republicans. But Briedenthal
does It, and with success.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

to the state senate, not in the interest,"
of the county, but to help him along In
personal ambition to head the Pop
contingent that may reach Topeka
next winter, asking the people of Seds-
wick county to set aside the bright and
patriotic Harry Gordon whom they
endorsed fer the place only last fan.
The next Kansas legislature will be
Republican aud Sedgwick county
wants a senator who will be in politi-
cal accord with that majority. Not
only that, but Sedgwick county being
one of the three biggest and most popu-
lous counties in the state, wants man
who can hold his own. Harry Cor
don is not only an active man and a
bright lawyer, but he is one OF the
best public speakers in the state and
as our senator he would be heard from,
not in any efforts to advance himself
politically, but heard from in the in
terest of this city and county. He
should receive every Republican vote
in Sedgwick county, and for that mat
ter every real Jeffersonian Democratic
vote alSe
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

reports. You can hear new ones most
every hour IN the day. When the cam
psign first opened they were ousiiy ensag-
ed in circulating the report that the Santa
F'e would fire any man who was for Rry-
an. This was so ind1sinousiy circulated
that there were some people who actually
believed IL. We were told thai Santa Fe
employees weT> wearing Mckinley badges
on the lapel of their coat and carrying
Bryan badges in their pocket All such
rot as that was poidied around and Is stu
talked. A few days ago Il was told by
Pop employee that a poll Of the Santa re
shops gave Bryan a big majority. and
stiM the Pops continued to tell that the
reason a Santa Fe man said he was fer
Mckinley was because he was afraid he
would lose his Job This was an insult to
every employee. We DO not think that
any man believes or believed that the
Santa Fe bows were for any man but who
was their choice. The writer knows IL
10 be a fact that ever since the nominal
tons the employees of the shops have held
many heated discussions AT the noon hour
and each side spoke It's sentiments. Ths
McNinieyites were arrayed en- one side
~ the arguments would become 80 warm
that botn Ekies would become angry We
know row that a Pop rnpioye At tia
Shops is peddling copies Of an alleged cir
cular letter. The better Is sent out BY the
Po,socratic central COMMITTEES ard stt he
holds his Job. When any one tells you a
Santa Fe man dazes not TO express his
sentiments give him the horse laugh Not
content with classifying on the Santa ia
employees and trying TO create disorder be-
tween employer and empioye and working
! up prejudice against the former these
P0pocrats are telling around in great giee
that This Mck.nleyite and that Mckinley
tie has come ever 20 their side. In every
Instance we have heard reported OF .
change by the Pop. upon inves,isstion
We have found thst the story 10 false. Pay
no attention to them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
WHO WANTS A PAN1Ce

BRYAN comedies that his election
means a panic in this country, before
which men and institutions, interests
and industries will go down The saw
ings if a lifetime for many thousands
of honest, industrious and enterprislng
citizens will be swept away and the
victims be left penniless. 1t VIII not
be the Altgelds or Sewalls whose prln-
ciple holdings are in unincumbered
realty, whose incomes are rents, but
the enteIprising manufacture, the IN
dustrious tradesman and every push
ing business man, and every hard
warking farmer. who is borrower, or
who works with the capital OF others
which he has secured with his proper
". Bryan never did a productive day S
work in his life. lie has been a pro-
fessional man in the employ of corpor-
atoms and the like. He says that there
will be panic. A panic is another
word for industrial and financial dis
aster. Henry VI. Teller declares that
while free silver would work out all
right in time that it might be twenty
years before things would so adjust
themselves as TO permit the world $
money. gold, to circulate again IN
America as a currency. Why should
America run such chances and for
what? Free silver cannot mean both
good times and panic at once. On,
but. says Bryan, it's case wherein
heroic measures must be resorted to.
in which great suffering will be newt
able that good may come. Who wants
to do the suffering that somebody else
may possibly be benefited?
Upon the other hand with Mckinley
there is the hope, there is the promise.
both predicted on experience and rea-
son, that there will be no panic, no de-
struction of mems fortunes, but good
times. There will be a restoration OF
the confidence which a Cleveland poll
CIV has shaken and shattered. Mc-Kin-
ley means patriotism, the country
honor, integrity ami solid progress and
prosperity. Ought any man, especial
ly any Republican, to hesitate as to
where lies his line of action and duty:
If we are to have a panic, as AIR.
Bryan consents must come in TIT event
Of his election, what is to become OF
the laboriGg man Of this country DUR
ing the time everything is PROSTATE
and no money going and nothing do
ing? Is he to starve his wife and chill
dren that Bryan's experiment of par
tial fiatism may be made? 1t is all a
mistake. There is but one thing to do,
one way to vote, and that is for the
solidity of all and for sound money for
everybody.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
MISERABLE MISREPRESENTATION.

The lusty lamentations Of calamity
have resorted to Misrepresentation, TO
which shamming Mr.. Bryan is lending
himself. The effort is TO give currency
10 an impression that the railways OF
this country are seeking 10 coerce their
employees to vote for Mckinley Its
lie. To such an extent has this fabri-
cation been promulgated that the presi
dent and directory of the Wabash sys-
TEN has officially notified rhe thous-
ands of men connected with that road
that they will be protected in voting as
they please whatever master mechan-
les. bosses. overSeers or other officials
may say or do. IL was discovered the
other day that a roadmaster. who is a
free silver man. had attempted 10
coerce every section boss and hand on
his division into voting for Bryan. So
il seems the shoe is on the other foot.
The men who are crying coercion. how
ever. for the most part. are lcafers,
and they are they who take up Bryan's
unworthy cry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
SEpGWICK,s SENATOR.

Kansas tried Populism once. No one
need be told what il was like Ii WAS
lust what Mrs. Lease recommended ia
stead of such much corn. Ii was that
sure enough. The loaFer and Shrieker
may want another dose of it. but the
solid citizen. hardly. That mans prln-
cIples must be prejudice only, who can
recall that Dankin Of Pumpkin legis-
lature. its DumIsOld's and Artzes. its
disgrace and populations and not
blash. The man who thought he was
the head but who proved 10 be- the tail
of that administration Is asking the
people q. Sedgwick county to SEND him
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
4 aphia nau Easle ghursaau gouiug etober 22 1895.

this party was when they crossed the
of Guthrie; and from thence their course
was southeast. they found the beaver
dam which he refers TO on the Cotton-
wood river. He describes a splendid view
of the hills of the North Canadian. from
the standpoint where those hills stil pre-
sent such view from the high country
IN the vicinity of Edmond and Britton.
They struck the North Canadian river
at the point where the forest opens out
into the prairie. and that was cerainly in
he vicinity Of the present location OF Ok
iahoma City. This view is further
strengthened by another fact OF some i'm
portance which the author refers 10, and
that is that the first prairie dogs they saw
was when they reached the South Cana
dan river. II is very unlikely that the
topography of the country has undergone
any such marked changes as would
throw his route farther west than tnd--
Gated 1t is very unlikely that the eoun-
try lying between the Santa Fe and the
Rock Island, which is now an open pral-
RE country, was at that time ttrnbered
with post oak and black-jacks. 1t would
seem that If the prairie had made such
extensive aggress;ons on the timber coun-
try in the space of sixty years. that some
remains of such forests would be found
This view Is further strengthened by the
fact that bis entire course between the
Ci-narron and the Canadian was over a
very rough country OF steep hills and deep
ravines. These conditions could only be
Of \ md k
lahoma counties.
The party encamped in c.ump OF elm
trees festooned with mistletoe on the
North Canadian on the night of the 2Stn
ard reached the South Canadian on he
morning of the 18th. having been two or
three days in camp between these points
The author says that they emerged from
the timber about 10 O'Clock in the morning
and came in sight of the South Canadian
river. Here they remained in camp I'M
til Nov 2. when they abandoned the rest
OF their trip TO the Red river on account
of the poor condition OF their horses. and
pursued a direct course for Fort Gibson.
They passed near the present site Of Bur-
nett, Tecumseh, Keokuk Falls and Okmul
gee. crossing the Arkansas about ten
miles Fort Gibson. and reaching the fort
about the 9Th of November.
Aside from the peculiar interest IN
which the author holds his readers, his
account of his journey IS especially inter-
est;ng to the resident of the soil, in con-
trasting the changes that man and nature
have wrought in this country since his
day.
THE wild horses, cattle. turkey. bears.
buffaloes and Indians are all gone; We
have nothing wild now except Populists,
and they too. are going.
GEOFFREY CRAYON.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

his life time in street discussions says
there is only one way TO impress crowd
Judge Martin in a speech at Hutchinson
the other night removed a large portion
of the rose-tinted covering OF George Smell
ling.
Kansas Populists have not often scratch
ed tickets brit this year they are gong 10
MAKE up for lost time in the s.ate by sail
Jag into Jerrc Botk;n and LaeGv.
Say what you have to say quick; get hot
about IL, allow no Interruptions finish with
a jolt and then walk haughtily away.
This manner. he says. IS invincibie.
The most interested person in Mrs.
Leases continued prosperity in New
York - jerry Simpson Were Mrs.
Jerry.
The rise of wheat Is making every one
glad in Kansas. Kansas is always will
ing 10 forget politics and think OF some
thing else. II the politicians would only
give 1t a chance.
The national Republican committee a;
Chicago has put Kansas into the Repub-
lican column finally. For long time
Hanna persisted in calling it doubtful
He no longer does.
Mcdonald. of the Oxford Register. h
making a straight out and out tip-toq
fight for the Republican ticket That trir
to Paris. the Pops win now charge, was &c
pull Baron Rothschild's leg.
The three big PopuIst bugs in The
state of Kansas are Leedy, Briedentha
and Jerry Simpson. The reason for this
as that years ago they all belonged togeth-
er TO a certain secret political society.
Ridgley, the candidate for congress fol
the Populists in the Thirt. district. is be-
ing logged by a speech NJ made during
the Haymarket trouble. E;dgley then de
clared that Judge Gary who hanged The
anarchists was a murderer.
Arkansas City Traveller: The Pops are
busily engaged in circulating all kinds oi
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
CREDENTIALS DIRTY TRICK

Republicans have long ago ceased 10
expect Popuiists 10 see some thugs by
aavinS Iaem pointed out To them. Inc
best way for 4 Populist 10 So. some
things is 10 LEI him alone and ALLOW
him 10 work Ehem out all 10y himself
IN Kansas BrieJientbsl. the most alb
soisIle political boss in this country to-
day. trades, OF Ton Watson for sons.
private political gain 10 himself he
gave all the presidential electors ~
Sewali, ih. blcated millionaire ~
Maine. Watson understood tie trick
ard las ordered Briesieathal not us-s
his name over electors who are not for
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

Watson. And Briedenthal paid abso-
Iutely no attentiin to him watson
is a Populist. He knows that SO long
as one stone remains on another on
this earth the Democratic electors from
Kansas will not vote for him. Bred
enthal knows il too. But Driedenthal.
ths stbsilute boss, still attempts TO use
the rame for the purpose of eleetins
Sewall. 1t does no good to point this
out 10 the Pops. Let them discover 1t
themselves.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

Ben Harrison: ''The farmer has the
cheapest coat he ever bought and he
paid for it with the cheapest wheat he
ever sold" And when Harrison said
it the Democrats WINGED. The Demo
cratic party and no other. IS response
BILE and the average farmer knows it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

John Clark Ridpath, the historian.
running for congress on free silver in
Indiana and bowling about the crime
o; 1879. never mentioned T. in tae his
tory be wrote. He didn't know 1t was
there. For this reason the people IN
Indiana will let him stay at home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

"Jerry Simpson says he will be elect
ed by 5.0o0 majority. He told the
Journal before he began the campaign
that he would win by 10000. Some
thing seems to have taken the wind
out Of his sails during the past few
weeks" observes the Lawrence jour
nal. People down in this region have
remarked the same thing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

The town of Carney, Oklahoma. hav-
ing been held up by Dynamite Dick the
Chicago Tribune speaks of its having
TO be reincarneyated How long will
the west continue to stand the brutal
. ~ of the eaStr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

Don't get your shirt disarranged. The
campaign is very hot, it is true. Every
body is excited. About six months ago
we all got excited about war over
Venezuela In another six months our
present excitement will be as cold as
our Venezuelan excitement is today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

The nomination of Sewall was an af-
front 10 Populism. His success would
mean the qualification of any share
Populism had in the victory. If Pop
ulisln was as bright as Watson is, il
would see it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

On our corner the speaker occupies
a rock When an interruption in the
crowd becomes more important than
the main address, the speaker is haul
ed down and the inIerrupfer elevated,
and SO on ad minimum.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

Did Bryan hear the Mckinley cheers
at his Ohio meetings? Were they so
long and frequent when he passed
through Ohio going east? And does
Bryan pretend to say he has not lost
rroupd2
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
Tom Watson means busine

Tom Watson means business. You
will turn him down for the millionaire.
Sewall. Will you. Mr.. Democrat: You
will use his name IS catSpaw in Kan
sas will you2 And call him 4 traitor
Before doing il YOU had beCyer stop and
reflect that Waison's side line is con
Aistent Populism.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

Two silver barons in Montana have
been promised the ministership of
France under Bryan. We felt sure all
along that Rufe Cone would be crowd
ed out of the ambition of his life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

After the election is over the Kansas
Pops will be standing around with
long faces blaming Bryan's defeat on
Sewall They will not blame Watson.
They know Watson is right.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

Bryan has less respect for Harrison
than any man opposing him. Bryan
helped elect Grover Cleveland over
Harrison and ne thinks Benjamin
ought to remain quiet.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

Watson wanted the electoral ticket
in Georgia. The Democrats called that
an Insult to Sewall' and refused. In
Kansas-but the Kansas Democrats
never did anything but insult Kansas
DonS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
sLoso THg KANSAS NIX

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satsr=s- o. srrsss; - Hsssos's aetiea-
uyrhs h&s - alsf.refssa = b~snE -
oaiT E2zsszs sa4-z a. presses afsrzriax az
teniss1 ~sHcus r1zzin< sox sssseth,Es
~oeshe-z Kansas aos1 xas Ezs frszs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

In New York Mrs. Lease shook Alt
reld's two hands just one minute and
seven seconds. Altgeld WINGED. Ait
geld is of a nautre which can not bear
xynp1an
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

1t will be noticed that Bryan criti-
cises the Republican party's love fol-
the flag as Democrat, not as a Popu-
list. That is what makes the Repuhli.
cans roar
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
Indce Doster of Kanss

Judge Dosjer Of Kansas declares
that the rights OF the user are para
mount 10 those of the owner of any
article. That theory has hanged more
horse thieves than ever died Ia any
other way, remarks the Chicago Times
uarasA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

The human throat was framed with
limitations for philanthropic purposes.
1t can stand so much. And all wise
Providence fixed it so the throat would
collaDSe first.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

II wheat keepes on climbing mp Ike
that. the Kansas Pop jury may bring
In = verdict on the crime of 20 Of mot
ry,1E.f,st
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

The report that Paderwski has gone
insane is apparently written On the as
sumption that all great musical gent
uses are not crazy, normally.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

The duchess and duke OF MARI
boriugh are just now wishing what
Grover Cleveland has gambled on for
So long and lost.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
women.

Rufe Cone is wel-to-do, of course,
and would make a good minister TO
France under Bryan, but what show
does he stand against Montana mill
iouaires?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

/ believe in a single tax, free trade
mud a gold standard, said a very prom
fnent Kansan in Wichita the other day
"Where am / going to vote"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

Let Us do Bryan justice at least he
must be getting awfully tired OF MS
speeches himself.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

II Watson was today lying quietly to
pne side, not protesting against Mill
lonaire Sewall. Watson would be
chump, not a Populist,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

After this campaign even Dem ocracy
will have no use for Bryan. But it
may Keep him for future reference.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
p,nh,tc,n county Ticket.

She's a sweeper for Mckinley. only
twelve more days.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
Republican state Tickle

For Judge Court of Appeals.
Northumberland. c. POLLOCh
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

For State Senator, 18th Dist.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. II. L. GORDO->
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

For Congress. Seventh Dist:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CHESTER 1. LONG
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-02-14

comes from Siberia makes me disoredit
Il. All tins is In direct opposition 10
his plan. His intention was. II he
reached the pole. 20 cross IL aud come
back by way Of Greenland. This news
indicates tina, he Is returning by the
same routs that led him towards the
pole Il seems preposterous when one
considers the possibilities that would be
sacrificed and the indomitAble courage
Of a man like Nansen. Tie would 20
on. on. ON. and not turn back and send
news home by way Of Siberia
while was In Australia last April
on my antarctic expedition the same
news, practically, was spread all over
the earth ON the authority Of the Pari.
Figaro l telegraphed from Australia
20 Mrs. Nansen. and went TO consider
able expense before | found out that the
story was a cAnard. | shall take every
thing pub i,hed with several grains ol
salt until Nansen himself is heard from
What be SAYS shall believe" B"
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-02-14
showed ON THE TRACK
The Horrible Murder Of a Rail-
way Station Usher.
MURDERER ASSIGNED TO A CELL

Edward Masisrssa ssiasd Thomaa Doa'
Ian 10 waEn mia 81 a. AppFssshias
TrAla-Dsaiaa Bsesmss AnsFy and
Harris Mastsrsen Before ths Kngins,
where No We BADLY Maasisa.
NEw BRUNSWICK. N. j.. Feb. IA
Edward r Mastsrson. usher ~ the
Pennsylvania railway station in this
city. was deliberately pushed In front
Of . train last night and was % bad.
ly injured that he died an hoaF iater.
The mans body was horribly InAnglsd.
both legs being cut on and his skull
fractured.
Thomas L. Donlan Of PhilAdslphia,
who caused Masterson's death. attempt
cd 10 escape. but was ssissd By several
witnesses Of the cruel deed and taksE
10 jail.
Masterson was standing AZ the edg'
Of the platform about . foot from th'
rails. warning passengers Of the ap
prOach Of . fast freight Just as
switohengins was Fastening past 70 81
ahead Of the freight, DOnlan attempte'
10 cross the tracks Hastily ssiztnl
him, MAstsrsOn tried 10 force the maj
back. he became angry and jcrkinl
himself free gave the uahsr . suddsl
push which ssnt him headlong 70 th
track In front Of the passing train.
MastsrsOn mAdo . frantic effort .
crawl back TO the platform. bat bsfOr
he could escape the wheels were upol
him. The snginssT Of the lOoomOtiv
instantly reversed his engine. bat th
train did not stop until two cars b
sides the engine had ground the ma
under the wheels.