The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-08
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE

Ben Glover has gone into the newspaper
business at Topeka as a partner OF Mr..
Tomlinson's.
Elrick Cole IS making new aequaint-
ances in western Kansas every day, and
that means new friends.
Topeka's carnival was a real pleasant
affair. but It didn't have as many bushes
In it as Atchison's carnival.
In Kansas nearly every candidate gets Il
into his head in some way or other that IN
his case it is anything to beat Grant"
Chester Long is making the hardest
straight out fight for the st. Louis plat
form of any Republican nominee for con-
gress In Kansas
In the Atchison police court last week
prisoner to convince the judge that sill
YER was still being coined, paid his fine
in FIVE silver 1886 dollars.
Ed Howe says the election will make
times harder. for. thousands Of men, now
making politics business, VIII be then
thrown out of employment.
No one is able to tell what has toned
down" Jerry Simpson. His most intimate
friends say HIS whole nature has become
subdued. Can Jerry explain IT?
There viii be a mighty sigh of relief In
Kansas among the Pops when Watson
withdraws. Sewalfs barrel will be thank
ed for the first time in the campaign.
Jerry Simpson says that as Long was
born after the war he knows little about
its hardships Simpson was not born
after the war and he does not know much
Of its hardshfps.
A local celebrity of Andover known as
Tiger Bil'' has just returned from ILL
Eois, and reports it all right for Bryan.
How that man Will open his eyes the
morning after election.
Otto Gosset writing to the Augusta
Journal, says that neither side In Indiana
feels confident OF winning. The Populists
of Kansas. however. believe that Bryan
viii carry Indiana without any trouble.
This year IT is predicted by politicians
that the incident of the Democrats voting
scratching Populists will be more accen-
tuated than ever when the vote is counted.
Newton Republican,: We sire glad to
know that occasionally our old friend Joe
Fugate is possessed OF one OF those IA
tional spells when an admission of the in
evitable can't be helped. In his paper
this week. In an article referring to the
large exports of -four from this point, Joe
Inadvertently let an admisss on slip into MS
paper that is puzzling his closest friends
Here Is what he says: wheat today
was up to "a cents which, Il another good
indication that times are already getting
better, as the election Of Mckinley be- |
comes more and more certain day By |
day" Just why Joe should make such |
an assertion as this when he has been |
and repeatedly asserting his |
allegiance to the cause Of Bryan and free |
everything. is putting the laymen IN the |
ranks of Democracy. To the unsophisu- |
Gated dyed-in-the-wool Democrat such an /
admission Is as strange as the tales OF 1
CULVER. but to those 'on the inside" as
The boomer of 81 used 10 say. the quota
ion is not peculiar" for It IS well known
hat Joe is not at heart a believer IN the
Bryan theory, but is a disciple Of Grover
financial belief. Others. how
sver, contend THAT Joe Is attempting 10
larry water ON both shoulders, and thus
30 IN position to hold onto a remunere-
i've federal position, and IN the event Of
8ryan's election (Which = not even re-
note possibility seek a re-appointnent
because OF his desertion OF Cleveland and
lis ''goldbug idea" OF finance; this failing
lis friends could 70 before President Nc
Kinley and seek a re-appointnent on the
rounds OF faithful service as a postmsst-
r and a late-in-the-czmpzign supporter q
hat gentleman. But this game Is too
ard the friends o: John
Burns have alresdy taken steps 20 show
- the villainous tr1ckery 10 Mckinley.
We do not propose 20 have a Democrat
ecure this appointment over ore who has
Iona what John Burns has Tor the Repub-
lean party OF Harvey county.