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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
JONES CLAIMS EVERYTHING.

Chairman Jones, of the national Pop
ocrat committee, is not going 10 fall
down if his claims do not fail him. His
last forecast shows that Bryan is not
only going to be elected, but that he
will sweep the country, carrying every
staee south of the Ohio and Potomac,
with all west of the Mississippi. There
is nothing small about Jones. He is
an original claim-everything" sort of
political calculator. He still fondles
the delusion of a solid south in spite
of the honest money revolt among the
Democrats of Kentucky, Virginia, Ten
nessee and Louisiana, and he dreams
of solid west in the face Of the fact
that Iowa, Nebraska and three or four
other states of the middle west are
conceded by all other reckonings to Nc
Kinley and Hobart.
Jones would evidently rather go into
political martyrdom as a calculator
who claimed more than he needed than
as one who was too baShful to claim
enough.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
THE WAR WAKES HOTTER.

The present national campaign is the
most stirring Of any within the memory
| Of the present generation, If not the
most exciting of any in the history Of
the country. This is not only true OF
the close and doubtful states, but Of
every state. Industries and business
are being abandoned every day, in To-
calitieS, north, south, east and west,
for campaign rallies. Thousands Of
committees are busy loading the mails
down with printed matter, and tens Of
thousands of speakers, national and
local, are rending the air, and all with
the same cry. In addition the press of
the country contains little else. The
telegraph lines are nightly burthened
with the speeches of Mckinley and
lights. Ministers in their pulpits, in
not few instances, have abandoned
the gospel, and are preaching either for
or against 16 to j.
The incident of the campaign in Kan
sas is the joint debate of Long and
Simpson. Men who have heard them
declare that nothing like their hand to
hand, or rather head to head, battle
was ever witnessed in the state. The
interest evinced by their audiences is
absorbing. Longs victory at Newton
seems TO have been overwhelming. A
well-known lawyer, himself an orator
of no little fame, declared yesterday
that the way in which Long in his
closing annihilated the sophisteries of
Simpson convinced him that Long is
one of the coming men of Kansas.
The fourth of November will be vel
coined by the people of this country as
an all pervading calm after al UMPIRE
cedented storm, with universal graft
Undo
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
PRACTICAL PARITY.

The religious zealot sees the hand OF
Providence in everything. Taking the
Bible as a direct revelation of Gods
word, this idea is justifiable, but be the
premises or the conclusion correct or
not, it is fact that nature executes
her own laws, and not always in the
way mapped out by the lords and leg
islators of this world Whether it is
through the mandates Of a Divine
ruler. or by authority Of Matthew Ar
nold's ''power not ourselves" which di-
reefs the course Of men and of nations,
the directing goes on, and the infallible
adjustment of results to causes marks
all the centuries alike. We devise and
plan for the future; we build and we
delve in pursuance of plans, but some
how the silent forces, unknown TO us,
bring the results, and often in a way
foreign to all our calculations.
The issue now dividing the people
OF this great nation, even to the extent
of breaking up old party associations,
may be solved and settled before we
know it, through an agency with which
voting has little or nothing to do. Sup
pose China should set about the task of
doubling her per capita OF silver, and
suppose the present increase in the out
put of gold from our own mines con-
tinues for another decade, and suppose,
further, that the normal balance of
trade should continue in our favor for
ten or twenty years, what would then
be the relation of gold to silver in this
country? What of the parity which
the silverites propose to bring about by
elevating an adventurer to the presi-
dency? Granting that the majority of
Bryan's supporters are honest in the
belief that his election would bring
silver to par, it can only be an expert
ment, hardly worth trying, because all
history refutes the idea of creating
value through legislation. But through
the causes indicated-causes not re-
mote, but two Of which are imlnent if
not self-evident, and one which may
result from the visit of China's greatest
statesman, the very agencies may now
be at work which are to restore parity
Of the two metals, if not, indeed, 10
send silver to premium. This would
be bimetallism in stable form, not only
in this country, but throughout the
world. Gold coming in a steady
stream from Europe in exchange for
our surplus OF staple products, gold
flowing from our mines at the rate of
100000 annually, and our surplus
Of silver going out TO supply foreign
demand for $500, 0Oo, 900, the amount
necessary to double the per capita of
China'S silver, and what would become
of the fifty-cent dollar? Through the
memorable law of supply and demand,
the going out of silver and the steady
increase OF gold, we would soon be
we'll of the Popocratic heresies which
has broken out SO violently at the
mouths of William Jennings Bryan and
his followers. 1t may be Gods law,
it may be a case of natural phenomena,
or it may be-and probably is-the OPP
Grafton of fixed economic law, but il
would do the business, and that is what
everybody wants. 1t would even save
us the trouble of an International
agreement
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
FATAL1sM AND INCEND1ARYIsM.

William Jennings Bryan is giving his
managers a great deal of trouble. He
is reported as obstinate and defiant.
He relies upon his own Judgment as TO
where he should speak and what he
should speak. continually and without
notice changing his program His self
confidence comes, it is said, of the con-
viction that he is inspired. Such a
personal conviction is more dangerous
than Cleyeland's belief of himself that
he is a man of destiny. Bryan has
said that his Chicago speech was an
ordained. That's good Presbyterian
doctrine but Of doubtful wisdom in its
application TO politics. It's tomfoolery,
and q man holding 10 such hallucina-
tons might prove dangerous in a place
of power. And so Mr.. Bryan is run
ming his own campaign, accepting
neither the advice or needing the pro-
tests of his national committee. He
will speak when and where he pleases.
FanaticiSm Is dangerous, especially
where it is SO marked as TO be TO its
possessor superior 10 all human advice
and wisdom. The man who cannot
be governed himself Is unfit 10 govern.
This is the kind Of man Bryan seems
70 be. or seems 10 have become. But
it may be said that he has been ad-
vised. by Pitchfork 1illman and by
Altgeld. So much the worse. AT Phil
adelphia Tfllman shriehed out: IF
Mckinley is defeated the Democratic
party will take the raScaliy judges of
the federal supreme court by the throat
and teach them that there is yet liberty
in this land" Such fataisn allied TO
such incendiary sentiments may wei
make people pause. There is only the
danger side TO such a combination.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26

Hiata, secretary of the Japanese en-
bassy in Vienna, has written and pub
lished in a German translation made by
himself a book entitled Thoughts of
a japanese About Women, especially
those Of Japan" He disapproyes of
the new woman" and believes that
wOman's highest ambition should be to
be a good wife and mother. Yet he
thinks that japanese women need
more freedom and more exercise, as
they are deficient in health and energy
compared with European women
Their education, he thinks, is too pure
~ aesthetic-muSic, poetry, embroid-
cry, flowers. Theaters, concerts, and
balls do not exist for the upper classes;
to dance would be immoral. The jap
anese woman has few legal rights, but
she is protected by the Confucian code
of morals, which is stronger than law.
Hfata believes that japanese women
will become Europeanized.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
A CHANcE FOR TIE o. M.

There is a small disturbing conting.
ent of fanatical commonality in Kan
sas whose membership has persistentiy
refused to identify itself with the Third
Party st. John crowd They have held
on to the Republican party, influencing
it into making political blunders and
persuading it, in the name of righteous
ness and temperance, into many indie
fensible measures. They have en-
barrassed and weakened Republican
state administrations, and by demand
ing extreme measures have brought de-
feat to the party in many localities and
often. The Republican party alone
has suffered. In all this these people
have been as wise as serpents but not
by any means as harmless as doves.
This sedulous, unwearying element of
discord or what is left of it in the way
of leaders in the state, is about to flock
by themselves, for which everybody
should be truly thankful. A call has
been issued for mass meeting of those
left of the Fourth of July convention
of 1895, TO meet in another convention
in Topeka on September 30th, for the
purpose Of organizing and nominating
a candidate for governor against Nor
rilI, and another candidate against
Dawes. To make the thing unique
CHI
o. NJ. BIS to meet and participate with
them. The o. NJ. BIS are understood
to be against Dawes at least, and in
that there would be harmony. If Nor
rill and Dawes had never listened to
that crowd they and the Republican
party of Kansas would have been
stronger today. The time for their con-
vention, however, is hard to under
union and carnival, and the most plent-
iful thing in Topeka on that day will
be drinks" As it is 10 ba an occasion
upon which Everything goes" we sup
pose the anti-Morrill convention will
make a go of it We could name a
few gentlemen who would make ideal
nominees for that crowd, but unfortu-
natefy they have left the state and for |
good. Still there is left the ranks of !
the W. c. T. U. to choose from. In |
any event ii is certain that the elements |
which will be in attendance and partic-
ipating in the carnival on the day of |
their convention will not include de-
sirable material for governor and at
torney generals on prohibitory plat
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26

We concede election OF Cleveland. With
draw all bets or hedge
Marsh read the telegram and said:
Ask 'em how Ohio wersr
The query was sent, and in a few
minutes came the reply: Ohio in doubt.
Only official count can decide
The foreman came in. hot under the
collar, and mawled out:
you've got tan minutes to get her IN.
If YOU haven't got her in by that time
down she goes / haven't had any sleep
for four days. and am going home pretty
soon
Marsh took his pen and with one dash
Of the pen he wrote the leader. and hand
ed IL TO the foreman with the remark:
There she IS. and you'vt got seven
minutes leeway.'
He got I'D, put on his coat. and we
went over to an al-night drug store The
clerk knew the sort OF chilss that Marsh
had and handed him the bottle, and he
passed IT around. That morning bought
the Eagle and turned TO read Marsh's
leader. 1t was at the top OF the first col
umn and had no head on IL, and il was
three words }ong-'Have we litr"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
ian trouble largely depends upon Eu-
ropes two young soyereigns.
ENTANGLING ALLIANCES

Washington, in his farewell address,
in warning the country against future
sectionalsm, having the west and not
the south in his mind, also appealed to
his countrymen to beware of entangl1ng
foreign alliances. The Monroe doc
trine more forcibly, If possible, declares
against the same thing. The United
States government has sent two vessels
to Constantinople. The state depart
ment explains that the movement is
only for the protection Of American
citizens But the British papers claim
10 see something else in it. Russia,
only little over a year ago. gave out
the warning, a warning intended for
England alone, that the empire OF the
car would oppose any separate action
on the Turkish question by any power.
The cry, however, from Gladstone
down, is ION TO Constantinopla. But
Johnny Bulls fingers are not well yet
of the burns they got in the Transvaal
and Venezuela episodes, and he Is
afraid Of the Dardanelles. So comes
the limitations Of the British press of
the wisdom of American interference.
Politically the United States has no
interest in the sultan or his empire.
The weight of the country's moral in
fiuence is for the overthrow Of the as
sassin. But England is the one that
must risk her imperial position or the
outrages in Asiatic Turkey will in
crease. The English poet, William
Watson, thus scores the present min
istry:
"She bides her hour. And must then
believe
That when the day of peril is oerpast.
She who was great because so oft she cast
Al thought OF peril to the waves that
heave
Against her feet, shall greatly undeceive
Her purblind son who dreamed she shrank
agfIast
From Duty's signal: and shall act at last.
When there is naught remaining to re-
trieve?
At last! when the last altar IS defiled.
And there are no more maidens to de-
When the last mother folds with famished
To her dead bosom her last butchered
child
Then shall our England. throned beyond |
alarms, |
Rise in her might! Till then. "she bides
her hour
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26

Recent statistics show that in 1895
the people of the United States spent
$4,000, 600 for chewing gum and $1O.-
100000 for bicycles. The expenditure
for these trifies is bauble beside the
amount spent for beer, or for pleasur-
ing at home and abroad. Can it be
truly said of any nation, among whose
population persons Of moderate for
tune are enabled to indulge themselves
to such an extent in the purchase of
things which cannot be classed as nee
essities, that it is covered with calam-
ity as with a shroud and that it's classes
are eating the vitals out Of its masses !?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
HOW SEWALL FELT.

From the New York Sun.
ct wonder how Sewal feels" said the
man at headquarters who had just been
clarifying over the returns from Name
IT reckon he feels hike Marsh Murdoch
felt the night he got the last returns on
the second election Of Cleveland" replied
the man who wore a slouch hat and had
been disregarding the location OF the Gus
pidor.
"Who is Marsh Mur5ockT
Editor of a paper m Wichita, Kan.-the
Eagle Smsartest paper m the state.
Marsh Is one of the wheel horses In the
Republican party IN Kansas. Done more
work for the party and got less Tor u
than any man I know. Always goes up
to the state convention with his hat out
to- the nomination for governor, and re-
turns home 20 pass IL around for the other
fellow. Good-hearted fellow, too Looks
IKE Lord Dundreary as Sothern used 10
make up that character
Several OF Us were In the Eagle Office
tire night OF the last election OF Cleveland
We got the news OF the reelection o.
Jerry Simpson first. and then the news
came in about Massachusetts, being close.
aud 3 little later the landslide telesrams
BEGAN to come in. II was al toward
Cleveland and We were feeling mighty
blue. About midnight the foreman came
in and asked Mr.. Murdoch II he had writ
ten his eiitcrfal-the leader. he called it
on TIE election. Marsh said he had rot
written 6 word The foreman went on,
and came hack about o'clock. and said
The EDITORIAL page had 20 go 20 press, and
he rust hsve the leader. Marsh sad he
hal rot written word
Peter get at e. said the foreman.
"oafy got twenty minutes
Marsh turned 20 the correspondent % a
Chicago newspaper who happened TO BE
in town that Day and asked hin, Y he was
or good terms with the home oMce- The
correspondent replied Re thought he was,
IS he had not turned II his expense &C
count
"'wouli you ns3t' asked Marsh 'seut-
rig message asking how Illino4s has
EooeE'
Tire correspondent obliged him. ard n
q few minutes got the reply:
Illinois Democratic b. SEQ q, eass-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
LOTS OF 1T.

Before 1873 not enough silver dollars
had been coined in the United States
in eighty years to furnish each family
then in the country with a specimen
dollar as heirloom or curiosity. But
since "the crime Of 1873" a silver coin
age has been effected and a mass Of
silver bullion accumulated by the gov
eminent of a nominal value altogether
of six hundred million dollars-enough,
if distributed, to furnish every family
now in the country with over forty
dollars! Only one great nation in the
world has larger per capita circula-
ton of silver than the United States,
aand that is a nation like the United
States doing business on gold basis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26

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Afternoon. n>sariy ell of whom were voters
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tkneSslrg -znacE,ses were running almost
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with itsef JosS a. pres~51- SSrls fir1e
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Bank of Commerce viii open up 1,
Oklahoma City October L
Commissioner Judkin of Woodward say,
that Flynn VIII carry that county by
big majority.
The Democratic territorial platform de
nounces the anti-fusion law passed by tn,
last legislature.
| The people of Blackburn celebrated thu
anniversary of the opening of the strir
with big blowout.
One of the stock arguments in Okla.
homa by the Popuhsts is that a G. A R
meeting was turned into Republican
| meeting
| Editor Smith. who is running for the
| legislature out in the Woodward district
| IS going to beat his antagonist, Rev. Gold
| all hollow.
The Cox and Crawford quarrel at Paw
nee. which terminated IN one mans death
recently, grew out OF the quarrel of the
mems boys.
Callahan might better take year or two
off and prove that his assertion that Den
mis- Flynn never passed free homes bill
through the house.
The Democratic central committee Of the
Choctaw nation have called upon the peo-
pie down there for campaign funds for
the election of Bryan"
The most prolific crop possible in west
ern Oklahoma IS the pie-melon. The pie
melon in THAI part of the country spreads
like the Russian thistle.
In the dry parts of Oklahoma occupied
by Indians the redmen asseverate with
great earnestness that there was plenty
of rain until the white man came.
Bob Lowery is one Of the Republicans in
the territory who receives the cheers OF
all the party organs when he is nominal
ed for anything. Tt must be that smile
that fetches 'em.
The outlaw who Is stirring up the New
York police Is not Bill Dalton but John
Bittel, the man who escaped in New York
once when the deputy marshal from Ok
}ahoma and the reporter for tht Guthrie
paper were having cocktail together.
The boys at Arapahoe and Cloud Chief
have arranged to secure the election re-
turns next month Relays of ponies will
be stationtd at short intervals along the
route and the news viii be sent in a way
that will paralyze the citizens along the
route. The returns from the territory,
the states IN the different sections and the
big cities will be secured so that II the re-
turns received are not complete the people
in Arapahoe and Cloud Chief Will have
pretty good idea of how the thing is going.
Mr. Gallon of Arapahoe used to be a
PopuEst IN Elk county. Kansas. He Is
now Republican. Many Populists turn
Republican on moving TO Oklahoma, and
GALLON IN an interview the other day
told why they changed. He said: an
Kansas the Populist party Is the friend OF
the farmer. 1t viii protect him against
the Texas herds that come into Kansas.
The Populist party there is against the
wild Texan and his herd. In Oklahoma
the Populist party is for the Texas herds
as against the farmer. That is, 1t favors
the free range of the Texas herd and the
placing Of iht expense of a fence on the
farmer. or the destruction OF his crops"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

Will White of Emporia has a new book
out called The Real Issue"
Leland says the Republican majority for
the state ticket in Kansas will be over
| 1000.
One reason Kansas farmers have II In
for Pferpont-Morgan Is that gold dollars
never die of cholera or black-leg.
Ferd vandegrift accuses the astral body
OF the Kansas eenatorship with playing
court to John Milliken of MCPHERSON
The city council has sneaked up an hour
on the children at Arkansas City by order
ing the curfew bell rung at instead Of
9 O'Clock as hitherto.
Polk Wells. a robber who figured e1-
tensfvely among that class IN Kansas
some years ago, died in the Iowa peni-
Tertiary the other day.
poet living IN New York, who recently had
trouble with his wife, has sent for her and
comfy wiz be restored
The Populist papers Of Kansas have
quit their attacks on the Associated Press.
No man has ever been treated 50 fairly
BY the dispatches as Bryan has
The Kansas papers are kicking because
Carield's son Is to be sent TO Kansas 10
make Republican speeches. Garaeid's son
happens TO be a very bright young man.
Dawes. of the Republican state ticket.
Is the only orator Oh the Republican side
in Kansas this year who induces report
ers in Their wr1te-ups 70 speak OF his keen
wit"
Ed Little says that Carlisle Is a drunken
scounirel This orends the Abilene Re
Hec.or. II Doesn't Ike the idea OF calling
the secretary OF the treasury "a scoua-
crel"
Marx Hanna calls Mr.. Leland OF Troy,
Kansas. "Cy" He also calls Powell Clay
ton OF Arkansas, Powell" And both
Powell and CO cannot BE secretary Of the
Interior.
On the day Of the Atchssoa corn carni-
val which was atteaded by large crowd
from Topeka the Atctrson city marshal
wa-nss al people 20 fsztea the.- houses
securely.
II appears 70 be tAe u1zaiusogs opsz.oa
among the Kansas payers that joint de-
bates are TO good The average Ka1szs
partisan doesn't Ike 20 hear the otssr
side when Re - excstet
It worries the Popgikt papers o< Kan
eas 20 have Marx Haora say thai k7-sss
Is doubtful T5ey beEsvs there - sorae
trek beE.nd II and thai Marx - fefsf--s
ready 20 carry The s.sse For NcEi,sey.
a r La1nzn. q the yohu-oa CITY jour
nal. ASKED Bush. Pop cands >z,e for secfs-
-z-y q gate. TIE osh~- tAy vastser =
h4 bad g 40 IN bsnk and Kew Bryan was
rcsrx 20 - elected Y he would lot eeeck
out BGsS replied: Il ih.zk rogii- =
or~~< item & wi1oe<t coarter. Tsers
were Is present. az Congressman ks-k-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26

one OF the resolutions adopted by the
Democratic Morrill, club in Topeka,
reads this way: The seif-respectins
Democrats are not going To vote for ].
W. Leedy for governor, or for Frank
Doster FOR chief justice. The man who
loves his state and respects its instltu-
lions, can never cast n ballot for a
turbulent disorganizer on the one hand.
or an avowed Socialist on the other.
1t Is not a question of party, but OF
state honor and PRIDE
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-26

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