The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-23
WILL DENIS DO IT?'
JACK RICHARDSON SAID TO BE
/. HERE TO GIVE ORDERS.

According to the Story Jack is offered a
Good Position Upon His Fathers Record
With the Proyiso That He Shall Whip
the Kansas Democrats into Line for a
Goldbug Presidential Candidate - III
Kansas Sends silver Delegation to
Chicago Jacks Cake is Dough-Postof-
flee Officials HumiIiated.
John S. Richardson is in the city andis
busily engaged in giving important Of
fetal instruction 10 the Democrats who
are at present occupying positions at
the political trough.
It is generally known that when
Cleveland was inaugurated president
that Jack Richardson, who was at that
time editing the evening daily, was led
TO believe that he was certain of good
position and there was some talk of him
being appointed as minister to Mexico,
but when the early appointment of
Charley Shaefer came, Jack was forced
to cast his political net in another di-
rection and the plum soon fell 10 I. I.
Critt-nden of Missouri.
JACK WAS IlOL 10 De OlSCDufdSeu- anu
while he realized that owing TO the ac-
ton of the Democratic party in Kansas,
by casting its vote for James B. WeaN-
Grand thus refusing 10 even give Grover
Cleveland complimentary vote, the
party had gained the i'll will of the cele-
| brated duck hunting executive, and
Jack was one of the quickest 10 catch
onto the situation, and realized that
when ]. Sterling Morton Of Nebraska
| was selected as a member Of Grover
cabinet that there was no use for a
| silver Democrat to apply, and as he had
no record of his own TO recommend him
| to the duck hunter, he at once shifted
| his position and began making his wal
not on his own record, but on that OF
| his father-Senator Dick Richardson
of Illinois.
While western Democrats saw moth
| ing but repugnance in the appointment
of J. Sterling Morton, who had been
kicked out Of the Democratic party OF
| Nebraska because he was said to have
| furnished aid to the opposition, it was
| not so with Jack. Others might be dis
| couraged, but not 50 with him.
He remembered that when his father
was territorial governor of Nebraska
| that the self-saIns man who was Sc
| utterly despised by his neighbors and
| friends. was the private secretary OF
Dick Richardson, the father of Jacl
| Richardson. He would have a friend
at court and all he would have to d.
was to wait and draw his PLAT politica
| plum.
Not only this. but Jack had another
friend at court in the shape of Private
Secretary Thurber to the president O.
| the United States. Was ever a MAJ
| so fortunate? He sent for blue bOOl
| and it is said made X on the margin o.
the book opposite 40 positions n
might take. All he had to do, so h
| believed, was to pick out his plum and
with his political pOle-his fathers rec
ord-knock off any persimmon tina
might be in view. It made no differ
ence. he thought, if he had forced tn
name of Jerry Simpson upon the Demo
cratic ticket, and had also lent his aiC
and assistance in supporting Lewelling
Simpson and Weaver. He would hav
| no trouble.
The first thing that came up was tn
Wichita postoffice and it is said tina
Jack had this in his grasp at one time
| but like the dog who was crossing tn
4 log over brook with a piece of steal
| in his mouth and beholding the SHADOW
| in the water, dropped the steak in mi
mouth to get the shadow, and thus los
| both. Tom Fitch, it is said, began nat
| tering Jack and pointing out his posi-
! bilities with his fathers record and tn
| honor of being chairman of the stat
! Democratic central committee, an