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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
PROHIBITION POLITICS.

Because of an association of ideas
many people have concluded that Pro-
hibition means temperance, and that
| Prohibitionists are temperate people.
! The mistaken conclusion is a natural
one. The average Prohibitionist is an
extremist, and is not even temperate
in his advocacy of temperance. a
majority OF political and office-seeking
ProhibitiOnists are drinkers Of spirit
Gus and malt liquors. But the widest
ings and conventions are those COM
posed of real Prohibitionists, who are,
in fact, teetotalers, so far as drink is
concerned. They brook no opposition,
individually or collectively. They are
arrogant, self-willed, and uncomprO-
missing. They haul out their hobby
on all occasions, and thrust it in at
every opportunity. The deliverer of
the memorial address" in this city,
the other day, unmindful of the time
and occasion, became wildly rampant
and vehement over his hobby of pro-
hibitory temperance, the pursuit of
which he must know has markedly
weakened his influence in the commun-
ity and distracted his church. This
Is not temperance.
And so the Prohibitonists, who are
convened in national convention at
PittSburg, ran riot in their proceedings.
Made up of men of extreme views it
could not well have been otherwise.
1t is always the case in their conven-
tons. There being nothing else to
fight about they split on the question
of free silver. Nothing else was heard
or talked of. The silyerites were led
by ST John and the goldbugs by a
Methodist preacher. There was moth
ing temperate in the proceedings.
Most people have been led to believe
that the Prohibition party had but one
Idea, but one single principle, and that
the encOmp3SSing Of universal tenn
perance through the enactment and en-
f0rcement OF penal laws 1t seems,
however, that the leading issue is sill
yer this year. The amusing phase of
it was the triumph of the silver side,
but not before the police had been sum
m0ned to eject a number of members
who couldn't have acted more bolster
ouSly and threateningly had they been
full Of mountain whisky. This IS not
temperance. but politics with hobby.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29

among our ancestors of primeval ages,
CID not select shaggy head from
among her wooers in preference TO a
bald one, because the former might
eventually be an easier point of at
tack For her, evidently, badness was
stamp Of beauty.
Hair, then, says the German scholar,
is a degenerated organ, not without
its functions, but largely relic of a
savage age. That it has not more gen
orally disappeared before advancing
culture is explained by its compost
ton. OF all animal tissues it is the
most durable, found very perfect and
nearly four thousand years old in
Egyptian tombs, proper adornment
Of the mummies If mans whiskers,
particularly his mustache, longest re
sist the progress of civilization, it is
accounted for by the thousands OF gen
erations of women having preferred
the bearded man TO the dOwny dude.
Here, also, it is significant for the bald
head that he is almost invariably en-
dOwed with abundant hirsuteness on
the upper lip. If, like his less-gifted
brother with the shaggy name, he still
attaches some Importance 10 few
follicles of hair, it is because hair is
not yet entirely functionless in his
present state of evolution, as Exner
freely admits.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29

congressional district IN order to 10;
everybody get over being sore.
Colonel J. ". =. Hughes Of Topeka. wa
nominated at the Republican primzrles
for the legislature by just one vote.
The S2linA Republican. which aims "a
be right every time. II giving the IngaIlz
boom a boost or tao. every asy or 90.
A new paper appears IN Lesvenworth
with the motto: We are here for peace.
nc; for war Dan Anthony VIII see
about that
Kansas doctors say that a tornado
wound !s a bad tang 70 heal because q
The dirs which - sure 70 ss forced late
the wounds.
For some strange reason grains are
shout tSo weeks ahead % time IA western
Kansas thls year. and suaaoUsrs are
about tao weeks behind
As coon a. IA. poHcclsns learn that
Ingalls, IN tie lss; ar year, has learned
more politics than hs ever I'd q bls afs
before. hey ~fn - for hin-
Nrs Lease szys that she bsAAs her
Jg6Emeas that tss people van; Ls~eg-zg
on oaSerTstio1s she hz< rscs1,iy tsks. Il
sWsr;y-ssvea Kansas cSgaissA
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
HARRIrY AS A MARX TAPLEY.

Chairman Harrity in his capacity as
head of the Democratic national or
ganization has evidently come to the
conclusion that it is about time for
somebody to put little spirit of cheer
and hopefulness into the concern, and
since nobody else is particularly inter-
ested in performing that painful feat,
he has determined to take hand at it
himself
Mr.. Harrity, accordingly, comes for
ward with the startling announcement
that if Mckinley shall be nominated
for president he is confident that n
great Democratic victory in November
next is not only possible, but extremely
probable.
A sound money Democrat will be
nominated at Chicago; a sound money
platform will be adopted; all the free
silver men will fall into line for it; and
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut
and the old combination with the solid
south will elect the ticket-such is the
cheerful outlook which the chairman
of the national committee invites the
party to contemplate.
Mr.. Harrity plays his role of Mark
Tapley with a magnificent display of
hOpefulneSs. If the Democrats do not
pluck up little courage after the al
Turing prospect he spreads before
them, their case is indeed a sad one.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
THE BEAUTY OF Badness.

Baldheads are beloved Of women.
Badness has been a sign of sanctity
from time immemorial. Badness is
an unfailing sign of lofty mentality
and concentration OF thought. If it is
not why not EStheticians hold that
it is true. "The patriarchs, prophets
and apostles, with irrelevant excep-
tons. are distinguished in art by the
calvity Of their shining craniums. -
Bald, indeed, means shining. "Haloed
about with the commons damps." as
says Robert Browning of the lamps Of
Christmas eve, returning May displays
to enyiouS observers more Of sanity
brows in q day than fall, winter or
spring do in fortnight. EnviouS, we
say, for how many do not envy the
person who is able to expose to the
mild zephyrs an unprotected scalp dur
ing the heated term?
But, setting aside the question of
material comfort fortunately the con-
seriousness of a far higher quality is in
diSSolubly connected with the owner
ship Of calvous head. Ii is the indis-
putable indication of inherent culture.
or, to say the least-a thing not TO be
lightly weighed-of its posSeSSor being
Of far-baek-datins lineage Of polite
ancestry. However little this may
hitherto have been denied, Professor
Sigmund Exner. OF Vienna, now steps
forth 10 prove on scientific grounds the
intimate relation between depilation
and mans evolution. In recent lee
ture on Hairs Functions" he ex-
plains il partly from the fact that the
fair sex, from time OF gore, preferred
the less hirsute or unhaired lovers and
husbands. The hairy, briStled and
shaggy skin Of the wOoer was repui-
sive 10 the peasive maid. Might he
not be monkey In disguise. "a tyne
san surviving among the stronger
sexg says Exner. Had not the taste
Of the male. from the beginning. been
attracted 10 the purest skim As This
taste was much more forcihiy iniul--
Ell IN on the males part. woman finally
exeelled him by superior general bald
ness
Professor Exner plainly declares that
hair is a stamp OF mans imperfection.
There was a time when our proseni-
tors looked very much Ike apes. Oar
wins research into the unhaIring Of
man. by a similar process. led him 20
consider i the result OF natural selec-
ton There Is every reason 10 belseTe |
that unlike the pugnactous veman OF |
today. the meek eompzniea o. nan
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
JEs, LAYrN ERBour.

DOM nothin', jes layin' erbout.
Watchin' the grass en- trees put out
faint been er week sence the woods wux
hare;
II all come on so sudden en- quick,
TN all done up en- can't work a lick
Don't wanter do nothin' but jes lay er-
bout,
watchin' the grass en- trees put out.
The eIlum tree allus gifts green fus':
When the beeches see IL. CO Sc they mus /.
Put ever thing green don't look jes right.
So the dogwood puts on clo'es Nv white;
They're purity thick now-time ter plant
corn.
But I'm jes ez lazy ez wen 1 wuZ born
Don't walter co nothil' but jes lay err
bout.
Watchin' the grass en- trees put out,
Watchin' the calf en- the colt at play;
Watchin' the cat hold the pup at bay;
Watchin' the ole cog asleep on the floor;
Natchin' the chickens feed roun' the
door;
Smeilin' the roses at freshen the path:
Hearin' the cricket at sings or the hath;
Watchin' the miik-white clouds sail by.
Like angels wings, meath the April sky
Don't wanter do nothin' but jes lay er-
bout
watchin' the grass en- trees put out.
Amt got no energy: can't even fish;
1t I'D purity nigh kill me to hear my hne
swish
Jes one year today. while pullin' er trout,
L heard loud splash. en- heart-tearin'
shout,
En- rifnnin' ez fast ez I could UP the
creek
But what is the matter, I can hardly
speak
can't do nothln' but jes lay erbout
Watchin' the grass en- trees put out.
Natchin' the ivy en- flowers al grow
Over the bed Of my drown'd boy, Joe;
Watchin' the lilacS at nod on the breeze,
En- seem 10 feel sorry fur her on her knees
AT weeps by the grave Nv the Heavenly
One.
'Taint strange ter me- at jes lay erbout
Watchin' the grass en- trees put out.
New York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29

judgment in the mortgage redemption
case was reversed, a good many law
yers believe, as a number Of supreme
courts have held, that his opinion was
not answered by Shiras. Judge Mar
tin in expressing an honest legal opin-
ion. viii not be greatly disturbed by
adverse criticisms, whether such crit
icisms are inspired of honest belief or
by prejudice and interest. The public
life and political record Of Judge Mar
tin cannot be impeached by charges of
demagogy, and If the political manip-
uiators set him aside they will have to
do their work in very quiet manner,
otherwise their job will be overwhelm-
ed in defeat by the people. That the
goIdbug and his echo the representa-
tive Of principal and interest. have re-
solved to relegate Judge Martin only
because his conclusions, drawn from
legal proposition, happened to conflict
with their prestige and advantage,
there seems no doubt. But all the
same they are fooling with a numerous
victim who if sorely pressed, stands at
hau
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
MORE TROUBLE.

The world is going all awry. Africa,
which is said TO be the keystone of the
arch to the British empire, is rent
from Egypt TO the Cape of Good Hope.
And there is new trouble reported in
South America. Although the revolt
ficiaIly reported to be Insignificant,
there is only too much reason TO be-
leve that the unhappy country Is
about TO be again convulsed by civil
war President Pierola's tenure is
said to be hanging by the slenderest of
threads, and the deposed dictator, Ca
ceres is supposed to be on his way to
Callao 10 take the leadership of the
revolutionary movement 1t semes in
credible that there should be a party
in Peru willing TO receive the ex-dic-
tator after the horrible atrocities COM
mitted by his order during the recent
siege Of Lima But the once proud
and wealthy Peruvian republic is rap
idly drifting toward a position where
her only hope of regeneration would
be through absorption into the strong
and progressive commonwealth of
Chilli. There is a manifest destiny in
the South American continent as we'll
as in America north Of the Rio Grande,
and the expansion of the orderly rule
of Chill is the hope of all truly patriotic
Latin Americans.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
MIKES MALICE.

Mike Sutton is reported as saying that
If he was governor, he would go down to
Wichita and take sledgehammer or an
axe and make things lively for the viola
tors OF the law. Mike Sutton would do
as old man Whftson said to his wife. He
hasn't yet got over being turned down at
wichita, the time he and several others
wanted to slip in as delegates TO st. Louis,
for the purpose of voting against Nc
Kinley. He is wrathy, and inclined to
blow of surplus wind, or he would con-
slider that he would have no more right
to go as governor to Wichita and enforce
the law with a sledgehammer or an axe
than he has to do so as a private citizen.
All of which goes to prove that he is not
FIT to be governor.-Sol Miller.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE

The assessor reports that the popula-
ton Of Winfield is 4.sl0
The youngest graduate in Kansas was q
girl in Atchison-zeveatsen-
-Four men recently left Enporia for
England with 40 head OF cattle.
Sslina Is now listening 10 a mslodiou.
controversy over the city prinilngs
George Martins bolt Is not keeping I'D
the Tobacco favor Il promised a. first.
Secretary % State Edwards has moved
into the north wing OF the capitol build
ing
II The ingalls, boom keeps on growing II
viii develop later that nobody has been
against him a. all
ingalls, - rot tsIkiaE any. His boom
Is getting along al r.gat II u wasn't
ingalls, would Be talking.
Everybody l. keeping ssIIl n the ssoors
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
YES, WHY DON'T THEY DO TIP

II the able Republican journalists who
are demanding that Governor Mckinley
shall come out in strong terms against
silver don't like our Ohio man, why don't
they take up with somebody else? Why
is it that Notwithstanding their solemn
warnings, Mckinley is running away with
the delegates to the Republican national
convention? Why don't they trot out
real, pronounced goldbug for the norlina-
ton, and snow this man Mckinley IN
der? II seems to be the people IN the Re
publican party who are putting I'D Nc
Kinley. and they are hard to manage
The Little Napoleon reass in one column
that the New York papers are shrieking
for him 10 pronounce for gold and in the
next that some more state and district
conventions have instructed their dele
gates for him. And he gently puffs his
cigar and leaves New York 70 walk the
floor. There doesn't seem TO Be any occa-
sion for nervousness on his part What's
the use OF precipftsting today the evil OF
tomorrow IL viii be the business OF the
Democrats, after the national conven-
tons have been held. 20 get after the
Canton man on The silver question The
bars win be let down and the gags taken
of BY the 81. Louis and Chicago co1ysn-
t!ons--Clncinnati Enquirer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
uNCALLEp FoR cRITIClsMs.

The criticism of Judge David Mar
tins RepublicanISm. INDUCED in hy
some Of the cuckoo soldbug birds. OF
the state press are very silly. OF
course parrots do not have opinions.
yet they are prone 10 so OF at the
mouth. for the benefit Of the fellow ON
the other side of the street. If Judge
David Martin does not know what Re
publicaniSm Is then any reference 10
the life and sentiments OF Abraham
Lincoln for true Interpretation of its
meaning were useless. The man who
rendered that opinion which was after
wards overruled by the lncome-tax
acrobat Of the supreme court. has been
a Republican and only 4 Republican
for forty years The party's existence
dates back no farther. Politically he
never was ANYTHING else. While his
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

Later reports indicate that E. F. Mitch
ell got in with his hide whole.
| Guthrie's anti-baldhead society will es-
tablish branch office in Chicago.
Horace Speed addressed the pupils OF
the Guthrie High school. Wednesday.
| Judge Tarsney is now in Oklahoma.
He doesn't begin judging until June .
Cotton may be king in Oklahoma, but
Mr.. King of Perry, doesn't appear to be.
From the latest accounts it appears that
10 Wisely did not get a whole victory but
ne got a large slice.
1t usually takes about week to find
out just what an Oklahoma Democratic
convention has done.
The Oklahoma City convention kindly
forgot to pass resolution welcoming
Judge Tarsney to the territory.
While the tumult was on in Oklahoma
City, Mort Bixler wound those waxen
fingers of his around a plum and pluck
ed it.
Tt is said that Temple Houston was the
only man at Oklahoma City who did not
have fight on him at some stage of the
game.
of Kingfisher county. elected Democratic
delegate-at-large. Now. who is Dir.
Brumven?
The carpet-baggers OF the territory are
denounc:ng Wisby for his opposition to
them. They claim they put up the money
for his campaign.
Leslie Niblack appears at the head OF
the Est of alternates. Do the Demo-
Gratis of Oklahoma think Leslie small
enough for that place?
Somebody should have introduced a
resolution in favor of Hoke Smith at ok
ahoma City, just 10 see how quick it
would hive been voted down.
Temple Houston is a Democrat. He
says he is for the free coinage of silver
but will abide the decision OF the Chicago
convention, whatever it may be.
You bet the Oklahoma City convention
cbeered when Temple Houston's name
was mentioned. Everybody recognizes
that the best work of Sam Houston was
his son Temple.
If the Oklahoma delegation votes for
Cleveland at Chicago instead OF Dick
Bland. for whom they are instructed. they
Will never be able to show their heads IN
Oklahoma again.
You will notice that Il Is fact that 1
when combinations are to be made. Ok |
lahoma City never manages to be on the |
outside. The politicians of Oklahoma /
City are among the smoothest in the west. 1
Governor Renfrow was not in6orsed eli |
Oklahoma City. but there Is no telling /
what the convention would have done Il |
q resolution had been introduced inaors-
ing the governors private secretary. II 4
would probably have carried with a shout.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
KANsANs Is ST. LOUIS


Uncle c. Leland gives this out fo- the
Information OF che boys" who expect 70
attend the s. Louis convention The
headquarters OF TIRE Kansas delegation
and their friends have been esiAolishss
az pario-s 10s and ies Hsrst's hotel corner
Chestnut and Broadway. s. LoGis- No.
Hotel Accommodations have osea secured
for the delegates AZ said hotel Al dele
gates who have made other Arrsr geaezts
or co not desire sleeping recommendation
a. re hotel viii please notify the III
5srstg7e3- Arrangeueass have b~e1
made with she Missouri Pac!ac r1tiroze
zoconnodations for the delegates. alter
mates and their sfrisasz. leaving Kansas
CITY. 40, aS0at ,. II Sunday. June q.
After trains from the vest. northwest AID
southwest have arrived n Kansas CITY.
AZ who desire Pullman sleeping car ar
commentators VIII atd-ess :. II Lycz.
passezse- agent AIssour. P.c.ac. 50 Azin
street. Kansas Cry. NS-- rhs has ax-se3
% attend - fhs z7DEcz.son< 2rsTtL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
THE ST. LOUIS HORROR.

The present season has proved an
eyentful one for cyclones, so-called,
which in reality are tornados of whirl-
ing vortexes If no others should oc-
cur, the summer of 90 will prove mem
orabIe for its many violent and de-
structive tempests. From the storm
at Sherman, Texas, May 10, TO that OF
| Oakland. Michigan, and to the one of
night before last in Missouri, which
swept through the city Of st Louis
and into western Illinois, leaving death
and destruction in its wake, there have
been an extraordinary series Of this
character Of storms. Two hundred
or more lives had been lost up TO the
hour which marked the formation Of
the death-dealing horror whose with
| ing column of blackness lighted up by
! electrical fire, whirled down from the
region Of M0berly upon the city Of st
/ Louis At this writing we have only
the facts and rumors reaching US dur
I ing the night of the devastating horror.
| Whether our dispatches Of today and
tonight are to confirm the worst can
only be guessed. But if it should prove
not half so awful as reported, still the
amount of property destroyed in the
past six weeks in Texas, Oklahoma,
the Indian Territory, Arkansas, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Michi-
gan and Missouri is almost incalcul
able, to say nothing of the loss of hui
man life and of the manned and Grip
pied victims of these furies. The old
est fnhabitant with all his proverbial
store Of "reminiscences will fail of re-
calling any similar series of storms, so
destructive, so widespread, yet all OF
the same exact character or common
origin. The very elements seem to be
out Of harmony, and the conditions
which generate or give rise to these
terr0rs of sky and earth combined,
have moved from the southwest 10 the
north and east. over a wide belt of
country and still seem moving. We
expect next to hear of these twisting
horrors in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
The scientist, nor the specialists of the
weather bureaus, can give any eXpla- |
nation for these extraordinary and alb
normal results. They know when the |
conditions are favorable for their de- |
velopment, but of the why or the how |
they know nothing. They are as far |
beyond human power to stay as they !
are incomprehensible.
Of course we hope, in fact believe, |
that the awful account which reached |
us from Chicago and other points over /
the wires night before last, will today |
and tonight be greatly modified. |
Every such calamity is magnified and |
its details exaggerated by the first ac-
counts, which are based on flying ru-
morS and scraps of intelligence hur-
riedly put together; in which the same
incident being reported in a dozen diff
ferent ways becomes SO multiplied.
Concurrent with these observations the
readers of the Eagle will know approx
imately, the real facts of the frightful
agent whose quivering volume awed
and terrorized the panic stricken in
habitants Of st. Louis, Staying of their
we know not how many.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29
DOUBLE FACED VILLAIN.

Mrs. Leases repentance and conversion
were only skin-deep. She promised TO put
away all malice and uncharitableness. but
here she is gloating over the way she re-
fused to shake hands with that con
temptible. doUble-faced villain" Breiden-
thai. Her contempt for Breidenthal has
thrown her on TO the side of her old
enemy, Lewelling. In her opinion LEVEL
ling or L. p. King will be the Populist
nominee for governor, and Harris will be
turned down.-Leavenworth Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29

Listen, little children. There was
q time little while ago when Tom
Reed thought he could get Mckinley
OF the track by Offering him a cabinet
position.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29

One man bUilded his house on the
sands and WAS accounted a galoot: an
other built his on a rock. The rock
was prominent and cyclone took the
house and Knocked ii seventeen ways
for Sunday.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29

1t takes Russia week to crown its
ruler and a generation 10 find him. al
ready selected Ia this country we
discover our presidents within a de-
cade select them on day and inaug-
rrate them in an hour.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-29

Don't hit me again! Stopi stop!
Maria! I'll be a good husband!" yelled
the kanSan and then, when he lit a
mile from home, exclaimed: "Oh. it
was only cycloner'