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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26
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letter of acceptance, and Major Nc
Kinley is willing 10 be judged by his
past. At the beginning OF our cam
paign we adopted a set of rules which
have been strictly adhered to. One
was to make no unkind remarks or un-
favorable reflection upon our oppon-
ents. Another was to make no prom
ise 10 our friends and supporters. A
third was to be frank and open with
everybody. A fourth was for McKin-
ley to be absolutely silent on all mat
ters that concern the presidency, and
let his friends do the talking. He has
observed the rule coascientiously, and
viii continue to do so.
1t is the enemies not the friends OF
who want him TO talk. His
record is satisfactory TO his friends
and his friends do not want him TO
be put in a position where he might be
tripped by his enemies.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

ed over many farmers homes. No
interest can be subserved by sacrihe-
ing these homes except that OF those
who draw fees through the miSfortunes
which overtake others. We disciaim
for the farmer responsibility for exist
ing conditions. He has not suddenly
become indoient, wasteful nor extrava-
giant. The voice OF the farmer has
scarcely been heard in the halls OF
legislation. So far as legislation is
concerned, the farmer Is not reSponsi-
bic except for his neglect in not Sc
curing larger and fairer representa-.
tion OF agriculture from among those
who are directly associated with this
all-importsnt industry of our country
II prosperity comes again 10 this coun-
try. it must commence at the founda-
ton, which is agriculture
The sum of 1t Is that the farmer is in
the hands Of the politician, and he in
the hands of monopolists and money
lenders. The latter class make the
conditions which depress the value Of
all agricultural products, which, in turn
compelS the farmer to borrow money
at high rates of interest. They do this
through the agency OF the very men
whom they select 10 represent their
interests in official positions. The aver
age man who tills the soil is honest and
confding, If not sometimes gullible.
The politician is smooth, plausible and
most generous in promises. The farm
er commits TO him a private trust 10
be returned in acts intended To benefit
the public at large. That this trust
has been abused cannot be denied. The
ruinOus price of all farm products, the
ruling rates of interest on money and
the rapid accumulation OF capital in
the great centers, speaks louder than
any word that may said or written.
All protests to the contrary. and even
logic itself, fails in the face of stubborn
facts known 10 exist. There is no
other conclusion than that these condi-
tiOns have been brought about through
legislation. Whom, but Legislators and
public officers of law are responsible
for laws? Who, for instance. but the
authorities who grant franchises to
railroads are accountable to the farm
er for exorbicant freights on every
thing he raises for market? The
crime of our charges in rates are none
the less, on the part OF railroad cor
porations, but II all dates back TO the
want OF provisions in their chartered
rights, making it impossible TO levy
these excess charges.
A certin kind Of responsibility rests
with the farmer himself, as indicated
in this declaration OF the Grange com |
mittee, but il is not one Of intention 1
1t is more ia the nature OF a blunder- I
an oyer-confdence in the pretenses Of /
who promise one thing /
and do the other. The result is that 1
ninety and eight suffer while two
the mOnopOlist and his tool-reap the
profits. 1t will be a lucky star for the
agriculturiSt and the laborer that sheds
light upon these facts. and the real
cause OF them. The much mooted
campaign Of education through a de-
Iuge Of circulars and pamphlets. Is de-
signed for the exact opposite 10 the
farmers interests. What he needs now
S n plain statement OF facts-facts
which are self-eTident, and need no
proof.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26
THE SANTA FE AND WICHITA.

Wichita is the center of the Santa Fe
system. Within a radius of a hundred
miles around Wichita the Santa Fe
has seventeen hundred and twenty
three miles Of track. The Santa Fe
! has a perfect network of lines around
and through Wichita. 1t has more
| miles OF line contiguous 10 Wichita
| than to any other point on its system.
| The Santa Fe has more miles of road
within one hundred miles of Wichita,
and all directly connecting with Wich-
| ita, than any system of railway in the
| world has with reference to any single
center. Besides Wichita is just mid
way on the Santa Fe's main line from
Chicago to Galveston, as Wichita is
just midway from St Louis TO Den
yer, In the other direction.
So all the talk that the Santa Fe
would not find it advantageous to
stand by Wichita goes for nothing.
The Santa Fe could consign all the
wheat along her lines within one hun
dred miles of Wichita to Wichita ele-
vatOrs with the dead certainty that
once so consigned she could haul that
wheat to either Chicago or to Calves
ton in spite of traffic combinations and
in spite Of anything the eastern roads
terminating at the Missouri might do
or say TO the contrary.
The new management under the re-
organization of the Santa Fe, has no
prejudices, i'll will or interests antag-
onistic to Wichita, as the old manage
ment had. The new management are
controlled but by the single determina-
ton TO do the best thing possible for
the vast property in its hands. So
strong was the i'll will of d late man
ager of the Santa Fe against this city
that he once observed TO the writer of
these lines that he would not set his
foot in the place, nor allow his private
car to be sideracked within the city
limits over night No such feeling
exists with the present management
And the late order of the Interstate
commerce commission will in no sense |
prove obnoxious TO Mr.. Robinson or
any of his assistants. In fact it will |
free him and them and the operation |
Of his road from the dictation of the |
Missouri river combine.
What is true of wheat, is true Of corn. |
and also of live stock. The hogs of |
south Kansas once consigned to the /
packing houses Of Wichita become the
absolute freight-property of the roads
centering here, to be hauled to the ter
Ininal markets as a finished product,
on a higher classification, and at
higher rate. The live stock of south
Kansas once dumped by these roads
into Kansas City is lost TO them, except
as to a small per cent the bulk of it
going to, or being divided up among
some sixteen or more other trunk lines.
In this connection a traffic expert, now
in the employ of the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn, said TO the writer. the other day,
that the Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific
and Rock Island roads could not af-
ford to maintain the present Missouri
river policy,-that there would be more
money for them in handling the cured
and slaughtered meats of south Kan
SaS from Wichita, though these roads
delivered the live stock to the Wichita
stock yards and packing houses absO-
lutely free Of cost.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26
THE EAGLE IS RIGHT.

The New York Evening Post, in re-
| producing our editorial: The Man
More Than the Platform in its en-
tirety, and without comment, must in
such sign consent that the Eagles
claim that Mckinley is true bimetal-
list is we'll taken. The record, made
up of McKinley'S votes and speeches
in the past, mere unerringiy and con
yincingly shows where and what his
sympathies on that question are than
tones of biased guesses and interested
opinions and expressions from the
train of self-constituted friends and ad-
Yisors ever found following when they
cannot lead
1t viii be remembered that four years
ago the Wall street money -Scinch, rep
resented by the Platt-Quay combine,
enaeavored 10 down Harrison by ex-
actly the tactics employed against Nc
Kinley. They gave it out that Har-
rison could not be trusted to veto a free
coinage bill, and bcauSe he would not
speak he was denounced by that COM
bine as a cowardly straddler. Harri-
son, it proved afterwards, was more
the friend of gold than of silver. Me
Kinley is and he will be found when
he is elected president, the equal friend
of both.
All this howl raised by the organs
Of sound q money against Mckinley
amounts to less than the eructations
of cracker-fed dog in Il Kansas cy-
clone. 1t is from n crowd whose relig-
ion and whose politics are merged in
the creed Of the plutocrat With them
it is the dollar first, the Almighty and
His works nowhere or anywhere. after
wards. Their interests are wholly ma
terial and combined constitute a tom
leech which sucks the Industrial and
commercial interests Of the whole
country, eternally sucks and only
sucks When Grant was likely TO be
chosen the candidate of 1865 they went
after him. Cleveland an original bi-
metallist, they gobbled body. soul and
breeches. and then took him in as a
fun partner after the expiration of his
first term. and holding him until they
had filled his pockets with stocks. Sc
curitieS and gold. reelected him 10
second term 10 make that one fight. 10
maintain their corner-policy, that of
the single standard.
Nm. Mckinley has had too much
experience in public life 10 be trapped
or dominated 10y that circumscribed
corner of the continent, however potent
il may be as 4 point. The attempts 10
force him 10 commit himself To their
selfish purposes by yelping and howl
Ing at his heels. VIII fail He VIII
state his position when he writes his
letter Of acceptance. That il should
be a divergence from his past convic-
tons, as shown by his record. Is not
expected by the west, Speaking or this
ill-seeming and almost scandalous pres
sure 10 force him into q favorable de-
claration. Mr.. Hanna, the manager OF
his campaign. the other day said:
They are trying 10 involve him in a
controversy. buJ they car. do H. L
is not customary Tor presidential can /
d-dates % ceciAre themselves upon
pending questions until t1ey write their
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

are doing what they can among the
sick Medicines have been distribut-
ed and the sanitary conditions have
been rendered as healthful as possible
Still, all that has been done, say writ
ers on the scene, is almost inconsider-
able in view of the great want
IT is stated that $4,000 would hardly
be adequate to relieve the present want
OF the people and tide over till next
harvest those who are now in want as
the result Of Turkish depredations-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26
as TIE FARAGER SEES IT.

The legislative committee OF the
Pennsylvania State Grange promuIgzt-
ed the following in regard 20 the farm
ers responsibility for the depressed con
diiion of agriculture throughout tie
country:
The ds9rssEso1 a-ao2g sgr1culfu-sfs
IS g-owl5E n i7tenssty. TIE farmer -
eoatro1ted wiIh prices for As proeacts
vhtca are below ths cozt q p-odaett5r-
Tie rece.s,ts trV-. la far=z have h@sz
re1scso n alzzy Instances o1s-hzsf.
wElIs rs Necessary expeases have. IN
many izstAzrsx. been increased. shs
res1li Sc loss isstez1 % s-est. arz
great ssss.-sc.sri0n IA ssas vzl1s % Lzaz
Tse sesT1Es A-zzasr = ALREADY sp.s1t-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE

| II Morrill, withcraws Pawnee county win
I be for Sam Peters
A colored mar at Argonia has gone into
the healing business.
The salna Republican says that Chief
Justice Martin should be renominated.
Two car loads OF fat hogs rooen;Iy pass
ed through Dodge City bound for Old Mex
ico.
J. r. Burton welcomed the Commercial
lsne. with a speech.
No deposits are received at the ArEoniR
bank at present. Everything WILL es paid
cut in nine months. IL Is said.
I; Is said that the Belle Plalus mer-
chants are going to boycott the santa re
ia favor OF the Missouri Pacific.
Harry Bone Of Clark county. is seld 70
wear cut more railroad passes a year than
any other man IN western Kansza
The Dodge Globe Republican. a perfect
ly trustworthy paper. denies that the SOL
diers' home al Dodge cay 10 bezaS nals-
managed
The western irrigation ditch was sold
IT. process of law Ia lane county the other
day and brought one hundred and nlas
thousand doliars.
= western Kansas editor-at Ashland
has quit editing and expects 20 get HE
family a little food by pushing the plate
glass Insurance business.
4 man writes 70 the Eagle asking. IL
tie people can nominate Mckinley over
the politicians. why can't they elect In
gals over the politiclanaT'' They can.
The only sure way 20 XIII a ehincn-buE
- 20 shoot him with rife n the Lft eye
The bullet lodges IL his brain and h~ can
not recover 81 be II ss;ze9 a. once ard hls
head wrung on
:n The east the Kansas nan - Iooksi
upoa as hero. The eastern people 90
70: believe that mar can I've n Kansas
without beng picked 90 sa5 slammed on
the ground By . cyclone AZ lsAss oaes .
day
A Frsa; many people write ths obituaries
q their ogn dead "a Kansas ns1Egzp<rm
There is souetalux in ths obituary wbIeAl
when pubHsEs1 l.Ehtsns psogle1s woe. and
Il should rot b discouraged 81 ta4s &c
count
Hsrpsr Sesuuel. O-s % ths rsoss eon-
iempdbis tricks ever peTpstfafea 81 ssis
community occurred thls week Last fall
; Hlaa and rs wlfs. - tas nara. ss Cart
ErsRht. settis9 "a Har5<r. ooninx f-D-a
.oms poTtioa q the stTsp. Later OF ta-
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l2rtNr-ghts have b~sa tz-kiEE of EofrE
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ezvfng his wife b@hind Lus YuTt1 ask
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

While the pleniDotentiaries were
srutting around in Moscow it would
have been interesting for a cyclone 10
have appeared and 10 have seen the
bedecked heroes hunt their holes like
q common old Kansas farmer without
a feather or 4 bit OF gold lace about
him.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Ambassador Breckinridge strutted
before the car in a uniform. The
same man. gentle reader. has also strut
ted before the Arkansaw farmer while
he was stopping his hogs and begged
his vote. That's why We like Amer
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Mr. Howard of Alabama. failed to
impeach the president of the United
States He didn't expect 10. lie sim
ply wanted 10 leave the impression of
Mr. Howard'S big toe in the sands of
rinta
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

One Kansas man dropped through
the door of the cyclone cave all sprad-
died out Where did you come from ,"
asked previous occupant "Oh Just
ilaxr i'm
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Today at Oklahoma City the enemies
of Hoke Smith will march through
Georgia like a dose Of salts through a
South American ant-eater.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Pow-wOw, The goldbugs now say
Mckinley has waited too long that
II he should speak now it would be
plain that be was simply seeking gold
standard votes.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

General Weyler will at once proceed
to have a decisive engagement with
the insurgents if he can find a number
sufficiently few to lick
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Last Sunday Queen Victoria was II
years Old and is still vigorous. Which
shows that while death loves Il shin
ing mark be hasn't very good opinion
OF the prince Of Wales.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

The funniest thing about the Dem
ocratic party is its appeal to the Re
publicans. when it is in straits. to Join
in a non-partisan relief measure.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

The railroads are very great and
very powerful, but Wichita has fought
them and is still gamey and on top.
The railroads should arbitrate.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

1t is only fair TO say that the gas
which ruined those S4OO worth of trees
in Wichita did not leak out Of the Fif-
teenth street gas hole.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Even Homer nodded, according 10
HorauuS FlaccuS- But Homer was
never asked if he believed in a gold
standard when he was running for
president
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Tomorrow at Pittsburg the national
Prohibition party is liable TO declare
that the way to suppress the liquor
traffic is to coin silver Is to1.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

1t is rather curious to read La Fon-
taine, the Kansas town struck by a
cyclone, described as "a village of 200
souls and one jointist."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

y Democratic party has made the
discovery that even William Tell might
have been silent if he had been mixed
up pro-c0nvention financial mess.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Cleveland has nothing TO do for the
next nine months but to look blue, cuss
and issue more bonds.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

What does it mean? No sooner had
Cy Leland began TO build an opera
house at Troy than Morrin's opera
house at Hiawatha burned down
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

With both national conventions full
Of men with conflicting opinions on the
financial question something is going TO
drop, and it viii not be enmity.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

If the bicycle rage continues TO
spread, the Bible might as well have
said that man shall ride in the sweat
OF his own brow.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

sa Seiafists a. Tsg~xa ave s~~a
- - eses< - o. tssy ssa se ssssst-
sala ~ leave tssafy- -fasr saaass<.
- = flrsfy fss ss-a lEs Top~2a--
A<es-lz Gas.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Wichita has always been sleepless
In activity. And at last her tired eyes
see the streaks of dawn.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

If Tom PIatt will come out for Me
Kinley he viii find the world laughing
with him. If he continues TO weep.
the world viii laugh at him.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

The Methodist church elects the edi-
tors Of its church publications.. How
some politicians would like to elect
the editors of party papers.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Grover Cleveland will not be i'm
peached. II is too easy TO wait nine
months and avoid the expense.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

The interstate commission is stand
Ing by Wichita The railroads should
come down of their perch and do like
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Wichita has had more trouble in get
ting railroad rates than she did in get
ting the railroads. But she is getting
both at last
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

While Wichita is getting her dues in
Short hauls and long hauls, she has
also ceased TO make any more water
haulS.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Labor gives value. A man charges
3 cents to blow up your bicycle tires.
The air he uses is free. He charges
for the muscle
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Money talks, but the Mckinley but
ton is not a sufficiently like counterfeit
of a coin to do so.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26
-zEgSS>AliIaTzgS
Ga11U AZ @dyW
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.

While the cat may have Mckinley s
tongue, there is a tradition that the cat
comes back
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Mckinley has carried the country in
n way that brings tears TO the eyes Of
the campaign gambler.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

England pays 100000 a year to the
prince OF Wales The prince, as all
princes are, is an expensive toy.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-26

Mr.. Kretsinger IS out for county a,tor-
rey In Lyon county. What is the nation
slity OF the name!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-02
DEBS "EAT- CUCUMBERs.
The Reason He stopped "ShadO wing
General Harrison.

The evanescent Eugene Debs has been
giving the Popocratic State committee "A
heap Of anxiety during the past two days.
Debs had been engaged to shadow Gen
eral Harrison on his northern journey and
was to have returned here so that both he
and Greene Smith could harangue the
crowds Saturday night. Debs was not ad-
vertised along the Harrison route. They
knew that the coming of Harrison would
draw the multitudes. and the idea was to
have Debs talk to the crowds either before
or after the visit or Harrison. This scheme
Wayne on Friday. DebS arrived at Muncie
in the morning and harangued the crowd
from the courthouse steps. He reached
Portland shortly after Harrison had left
and reached Fort Wayne before Harrison
had arrived there, talking at the rink in
the evening. For Saturday he was booked
to appear in the same silrreptitious fashion
at Goshen. Wabash and Marion and get TO
Indiana rolls In the evening.
But Saturdays work was never done.
After the excitement of the first day Debs
was dead to the world and he has not come
to lite yet. The supposition at Popocratc
State headquarters is that he must have
intiuleed in lis weii-known fondnesS for GU
cumbers and got laid out somewhere by the
wayside. They even intimate that some
wicked Repu slican at Fort Wayne fed him
a cucumber or two. The Popocrat local
committees waited in vair for his coming
at Goshen, Wabash and Marion, aud when
he failed TO turn up at indianapolis at
night both his meeting and Greene Smith 3
were called of. FoOlishly the POpocrats
advertised him for last night again, hoping
in the meantime to find him. Bic telegraph
bills were contracted in the effort 10 locate
him, but he was not within reach and they
had to let couple of the. young men sent
out by the Rimetallic League 10 organize
dogfights on the street corners talk to the
crowd at TCminson Hall.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-02
VIII Go Home tC Vote.
L To-. tel

Nest of the members Of the Cabinet and
e, Hume to vote on election day. Secretary
Ciney l. az exception. He thinks the ma
VIII be large enough without his vote. and
anyway ne has an engagement Monday
with the representa- tives of South and Cen
him from going home. Secretary Lamont
has already registered and will vote in New
York city. Secretary Herbert is now in
Alabama where he has been delivering
sound-money speeches. and he will stay
long enough to cast his vote at Montgom-
cry. Secretary Francis has left for st.
Louis, where he will vote for Palmer and
Buckner. Postmaster-genern Wilson will
go to West Virginia TO VOTE and Attorney
general Harmon also expects to record at
Cincinnati his Endorsement of the principles
of true Democracy as upheld by the Palmer
and Buckner ticket. Secretary Morton has
not determined whether he will take the
trip TO Nebraska to vote.