Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-15

mission, he whirled on them in righteous
wrath and exploded the reply: Gentle
men, you will oblige me by going to HI
a spell"' They must have gone. for the
returns disclose that Larimer received a
majority of 9SS, which is the largest ever
given in the district. The biggest bluff in
Kansas this year was the o. NJ. B.
II it is true that hope deferred maketh
the heart sick, what must have been the
suffering of the Council Grove couple who
took out their marriage license In 1883. but
who have only just now overcome the. diff
iculties and had the ceremony performed?
Doniphan county is now the banner Re
publican county Of Kansas. She gave an
average majority OF 1882, while Shawnee
county, which has heretofore borne the
honor. gave but 1.257.
Judge Dubois was elected to the legis-
lature from Logan county, o. T., on the
issue that he was strong enough to locate
branch free silver mint at Guthrie. 1t
is needless to say that the Republican
newspaper boys of Oklahoma are making
life very much a burden to Judge Dubois.
F. c. johnson, of Phillipsburg, is indus
triously whetting the knife with which he
expects to amputate that supreme court
clerkship from the person of c. j. Brown.
1--WE know of GIRL" remarks the editor
OF the Severance News as he paws over
his socks in the top drawer OF the bureau
to see If any of them are worth darntng
again, who Won a bran splinter new pair
of silk stockings on the election, and they
cost US Is cents"
The only candidate on the Populist state
ticket who received a majority in the city
Of Leavenworth was Frank Doster, and
this ought to establish beyond any perad-
venture that the users outnumber the own
erS.
The people Of Kansas believe that old
Bill Rogers will be reappointed regent Of
the state university in vindication of the
Populist contention that a man may get
too drunk to fish and yet retain brains
enough to run university.
Silver Republican Sam I. Hale, Of Rush
county, came to the state capital with a
newspaper interview yesterday, in which
he declared that the Populist legislature
would give Kansas some of the best legts-
lation the state has ever had. This will
serve the double purpose Of allaying the
fears of Kansas and at the same time
pave the way for Sam to get his wife on
tions as pages again.
On Monday night Governor Leedy will be
given reception at the leading hotel in
Burlington, which, if we may believe the
local paper, is to be characterized by all
the attributes of luxury and affluence
which usually attend the functions Of the
bloated plutocrats 1t doesn't take long to
ruin a slave and serf when once he gets
a taste OF high life.
]. Y. Callahan. the ex-preacher who has
just been elected delegate to congress from
Oklahoma, was formerly Of Kansas. hav-
ing served in years gone by as register of
deeds in Hamilton county. Among the
charges made against him during the cam
paign was the terrible one that he is the
father of thirteen children.
In the columns Of his paper Editor Joe
Bristow declares that Kansas is a free sill
yer stronghold and that SO far from being
Republican she was not even entitled to
a position in the doubtful column. This
will be consolng to the fellows who bet
on Secretary Joe Bristow's claims that the
state was safely for Mckinley.