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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

to inform his fellow senators that he
was unauthorized to speak for the ad.
ministration; by which we are left to
infer that he was the champion of in
nocence and purity without any hope
of future reward.
Whether the senator of Tammany
birth and habits, was or was not acting
as the puppet of the administration, is
unimportant, as the general public are
| too well aware of his crO0kedness and
national insignifcance TO bother their
heads about the motives that may have
actuated him. The animus Of his de-
fense was that the secretary was above
suspicion and the conclusion was, that
! the people have no right to investigate
| the accounts of their national book
| keeper. Is this less than an insult 10
| American citizenship? Is it not down.
right insolence for which the foul abor-
ton of Tammany deserves TO be kicked
| out Of the legislative body which he
| disgraces, sans ceremonie?
The objection urged by Hill that the
resolution contained no specific or for
NAL charges, is irrelevant TO the ques-
ton, as the intent is only to find out
by investigation whether or not there
has been any wrong doing in these
bond deals. "What senator dare rise
in his place." asked Mr.. Hill, 'and ut
ter the SANDER that the secretary or
some Of his subordinates have received
some compensation, some reward?' To
this questioning challenge there was
no reply, nor needed to be any, for the
simple reason that only after thorough
investigation could there be any posi-
bility Of making specific charges. Hills
speech throughout was based upon the
obsolete assumption that the king can
do no wrong, therefore the transactions
Of the king affecting the public must
not be questioned. By strange over
sight the senator neglected to round
period and electrify his hearers with
the quotation there's a divinity doth
red to him he concluded that coming
from one who had made the welkin
ring with the startling announcement
81 am a Democrat" it might cause a
ripple Of derisive laughter, unbecom-
ing 10 senatorial dignity. Whether
justly or unjustly there is widespread
opinion among the ''hard-fiSted yeo-
manry' of this country, that neither
President Cleveland nor his chief cook
and bOLtle-washer, Secretary Carlisle
are above suspicion and they have itch
ing palms the same as found among
all classes of society. Senator Hill or
any other champion of this admins
tration need not go outside Democratic
ranks to find thousands Of people who |
have not one spark of confidence in the |
honesty of Cleveland or Carlisle, and !
to investigation by the ad- |
minisration and its friends will only |
have a tendency to strengthen and con- |
firm that suspicion Honesty is con-
fined to no class or condition Of society, |
and in political as in social life, there |
are rogues at the top as well as the bot |
tom of the ladder All custodianS Of |
public moneys, including the immacu- !
late secretary Of the treasury should be |
subjected to the closest scrutiny and |
held to the strictest account. Eternal |
vigilance. etc. etc.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18
QUEER THING ABOUT DEMOCRAT

I
1t hardly seems possible that party
thSat has stood for so many years car
be wiped out by the failure of one man
/ Yet we are asked daily to agree that
the Democratic party is fading away
! forever.
No doubt there will be convulsions
at the national Democratic convention
in Chicago, but it cannot mean the en-
tire dissolution of the Democratic
party.
There is this strange thing about the
/ Democratic party-it never does what
it promises, as it never dares begin
what it wants to accomplish. Just
now number, large number, of citi-
zens are figuring that there will be a
free coinage of silver plank in the Chi
cago platform. They are told, with
some authority, that the silver Demo
Gratis have the gold Democrats down
and are jumping on them with both
feet. They are also assured that If the
Democrats nominate a silver man at
Chicago on free coinage plank the
PopuliSts in St Louis will nominate
the same man on the same plank.
This appears very plausible. We
might assume that every delegate in
the Chicago convention had been elect
ed now and was a rampant silver man.
They would meet The presumption
is that when they had met they would
put in a free coinage plank with 4 rush.
But in presuming this, You go directly
against the traditions of the Demo-
cratic party. There was a time when
the whole Democratic party of the
United States was for free trade. They
elected free trade congress. They had
a free trade president. The country
settled back to see free trade consum-
mated Was it? The Democrats
forthwith fell into a most bOisterOus
and unSeemly row among themselves.
The country never saw and will prob
ably never see again such i hair-pulling
time. The time had come To fulfill
the promise of free trade. The Demo-
Gratis simply backed cut
This may be the result at Chicago.
Once assured that the convention IS
wholly for free silver, the Democrats
are likely TO begin 10 fear this and that
and leave it out Of their platform alto
gether.
1t is one OF the inexplicable things
about Democrats In all the history OF
this country they have promised more
and done less than any other party
not that they have lacked the power
to fulfill their promises but because
they are afraid 10 carry them out when
they have the power
The election Of a Democrat 10 the
presidency. whether he is indorSed by
tire PopuliStS or not. Is another mat
ter. The Democrats have just had
whjrl at the government. and 9 pretty
mess they haze made OF IL The peo-
pie are not going 70 put them back into
power again for their infamy whether
they are iadorSed by the Pops or not.
and no matter what their promises are.
The Democratic party has given the
people Z horrible example OF broken
promises and it IS folly for them 10
expect 70 run another national cam
paisn as they did their last
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

in less time than it has been IN growing
How absurd il IS 10 say. with a hot
breath. that prohibition is a success. and
then with a cold one damn tho govern
ment because II is a failure. This is blow
ing hot and cold with the same breath.
A Il. AL.LERTOS.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18
A BAD CHAMPION IN A BAD CAUSE

When the resolution for investigation
Of recent bond issues was before the
senate the other day. Mr. Hill Of New
York few 10 the defense Of the ad-
ministration against what be chose 70
characterize as loose insinuauons Of
irregularity" on the part OF Secretary
Carlisle. The senator also took pains
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Quay is sly. He gets the A. 7. \. 10
fight Mckinley. Then he tells the ami
A. p. AS that the y p. AS are only
pretending to fight Mckinley. Then
everybody who is intense on the sub
ject fights Mckinley.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Carlisle'S goldbug address to the
laboring man of Chicago was no doubt
very fine, but the laboring man was
SO busy hunting for a job that he could
not stop TO hear the speech.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18
SundrieS at
Special Sale.

ISL customary prices staple sundries
Is no reason Why you should lo buy times if
he seng can De made larger We campaign
IN sunorles Frlce have fallen but qualities
iEo--f1ess Perfumes by the youthful Tint
Mig Co. goods that sell at 7sc and S1oo an
ounce; mere tomorrow at 48 Wild Violet
Purple Lilac are among the odo given away free
Soaps
Cucura, 19 cake 55 box; Pears Unscened
for p Tropical Flower large l3 cents; Ipor
ed White Castillo large cakes, 8 rs cents.
Face Powders.
Pozzon's in puff box, 81 cents; vys 80 cepts
Youthful Tint Complexion 19 cents; Tetlows Swan Down
cens Mennens Borated Talcuu, l9 cents.
Tooth Powders.
Cogates, Browns Camphorated Lyons IS bottle;
Rubifoa e cents; Sozodont Complete se box
Toilet Waters.
Florida Water, large size 48 bote Cogate's Spirit Of
Lavender, 90 cents Cogates Violet Caprice Lilac, of
the Valley and Ylang Ylang, choice 73 cents bottle
Ed Pinaud's Eau de Quinne large 73 cents small SO
The best Tan Shoe Dressing made pOisher
the set, IS cents.
Full Line Of
Hair Nail and Flesh Brushes, Combs Pufs, Chamos and all
toilet goods.
At SN\SNMMAy&S
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

In answering the telephone it is prop-
er 10 say Yes with a rising infection.
Hello is tabooed in polite circles.
When the central says: Talking now
ii is also improper to say: Damn"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Jim Troutman is said TO be sure he
can take the Shawnee county delega-
tion into the stale convention over Nor
rih The politicians viii keep at Nor
rill until they get him mad.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

The Transyaal people are arming
themselves TO the teeth. If the Eng
Gsh troops visit the country, they are
not going TO spend much time examin-
ing the scenery.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

The A T. A. says it will beat Nc
kinley at the election if il cannot ar
the convention. StiH the rest of the
country shows no disposition TO retire
and let the 4. z. 4. run things.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Says the Maine Republican platform:
"WhOever pays with honor, DOrrows
with ease" If Tom Reed is nominated
Shakeseare should be run for vice pres
idenr.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18
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s3k&U A S0S@
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.

Mr.. Bradley of Kentucky, should not
begin to move his furniture into the
White House yet awhile.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

The National Miners association re-
fused 10 indorSe Debs for president
They declared they preferred some
man who worked. This was hitting
DebS squarely on his weak point.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

The salina Wholesale Grocery company
is hunting for man named AIbarisoa.
AIbertson owed The company. HIS store
burned down. lie got the insurance aud
had an engagement elsewhere in . hurry.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

In Illinois the A. 2. \. expects to
make It's members break their insrruc-
tionS for Mckinley. Which means a
long farewell 10 the men this year who
breaks his promise TO a convention.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

The New York papers are now busy
proving that Mckinley has no sense.
IL is strange that a man with no mind
should worry them so.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Pride has always been an intense ele-
ment, but no man has ever seen it at
Its heighth until he has met another
man riding better bicycle than his
DWn
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Mckinley is the second choice of
Kentucky. This doesn't mean that if
he doesn't get it on the first ballot, he
will not get it at all
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Max Nordau says that Alfred Austin
is the greatest English-writing poet
Thomas Brewer Peacock cannot ex-
pect to please everybody.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

At San Claudio, according to wey-
ier'S dispatches the Spanish retreated
in such fine order that Maceo who was
pursuing came very near surrendering
from sheer admiration.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Bob IngersOll ought to know that
this country isn't going to quarrel over
religion until it gets its hands out of
the dough Of the tariff and financial
questions
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

The Booth family quarrel would be
more interesting if they would leave
the front porch and go into the house,
pull down the blinds and fight it out.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

J. r. Burton may yet take a pointer
from Quay and distribute a fine var
Iety of favorite sons over Kansas in
order TO beat ingalls,.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

1t will be observed that on the first
day of the ball season, the Louisville
club with its old-time abandon seized
its old place at the bottom of the heap.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

The roots of the Troutman boom are
growing fast through the mechanical
and medicinal soil, but wait till they
strike the hard-pan beverage clause.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Americans excel the Greeks in many
ways. CoXey's march was no more
foolish than XenOphon's and COxey
didn't write a book about it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Even if Mrs. Lease should commence
q mud-slinging campaign against Lew
elling he knows she is q woman and
couldn't hit anything.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

When Spain remembered that Cuba
would probably be on the United States
side. Spain concluded not TO declare
war
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

If Mckinley is nominated, it will be
pne time in American politics when
honesty won over dirty, despicable, vi
cious and corrupt politics.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

When it was too late and he found
himself fattened against the ceiling
Dick Blue discovered that he had back
ed into a fy-Wheel.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Mckinley viii become the greatest
man in this country if his enemies con-
time to abuse him. He is the kind of
man who viii grow under abuse.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

1t would be a terrible thing if Nc
Kinley, in the last half of the ninth in
ming, with one tally needed, should die
on third base.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Of waters. Mr.. Johnston declares be will
no longer continue In the whisky business.
but will Immediately enter into a more
honorable and lucrative businesA
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

Rontgen is really great man. Every
scientist in the world has talked more
about the Rontgen rays than Rontgen
has himself
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

That Missouri sheriff who is after
George Taylor couldn't catch the meas
les if he lived in the White House.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18

An exchange says that Holmes lies
like a trooper. = Produce your trooper
and some of his best work in that line.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-18
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I23 and I27 Main Street.
I23 and I77 Main Street,
Come

and get them today 45nch O1gandy and Batiste Dress
Flornclngs, worth S2.oo $500, 78 cents yard.
Sard wide wool effect Dress Suitings cents yard.
Standard Shifting Prints, 3 ~ cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-24
FOUR 7 In ONE.
A Olumbia-AIIey Family Raising an
Unusual Freak.

The family of L. S. Johnson, colored,
formerly janitor at the Indiana Trust build
ing, and living at No. $50 Columbia alley,
Thursday afternoon became the possessor
of a litter of five kittens, four Of which are
held together by a ligament as large as
ones finger.
Mrs. Johnson heard plaintive news COM
ing from the woodshed Thursday afternoon,
and upon investigating found the old black
shavings, motherly nursing five little furry
balls of life. She went to lift one of the
little kittens up, when to her establishment
three more came with it, all mewing loudly
as II IN pain. The amazed woman cooked
at them closely and then rushed into the
house and told the rest of the family.
The nth kitten is perfectly formed, as,
with the exception OF the ligament, are all
the rest. Eacn mas four feet and a tail.
The M attaches them from the I'M
der parts OF their little bodies and does
not seem to inconvenience them. They
scramble around after their mother when
she nurses them, but one is Invariably un-
der the other three. One is maltese and
white, while the other three are back and
are Wen developed, and from their LOUD,
healthy news" bid fair to live.
Mr.. Johnson handled them tenderly and
expressed sorrow that they would be I'M
abe 10 run unreStralned like other kittens.
ana was seriously considering having a QOc-
tor separate them when called upon by a
Journal reporter last hight. When tod that
a museum might pay him a good price for
the monstrosity he thought a moment earn
estly slapped his knee concIuSively and
said: That's a fact. / never thought of
that. I'm going to raise them kittens if /
can. There S money in EN-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-24
GEORGE w. COOPER BOLTS
ANOTHER PROMINENT DEMOCRAT
COMES OUT FOR SOUND MONEY.
VIII Preside Mt Il Meeting Tonight
Gen. Harrison to Speak at TomIin-
son Hall This Evening.

TIL P)pocracy received another body
blow yesterday when George W. Cooper. of
Columbus, ex-member of Congress from the
old Fifth district, emerged from mis- retire
ment and declared against the Bryan and
Sewall tickst. Following upon the heels
of the declarations of Sheerin and Holt,
the stand taken by Mr.. Cooper
greatly strengthens the Democratic
sound-n.oney cause. He has been
for a number of years one of the best
thinkers, most popular campaigners and
one of the strongest leaders of the In
diana Democracy. He was actively inter-
ested in the effort to prevent the Demo-
cratic State convention last June from de-
claring for free silver, but when he was
defeated he accepted defeat gracefully.
Since the Chicago convention, however, he
has remained in political retirement.
The National Democratic leaders have
been making strong efforts for some time to
get Mr.. Cooper to declare himself. but he
eeclined, largely OF the ground that his
bad health would not permit linn to partic-
ipate actively in the campaign. They had
been begging him to preside over the meet
ing this evening at English's Opera House,
which will be addressed by Alexander
Humphreys, one of the strongest and
able st Democratic lawyers of Louisville.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Cooper accepted
a brief speech tonight. The thing that
finally determined him was the outrage
perpetrated upon Secretary Carlisle the
night before at Cov:ngton. He has long
the PopocratS Uni this assault upon
his dignity he could keep silence no longer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-24
Political Notes.

John l.. Griftiths will speak at English's
opera House next Wednesday evening, and
Indianapolis peopie viii nave their nrsL op-
poflunIty Tor some years 10 hear their TEL
loW-tow nSman, VINO Is IN such demand all
over the state. Judge Byron K. Elliot will
preside.
William A. Ketcham addressed a very
enthusiastic netting at Shays Hail, on
ReImon avenue, in West IndidDapoIls last
night The West Indianapolis Republican
club dispensed with its business meeting
and ATTENDED the meeting at Snay's Hal.
Inc han was crowded ana the speaker was
Wei received.
Uncle James" Sears, now residing near
Carthage, Ind, is in his eighty-tnirQ year.
he voted for William Henry Harrison for
President. lie, with two sons, three sons
in-law and eight grandsons voted tor Ben
1amln harrison and on Nov. 8, ii his health
permits, will lead Two sons, three sons-in-
law and fourteen ~grandsonS TO the polls
and vote for VIM. Mckinley for President
of the United States.
Three hundred and fifty employees from
the Big -Four shops, at BrigntWood, viii
ieaVe TINS afternoon for Louisville, Ky, to
participate in the railway demonstration
IN that city this evening. The notices that
were posted announcing the demonstration
contain this statement: every man be-
iieVing in sound money is invited to go oil
his own free viii and accord" Speciai
trains Tor the accommodation of the rail-
road employees in this city viii leave the
Union Station at 1:30 this afternoon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-24
GEN. HARRTsoN,s SPEECH.
1t VIII BE Delivered at TonilinsoI
Hall To-NiEht.

800
Gen. Benjamin Harrison will make his
first and only speech of the campaign In
Indianapolis -nigh and County Chair
man Young's only regret is that the ca
pacity of Tomlinson Hall is not four times
as great as it is. A word merely passed
along the streets that the ex-President will
speak is sufficient in itself to fill the hail.
The meeting will begin promptly at 8
O'Clock with Hugh H. Hanna as presiding
officer. All the presidents of the sound
money clubs in Marion county will act as
vice presidents of the meeting and occupy
seats on the stage.
The Marion Marching Clu will act as
special escort for the ex-President from his
residence to Tomlinson Hail. and the uni
formed members of the club will meet at
the clubhouse at Z o'clock. The members
of the Columbia Club nave been asked to
meet at the club and march over to the
nall In a body to hear General Harrison
speak.
Chairman Young has been flooded with
over two thousand applications for tickets
to the meeting this evening. The admission
to the hall is not by ticket. Four hundred
tickets have been issued for the stage, and
they We're exhausted last Tuesday, but the
general admission to the hall will be open
to all who can get in. The doors will be
opened at Z O'Clock, and nobody will be adj
mitted before that hour, whether they hold
stage tickets or not. The music viii be fur
famous 'Bdld-headed Glee Club"
The seating capacity of the hall has been
increased by, putting in the scaffolding
arranged for the May festival. The deco
rations were finished yesterday under the
direction of Allan Hendricks, and Tomlin-
son HAL has never in its history been dec
GRATED with more taste or looked more
beautiful,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-24
A LA THE "CYCLoNEo FAD.
A Street-Car Passenger Speaks from
Rem End of a Trailer.


The patrons of the North Illinois-street
car line were witnesses yesterday morning
of the passage of a full-fedged Bryan
cyclone campaign train over that street.
Charles l.. Dietz, somewhat of q wag. was
on his way to his business down town and
boarded the trailer of a North Illinois
street car. He stood on the rear end and
when the car reached it's first stop after
he boarded it, he turIed to a few men who
were standing at the corner, and, raising
his hand, he said:
THE crime of '73! Why, gentlemen, it is
the most monstrous and infamous outrage
ever perpetrated upon a civilized country.
It Is the one thing that is responsible for
al your llls-y3ur rheumatism. your colds,
But the conductor lad rung the bell and
the car was passing out of hearing Of those
had caught the spirit of the fun and were
amused. The next stop was at Twenty
second street, where there were several
1T is the corporations that are sucking
the lifeblood from the labor of the coun-
the enemy of mankind and are doing more
to make US poorer and the rich richer than
al the other Influences combined-except
the crime or T3. Let's destroy the corpo-
rations. 1t would take only two hours to
go down town in a mule car, but then the
sucking the very existence from us"
Again the car started and the noise soon
crowned the speech that started SO wei.
Several stops were made before Seventh
street was reached. but at none of them did
the speaker have time to say more than:
The crime of '73: the fifty-cent dollar
and then he would be compelled to stop.
The usual crowd was waiting at Sew
nth street, and as the car stopped Mr..
Dietz leaned over the rear dashboard and
said:
Gentlemen, have you taken up the usual
collection
There was no response from the aston
ished people, who merely locked at Mr..
Dietz in surprise.
IF you haven't taken up a collection /
can't speak here. Go to the next town.
conductor"
The car moved away and those who
boarded it at that point did not know what
the other passengers We're laughing about
until explanations We're made. Several
stops were made along the route. but they
We're too short for a REGULAR speech. When
q stop was made at Michigan street. Mr..
Dietzs face assumed a grave look and he
leaned over the dashboard. With a very
serious expression he said:
Ladies and Gentlemen-I am sorry to
disappoint this large and magnificent an-
dience. but, the truth is I have forgotten
my night shirt. and 1t is against my rules
to speak without it,