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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
WEYLER SNUBs UNCLE SAM.

Consul General Lee sends to the sec
rotary Of the United States at Wash
fngton, a protest against the way he is
being treated by the Cuban authorities.
General Lee has been Disseminated
against, and denied courtesies which
were accorded the representatives OF
other nations. Weyler knows that
President Cleveland will pay no atten-
ton TO the complaint, and therefore IS
not disturbed.
There is deep feeling upon the part
Of the American people touching the
war in Cuba. which this government
refuses TO recognize as worthy the
name of war. The government as well
as the people of Spain are disguised
and worried over the failure Of the war
in Cuba. Every shipments OF soldiers
to that island is but consigning so
many Spanish boys to death by dis
ease. 1t is now conceded that Weyler
will be given free hand TO do his
most fiendish work or otherwise he Will
be recalled. A war of the kind which
Weyler Is said to contemplate would
reduce the island TO desolauon and
would force the fighting in such way
that the contest would not last much
longer. But 1t is probable that the IN
surgents could do as much OF that sort
OF work as the Spaniards, and the lat
ter would have little or no advantage
in the struggle. Already the insurgents
have destroyed q vast amount Of prop
erty. While this may he in some re-
spects condemned, il should be observ-
ed that the insurgents are struggling
for liberty, which they are willing 10
secure at any price. The SPaniari<,
on the other hand, claim 10 be trying
10 put down a rebellion and restore
order. II they can restore order only
by destroying the island it would seem
that there is a radical defect in their
government The aim Of government
should be to preserve. not tn destroy,
and the Spsnish government must be a
failure II II can maintain Itself only by
defeating the chief end for which gov
eminent is instituted. IL Spanish rule
were Just IL would not require such
harsh measures 10 preserve It's power.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
WHO IS THE POP?

The preconceived Idea that the farm
er was the original Pop seems to be a
mistake, which statement will doubt
less surprise many, as the added dec
laration that the present strength of the
Pop party is not Of the farming ele-
ment will surprise others. John NJ.
Stahl. secretary Of the Farmers Ma
tional Congress, in the current num-
Der of the North American Review,
under the head "Are the Farmers Pop
ulsts?" demonstrates by reliable sta
tisticS and facts that the strength of
the Pop party Of the country is not to
be found among American farmers and
agriculturists. The Pop party in fact
is weakest in the great agricultural
states and sections, and strongest in
mining, in factory and in city districts.
1t is the city demagogue and ward
heller and not the farmer who is re-
sponsible for the Pop party. Mr..
Stahl's article is not only convincing
but highly interesting in the show
ing it makes of the conservatism and
patriotism of the American farmer. AS
TO his figures we quote a foot note, in
proof of the assertion that the Pop
strength is in counties and districts
only where there are large towns or
cities. In Illinois the first Populist
ticket was voted for in 1894 The
Populist vote of the entire state was
59.793: of Cook county, 33.956-more
than one-l1alf citizens OF Chicago, and
other cities and towns, and not the
long-whiSkered farmer" were Popu-
lists In 1892 the Peoples Party ticket
received only pa per cent of the vote
of Illinois; in Indiana it received only
4 per cent Of the vote; in Iowa. only
4.65 per cent, although Weaver of that
state headed the ticket for president.
Now as TO Kansas. The farmers
of no state. says Mr. Stahl. have been
mahgned as have those Of Kansas
They have been numerically ridiculed
and abused for being P0pulistS. Yet
not they. but the towns-people OF Kan
S.t> htt tIc L ti'utl>t>- td-AG t4lc AoUu-
tile Populist vote OF 1899. when the
state gave 4 majority for Weaver
for which the farmers We're most loud
ly cursed. The largest percentage of
votes in opposition TO the Populis5s was
IN tho extreme western counties. purely
agricultural, without cities-the eoun-
ties in which nine-tenths OF city people
think & practically solid vote for the
Populist ticket was cast Here are the
votes of these counties: Garfield, Re
pl blican, 102; Populist, 50: Finney. Re
publican, AIS; Populist. SIS: Greeley.
Republican, 2i1; Populist. IA: Ham
ilton. Republican. 252: Populist. 1S6:
Haskell, Republican. la: Populist. Ill !:
Hodgman. Republican. 363; Populist.
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parties, and if this movement means
anything it means a division OF the
Democratic vote in that state. The
idea had its origin there. and Indian
apolis was selected as the most suit
able place for the convention because
it was the head center Of the sound
money" influence. The local organiza-
ton there is composed Of the strongest
men in the party-men of wealth and
high standing in the state, and II as
idle TO suppose that, under such leader
ship, Palmer and Buckner will not poll
heavy vote in the state. From this
distance il certainly seems that this
Will strengthen the Mckinley vote in
Indiana The same is true in Illinois
and Michigan, and for the same rea-
sons
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
WATTERSON INDICATED.

1t was a surprise if not a diSappoint-
ment that Watterson was turned down
at Indianapolis. He was undoubtedly
the peoples candidate. Had he re-
ceived the nomina ton all opposing par
ties would have agreed that it was
good one, and there is no doubt that he
would have made the campaign bril-
liant one. But the empty honor was
conferred upon another, and for rea-
sons plainly evident, the chief of which
was that he has had the courage to tell
his party of its faults. He has not
only done it from the best Of motives.
He has never sought notoriety through
the cheap device Of free lance in
politics. This was not necessary. The
Courier-Journal, nor the master mind
that conducts it, have ever needed to
resort to sensational means to gain
nOtoriety.
Four years ago Mr.. Watterson fore
saw the results of the policy then
adopted by his party, and frankly noted
them in his paper. This angered the
leaders and administration strikers,
and they have had it in for him ever
since. The Indianapolis convention
afforded the first opportunity TO re-
prove him, and it was promptly done.
Considering his record as consistent
partisan and a fearless advocate OF
what he honestly thought was right,
and what time has proven to be right,
he may consider that he was more hon
Ored by the rebuke than he could have
been through the nomiSation. 1t shows
that the convention was actuated by
petty spirit of revenge, and leaves the
great writer where they found him, so
far as the public is concerned He
will strengthen his position now by an
earnest support of the ticket nominal
ed. This he will do without doubt,
and in so doing will heap tons or live
Goals on the heads of his spiteful party
associates.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
TIE BIBLE DELUeE.

The Eagle contained few days
since editorial reference to some OF the
wonderful facts and historical data be-
ing unearthed by archaeologists in both
Greece and Egypt Professors Haynes
and Hillpracht. OF the Pennsylvania
university. have also been making
some wonderful discoveries n the re-
Gion OF The Euphrates. where the Gar
den OF Eden is supposed 10 have been
According to scripalral chronology the
world is about $500 years old. or that
Il was 4.oO4 years old up 10 the birth OF
Christ. The gentlemen referred 10
have made discoveries which seem 10
prove high state OF civilization 1000
years anterior TO the Christian era.
Large numbers OF stone tablets have
been found in Nipur. the buried city OF
the Euphrstes. which carry back hu-
man written history nearly 5000 years
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
cAMPAIaN FICTIoNs.

There Is no feature OF political cam
paign more prolific OF dupes than the
headquarters" Any kind Of news
you would like TO hear is kept on tap,
but the best kind OF all IS that which
informs you that a man You never
heard OF says that everybody in his
nelghborhoOd is going 10 vote your
way. This form OF inspiration and
encoura cement Is often varied 50 IS to
carry q whole state the way you want
it TO 90, the authority usually being
some Factions pumpkin al a cross
roads pcsto-fiee, whose identity i veil
ed in ornamental initials, with a high
sounding but fictitious surname.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
CoNGREssMAN LONGS CANVASS

The congressional contest in the Big
Seventh is in most satisfactory shape
Mr.. Long Is bright, level-headed and
progressive. He is a growing man, and
there will be less of the hurrah-boy to
his campaign this than of two years
ago. He is paying little attention to
the antics and socks of the statesman
from Madison LOge,'' but much
thought to the grave and far-reaching
issues now confronting the American
life have given more thoughtful and
thorough study to the money issue and
the industrial conditions of the country
than Chester L. Long, as his every
speech so far most clearly indicates.
There is little Of the demagogue or OF
the everyday politician in the makeup
or methods of the man who is asking
the people Of this district for an III
dorsement of his work. While pleas
ant and affable enough in his inter-
course with his fellow men, he be-
comes intently serious in discussing the
problems and issues and conditions of
his own state and those Of the country
at large. He seems only anxious that
his hearers shall fully understand the
exigencies of the present situation and
the necessity for coolheaded patriot
ism. The situation is too serious for
buncombe, too momentous for appeals
to passion. No public man in the state
OF Kansas is more deeply impressed
with the solemn duties of the hour than
Mr.. Long. Consequently his speeches
and the manner of them, are impress
sive, they consisting more of facts and
Of the logic Of events than Of catchy
utterances and such plays upon fancy
as ordinarily elicit applause and en-
thusiasm While his speeches in no
sense lack in metal, the fire Of them is
deep earnestness, rather than explo-
sive. He is leaving the sensational,
the ferment and the flambOyant to his
opponent, who seems equal TO no other
kind of an effort
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
RATHER CHEEKY.

Some of the Democratic papers claim
ing TO favor what they call honest
money. still persist in holding the Re
publicanS responsible for the third
ticket. They do it on the ground that
the Republicans made no concessions
on the tariff as an issue. They more
than intimate that if Il -for-reye-
nue-only plank had been inserted in the
ST Louis platform all the sound-money
Democrats would have supported Nc
Kinley. Very few people conversant
with the Democratic aversion to voting
Republican ticket Will believe this,
but even if il is true the assumption is
foolish from the nature of things. To
suppose that the Republican party, in
national convention, should sacrifice q
long established principle, involving
one Of the main issues before the peo-
pie to please few kickers in the oppo-
site party would be an absurdity that
is hardly thinkable. 1t would be Ike
asking the Jew to renounce his time
tested faith to appease the advocates
OF the Christian religion. The split up
in the Democratic party on another
question has nothing to do with the
Republican attitude on the tariff. The
further fact that both factions in the
opposition ranks are seeking TO ignore
it as an issue is no reason why the Re
publicans should not make 1t an issue,
and very lively one at that. There
are peculiar and pressing reasons why
they should at this time, and herein lies
the cause Of Democratic apathy on that
subject. Their late attempt to monkey
with that question has proved sucn
disaster to the business of the country
that We propose to make it very much
an issue, even if it is remotely respon-
sible for the Indianapolis convention.
In doing this we take no chances on
polling the votes Of disaffected Demo
Gratis who are always ready to promise,
but never bring themselves to the act
of voting the Republican ticket They
have been doing this by promises since
1856, but they never do it with their
ballots.
The Republican party stands pat on
the platform, as enunciated, on this
question, and there are no regrets that
the opposite party has taken its own
course to settle It's own disputes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06

to take that free coinage of silver
would result in deprecated currency
and it - these chances that scares
money out of circulation into holding,
scares it away from business and in
vestments into old stockings, into safe
ty-vaults and into tin cans under the
ground. Thousands OF dollars in the
city Of Wichita, alone, have been
drawn out in gold, have been converted
into foreign exchange and into postof-
fee money orders. all because of a
fear that free silver might come, and
in coming might prove a deteriorated
Or deprecated money.
Bryan says his opponent, meaning
Major Mckinley, sis trying TO throw
upon Providence the responsibility for
these hard times" Major Mckinley
is doing no such thing. Upon the con-
trary he places the responsibility upon
the Democratic party and its free
trade trending policy. The Democratic
party is the sole author of all the mis-
chief, the party to which Mr.. Bryan
claims allegiance and whose free trade
doctrines he was preaching but two
years ago. Mckinley holds to the doc
trine that the way to create wages is to
create work. That was what he talk
ed in congress and towards which he
bent all his force. He worked for
law 10 protect American labor and
American wages. 1t was that very adj
vocacy which gave him his national
reputation Not Providence, but the
Democratic party, is responsible for a
condition of things never before ex
perienced in this country, a condition
which rendered such a declaration of
principles as were enunciated in Chi
cago, and which smacks of revolution,
possible.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
The AUTUxS LANE

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Where the =ithe-e1 th-stles Sigh
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o. love 'zezra a sumner SKY
While sweet Sc>ots roam
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
IT HELPS M'KISLEY.

People differ as TO the effect OF the
third ticket on the Republican vote. II
Is quite probable that opinions are In
fsuenced. more or less. by choice, but
il seems reasonable that IL VIII serve 10
divide me Democratic vote mostly il
the doubtful states Indiana has al
ways been in the list of doubtful states
For third OF a century II has been a
battle ground between the two main
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-06
THE GREAT
...HERMAN...
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A Trial will convince you its the Best Ever Produced.
SOLD WICHITA

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2. G. Mccain, III Z Main
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Chas. Well, zIe z Douglas
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Bozss,ul Billy Bryan Is continually
booosns up with Biblical bsE!ets. but
somehow he has failed to utilize the
principal silver character of holy wit,
who went and hanged himself cut Of
renors
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a 2. Romig, 6oT z Oak
Wichita Drug Co, 10 z Douglas
Geo. LcGsal, Io6 - Main
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Kansas News Co, ro3 n Main
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The record-union., 1896-04-05

News: According to the State Miner
alogist. the San Giuseppe quartz mine.
one mile west of Sonora, Tuolumne
County. produces the purest gold in Call
ifornia. In the Mining Bureau Report
OF 1888, page 655, referring to this mine.
1T is stated: "A copy of certificates OF
fifeness of gold in the bullion produced
by the amalgamation process used in
working the ore is here appended, cover
ing a period of over three years, and
representing bullion certificates depos.
tied with Professor Thomas Price and
the United States Mint: 1885. average
9S1.1 fine, $40 IS per ounce; 1886, aver>
age 9S2.95 fine, $50 80 per ounce; 1887.
average $3.50 fine, $50 81 per ouncei
1883. average. 9S5.5 fine, $40 81 per
ounce.'
Louis BIandig of Sonora, writing to
the Mining and Scientific Press in 1856
concerni,ig this Same mine, says: The
last bar of gold from the San Giuseppe
showed fineness of 9S5l2, equal to
$50 Al In the State Mineralogist's re-
port of 1884 is very complete table.
by counties, compiled from notes by
John S. Hfttell, showing the fineness OF
California gold. In Bowie's treatise on
hydraulic mining are tables giving
fineness of placer and quartz gold in this
State. According to King, in the United
States Geological Survey Report OF
-1SSO-S1. the fineness of California gold
as determined by him was as followsT
Butte County, 900 to $40; Calaveras.
$50 to 960; Del Norte, SO TO $50; Las
Plurnas, SAG to 936; El Dorado, $50.
Humboldt, 726 to 940; Placer, TS4 to
96O; Shasta, SS5; Siskiyou, 149 to $50;
Stanislaus, 900; Trinity, S75 to 927. Tho
average of fifty-one mines was I26 TO
$50. Eighty specimens averaged SS3.0
fine. Dana's 'Mineralogy' says: Cali
fornia gold averages in fineness SO to
SS5'"
Eds. Record Union: In what year
was the Hull and Yarmouth fishing
fleets wrecked off the English Coast,
and how many lives We're lost? con-
tend it was in 1884. I was in England
at the time, and / left there in 1854.
SYLVANUS.
Folsom.
1t was in March, 1888. and 135 lives
were lost in that great accident.
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IN THE COUNTRY.
An Entertainment Given at Carroll
District Schoolhouse.

An Entertainment Given at Carroll
District Schoolhouse.
One of the pleasantest entertainments
of the season was given at the Carroll
Schoolhouse few evenings since, when
the following programme was rem
dered:
Trio, THE Old Oaken Bucket; duet,
Howard Estep and Emma Alltucker;
one-act drama, Mandy and Zeke, -
Mrs. w. S. Runyon and G. Bradford
solo, Mrs. Shultz; comic duet, Mrs.
Hamilton, G. Anderson; solo, wait.
Mr.. Postman," Mary Bradford dia-
lcgue, Jonas Jones, by VIII Runyon,
A. Wells and NJ. Moore, Mrs. H. D.
Owen and Miss Maud Houston; recita-
ton, by Charlie Walther; solo, "The
Sweetest Story Ever Told" Miss Emma
Bradford; dialogue, "a Precious
Pickle" by Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs.
Walthers, the Misses Annie Bradford,
Emma Christesen, Mary Bradford,
Mary Strong and Matte Bradford; solo,
Little Alabama Coon," Mary Brad
ford; duet, by E. Frye and G.. Ander-
son; "a Stump Speech" by B. Hoga-
boom.
Refreshments were served by the la
dies
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; will not
o cases, be
.r distinguish

: or distinguish
.entition so far as
ITO the ancient in all
3. ..,ough modern sports will
.pe introduced, an innovation against
which some classicists are murmuring.
Thus the bicycle Is to play a part in
the revival, though races with it will
be held halfway between the city and
the sea Shore on the Phaleric Plain.
There is to be modern rowing also, and
The finish of the ancient twenty-six-
mile running race will be made in the
Stadium, as in the olden time, when the
runners went from Marathon to Athens.
For this race special cup is to be Of
fered, as also the wreaths, by the King
Of Greece. The other running, the
jumping, wrestling and general gym
nastic contests will correspond very
closely to the ancient games. But in
novations will be plentiful outside the
Stadium besides the features mentioned,
for there is to be rifle shooting in a
field near by, tennis and cricket matches,
foot and baseball and broadsword. .and
other combats.
If the spirits of the ancient Greeks can
lcok back and witness the English,
Americans, Germans, Russian, French,
Swedes, Norwegians, Spanish, Aus
trians, Belgiums, Danes, Irish, Scotch
and others contesting on their old
stamping ground among the unrepre-
sentative descendants of Greece Of the
time of glory and power, what must be
their thoughts and reflections; and. if
they can feel offense, what will be their
the moderns are to be guilty of? How
will they view the great illumination
that is to take place, and in which elec-
trio lights will play an important part
and modern designs and effects be con-
spicuous?
However, what the thought Of the
departed souls Of ancient Greece will
be does not much concern the modern;
ana, DeSlueS II Is III HOIlOT Ol Iuc OiO
Greeks that the revival takes place,
which will prove that after all in gen.
uine athletics we have not much, If at
all. improved upon the original Olym-
plan games. The wrestling, the 'quoit-
throwing, the fencing, the racing, the
jumping, the swimming will not be bet
ter, possibly not SO good, and we may
doubt if any athletic exercise will equal
the feats of the Grecian youths Of the
centuries before Christ.
Americans ought to feel good deal of
interest in the figures our represen-
tatives are going to cut in these games.
We shall expect much from them in
jumping. wrestling and short racing,
but when IL comes to the twenty-six-
mile match we must be prepared to see
the modern Greeks take all the honors,
for to this day endurance in long run
ming has been cultivated and main
tanned in Greece, and there are no mod
erns probably who can defeat the youths
of that land in speed contests.