Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
KANSAS TOPICS.

KANSAS TOPICS.
Jerry Simpson says Tom Watson Is a
conscientious Populist. though misguided
one. Tom watson's opinion of Jerry will
be given later.
After listening to the tomb-hke silence
which proceeds from the objection of Wich-
ita, Charley Finch concludes that Mrs.
Lease must be raising corn
The Newton Kansan says that when the
Topeka girls were winking at the young
giant who wore white duck uniform and
played the slide trombone with the En-
poria band, they didn't know that he was
one of the professors OF the Presbyterian
college and had a wife at home.
A Blue Rapids bicycle dealer has sold a
wheel to a Popocrat with the agreement
that the latter is to pay 81 for every 1000
majority Mckinley receives in New York.
From present appearances that will be the
costiiest bicycle ever sold in Kansas.
The most versatile newspaper man in
kansas is big. good-natured. Irish Dave
Leahy. city editor of the Wichita Eagle
Dave is also special correspondent for a
Kansas City Democratic newspaper, and in
to give two accounts which he wrote of
the Long-Simpson debate one of which
appeared in the Republican Eagle and the
other in the Democratic Kansas City news
parer. The Eagles account reads as fol-
lows: stunned by an avalanche of incon-
trovertible facts. blinded by the flash of
towering eloQuence, overwhelmed by tor
nado of popular approval of his brilliant
opponent, Jerry Simpson retired from the
stage of the Auditorium last evening. brok-
en-, collapsed and defeated
The Kansas City papers account reads
in this way: whipped on every PROPOSE
ticn, stunned by facts incontrovertible and
deafened by the applause of the people for
his opponent, Chester i. Long left the
stage of the Auditorium in this city this
afternoon with all hopes Of election shat
tered to pieces"
Prince Hilkoff Russian minister Of rail-
ways, will visit the Santa Fe shops in
Topeka next week. He was sent to this
country by the car to make a thorough
inspection of the American railway sys-
tenn.
Ed Little, who declares that Carlisle is q
drunken scoundrer' and John Sherman
an Ignorant old fool is doing very well
for novice in the art of throwing dirt.
but his efforts sound weak and insipid
when compared to the efforts of one OF the
| porting Tom Watson and apparently fight
| ing the rest of the political world. The
gentle editor of the Georgia paper describes
the chairman of the national Democratic
| committee as 'old Arkansaw Jones, for
years a servile henchman Of the Buffalo
beast" remarks that ex-President Harri-
son used to pass for a pretty good coun-
| try lawyer, but Is now showing himself as
| ignorant a liar and as rotty gabslinger
| as Thurston, Depew or Most" and ex-
presses a conviction that John Sherman
whom he calls "hoaryheaded old repro
| bate, the million times accursed Malefactor
Of Mansfield"-is destined ito share the
same birthstone kettle in hell with Grover
| Cleveland"
j. Mack Love, chairman of the Democratic
| state central committee. is probably the
worst rattletrap the political pot Of Kan
! sas has ever boiled to the surface. As
related the other day. the sports Of Ar
| kansas City. his home. have profited much
! by Loves propensity to bet on his own
| political judgment, but until some pre-
dictions from him upon the coming Kan
sas election appeared in a Kansas City
Popocratic paper 1t was supposed the DEM
ocratfc chairman had gumption enough to
| get up prophecy which would hang to-
| gether. In the prediction alluded to. Mr..
Love claimed Kansas for the Popocratio
party by $1,000 majority. Then he pro-
ceeded to tell where this majority was COM
| ing from by giving the vote in the sew
| eral congressional districts. Casting up
| the vote which he gives in detail the dis
| covery is made that 1t amounts to only
| 1zOO0 majority for the Popocrat ticket If
| ever there existed a warning example in
the person of a man who talked too much
that man is ]. Mack Love.
i nnx,n - nh1a
| with a sneer at the Union generals who
| lately toured Kansas. Sotto voce it might
| be remarked that a close inspection Of Da-
| vid's coat lapel shows no bronze button,
| though he was big enough and fat enough.
Ex-Governor Lewelling Is out with .
| newspaper interview In which he declares
! that II the election Of 1894 had been held
| a month earlier he would have been elected
| governor Of Kansas. From now on every
| Pop In Kansas will be in favor Of holding
| the election q month earlier.
John H. Atwood, tho brilliant young
Leavenworth Democrat, made . political
| speech In Atchison the other day, in the
| lican papers of the town would no doubt
| report his effort in something like the fol-
| lowing fashion: "A young man named At
| wood from down the river delivered q free
| silver harangue In Atchfson last night.
| No ono ever heard Of him be-
fore. and never will again. but
| he roared for two hours to about
fifty people in an uptown lager beer
| saloon. The loafers soon becoming tired,
| drifted out. The young man. having ex-
| harsted his voice, stopped from sheer phys
| ical exhaustion" However. the Republican
| papers disappointed Mr.. Atwood by giving
| him a very creditable write-up.
| Ex-State Senator Hill P. Wilson. who has
| Just been nominated for member Of tho
| lower Kansas house by the Republicans OF
| Ellis county, went to Fort Hays as CHIEF
| clerk in the Quartermaster's department in
| 1861 At that time his worldly possessions
| consisted of a diamond stud, a profusion OF
good clothes and a horse which he vainly
| imagined to be world beater in trottinS
| harness. The horse was his especial joy
| and pride, and when his duties called him
| from the fort to Hays City he always
| drove the animal across The intervening
| mile of territory hitched to a racing suiky.
| The tonghs of Hays City determined to
| take the measure OF the dudish young
| clerk, so one morning when he had bitches
/ his trot,er in front of one OF the many
| saloons which constituted the main busi-
| ness of the place a six foot terror" with
| guns on his hips and bowie knives in his
| boots. mounted the sulky and commenced
| 10 drive the horse fur;ousy up and down
| m. sinpl, street OF the town. When Will