The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-08

VIII White. WIN Whits b Butler county
property. and Kurtx should learn 20 like
him II he expects to remain In the county.
In western Kansas one train stops daily
and picks up twenty-five or thirty cars Of
white corn. This corn Is shipped to Mexico
and the farmers get one dollar bushel for
it.
p. p Elder was down IN Topeka the
other day. He hasn't been there much
since the time they beat him for the United
States senate and sent PETER. The night
Elder was beaten he displayed more color
in his words than any artists palette ever
knew
New York Evening Post: Senator PETER
is naturally both puzzled and panied at the
efforts to defeat his reelection by the Pop
uiist legislature of. Kansas. He has sent
out a circular letter to all the members
whom he regards as his logical support
ers," IN which he sets forth the arguments
for his reelection with lucidity and force
which we do not see how any supporter
with a grain of logic in him can withstand
He has taken his stand. to begin with, on
the impregnabie position that "a senator.
just like man in any other calling, mus;
learn his business, and that takes time"
PETER has been ..studious and diligent," and
has learned the business. Why turn him
off just as he IS ready to attain the high
est standard Of usefulness Nor viii his
modesty prevent him from pointing out his
solid achievements while learning the BUSH
ness. Just look at this condensed but elo-
Guent account of his efforts, as compiled
I, Srn RI
Whole number petitions presented. 800
Bills and joint resolutions introduced. -92
reports submitted .--.-.:-.......,...-...o o.
Senate and concurrent motions and reso-
luuons ..-::.....--..'''...''.'-- o.
Amendments proposed ..-...........-.-... ~
Speeches, long and short. .....-..-........AS'
1t is truly a record from which no one
need run away-except from the speeches.
That item, We think. might have been made
more convincing for logical supporters If
more carefully analysed. Just how many
Of the speeches were long? How many
hours would they have consumed II delv-
cred consecutiveiy: How many times
around the globe would they have reached
If strung on end? That is the way 10
make statistics, il not speeches. interesting.
And, after all. there is, from the Kansas
point Of view, a certain logical weakness in
Senator PETERS position. He has not lived
up to the prophecies made about him six
years ago. Then there was no talk about
him requiring time to learn the senatorial
business. He was prepared to al once make
the money power quake. Laws to enable
every borrower in Kansas to get money out
Of the sub-treasury at per cent, and no
questions asked about the security, were to
be written by him in the books without de-
lay Thus he is in the unlucky position oil
having deferred promised millennium. Ii
1t had to go six years overdue, who knows
but it may still be delayed another Of PEI
fer's terms? On the other hand, any one OF
his rivals before the legislature would, We
have no manner of doubt, engage to begin
the claiming Of the devil the very day after
taking his seat. If PETER is beaten, 1t VIII
be due to the overpowerng desire of Kan
sas to get her millennium hot and hot.