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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01
OKLAHOMA'S PART.

In Oklahoma a big immigration from
the south is looked for as the winter
grows. The south has been burned up
this year-there is no question about
that. Texas has been forced TO ship in
hundreds of thousands Of bushels of
Kansas and Oklahoma corn. Louisiana
and other southern states are in dire
straits. and may. before another crop.
be forced to ask aid. after the manner
which western Kansas established SIX
or seven years ago, but which is now
merely legend in this state
But what we wish to point out is the
part Oklahoma is playing in the nation
Being neither north or south she is the
common property Of the people of both
sections. This Is because she has no
part in the former history of the coun-
try. and being without a state govern
ment is without sectional politics or ira
ditions kept alive by politics.
The people from the north and east
are today nine,ing with the people Of
the south ard the east OF the southern
states. The tide OF immigration is to
Oklahoma The Illinois man who wants
10 go west goes west and south instead
into Oklahoma The Louisiana man
who wants to go west goes west and
north instead. The mighty current Of
western immigration north and south
seems TO have struck the rocks OF Colo
rsdo and New Mexico. 10 have turned
half way round and to have made
great pool OF Oklahoma
There II much unfaken land in Okla
homa, good land for cotton corn and
wheat. and much more for grazins-
The southern people from Texas are
coming into great portion OF this The
Immigration from the north which has
always been greater than thar from TIE
south. has never ceased 20 that by the
firsf OF March next Oklahoma VIII likely
be walking into the stimulating stnsoz-
phere Of 4 genuine boom before she
knows i.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

quiry is made for his name Puddin'
an tame, ast me agin an I'll tell you
the same.)
But the whole mental labyrinth OF the
Kansas boy Is laid open in this story.
Why will a boy. in order 10 show his
love for school girl, walk on his hands
in front of her on the way home from
school? This is also explained.
And why is it that every Kansas boy
who. ia his first walk home from school
with his loved one, viii devote HIS whole
attention 10 the cracks IN the sidewalk
and try 10 get the ends Of his toes on
every crack?
Having 'sbraced his Hearts Desire.
the author gives this splendid snatch Of
a dialogue, dialogue which every Kan
sas boy win recognize as an old friend:
where's your roseT' he piggy ask
ed, not seeing T.
; ''what rose ?" said the girl. as though
she had never In her short life heard OF
such an absurd thing as rose.
"Oh. you know" returned the boy.
stepping irregularly TO make the tips or
his toes come 10 the cracks in the side
walk. There was another pause. dur
ing which Piggy picked up pebble and
threw it at a bird In tree Hts heart
was sinking rapidly.
s'Oh. that rose?" said his Hearts De
sire, turning full upon him with the en-
chantment Of her childish eyes; why,
here it is in my grammar. I'm taking
it to keep with the others. Why
20. nuthin's much" replied the boy.
sI bet YOU can't do this" he added. as
he glowed UP into her eyes from an i'm
pulsive handspring.
We say 'The King OF Boyvffle" is The
best thing In the volume. But the stories
are all good, are all masterful The
Kansas sunshine Is in them, and the
Kansas storm, occurring IN the stories
as they occur On the Kansas prairies,
within the single hour.
No man can read the volume wfthouta a
laugh Of love for the Sundower state
and a tear OF regret for her foilies.
Way and Williams OF Chicago are The
publishers. The work can b. purchased
at Goldsmith's Book company Ia this |
city,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01
OKLAHOMA oUrLISss

.'BIaek Triiby" is the latest dramatic sne-
cess In Oklahoma
County Clerk Stewart OF Guthrie married
Miss Josie Ware last week
Ten thousand bales of cotton have been
shsuped from Guthrie this year.
Ponca city viii join TIE cotton procession
with a gin and compress next spring
on Thanksgiving Day tire Arkansas City
club fed the Oklahoma City football club
TO the pizz.
HE Giazier viii represent oklahoms a.
the Irrigation congress az Phoenix, Ariz-.
December =.
The Courier says that the hsDszornsst ssri
~ Ponca city doesa't walk with the grace
her beauty Suggests.
The editor of tse Sedsors Patriot pub
ushes detailed directions on how 10 get
feeesal sppointn1ea;s-
BlH Bol;sn VII ps-sonaFy appear before
she lezfsiatu-e THIS winfsr snf demand
some nexsvzper legislation
Oklahoma l. not Inclined % a anion with
the InsFsnz. either. unti ths In8izns cieaA
an, Hstie snv1 wipe thesr noseH-
TIE Oklahoma paper srs esvo'ias r.ors
suaoe % cotton rsSnf sl5ox. osasbo1aa a
rosnz into oc;son sise5es every year
Noting car sssazse tse oSizhoras "a
ps-s from the helsef thsf tn Hsrat soy
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01
THE SANTA FEs NEW POLICY.

1t is the local haul. and not the long
haul, which is profitable and which the
railroads of the country will be COMPEL
ed to conserve in the end. For ten years
Or more past the average railway man.
agement has fretted itself to death,
knocked out all possible transportation
profits and ran into the hands of receiy-
erships in long-haul competition in the
interest, not Of the stockholders Of the
road, but for the benefit of initial or
great commercial centers. The average
traffic manager as a rule has preferred
to haul a car thousand miles at a dead
loss of ten or a hundred dollars rather
than to haul a car ten or a hundred
miles for clean cut marginal saving or
profit of ten or fifty dollars. The result
has been the concentration of every
thing at great competitive centers and
the retarding of the development OF
local interests and enterprises out OF
which grow and only which furnish
traffic at paying rates.
By circular letter, elsewhere, it Will
be seen that the Santa Fe has conclud
ed to adopt policy which the Eagle has
urged for years, and which. if it had
been adopted five or ten years ago,
would have saved to Wichita her car
works, her plow works, stove foundries
and twenty like concerns which were
forced by the advantages of the long
haul to locate where they could have
the advantage of initial point cOmpeti-
ton, the roads by such policy depriv-
ing themselves of the only possible
chance of life, by the destruction Of
local traffic growing out Of the conserv-
alton and development of local interests
ard enterprises.
Vice President Morton and his coad-
tutors, in trying to unravel the problem
of how to meet fixed charges and to
save great and magnificent system OF
railway, seem to have gotten on to the
fact that it is the local interests, and not
the terminal interests which make sue
cessful transportation lines possible;
tliat there is infinitely more money in
hauling a thousand cars loaded with To-
cal traffic five miles than to haul one
car five thousand miles the mileage and
power being the same in both instances.
So he has established an Industrial de-
partment for the promotion of local in
terests, to be In charge OF James A.
Davis. The Santa Fe thus proposes to
take care Of and encourage the only
possible source of profitable traffic with
out reference to the demands Of termin-
al combinations.
Having in the past written columns
on this subject, in which we have cited
of the benefits, present and
future, almost innumerable, we are
gratified to know that at least one Kan
sas road-the Kansas road-has at last
realized the wisdom and the possibilities
Of such a policy.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01
BRYAN, THE DEFEATED.

The eulog;sts Of Bryan are in the SEN
timental stage. They have just emerged
from q campaign in which this young
leader with enthusiasm, dash. industry.
egotism. cheek and considerable tact,
bore a conspicuous and spectacular par;
The man became the hero-a synonym
Of the cause. Bryan was on every
tongue, on campaign buttons, in press
dispatches He was ridicuied, praised
and sneered at. He was loved for his
cause and for the enemies he had made.
After all. who is Bryan? Concede
that ne has ability. an intellect OF more
than average order, a skill in debate
that ranks him among the best cam
paigners. and yet, who is Bryan: His
Madison Square speech is the best he
ever did in a sustained logical dis
course What OF il? In the essential
points il was weak. As a congressman
Bryan never rose above being clever"
He has had no experience Of which ii
can be said he has a mature mind Tor
affairs of state He is not statesman
His campaign speeches were oratorical
maneuverings. the strategy Of debate
That's all. Those speeches show tact
but would be OF no earthly help TO any
man in the study of the currency-eoin-
age question
This is Bryan. VIII he be able 70 sus-
tain himself: VIII he be the leader o.
more than six million adult people shar-
ing his money viewsT His followers are
made Up of Popuiists. Democrats and
some Republicans. He is more nearly
a Populist than any leading Democrat,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01
DEMOCRATS AND CIVIL SERVICE.

Again the question Of civil service Is
paramount. Major Mckinley will soon
be president The party workers, the
country over. expect plums. All OF the
great newspapers Of the country, with
possibly a very few exceptions. all The
gold standard Democrats in and out OF
Office, and all non political elements Of
the country, such as business men and
professional gentlemen who do not take
part in the actual work of politics. de-
mand a continuance of civil service re-
form.
There are many authorities for the be-
lief that Mckinley will continue and ex-
tend civil service. There are other au-
thorities that he will not.
The great civil service reformer Of the
times is Grover Cleveland. He is not a
model for any president to follow. A
man Is not success when his own par
ty repudiates him body, soul and
breeches. 1t may be selfish view but
II is none the less forceful with the Re
publican party workers that civil serv-
ice reform did not begin until the Dem
ocrats were occupying public positions
throughout the whole country. Presi-
dent Cleveland did not lock the doors
mt the Democrats were on the inside.
It is not true that the Democrats OF
the nation elected Mckinley. And IL
they had elected him they did not do It
with the understanding that he was to
keep Democrats In Office or with that
hope.
However, II Major Mckinley is, as Is
asserted, a civil service advocate and
will 20 on extending the system. new
turn in politics of the country is certain
ly Imminent. There Is no sense In the
statement that without the hope OF pat
ronage men will not take just as lively
an interest in politics as ever. They VIII
he 1ust as intense In their Individual
voting as ever. But what complete civil
service win do will be to weaken parti'
sanship to such degree that the Old
parties win dissipate and new parties
win gain thereby.
The hope of ofIice does more to keep
the running machinery OF parties In
working order today than any other
agency. Every practical politician
knows this. To remove the hope entire
Iy or to restrict it to the smallest munlci-
,.al office is to put grit in the oil Of the
machine and let partisans 60 OF at
tangent
Il was Bryan's realization Of this that
caused him to Issue the general invita-
ton that should he be elected president,
be would turn everybody out post-hasts
and give the places to the winners.
II is to be hoped that Major McKin-
lev is not an advocate Of the civil serv-
ice fad, particularly at this time when
the Democrats whom the Republicans
had to struggle against for years are
holding the offices by the divine right of
Democratic appointment.
However, n civil service Is going to
continue. there y no question but that
eventually all postofices will be inciud-
ed In She list. fourth-class Offices partic-
ulariy, and that men appointed to these
offices viii retain them during good be-
hayior. II the announcement could be
made today that there would be during
the coming administration no appoint
ments to postofices, the greatest howl
in the history Of the country would go
up
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Major ]. i. Hudson is now scoring
''the idiotic Kansas Prohibitionists." :"
But are they. Mr.. Hudson? Aren't they
not the eXemplars of higher life? Are
not they the enemies of the deyirs own,
the saloouf
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01
ALONG THE KANSAS NrnA

Jerry Simpson on second thought win ret
rnase Myron Reed Of Denver enapiaia al
tAe next house
be mighty little picking for the eonsrsss-
men from Kansas
IN the first story In WIZ wsfe's nsv
book. dis the Congressman run again for
congress or I'D be notf
10. Bristow hates 70 see the nevspapsrs
gpfng Ed L,tls because ns accepted
place AZ small as the prfyass sccretaryssie
to the governor.
An rern IN a Newton paper ssys The pro-
bate Judge '-vss expecting . rush for mar
rsaxs rcenses on account of Tho eod vsy~
bss vss disappointed.
The New York sun edltorfalfy clears up
re rrrnor that John J. ingalls, wrote ths
..whzf-s TIRE Matter With Ksruss' srticss
By explaining the identity Of WIN whi,s.
Tn. talk about Senator Baker ard cv-
Leland being at outs r. al stan and non
-srse. Somebody "a always shopping sroune
m Kansas feeling impossible fres with
rocks
Wanted. To correspond with sone nas
who understands the raising ara care es
xhi.kera Address Candidate for Popui'ss
election TO the United States sensis. care Of
Eagle once.
..Ts il not east against west or north
srasnsf SOUTH" SAD Leedy. after be-
Ing worried ~ aspirsnts- 1T is sI sides
Of the state ssainss the middle ana vics
vera ard al around The compass"
r ]. YooHwalser % IN. Hslsf~zd rn9s-
psn5sn; asasres hts rssdsrs t'sat tss1
overlook ise shortage "a loeaI matter 'sis
week on account Of IRE arrival of tsa-
pound zfrf baby. he vii zee that the sane
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

''Let's see" says the eastern newspa.
per paragrapher, I've hit weyler his
daily crack: and Mrs. Lease: aud the
crowd which is pushing into Canton:
and Kentucky for going Republican:
now. what have l forgot: on. yes.
Kansas Let's see What can / say
mean?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Il is affirmed that Breidenfhal never
entered the race for the senate until he
had Seen enough legislators 70 make his
election sure But cinch win keep no
longer in Kansas than yenison outside
q refrigerator in July.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

John a. Rogers, who succeeds Judge
Parker at Fort Smith. is young man
with 4 gentle face. But these kind OF
hlen occasionally hang. too. and the out
lsw class In the Indian country should
eeep themselves chained.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

r. Burton wants the Republican
vote for him for United States senator
next winter just for the prestige of the
thing. This is the first instance when a
Kansas man ever wanted TO put a fau-
ret on empty prestige.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

At the last election Kansas cast more
votes than at any previous election
since 1855. And she is now casting
more sheep eyes at federal appoint
ments than she ever did before
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Chill refuses TO sell her ,warships to
Spain with which to subject Cuba
Chilli is all right. Occasionally she hurts
herself by thinking she is bigger than
the United States. but ordinarily she is
q dandy.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Emperor William distinguished HIM
self last week 10y ealing a soldiers reg
ular rations out of tin vessel. Won
derful, Is it possible that Williams di:
sestive apparatus is formed just like
common mems?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

"Who is this Mark Hanna% Croker
This was virtually the remark Tom
Plat made a year ago, without having
been in Europe, even
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

do you want to see Jerry SIMPSON,"
asked the guide of the visitor in WASH
lngton. He wears socks now, doesn' t
he?" asked the traveller "Yes," said the
guide NO. answered the tourist.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

That Iowa agricultural paper which
slams it was offered S12, 900 to support
Mckinley, did not support him, and it
is suspected it was paid for its antagon-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Kansas PopuliSrn Is Socialism All
United States money Is in its eyes com
mon money Many a Kansas Pop sigh
ed last week when he read how the
Prince of Wales st Blenheim was help
Ing spend our money.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

1t is rather funny TO hear the Pops
talking about standing up for Kar-
kas." Their principal campaign mater
ial for six years has been the cry that
the Kansas farmers were paupers.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

The Populists confess that the strug-
gle for office now going on in Topeka
hasn't been equaled since the first few
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

While Tom Watson is doing less talk
of the business is that Tom Watson Will
be In 1900, nearer the Populist heart
than Bryan.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

The story that Mckinley is strongly
In favor of extending civil service is a
good thing for office-holding Democrats
10 mix with their dreams, but they
ought not, waking, to bank on it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

"It looks to me-" said a man yester-
day, '.as if the whole nation had gone 10
the dogs, except Kansas"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Perhaps all Thomas Reed desires Is to
get the Mckinley administration 10 rec
ognize his hegemony.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Here is the fact of the Hanna matter:
If Hanna cannot get Sherman's place as
senator next March, he will be secretary
Of the navy.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Strange that so many men should try
to excite the country by stopping at
Canton. and Tom Reed succeeded in do
ing it by not stopping off there.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

The next time Mrs. Lense speaks she
vii, probably say: II would advise Just
a little corn at this time. for a change"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Several Pops who are nagging the life
out of Leedy for place should be adjur-
ed to stand up for Kansas and not lay
down on the governor.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Spain has good cause to be anxious.
Congress will make the fur on the
band of the Spanish pancake hat fly
gIIre
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

While it is generally known that Tom
Reed is not hunting a cabinet position,
1t is also to be hoped he is not hunting
fight
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

1t is plain that UP 10 date the only real
victory gained in Cuba is the Associated
Press interview with Weyler.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Kansas is all right. She is intact, ex-
cept that one corners knocked Oh, ana
Missouri did that
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

What did Bayard and the queen say?
AS Bayard Is So very austere, some
newspaper reporter should tackle the
uuapp
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

Why saw the Kansas football team
wen hands. down? Why not brains
0oEns
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

We infer from several things in the
newspapers that Weyler is liar.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

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fails 20 cure @c.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

"Who's the man puffed up so great,
dear papa?' "He, my son, is a. o. Nc.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01

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SECRETARY NEWCOMERS CIRCULAR
TO REPUBLICANS.
He APPEALS TO THEIR PATRIOTISM
AND DECENCY
The Convention at Houston the Only Hope

Col. j. p. Newcomb, secretary Of
the republican state executive COM
mittee, has issued the following
circular, urging attendance at the
State convention at Houston:
SAN ANTONIO. March 81, 1896.
70 Republicans:
The recent Austin, so-called State
Republican convention, makes the
Republican State convention,
called to meet at Houston on the
goth of April next, imperatively
necessary, In order to rescue re-
publicanism in Texas from COM
plete collapse and humiliation.
The Austin convention was called
in the name of the republican par
ty, and had it been so conducted as
to have fairly reflected the senti-
ment and aspirations Of the intelli-
gent masses of the party in the
state, and at the same time main
tanned the dignity and order that
should mark a great dGliberative
body of free American citizens
there might be less excuse for the
Houston call.
The Austin convention having
disbanded amidst scenes Of rio
and violence the political Organiza
ton it claimed to represent, il
practically at an end.
A large number of worthy anC
patriotic men, who attended tn
Austin convention and witnessed
its disgraceful proceedings ant
disastrous conclusion have re
turned to their homes disguise,
and Inundated, determined neve
again to engage in like pOlitica
fracas. To these gentlemen w
hold out the olive branch of peace
and offer the only reasonable an
practicable solution for party DE-
cency in Texas, tO-wit: A reput
lican organization founded upo
reasonable reform and self-respect
ing decency, Of party action whic
should command the assistance (
every decent republican in I'll
state regardless Of past difference
Do we need any reform in part
methods and organization Yei
after year we have been a
sured that there would
reform in the old organic
ton, and that we were d
ing wrong in organizing an o
position to the disgraceful bOssis
that has dominated the old organ
zation-but things have grow
worse with each succeeding cal
paign for the past ten years, UNI
reaching the climax of indecen
in the present campaign.
All over the state we have be
presented with the spectacle o.
series Of wild, disordered me
ings-so-called conventional
graceful mobs, mostly of color