Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
KANSAS TOPICS.

Inc immensely OF the business trans
acted py the Republican state committee
OF Kansas may be imagined from the fact
that 1T has already paid out more than
$4,000 in postage.
w. L. Brown. editor of the Kingman
Journal. who Is known throughout the
length and breadth of the Seventh district
as iron-Jawed Brown" is said to have
Dec Sl,1OO that Bryan will carry Kansas
and that Jerry Simpson will beat Chester
Lons-dividing the sum equally between
the two bets.
Farmer Webb McNall came to town yes-
terday and bet the SIS which he had ac-
cumuiated by selling load of wheat at
tne advanced price. which shows tha,
Wheat and silver do not stay together, that
Bryan would carry Kansas.
Inc nre company boys at Perry have
named their hose cart horses Mary Ellen
Lease and William Jennings BRYAN. The
enormify OF this offense NAV ba realized
when 1t is stated that neither of the horses
! are mares.
WI NAT Kind OF man is the editor of the
Winheid courier anyway In the midst
OF the beilow of political thunder and clash
OF human carnage he tries to Introduce this
eherVatins agricultural issue: Wheat is
looking very nice and If nothing happens
| VIII go into winter quarters In the best
shape tor three years past"
according to the Dillon Republican, Hem
| ry peterson, who has been a Populist for
| many years. finished reading Bob Inger-
soilS speech and dashed his Bryan button
to the floor, with the remark: THAT set
Ties 1t; am for Mckinley and sound
money"
|
Ihree Populist nominees for township Of
noes In Linn county have within the past
week thrown away their Bryan emblems
ana declared In newspaper interviews for
mckinley and sound money. 1t is now
Claimed that Linn county is safe for the
entire Republican ticket throush changes
which have been taking place.
! 1T may be true" remarks the Cleveland
| o., Leader, that Jerry Simpson goes in
| his shirt sleeves, drinks out of the water
pitcher instead Of the glass and wipes his
nose on his sleeve while addressing the
| slaves and serfs Of Kansas. but when he
| came to Cleveland to partake of a cham
payne supper with Tom johnson he wore
| a swallow-tailed coat and conducted him.
self with the outward appearances OF .
| gentleman"
The visit Of George r. Peck to Kansas
revives the memory that 1t was he who
brought Governor Lewelling to subjVgation
In the legislative war Of 1886, when all other
influences had failed.
P. H. Albright. a money loaner Of Win
| field, has issued a political pamphlet in
| which he declares that II Frank Doster is
elected chief justice, capital will hide out
from Kansas like the devil does from holy
| water.
1 Vat - haa
| blooded old uncle in Kentucky who has
| sent him 81. 900 to bet that Mckinley car
ries that state. In transmitting the money
| the old fellow says bet against Mckinley
cannot be found In kentucky at less than
| two to one odds.
That DR.. c. ". Littlefeld, of Clay Cen.
ter, who has been finding omes in the
| stars which predict the election Of Bryan.
| appears to have overlooked the fact that
| on the night of November the silvery
moon will have waned through its last
quarter and disappeared. W
In the course Of one Of his political
speeches in Illinois General Fannie de-
clared that Kansas has an awful black
eye. This may be true. but Kansas will
pull the beefsteak away on November
long enough to see how to vote her ticket
right
L
Richard Dunn, of Hiawatha. viii next
Tuesday cast his eighteenth vote for pres
ident. He first voted for John Quincy
Adams in 1894 and up to the present time
has never voted for any but Democratic
candidates. Now. at the age Of 90. he in
tends to vote for William Mckinley.
In summing up this campaign Of educa-
tion due credit should not be denied to
Mr.. ]. ]. Hit. of Topeka. who declared in
a Bryan speech at Oakley the other day
that the opening of the mints to free COIN
age would place 100000 miners at work.
American alliances with the nobility are
not entirely restricted to an exchange OF
our wealthy daughters for European titles.
| DIR. Sidney d. Fitzgerald, OF Lacrosse.
Rush county, was last week married to
Madeline E. Haviland, daughter Of the
late governor Of Prince Edward island. Of
| which province the doctor was . former
| resident. The ceremony took place at
Philadelphia and the doctor will bring h1s
bride at once to their Kansas home.
|
I'VE have been asked to define our posi-
tion on the financial question. as our read
ers claim they cannot tell whether we are
for free silver or sound money" remarks
| the Holbrook Herald. I'm the early part
of the performance we were for Mckinley.
4 nNtll seven SuDSCTlDeTS EOt Hlau anu
stopped their papers. We then came out
for Bryan and lost eight more. We have
now Topped back to Mckinley. and ex-
pect to stay there until constructing"
Last Sunday afternoon a stalwart young
man. accompanied by a rosy-cheeked lass.
| applied at the residence of the probate
judge of Mcpherson county for marriage
license. The judge informed the couple
that the document could not be issued on
Sunday. The intended groom looked chop
fallen, but presently rallied with the In
Quiry If license could be issued right after
| midnight. He was informed that this would
| be legal, and that while II was a some
what unusual hour for performing mar
riage ceremonies, the judge would sit up
| to accommodate him. With a patience
which would have put the record Of Job
| to rout, the young folks took seat in the
parlor. and for eight long hours held each
others hands and watched the clock. When
the hour of midnight struck. the judge
| filled out the license and performed the
| ceremony and the youngsters went on their
way rejoicing.
People who are familiar with the meth
| DDS and character of the Populist party in
| Kansas are not at a loss for an under
| standing of how Chairman John Breiden-
| thai became goaded into writing the now
famous Vincent letter. The Populist Lead
ers never pay a cent toward campaign ex-
penses II they can possibly get out of it.
| Mr.. Breidenthal has been trying to keep
| a great state campaign alive on fund
| which he declares Is less than $500 and be-