davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-29
Another HOIdup.

w. H. Hubbell, living at 1929 Flora ave-
nue., was stopped by two footpads about
7:3O o'clock last night, as he was passing
along Forest avenue, near Seventeenth
street. and told to hold up his hands. The
men then went through his pockets. secur-
ing 60 cents and a gold watch.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11

TO stand. Their sphinx-God of Buz-
yards Bay was even inundated. The
Pop party, that despised and hated ag-
gregation of wild-eyed irreconcilables,
has swallowed all that was left of the
greedy remnant of the party Of Jeffer-
son and Jackson Not even mOdicum
of free-trade has been left them TO hang
their hopes upon. There is left TO them
but to soak their sore heads and sulk,
or otherwise repudiate the affiliations
of a life time and turn traitor. There
is no way under heaven TO plaster the
thing over, to excuse, alleviate or de-
fend. It's a gone goose. Mighty in
teresting reading" will the editorial
pages of the Boston, New York, Balt
more and Philadelphia Democratic
goldbug organs make for succeeding
DAYS. or otherwise disgustingly inert
and feeble The Philadelphia Record,
as late as Tuesday morning, declared
that the thing could not be so, that rea-
son would prevail, that the solid sound
money men would stand like phalanx
and finally snatch victory from the
Jaws of death. But death had bad
case of lockjaw and victory didn't
snatch worth a darn. In the vernacu-
lar OF the bloomin' Britisher, ''Oh, no!
'Yere, 'Yerer'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
NOT A ONE MAN CAMPAIGN.

The nomination of Mckinley was a
triumph of the people over the party
bosses who stood SOlidly arrayed
against him. No fact or political
proposition is better Understood or
more universally conceded. There was,
however, that man Hanna, McKinley's
Cleveland friend and manager who was
charged with being boss, but not until
after the people had won by turning
down the bosses and nominating their
choice. To this charge of boSSism,
Mr.. Hanna now replies through an in
tervieW in the New York Mail and Elk
press. He says:
Il desire all questions of Importance
TO be decided in accord with the con-
sensus of opinion of the executive COM
mittee. l will state right here that
this campaign is not going TO be run
on the one man power principle. What
ever some people may have thought
me before the convention, l am not
going to be n car during the campaign
The campaign will be conducted upon
lines determined by what the opinion
of all my advisers decide to be the
best. have myself only one interest,
and that is the success of the Republi-
can party"
In this Mr.. Hanna shows good sense.
1t simply shows that he recognizes the
difference between patriotic leadership
and selfish bOSsiSm- No party can
succeed without leaders. But no party
can succeed with bosses Ii is not
necessary for members of the executive
committee to have their individuality
effaced. There may be wisdom in the
multitude of counsel as well as in the
exclusive opinions of one man. When
Mr.. Hanna proposed TO leave the man.
agement OF the campaign in the hands
of the executive committee, he recog-
nized that the wisdom OF a majority of
the tried and trusted leaders of the
party is better than the unsupported
judgment of one man. The manage
menr of the Republican party should al
ways be kept in the hands OF the peo-
pie acting through their chosen repre-
sentativeS 1t should never be allowed
10 degenerate into one man affair.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
TINE WORLDS GREAT WORKSHOP.


Hitherto the United States has figur-
ed among the commercial nations of
the world as a large vendor of raw
materials and food stuffs. and heavy
purchaser of finished articles of manu-
facture This has been the natural
position of a comparatively new coun-
try, with vast productive area, i'm
menSe mineral resources. and rela-
lively scanty population. Today there
are many signs that a change is i'm
pending and has indeed already be-
gun; that America is ready to enter the
lists as a manufacturing nation, and
to become the worlds great workshop
rather than its granary.
1t has been shown repeatedly that
with the continued increase of our own
population, and with the exhaustion OF
the virgin areas of the west, we ere
steadily approaching a point at which
we shall have no surplus of food ma
terials to export On the other hand,
the extension of our manufacturing in
duStries and the progress of our me-
chapical invention have given US the
power to find for our finished wares a
wide and rapidly growing market in
foreign countries.
Tee tendency in this direction has
been especially marked in the last few
wears. American moving and reaping
machines are now the standard in near
" all countries. American clocks and
American tools are equally well known.
The mining machinery OF South Africa
Is American. We furnish cotton ties
to India, bar iron to China, and iron
pipes all over the Notwithstanding
English goods even in England itself
We have recently begun TO send abroad
fine cloths and shoes, and paper is an
other new and important article of eX-
port. In these and other lines our
great advantage as manufacturers lies
in our rapid improvement of ma
chinery. 1t may be said that where
the European workman is satisfied to
follow the method that he has learned,
the American Is continually trying to
''gO it one better" You go into a
factory one day" a New York meT-
chant is reported as saying. ''and you
will see something being done by hand;
YOU GO there next week, and you viii
ind that some workman in the factory
has invented 4 machine 20 do the
work" In the manufacture of ma
chinery we are always in the lead, and
the foreigner who thinks 10 compete
with Us by buying our machines finds
THAI by the time he gets them set up
they are back numbers in this country.
We have invented something better,
something faster, and we beat him out
Just the same.
America VIII in the near future dom
mate al the markets of the world in
the production OF manufactured
goods" This may perhaps be some
what sanguine estimate Of the pace Of
our industrial progress. yet it is an in
tereSUng statemenut based on unqueS-
toned facts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
FOURTH OF JULY AFTER THOUGHT.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
Last Saturday. for the one hundred and
twentieth time, the American people cele-
brated the day on which thirteen colonies
declared themselves Independent of Great
Britain and set up business for them
selves. Those rebels against the Lords
anointed had goodly number Of griev-
ances 10 complain of. There were quite
a number of counts in the Indictment
against King George. but the most intol-
cradle of the batch Of deviltries was for
imposing taxes on US without our cOE-
sent" Now after 10 years Of self-gOv-
eminent the people of this country find
today that, instead Of one ruler taxing
them without their consent, they have a
score of millionaire monopolis;s. princi-
paily centered in New York, who impose
taxes on the people of this country with
out their consent, but with the tacit as
sent OF the law, compared with which the
taxes OF King George were insignificant.
One man and a few friends have sue
ceeded by fraudulent schemlng II getting
the complete monopoly OF one OF the
necessaries OF Ife-a free gift OF nature.
too-namely. coal oil and gasoline; and he
-
price OF this daily necessity OF the people
3 on % per cent, thus imposing an extra
tax bf cents a day on every family II
the Union.
The people OF today submit 10 this gross
injustice and tyrann.cal imposition WIKI
out murmur o. a shrug OF the shoulders
What are you going TO do about ~
tact admission that we can Go nothing.
but have 20 submit 20 he exscuons %
our rulers This correctly represents the
attitude OF free-born, liberty loving Amer
icans after ID years OF Independence Let
Us recognize The fact that We a7e today
ruled by s rfnE OF moaopotsts. Il may
wound our self-loEe, lover oCr self-Te-
spect. and disturb bone pleasing illusions.
but Il Is sober fact al the same that Tie
boasce5 liberty OF Americans ia To-Day II
reality q painfully doubtful quantity A.
other mouopoEst controls the p1ce q
sugar and can put rs hand practically
into The pocket OF every man AID woman
In the country ard compel them - pay
him ore or two cents q pound extra Tor
their sugar whenever Il suits him An
ether Ionopoisst n the east controls The
price o. -four. another controls 1lea:, AZ
othe- eoGee-ochers eonbsnatsozs levy a
tax on Leather a-f recently compelled
everyone q rs 20 pay - cents pair more
for or Shoes TIE rzane O. trusts = -
gioo The-e = Aa7siy Necessary o IL
that = not ta= subject OF a oozofnA1oa
for srtaching tie pscp.s-
II Europe Tie government gave tie
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
WICHITA EAGLE PRESS.

for the rsTt thirty years. Il VIII tzke ,ls
Democrats thE- i5zx 20 get over -
Al over the state ihls ysar thers .
general pr0tsst agzlrz1; Ts1easss al b-ss-
tzAty on - FosErra % JglY. Ths p~sgls
are Estti-E bioo5thirsty saa r e cr2syzzE
ca T. taa.r groEszT-
Yes 81 e Flepshltcza 20 a rsno-
crate pos-rnazte-. 4 have 1T ne Reyub-
lcza parry. W. vote tns Dezoe-asse
Jlckst AID - a eS1clzsss nsz1 sp-inE Tor
ne Dastossce z a De-noc-zs = sss-sez
Drssz5ezt" T1ss Der-.pcrst ~sltes 9 -
ARD al Say. oo1't yoa fhirk usere -
Eo-ae saoS fsr ia<eTzztiozai sxree=s-nL
as.er AL
Ths Atcslsoa CioSs tesls tAss sso-Y.
JaeSs A-rel Al EcE.lsgsy wee s-aoos-
boss toE~-se-- ORE Gay Ar7r1 nassed
ssrpble-I fof 1fctfz5s zzs4 ~ EslaseT sst4.
--Is'he2 ! - 70 - gros1sezt ~1ll sraks
ycl eez-ef 3zsace~ Arreli. 40 Ewes a.
FftusurK. s4~ Sez1aEey - otker esF
4rss rsznin3--z stsa q tse Ssl-a-s-- ~
EL-1s5 s~cssz1ls-s9 .
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
PROHIBITION TO THE FORE.

Mr.. Joshua lowering OF Baitlmores
the nominee of the Prohibition party
for the presidency, opened his cam
paign Saturday last, at the National
Prohibition park, Staten Island Mr..
lowering made a vigorous attack upon
the evils Of the liquor traffic, which, he
argued, is the dominant issue of the
day. He discussed the moral aspect
of the question and contended that the
overthrow of the saloon would reduce
poverty, lessen crime. minimize poiu-'
cal corruption and be blessing 70 man
kind in a spiritual sense. Mr.. Lever
ing gave statistics in support or his
contention, and asserted as his convlc-
ton that san outraged public would
not permit the liquor traffic 10 exist
for forty eight hours did it not have
the protection of the various states and
the general government on account of
their license and revenue laws" While
recognizing that the Republican na-
tional convention sought TO steal pro-
hibition thunder, Mr.. lowering asserts
that the language of the Republican
platform is not as clear or strong as
resolutions frequently passed by the
liquor dealers associations. He in
sists that the issue of prohibition is
more important than the tariff or the
free coinage of silver, and, in regard
to national finance, recognizes the
great Importance for the welfare of
the people in every section of the coun-
try Of stable currency equal to the
best and worth what 1t purportS 10
be in every country on the globe"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Dennis Flynn will make speeches In
Greer county this fall.
1t takes $40 to repair the Guthrie school
house which was hurt by the windsorm.
What do the Democrats expect to offer
the free homesteaders in Oklahoma this
year?
The electric light company of FL Reno
is now furnishing illumination TO resi-
dences.
There isn't a single gold standard paper
in Oklahoma and no Democratic papers
will bolt
William hardwood. near Guthrie. has
eighteen pound cabbages on his place. he
irrigated.
An Oklahoma Democrat says a Demo
crat is like a rumor-he wants 10 gain
currency.
1t doesn't appear that the Oklahoma
delegation at Chicago got anything IT
went for.
1t will come out later why the Demo
cratic national convention sat down on
free homes.
Marsh Lambert lives at Newkirk and Is
a brother Of Ike Lambert, the Kansas
politician and tsatesman
Ira Terrin must some day be brought
back TO Oklahoma to be re-sentenced.
1t is then that he expects to get away.
Although Bill Dooln is out it IS marbles
AGAINST rnonarchies that he will not do
any more killing unless he is cornered-
Bill Doolin will probably take chances
and come into some town in order TO hear
rha result of the Democratic convention.
The splendid account of the escape OF
poolin in the Eagle the other morning
should have been credited TO the Guthrie
Leader.
Guthrie Leader: The silly story Is again
going the rounds that postal clerks have
been ordered not to receive mail at the
cars. Nothing IN IT.
An Oklahoma editor recently received
the following note: These lines arc writ
ten fifty years ago by one who has kept
his grave just for psstime-"
The FL Reno editors VIII some day I'M
derstand that readers do not pay sub
scripuons for witnessing a newspaper
fight. People get very tired OF that sort
of thing.
During a recent cyclone q fellow was
picked I'D and when he lit he discovered
that he was smotherins to death. He
made a struggle and discovered that a
bucket Of peach butter had fallen. bottom
side up, over his head.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
100 YEARS TO-DAY.

Today Detroit VIII celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary OF the evacua-
ton Of that city 10y the British troops
Although the place had oeen ceded To
the Co.ted States ny Greav Britain in
tie treaty Of 1,S5. tbirJeep years were
allowed 10 cial>e ere the new republic
took formal military possession De
dignity OF a town Ii had been fort
and trading post from the Old French
days. and Pontaic's famous siege had
served 10 prevent the settlement OF
eoloniSJs during the days OF the early
British occupancy The French had
surrendered Fort Pontchartrain u the
Eugilsh on November -. 176o. 50 that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11

The Eagle has often been criticised
for declaring that female suffrage
meant public life for woman, and that
no woman who had participated in pub
lie life would ever be happy again
as a homekeeper. Mrs. Eva Black
man, bright and happy Kansas wo-
man with a. well-to-do husband, got the
political bee in her bonnet and finally
succeeded in being appointed as one
of the police commissioners of Leav-
enworth city. AS such commissioner
for quite a season she cut a consider
able swell. Mrs. Eva, who is now out
of Office, is also out of a husband. She
was divorced ON Wednesday of this
week from the man who couldn't keep
up with her according TO her ideas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
GOODBYE JOHN.

Again has the unexpected happened,
politically. Three days ago few peo-
pie thought of the nomination of Bryan,
by the Democratic party, in convention,
at Chicago, as a possibility, much less
a probability. With little or no record
as public man, a mere youth as COM
! pared to the other veteran candidates,
he was but seeking recognition as the
| head of a conteSting silver delegation
from one Of the newest prairie states
of the TransmisSouri country. The
nomination of a silver man, even If Of
an experienced man of affairs and from
one of the older states, would have
proved NORWOOD and gall TO the fin
ancial and commercial elements Of the
Atlantic seaboard, which have so long
dominated the public policies of the
country. But a young man from the
prairies of the west holding to political
convictions held to be downright pol
itical hereSies by the conservative lead
ers of the great centers Of population
of the country; man with nothing
more than a local record, without ex-
perience in statescraft, whose admit
ted brilliancy has been held TO be err
ratio, and even lunacy, his claim and
prestige being but an oratorical effort
Of brief twenty minutes on the ros-
t rum of the convention which fell
down 10 worship him, because that sue
ceeding the opposition speeches Of three
acknowledged statesmen he had OPP
portunely voiced the sentiments and
assured a majority well nigh panic
stricken, before he came to their rescue.
What the result of this nomination,
how it will be accepted by the country
at large, by the old southern states
whose Democracy is perforated with
POpuliSIn, is impossible to conjecture
at this time. That it will shock and
bring CONSERVATION to the Democracy
of the east Atlantic states goes without
saying Downright fear will succeed
distrust on Wall street, while financial
trusts and bond combines will frOth
with rage There viii be blank aston
ishmest in many other quarters. By
this compromise the Populist and Silver
parties are wiped out in a single roll
call. and the traditional tenets of the
historical Democratic party of Andrew
Jackson and Grover Cleveland cease to
be. if no bolt. but acquieScence follows.
Principles and policies old as the nation
in his election would be relegated for
rev and untried theories.
To the average Republican the re-
Election will come that the POpulist
party. which seeded from the Republi-
can party, and started out, not demand
ing silver but demanding fat money,
bonded warehouses and the ownership
of railways, telegraph lines and the
like. has been swallowed up by this re-
vamped Democracy, and not by promis-
ing what the Populists demanded in
the Omaha platform, but by cOmpar-
atively new and wholly unexpected is
sue.
The Democratic party of Cleveland
is gone, the POpulist party of PETER is
gone, the silver horde Of Harvey is
gone, and we have in their stead new
and untried enunciations with a new
and utried head and leader, accepted,
not upon his record, for he has none,
but upon mere professed faith and
promises.
''What fall was there, oh, my coun-
trymen."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
OH Hon 'YERE! 'YEREu

UnqueStiOnably there were 2 number
of western Republican papers put into
4 hole on the silver question, by the
St Louis national convention. bur the
number does not compare with that OF
the eastern papers put into a hole on
the gold question by the Chicago con-
vention. The gold hole Is deeper.
darker and lined with doom. The
western silver Republican paper has
an ideal candidate left 10 II. who is
statesman and patriot together with
a platform that suits him in every par
ticular. save one. The eastern solibug
paper has nothing left either in PLAT
form or candidate. The one is an
enemy, the other n menace. In the
event Of no boiling ticket. the great
metropolitan goldbug organs viii be
left standing in vile soup neck deep.
choking down an unsavory dish OF
crow, defuncr crow, 80 dead as 10
stink 10 high heaven. There Is no hole
for the go4dbug organ 10 creep through.
no plank Of any character left on which
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
ALONG THE KANSAS NILs

MI. Vandevere OF Hoxie, Kansas, has
quit the Republican party.
The Pratt Republican says that Morrill,
won the delegates out there
Ed Little delivers a free silver speech
at Council Grove on the 18th.
The Greesey County Republican says
that sam Peters has coolies OF friends in
that county.
Judge T. z. Carver Of salIna, says en-
phat!csIIy that ne Is not a candidate for
chief justice.
The bicycle men Of the state will fight
for a good roads plank in the state Re
publican platform
The Topeka Journal says that Morrill
himself appointed al the deputies at the
Kansas peEiteniary.
All tire joints in Topeka were ra4ded
last Tuesday evening, in order TO Jolt the
Troutman boom q little.
Breidenthal. Harris. Doster and LEVEL
ing are the four del@gate-a;-large TO the
Pop convention in 81. Louis July p
Sol Miller thinks that ingalls, should rot
around among the people and ad0yt him
self 10 circumstances as Burton does
I'd Howe woulf have fought Bland Nr.
Bland has a daughter who wears glasses.
and Howe suspects that she Is literary
The Lawrence Journal accounts for Tire
silver craze b. declaring that the silver
men this year have decided 70 sand to
gether-
The Democratic convection al Chicago
caused great deal more excitement in
kansas than Sly national Democratic
cOatloa ever he'd before
The roadbed between Florence and En-
poria o. the Santa Fe. Just nov repaired
ard -e-raiss5 with steel. - sad 20 be tie
6esc stretch OF metal 4 thai system
Father EsEr.dEe says that ingalls, should
10; KICK o. that forged letter-trat u wa
unoommorly well writer L Is true that
il Vas a nlAstarf1l thing Who ID III
The Foldbugs n th< Fourth district have
concludss9 Tot - make Charles Curtis
cos rot agree with ths St. Lsu.s 1-anc.sl
plank
Warren Foster. who used % run = Popa-
Est paper ~ Hgtca4nso1. = Tow = Po7a-
Esz nominee lo- o0agresz n Utah There
wasn't room II KAnszs % run, 20 he
moved or
II or1e- % cheer ID disseminated RsS-'o-
beans n KzEszs The Lzwr-ncs Journal
points out t-5gzghazisy hat eett-aE ~
IA New York are pstt.zg - ssz % o1s
o. Mckinley.
II their o7ssszt izsortsret N1as@ Re
Reyubl5ca1s % Eazsss. = So Alls-res
cr.nson, car bs Wb.ppe5 % re face q
re ez-;h y half ihe-r aa-lse- q seii-
Organized III
II yoa wait = more co1piees acc0-1zt q
ssse Democratic cozFezsl0a yen car Eet i
~ Es41zg ia r=c4zZs e.~-t.0s SsSra-zss
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
KEEP YouR MoUTH SLUT.

Talking too much has undone several
leading candidates for the Democratic nom
nation for the presidency. A few days
ago a speech by Boies was brought 10
light in which he upheld President Cleve-
lands action in sending federal troops
into Illinois in 1894. This cost him Alt
geld's support, and the support of the
Populists. Senator Teller is done UP by
a speech made some years ago, uphold
ing President Cleveland, and denouncing
strikers as Anarchists. William McKin-
ley's strength lies in the fact that he says
nothing The wisdom Of keeping your
mouth shut is more apparent every day
Atchison Globe.
You don't keep yours shut, as the
above proves. But consening to the
correctness of the conclusion it follows
that an editor, who is compelled TO have
his say every day, should never aspire
to Office A fixed and rigid weather
cock may prove ornamental but never
useful, while vane that works well
will s6on be found to have pointed at
every point Of the compass. A states
man who never opens his mouth can
never prove his craftsmanship, while
If he does open his mouth he will never
have the chance of being a statesman.
Elevation to Office is a matter of chance
and luck. and fools more often than
wise men strike it. If man wants
to be a man he must go on expressing
his honest convictions, without refer
ence to what he may or may not have
said under different conditions and at
times when he knew less. and without
reference to the bearing it may have on
his future or his chances for Office.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-11
COMPLETELY oUTaENERALED.

The Cuban correspondent of the Lon
don Times, in speaking Of the policy or
the insurgents in avoiding pitched bat
ties and in exhausting Spanish re-
sources by running the island, says that
these tactics have been completely sue
cessful. The Spaniards have been out
generated and outwitted on every occa-
sion; the insurgents control the country
districts, and General Weyler's admin
istration can no longer enforce taxa
ton or compliance with the laws. The
Spanish troops have been utterly in
active during the past four months, and
are now confronted with four-months
rainy season, besides being beset by
the dreadful yellow fever. The in
surgents are like the Russian car who
said that his strongest allies against
any invader were Generals January
and February. The rebels in Cuba
have now the aid of the rainy season
and yellow Jack" which will still
further loosen SPANS feeble grasp
upon the island.