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, 1897-03-16
PERSONAL

Swan A. johnson left for Cincinnati
last night.
Mrs. Robert Barron left for Loveland,
Colo. last night.
Mrs. W. D. Thomas left for Pit,sburg.
Pa, on the noon train.
Ora Haley returned home from the
west On the noon train.
Councilman A. c. Jones has returned
from his outing in the country.
N. c. Nichols, formerly chief train
dispatcher on the Sixth district, passed
e on train No. 3.
Jaw. Young will leave England for
Laramie the end Of March. N. e. Ores,
ley leaves April 7th.
D: O. Clark. superintendent OF the
coal department Of the Union Pacific,
passed west on train No. 3.
General Car Foreman w. j. A,tridge
has gone to Green River for the purpose
Of establishing a general inspection
point, the same as at Cheyenne, Omaho
Denver, etc. This Is made by
the segregation of the Short Line. which
took place hast night at midnight.
KILLED BY A WIENERWURST.
The post surgeon OF Fort Russell held
. post mortem examination last week
over the remains of Private Collie, whc
died Wednesday night under suspicious
, 1897-03-16

Legal blanks At this omea.
, 1897-03-16

Truly Astonishing.-Miss Annette N.
Moen, Fountain, MIMI, says: Ayers
Cherry Pectoral has had a wonderful eff
feet in curing my brother's children OF a
severe and dangerous cold. 1t was tru-
ly astonishing how speedily they found
relief after taking this preparation"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
History and Ducks.

From the Washington Post.
MIR. William ]. Bryan. who. a few months
ago, seriously contemplated becoming pres
ident of the United States. has proclaimed
another accomplishment. During his brief
engagement as candidate for president
he unfolded to the public view quite
number of unsupported resources. He was
known to be an orator, but beyond that
he was not credited with very much. Be
fore 1t was definitely settled as to his pres
idential ambition there was a lurking sus-
picion that he was considerable OF an all
around man.
Within the past few days Mr.. Bryan has
shown himself to be more than ever worthy
of the admiration of his fellow citizens.
He has been duck hunting, and ex-Gov-
ernor Hogg, of Texas, certifies to his be-
ing an excellent shot at ducks Colonel
Hogg and Mr.. Bryan together got one hun
dred and twenty-five ducks, and the lat
ter modestly admits that he took his share
II Is probably just as well that this duck
hunt didn't take place before election Had
it been generally known, previous TO last
November, that Mr.. Bryan could shoot
ducks as well as Mr.. Cleveland, many an
admirer of Mr.. cleveland would have cast
his vote for Mr.. Bryan. Their devotion to
Mr.. Cleveland and the gold standard might
have been shaken had they known of Mr..
Bryan's abilities as a shooter of ducks.
With it stand-off on ducks. only the
question of gold or silver would have re-
manned and hundreds of ardent sportsmen
might have turned TO Mr.. Bryan as the
legitimate successor of the present chief
executive.
Perhaps it is just as we'll that Mr.. Bryan
has but lately shot ducks. 1t is just pos
sible that ducks might have changed the
destiny of The nation. Great events have
hinged on smaller things than ducks. Alb
surd and ridiculous tri1es have altered the
history of Europe and even changed the
map of that country, and this great re-
public should avoid such disasters. We
are in luck that this duck killing comes
too late to do any harm. The country is
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

toes and starch, castor beans, fiaxseed,
meat products: poultry. vegetables, salt
and hay are among the agricultural prod
ucts upon which the Mckinley duty is
restored. The advanced duty on all these
articles will be of direct benefit to Ameri-
can farmers, and will greatly assist in the
restoration of the agricultural industry to
a condition of prosperity.
The new measure will soon be completed,
and if there be no factious opposition it
can be enacted into law within a few
weeks after it is laid before the house.
There need be and should be no very pro-
tracted debate in Republican congress
over q protective measure drafted in ac-
cordance with Republican principles and
in response TO the emphatically expressed
will of large majority Of the American
people. The sooner it can be put into
operation the sooner the promises of re-
turning prosperity will be fulfilled.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
A POPULIST TRIBUTE TO REPUBLIC


At the Kansas day banquet in Topeka
one of the orators delivered an address
which has since been spoken of by tho
state press as the finest tribute 20 the Re
publican party which has been uttered for
many n year.
With due appreciation of the cloquence
and effectiveness OF the address which is
thus characterized. The journal must new
erless beg TO differ from the verdict of the
Kansas press. The finest tribute which
has ever been paid to the Republican party
OF Kansas may be found in the message
of Governor John W. Leedy. recently deliv-
cred 10 the Kansas legislature.
Commencing away back in the early days
OF the Farmers Alliance, and continuing
down through the developing stages Of
Populism, the people OF Kansas have been
told that the Republican party had grossly
misused the power of state government
which had been for so many years vested
in it. 1t was charged from the stump and
in the opposition press tnat the state insti-
tutions had been mismanaged, that money
had been squandered, that power had been
abused. and. in short. that the whole inter-
nal machinery was in n wocful state OF
disorgsuization. corruption and decay. So
~ociferousiy and prrsistnutly did the oppo-
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

sition present these charges that doubtless
many good people came to believe them
and were influenced TO vote for a change
which would expose the evils and bring
about their reformation.
Now comes John w. Leedy-elected by
this accusatory opposition, filled with the
venom of partisan prejudice, equipped with
a determination to expose Republican cor
ruption on every hand, and no doubt hon
estly believing in its existence-and what
does he say? Through column after col
umn he recounts the glories of Kansas and
piles compliment after compliment upon
the institutions which were created by the
Republican party and by it carried to their
present splendid state of development.
Can there be found in this message one
word of complaint or suggestion of re-
form? In. its lines or between its lines is
there anything to be read of the corruption
and mismanagement and disorganization
and decay which were so loudly charged
in the campaign? Is there an intimation
anywhere that money has been squandered
or power misused or incapacity permitted
TO hold sway? Not paragraph. Not n
sentence. Not a word.
Therefore We are prepared to defend the
proposition that this first message of the
PopuIist governor of Kansas is the finest
tribute which has ever been paid to the
Republican party of Kansas. and by its
side the eIoqucnce at the Kansas day ban
quet can hold no place.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

From the Philadelphia Record.
The terrible affliction of insanity which
has fallen upon the Hungarian artist,
Michael Munkacsy, as the climax of his
attack of spinal paralysis, will stir the
sympathy of the American people more
perhaps than the art-lovers of any other
part of the world outside of Paris and
his native land. 1t was from America that
Munkacsy's first notable recognition came,
and it was the commission given him by
the late William P. Wilstach that led to
his Paris salon triumph of 1870. That mas
terly canvas, THE Last Day of the Con-
demned," inspired by Victor Hugo's ro-
nance, can now be seen on the walls of
Memorial hall in the Wilstach fund collec-
ton so generously bequeathed to the public
of Philadelphia. 1t is worthy of deep
study-not alone for the rugged strength of
its own treatment, but as embodying all
those characteristics of style which Mum
kacsy was wont to use even more wonder
fully in his three masterpieces.
Two of these three-the Christ Before
Plate and the Christ on Calvary"
painted in 1852 and 1884, respectively-were
purchased by Mr.. John Wanamaker and
are among the art treasures of Philadel-
phia to-day, as are several other of the
artists works. Christ Before Plate" ap-
theme but in its psychological realism, has
been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands
throughout the United States: and. it is
safe to say. has served as an inspiring
elucidation to many of that critical epi-
sode in the tragedy of Jesus. 1t was a
theme admirably adapted to Munkacsy's
genius. and his keen insight into human
nature is striking in the canvas as the
painters art. In the Calvary" however,
Munkacsy approached 4 too spiritual task,
and failed to achieve the same success.
1t is as forcible an interpreter of human
situations, ideas, and emotions that he
was at his best. He caught, however. the
sad spiritual atmosphere of the scene of
the dying Mozart in his painting of the
last musical effort of that unhappy Prince
of Melody. That canvas is now the prop
erty of General Russell A. Alger, of De-
troit Mich, so that America possesses the
true gallery of 'Munkacsian masterpieces
entire.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
What Ais Washington .

From the Chicago Post.
Gradually the lid is being lifted off the
political situation in the state of Washing
tor and we are finding out what ails that
splendid commonwealth that has wandered
into the fields of 5O-cent fiatism and re-
pudiation. When she went hell bent for
Bryan by Il plurality of 12,493 political
statisticans stared at the figures and ex-
claimed, What ails Washington" When
sober people throughout the country read
that she had elected an ex-Kansas Popu-
list named Rogers governor by about the
same plurality and had chosen a legisla-
ture with a Populist majority of 81 to IS
they lifted their eyebrows and said to each
other, What ails Washington"
The press and business men of Washing
ton were incensed at the question They
resented an interrogatory that seemed to
place Washington in the same category
with Kansas and Nebraska as a state smit-
ten with a plague of financial hcresy and
bad faith. They attempted to account for
the political cataclysm by saying that it
was due to the collapse of the business
boom that had fingered longer and fallen
Halter there than in any other state. They
said that Washington was all right and
that capital ought not to take any alarm
over what was mere temporary furry.
But now Washington again affords the
political sensation of the hour. Those
stern opponents of corruption. the loud
voiced and hard-handed Populists of Wash
ington, who constitute the majority of the
state legislature, are investigating them
selves and find that they are about as
cheap and venal crew as was ever
boosted into office by a tidal wave. No
fewer than twenty of them are accused of
being ready to sell themselves and their
party for base Republican gold. The scan
dal has excited CONSERVATION throughout
the state and the effects of it will be felt
in the city of Washington when the sena-
tor-elect journeys thither.
What ails Washington? We should say
that the fusion of ignorant fanaticism with
lust for office has infected the entire po-
litical atmosphere of the state.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
MISSOURI POINTS.

Some of the Fulton editors cry out in an
CRY protest against the scheme to so extend
the municipal limits as to take in the asy-
lum grounds and thus add 900 more luna
tics to the population of the capital of the
kingdom of Galloway"
-"
Corn is selling for $1.1O barrel in Boone
county, while in Carroll county apples are
offered at 81 a barrel.
Mrs. Malinda Anderson, a Cedar creek
woman. 81 years old. was very appropri-
ately baptized as a Latter Day Saint re-
Gently, her third experiment with the font,
1t is said.
. The University football teams run of
hard luck continues. Somebody has recent
ly composed march and dedicated it to
the Missouri Tigers
Howard county is looking forward with
pleasant anticipations TO the time in the
near future when its railroad debt will
have been entirely Cancelled.
Carrollton is almost the only town of its
class in the state which is without a cur
few ordinance, and agitation has begun
there in favor Of the enactment of one.
A Livingston county horse was sold to
Chillicothe for the use of the fire depart
ment for $125 the other day. Information is
lacking on that point, but the presumption
is that the difference of S121.S5 between the
sum paid and the market price of other
horses in that locality is chargeable to the
gold plating on the halter
The efforts of the pastor of the Methodist
church in Chillicothe In the revival meet
ings now going on there are to be supple
mented for n time by the assistance OF
Bishop Bowman, the famous prelate hav-
ing promised his presence later in the
week.
The marriage of Oscar Randall and Ber-
tie DeVaul in Chillicothe a day or two ago
resulted in a somewhat mixed relationship
the groom being the son by her first hus-
band of the brides stepmother, Mr.. De-
Vauls second wife. Among the complica-
tions the groom secures a mother-in-law in
the person of, his own maternal ancestor,
and the bride occupies a similar relation
ship with reference to her father.
The advance agent of prosperity seems
to have included Boone county i'll his route
book. The statements of the banks there
show an increase of more than $50, 600 in
their deposits during the last six months
Green county's Republican central COM
mittee decided at its meeting the other day
that local applicants for pie under the in
coming administration will have to work
out their own salvation, as no official in
dorsement will be given by the committee
in aid of anyone.
The manager Of the opera house there
! claims Columbia is the best show town
in the state outside the large cities. spend
ing $500 to 5000 year on straight theat-
ricals and running the total up TO $4,000 OF
| $12, 600 il 4 genuine red lemonade circus
| happens along. Monte Cristo" holds the
| record for the biggest single nights re.
| ceipts, having drawn s1,0S1 into the box
| Office.
The members of Springield's Ministers
| Alliance tackled the Cuban question al
l their Monday meeting and agreed that in
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
nENEFITs FOR THE NYEsT.

The statement in recent dispatches that
the interests of farmers are being espe-
ciaIly we'll taken care of in the framing
Of the new tariff is welcome intelligence to
the West. Western producers. particularly
cattle raisers and wool growers, have
learned by sore experience that farmers
require protection as much as manufact-
urers. notwithstanding the assurances of
political demagogues TO the contrary. Dur
ing the operation OF the Wilson-Gorman
tariff the wool industry has been prac-
ticaIly destroyed and the free introduction
of Mexican herds has greatly demoralized
the cattle trade.
The agricultural schedule of the measure
now in preparation by the ways and means
committee is substantially restoration of
the Mckinley schedule. The establishment
of rates of IS per head on cattle more than
a year old, and % per cent ad valorem on
cattle valued ut more than 500 a head, will
be of material benefit to Kansas. Texas and
the entire Southwestern portion of the
| country. The Mckinley law imposed a
duty of SO per head on cattle more than
| year old, but II is expected that the %
per cent ad valorem on cattle valued at
more than so per head will compensate
for the lower rate on ordinary grades. and
will serve 10 shut out. to a large extent,
the influx of Mexican cattle.
Breadstuffs, rice, dairy products, pota-
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
A great victory was scored by the adj
vocates of woman suffrage in the passage
on it's second reading by the English house
of commons of the bill granting women the
right to vote for members of parliament
The vote of 22S to 15I seems to be decisive
and indicates that it will be but a short
time before women enjoy equal privileges
with men at the ballot box in England.
With the typical disregard for facts
which marks British parliamentary dis
cussion of foreign politics, Charles Rad
cliff Cooke erred when in his speech in op-
position he declared tfat in Wyoming and
Washington laws granting women the
franchise had been repealed. In truth
women still vote in Wyoming. as they have
done since 1870. and we have never heard
of any serious movement to deprive them
of their right. Mr.. Cookies mistake in re-
gard to Washington is probably due to the
fact that the law passed in that state was
declared unconstitutional by the terrific
rial supreme court.
As a matter of fact. while the cause of
woman suffrage in this country has met
with some rebuffs recently in the East
New York having refused it in 1884, South
Carolina in 1895 and Massachusetts in 1896
woman suffrage is constantly gaining
ground. In Colorado, Utah and Wyoming
women have full suffrage and vote for all
officers including presidential electors.
But in some form, mainly as to taxation
or the election of school officers. woman
suffrage exists in a limited way in Arizona.
Delaware. Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan. Min
nesota. Montana, Nebraska. New Hamp=
shire New Jersey, North Dakota Ohio
Oklahoma Oregon, South Dakota. Texas,
Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
In the English colonies women enjoy lin
tied suffrage. including Australia, New
Zealand, Cape Colony, Canada and parts
of India.
Whenever the women of any state or ma
ton have been united in their desire to
gain the franchise they have usually got
ten it. and the fact that English women,
who take more interest in politics than any
other women. seem. 10 desire suffrage, is &
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Protest From railway Men.

From the Washington Post.
The recent meeting at Little Rock of
delegates from the five great railway
brotherhoods has attracted less attention
than the Importance of its proceedings
merits. There are almost million of men
in those anizations-locomotive en-
gineers, conductors. firemen. trainmen and
telegraph operators-and they stand for
about four millions of the inhabitants of
the United States. They are far above the
average in intelligence and in morals, for
the character of their occupations de-
mands "a sound mind in sound body"
They met in delegate convention to con-
suit upon the interests of themselves and
their dependents, and they did not make
the mistake of assuming that their inter-
ests are in conflict with those of their en-
ployers or of the general public.
There are pending in the legislatures of
a number of states bills calling for a cut
ting down of the income of railroads. AL
though the greater part of the capital in
vested in this kind of property is unpro-
ductive and much of it absolutely lost.
the old antagonism still susvives. and a
bill reducing fare or freight is the surest
way in which many local statesman can
secure reelection. The Little Rock con-
vention passed resolutions protesting
against the passage of such bills. The
railway employees object to such legisla-
ton on the ground that it would impair
the revenue of the railway companies and
would inevitably result in a reduction of
railway employees
1t was the unanimous opinion of the
delegates that general railway rates for
freight and passengers are now quite low
enough. They believed that any reduction
would compel the roads to reduce the pay
of their men and to dispense with the
services of some of them. Thus believing
they made vigorous protest against the
arbitrary reduction of rates proposed In a
number of states. Their reasoning is
sound, and their protest ought to COM
rnnrnd very resnectfnl attentinn
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

the fate of this anti-pass bill in both of
its houses. The bill was introduced by
some wandering disciple of reform who
wasn't smart enough to know that it was
the last measure on earth which could pass
Populist legislature, and in his ignorance
he has exposed his party by forcing the is
sue and compelling both houses to go on
record. The present legislature is just as
greedy after railroad passes as any which
has gone before. The pages are kept in
constant motion between the state house
and the different RAILROAD headquarters.
Those who howled in their local campaigns
the loudest against the free pass evil are
the most Industrious in seeking these ia
vors, and If any legislation is adopted at
all upon the pass question, it will be in
the direction of making them easier to get
Indeed, the temper of the legislature is
such that u bill which was prepared in
fun the other day would meet with unani-
nous approval if it were not for the stig-
ma which would be attached by legislative
constituents. This bill provided that each
member of the legislature should be en-
powered to make out for himself all of the
passes which he needed and that the rail-
roads should be compelled to take them or
forfeit a penalty double the amount of the
fslrp
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

The national civil service commission has
just issued its thirteenth annual INSTALL
ment of self-praise.
Secretary Searlcs. of the sugar trust,
comes out frankly and admits that the
trust has been good thing for the peo-
pie.
Arkansas should not be severely criti-
cised for shutting out Missouri mules. The
election returns clearly show that Ar
kansas has all the long-eared animals any
state could reasonably want.
An Ohio man, in the course of family
quarrel, was shot dead by his wife. The
old woman with her broomstick was some
what preferable TO the new woman with
her revolver.
Complaint is made that Kansas Populist
officials have not given a sufficient num-
ber of places TO members of their own
party. Nobody has charged, however, that
they haven't freely given places to mem
bers of their own families.
The crank legislator is not, confined to
Kansas and Missouri. A bill has passed
the Minnesota senate requiring saloon
keepers to paint the word dangerous on
their doors.
Grand Army veterans are dying at the
rate of a hundred a day. This rate of NOR
tality will increase as the months roll by.
In very few years the pension expenses
of the government will be n very light
burden.
There are two clinching reasons why the
pension agency should not be removed to
ST. Louis First, st. Louis is on the ex-
treme edge of the district. Second, Kan
sas City isn't.
It is true General Weyler is burning Gu
ban hospitals. but it shouldn't be supposed
that he is roasting the sick occupants. No,
indeed. He butchers them before applying
the torch.
The country has good opinion of Ly-
man j. Gage, and it is to be hoped Mr..
Gage will stop talking for publication be-
fore this opinion is destroyed. The prime
duty of a cabinet officer is 10 saw wood.
In about three weeks now Canton will
know how Chicago felt after the worlds
fair.
1t seems that the Bradley Martins were
much affected by that portion of Rev.
Rainsford's criticism which recited that the
father of Mrs. Bradley Martin was coop
er by trade.
Two citizens of Ellinwood, Kas., recently
saw an airship sailing high over their
heads If proof of this statement is want
ed the name of the Ellinwood drug store
patronized by these citizens can be given.
rs eloquence decaying?" asks the Wash
ington Post. Well. good deal of what
passes for eloquence these days is rank
rot.
EX-Priest Slattery has again been
mobbed. Unless a few Slattery mobbings
have been overlooked, this is about the
46Sth.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Eneuual Contest.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Two strange shapes met face to face.
Who are you?" demanded one of the
two.
Il am the Cannibal-and-boile mission
airy Joke" replied the other. who are
you?"
II am Primordial Chaos"
With desperate fury taey fell upon each
other.
The combat was of short duration.
The Cannibal-and- nd-boiled-missionary Joke
was Knocked out in the first round. 1t
was too old to fight.