The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-20

But Criggle had become q coward to all
the world
Pictures of Present PopuIists.
Topeka, Kan, Jan. ao.-It is along near S
O'Clock in the morning in the National no.
tel A sleepy porter in one corner ducks
his head drows.ly, the clerk is busy with
some books. and over near the window of
the Office sit man and q young woman.
The young woman gives evidence OF hav-
ing had a brush with politics. She IS good
looking, but her cheeks are drawn pallid
With fatigue, the outward edges Of her lips
! lave collected little line of dust and
| smoke which goes quite around an other
wise rosebud mouth and her eyes droop.
The man is explaining something TO her
perhaps his failure to secure her a clerk
ship. She is to take an early train home.
Possibly she hears his explanations, but
| there is no sign OF it.
| Within the next hour anyone sitting in
that room VIII get TO see Kansas Populism
| just as Il is.
| Presently the elevator starts up. II is
| Cranes make and good elevator. by the
/ way. DR.. Pitcher is the first man down.
| Fancy a man with very large paunch,
! with a neither bulge like a sack half full
of meal, a beard that spreads like new
| broom and is quite as long. Pitcher is jo-
cund. He laughs heartily on provocation
and something Ike wound near the cor
ner of the mouth comes into view. and dis
appears again when he has quit laughing.
Pitcher is going down to Kansas City. He
secures his meal ticket; and once at break
fast is interrupted by the bussman's call
for the train.
Listen to that imp" says Pitcher. basso,
clapping napkin to his mouth See
here. he asks waitress. How long can
1 wait after that fellow toots his horn?'
That is DR.. Pitcher, famous in Kansas.
but owing 10 the limitations of possible
publication, unknown abroad.
You would say on first glance and after
study that Pitcher is very strong man.
Then Harris comes down the elevator.
He wears a soft, black, wel-brushed hat.
His clothes are well-kept. His once sar-
torial fault is frayed collar-edge. He has
a very beautiful voice and chooses his Ian
guage well. He says he will win in the
senatorial race, says it with soft, gentle
obstinaCy.
In a little conversation he says that Sen
ator Baker will not be able to stand the
strain of senatorial life. He recalls that
Baker tainted at a speech at Garrett dur
ing the campaign and mixing the ''ah''
with his RS says he really has his doubts
of Mr.. Bakers ability TO hold out.
Harris is strong man. He is not a Kan
san-not in one fibre.
Next comes Munger of Greenwood. He
is playing with politics. He has money.
He is well-dressed and fond of making
feeble jokes Small of stature and dapper
in attire he mingies with Populism and re-
calls obscure and forgotten diplomatic
moves in former political conventions.
Then Frank Doster. truly Kansas in
every line. A short coat, wide-brimmed.
black hat, tight trousers, rugose cheeks
like those of a comedian when he has
sponged his paint off. He is an actor in
appearance. He is in fact chief justice. ]
He tells you that writing opinions is weary
ing. There is teethy, non-infectious laugh |
from his Dantonic lips when he tells you |
that his first opinion on some damage suit !
will hardly overturn the rules of modern |
society. If the Republican party long ago /
had sent Doster to the senate he would /
have been a national figure.
A young man comes down the elevator. |
His chin is thrown high-so high that two |
cords reach from the point of his chin TO
his apple He strides across the floor
TO the desk and discovering there that his
stride brought him TO no duty, pivots proud
ly on his heel and struts back again on
another purposeless journey across the
room Pivots again; lifts his chin which
had dropped unawares; droops his eyes
languidly as the drowsy concubine of the
e.ty mi I
ings: bows the calves of his legs out be-
hind sufIiy; pivots again. and is al last
accosted. Listens indoiently. Tells a joke
to his fellows about him indiferently; and !
receives applause with lips pressed tight TO
conceal his inward satisfaction. This is
Ed Little.
King Of CowIey of Tannehil, of the farm,
comes in. There is modesty in his move
nent and voice. He mas a pallor that is
cot of agriculture, but he really farms and
5 very strong with his people. His leu
tenants insist that a farmer must be sent
% the United States senate and that King
s the man. He represents the people OF
-owley perpertually in the state senate,
having served as a Republican and Popu-
list in the legislature for eighteen years.
he is a good man.
Then the judge, as Shakespeare says, "of
air round belly Judge Dennison comes
n at the front door and passed around. OF
minent good sense, never off his feet |
never Eighty. no man in the Populist party
,are meet lin hand TO hand. He is I'M
comfortable in the senatorial race. you
would judge. The contest is an indefinite |
misty ghost ard Dennisons power of con-
ent:on patiently waits the time when II |
hall have grown corporcally into sub
tance that will permit gladitorisl grasp.
nd jerk and choke. II that time comes
lie Will be senator. The others can not
ope with him, when the situation has ceas-
d shifting.
Next John Madden. great Of bone. Kan
as giant who would as contentedly plow ,
he field as ne would sit silent and un- ]
.nown in the United States senate, comes
own. He is not worrying. He may be
enator. II he is he viii be very happy .
or six years. If not, he viii not be I'M
Apply for a second. !
You do not see Prudential He does
ot NIX with the crowd
Later in the day Morphy C1is name Is ,
-Tench). comes IN and talks pleasantly &c
ne legislators. II ne is keeping PETERS
rsanization intact. it is not visible on the