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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31
BUSINESS AND POLITICS.

Business men make town. When il
Is made the politicians reyel in it. This
country could not survive without poll
ticians; it could not exist without
business men. Business men can exist
without politicians. Politicians can not
exist without business men.
Wichita is pre-eminently a city OF
business men. That characteristic has
made it all it has been in the past and
Is a continual, ever-cheering promise OF
what it is TO be in the future.
There are other cities in Kansas
which are controlled wholly by politi-
clans. They will never amount to any
thing commercially, as we all know.
When the term politician is used the
common Interpretation of a man who
lives by politics alone is intended. Every
body should he politician as the word
IS used in its higher sense.
But the real difference between a
business man and politician is that the
politician devotes his whole time to the
nomination and election of his friends
to Office or himself He does not begin
at the nominating convention. He be-
gins in the caucus room the night before
the primaries, when the business man
is busy with his books or sleeping after
a hard days work.
AS n rule the business man lets the
politician so ahead and is content to
ratify his arrangements But some
times the business man. impressed With
the necessity of lower taxes. the election
OF practical and honest man and an
acute realization that his vote is as good
as any ones else, rushes 10 the front
and casts his ballot with astonishing
zeal These ourburSts of the business
men are usually beneficial. They re-
suit in careful. conservative and eco
nomical administrations. and repay. for
the little time devoted TO politics. the
merchant many times, in taxes saved.
Usually the politicians accept the in
terest of the business men gracefully.
for the politician is not half as bad as
lie Is usually painted
This is as it should be. for on a ma
5ority of occasions the business men do
not hinder the politicians.
The Republicans of Wichita this
spring offer 10 the voters a business
mans candidate Finlay Ross is his
own master. As mayor he, and no one
else, clique. friend or political boss. VIII
be his dictator. He is nominated in the
interest of no ones future or present
political ambition. He is not seeking
to get his Office 10 use it in political
way for his own aggrandizement.
Finlay Ross if elected Will be mayor.
His one idea viii be economy and hon
esty and efficiency in the government of
the city. 4 man who has spent over
twenty years in business in city ana
expects TO spend twenty more is not
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31
IEEDY NOT TO BLAME.

Thousands Of people who voted for
Leedy did it on the direct understanding
that he would abolish the metropolitan
police system. Lewelling and his fol-
lowers, here, promised that. But Leedy
has done, and will do, nothing Of the
sort. He has made an appointment Of
a board at Fort Scott over a protest of
majority of the people there.
Now, who is 10 blame? First, Leedy.
of course. He knew that the system is
repugnant TO majority of the people
in the cities of the first class. Second,
the local politicians, like those we have
in Wichita. Lewelling, Cone and Sam
Amidon are eager enough to have the
police commissions abolished when a
campaign is on, because they know the
people demand it. But when they have
elected their governor as they elected
Leedy, off the whole crowd posts to
Topeka and begs Leedy not to abolish
the commission, saying that they want
the patronage and must have it. There
is no doubt of what the majority in
Wichita demanded. But the Populist
crowd, here, cared nothing for the ma
jority, but went to Topeka, two fac
tons, and begged Leedy not to abolish
the commission, but TO give them the
places. Even Lewelling, with all his
professions, killed the bill abolishing
the commission in the senate.
Those who desire to rid the city of
this obnoxious law must not only aim
at the governor, but at the local politi-
clans who demand of governors that DO
lice commissions be retained
Atchison, Fort Scott and Leaven-
worth all have the same experience.
The local politicians will not permit the
governor TO abolish the system.
A week ago Leedy announced that he
would abolish the commission in Fort
Scott. Six hundred Populists in Fort
Scott swept down upon the governor
and made him change is mind. The
fashion will be to blame the governor.
The Cones and Amidons and LEVEL
lngs of every first-class Kansas town
should come in for their just portion of
the blame.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

going, for the sake of two years holding
of Office to prove himself liar and Il
traitor to public interest and 10 the
promises he has mace. And Finlay
Ross has promised economy and eff
cheney in the government of Wichita.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

Atchison Globe: The PopuIst party IN
Kansas has forever Queered itself with
employees of railroads. In ali the round
houses OF the state there is now posted a
bulletin prepared by the legislative commit
tee which attended the recent session OF
me legislature in the interest Of railroad
men, X says that the maximum freight
rate law which the Populists tried 10 pass.
that such reduction would have been
the means OF throwing between 400 and
5.eo railroad men in Kansas out of s-n-
ployment, besides reducing the wages
paid one senator Is quoted in the bull
letin as saying 20 the committee that his
party intended 70 pass a maximum, freight
and passenger law. even IL il cut the wages
OF every raiiroader in the state in half. ="
Another senator said: The railroad men
are getting too high wages. AMI should be
Wiling to accept reduction. that the
farmers may be benefited" The bulletin
further says; The majority promised 20
pass olackl-sting and arbitration law II
we would withdraw our opposition 10 the
maximum law, but this the committee re-
fused The bulletin Is signed by the COM
m'ttes. al OF whom are railroad men. and
VItally interested = the welfare Of railroad
employees
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

The success of 10 Bristow and Tom Ryan
down in Washington show what an acute
and accurate perception of the real poll
teal factors in Kansas Mckinley has.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

Jerry Simpson has notified congress that
ne does not believe either the Democrats
or Republicans can pass a good tariff law
II is readily to be seen that congress is
going TO have difficulty in pleasing Mr..
Simpson
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

The Perry, Oklahoma newspaper scoun-
drel has ordered Mckinley to open up the
Wichita country May l. Mckinley may not
hear him. 1t Will not be opened May l.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

1t is becoming more and more criticar
N Greece. 1t can keep this up for a year.
without a gun being fired
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

Finlay Ross as mayor will be his own
master. He has no ring, clique or political
IDOL to serve. He will be mayor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

Ihomas Ryan has Just poured through
the crevasse made in the pie-counter Ieyee
by 10 Bristow.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

Louisiana easily leads the Union in
calamity. Six months ago it vas busy aid
ing its drouth sufferers. and :4ow It is try
ing to keep them from teirs drowned.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

General Rivera, Maceo's successor, has
been captured. This will speedily put an
end to the rebellion for about fifteen min
Ltes
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

The Chicago Anarchists have decided to
start revolution May l. The police may
bribe EN- away from the idea with a few
Stems of beer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

The Commercial club Of Hutchinson pro-
tested against the removal of shops from
NlcAerSon 10 Newton but President Ripley
reminded Hutchinson that il was TO get d
nice new passenger house.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

One Of the strangest incidents in the his
tory of this administration was the mad
vertent appointment of ar Ohio man by
Jcfn Sherman the other day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

The Kentucky Republicans are demon
strating very plainly that they can not
stand senatorial pie more than once every
forty years.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

The English parliament is becoming as
fractions is our congress. The English
men are for blood. Sooner or later the
world will get into a row.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

A vote for Young means vote for Cone
and de gang" Cone is sheriff, liable soon
to be chief of police and if Young is elect.
ed, VIII be mayor
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

The other day Dick Bland was given five
minutes for a speech on finance. This was
one of the most vicious blows ever struck
in congress.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

Lets see," said a formerly rabid finan-
cial street talker. WAS it the crime of
II, or the crime of '73 we used to talk
about?"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

Rufe Cone is now asking the support of
the old soldiers on the ground that the late
Populist legislature sent an old soldier to
the senate
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

Scoaaasea OF SIKH Pase9
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

II rs eooi printing that's vanteA-
the best-ons needs must use extracrdsnary
oaution--for IN the great city Of wichita
the good printers can be counted
with one Of The smallest figures IN the bex,
while the poor printers are known
by the dozens. Specimens OF our work
prove that We belsng with the minsrfty-
the good pr1nterA
The age-herald., 1897-09-07
COLORADO DEMOCRATS
Will Stand Pat and Teke Chances Without Fu-
 son--Byan Warmly Endorsed.

Denver, Col, Sept. 6.--The democrats of Colorado today decided that hereafter there shall be no more fusion by the party with any other. After a heated session John A. Gordon of Las Animas county, straight democratfi was nomi- mated for supreme court justice by the decisive vote of 231 to 167.
 A notable statement was made on the floor of the convention by a silver re- publican that Judge Hay, who was nominated on Friday by the republicans at Denver and silver republicans at Glenwood, would not accept the Den yer nomination because it would neces- sitate his endorsement of the St. Louis platform, whereas his sympathies were with those promulgated at Chicago.
 The platform adopted refers in lauda- tory terms to Hon. w. J. Bryan and predicts his election to the presidency in 1900.
The age-herald., 1897-09-07
THE GOVERNMENT AT WORK.
Awaits Further News to Acknowledge the Dis.
 ease Yellow Jack.

Washington Sept. 6.-The marine hos pital service. is Investigating the f=ver at Ocean Springs. Miss, and the in6or- nation so far received inclines them to believe that the disease is no'J yellow fever, though conclusive information is not yet at hand. s#3
 Surgeon General Wyman is absent from the city. He has been attending the British Medical association meet ing at Montreal and is now at Vineyard Haven on his way back. During his absence Surgeon Bailbache is in charge. The cases at Ocean Springs were first called to the attention of Dr. Bailbache last Friday in a telegram from Assist ant Surgeon Wasdin. who is stationed at Mobile. asking permission to accom- pany ths state board of health to Ocean Springs to investigate the fever. Dr. Wasdin was directed to proceed. Yes tarday morning he autographed as fol- bows:
 'tof BOO or 800 cases here have s en
The age-herald., 1897-09-07

almost impregnaTble to the yellow fever monster.
 The doctors believe a quarantine measure is the safest precaution, they acted under advice from State Health Officer Sandlers, who has been in Ocean Springs for several days, and Mayor Evans acquisecey when they met in a body and passed a resolution requesting his cooperation in establishing 0 quar- antine.
 The first telegram was received from Dr. Sanders yesterday morning. It was dated Ocean Springs, and said: "All agree that yellow fever exists here"
 The next one came at 2:47 p. m. and was as follows:
 Dr. E. H. Sholl:
 Better quarantine. Am just leaving for Mobile. Will wire you from thsue. Can't say whether state will quarantine or not. w. H. SANDERS.
 Dr. Sholl was absent from his office and did not recaive the message until nearly o'clock. A meeting of the board munlcation sent to Mayor Evans 10 be present. The meeting was short. Mayor Evans held several consultations,
  tioE
 Arrang ements we're made to send Sanitary Officer Wiegins and Policeman Peldue to Oxmoor by private convey ance to board the northbound Louisville and Nashville train, but the passenger does not stop at that point. Supt. New bold, of the Louisville and Nashville, was informed of the quarantine and the faai qc rtn o,t thA odc nf tl.A city limits.
 Here Chief of Police Mcdonald, Off, cers Mcknight, Perdue and Sanitary Officer Wiggins got on board. The conductor had been previously tele- graphed to fird whera all parties boarded the train and their destination. No passengers from the infected district were found and the first night of the quarantine work was easy sailing. To- day all trains on the Louisville asd Nashville and Southern coming from anywbere in the region of the infected localities will be closely inspected.
The age-herald., 1897-09-07
SCRANTON, MISS, TOO.
Has Suspicious Cases Mobile Acts Under In-
 structions of Dr.. Sanders.

Mobile, Ala, Sept. e.-Slate Health Officer Dr. w. H. Sanders returned this morning from Ocean Springs. Ills re- ports that the Louisiana medical au- thorities found that the cases examined d there are a type of yellow fever. Upon receipt o1this repent and upon further reports thalt thene are suspicious symp- toms in Scranton, Miss, forty miles west of Mobile, the quarantine was ex- tended so aus to include that place and all other points on Mississippi sound coast this side of New Orleans. Sani- tary officers are located at Themora Station, west of hare, where a rigid in- quiry vii lbe conducted and any per- sons from the infected locality will be held in a camp of detention. It is un- derstood the quarantine Is absolute now as to persons and baggage from Ocean Springs and will be mads absolute against the other places on the coast after the arrival of the train at 12:2U o'clock. The board of health tonight further extended the quarantine so as to include New Orleans.
 Members of the board reported that they had Investigated and found no suspicious sickness in Mohile.
 IA telegram from Birmingham, Ala, says that city will establish a rigid quar- antfne against the infected district, and that the state board of health meets Wednesday, when it is expected a state quarantine will be established.
 Pensacola, Fla, has established a quarantine covering all trains coming from the direction of Ocean Springs and the city authorities cooperate with the state officials.
 Meridian, Miss, has instituted a rgid quarantine against every pctnt infected by yellow fever, and guards will be sent out on the railroads with instructions not to perlnit any passengers, baggage or freight ito enter there from such places
The age-herald., 1897-09-07
SIX CASES AT EDWARDS, MISS.
Jackson Stirred Up and the Days of 1878 Re-
 calls to Memory.

Jackson, Miss, Sept. 6.-The city council at a special meeting he'd late this afternoon decided to. inaugurate a limited quarantine against the gulf coast, the scene of the yellow fever epidemic, and police officers will meet all trains coming from the south and sea that no persons from that district i. aIight here.
 The dispatch from Ocean Springs created mild sensation in this city, and many people departed northward. The meeting was intensified by the fact that it was rumored that there we're seven ? cases of yellow fever near Edwards, a small town twenty miles west of here, and that this was the cause of the death there of S. P. Champion, a prominent member of the state legislature. The re- port from Edwards stated that family of nine persons had recently returned from am outing at Ocean Springs. and after their return six of them were talk en with a fever. MT. Champion had visited the family, and two days after was taken similarly ill and died this afternoon
 - The news from the gulf coast serves to recall to the people of Jackson ard vi- cinity the times of 1878. when fhis .c6ty was devastated by the yellow plague and when for days every form of terror oppressed the city and vicinity. Dur
The age-herald., 1897-09-07
ONE DEATH IN NEW ORLEANS
And Four Suspicious Cases-0utook Bad at
 Ocean Springs.

New Orleans Sept. 6.@The Louisiana state board of health kept faith with its sister bodies of the south and the rest of the country this afternoon when it made official announcement as the result of the careful autopsy on Raoul Gelpi, 13 years of age, that he had died of yellow fever. Gelpi was the son of prominent people here. and had been spending some time at Ocean Springs where he was taken down with fever and brought home sick. Soon after 2 o'clock .thds morning, despite careful at- tertbon, he died. Dr. Head, the phys,- clan in charge, immediately reported to the board of healh, and expressed the opinion that death was due to yellow fever. This afternoon an autopsy prov ed that Dr. Heads opinion as to yellow feven was correct. Steps were imme- diaItely taken to prevent the spread of the disease. One and all the members of the board expressed confidence that they would be able to check the spread of the disease.
 The death of young Gelpi naturally caused no little excitement in the city. Physicians. however, expressed no ap-
 
 was possible to arrest the spread of the fever" The board during the day had ordered a rigid quarantine against all points on the gulf coast and had Iuaken evsry precaution to guard tho avenues of communication against the entry into the city of any person from Ocean Springs, Biloxi or other points on the sound where it was thought the fe- yer might reach.
 During the day the bullsitin boards had been thronged about. the board of health office beseiged and the Western Union wires freighted with messages to and from tha various coast points.
 In the meantime telegrams arrived from Ocean Springs that the Mississippi board of health had taken every pre- caution possible to circumscribe the disease arld prevent it's communication to the rest of the world.
 We have no fear.'' said the president of the board. 'tthat the fever win spread in New Orleans. The board of health
The age-herald., 1897-09-07

five; an endemic infection, spread by carriage, mostly whites-paroxsym disproportlonate irn pulse, prostratiou. Insisted on and made first autopsy on adult of sixty, said to be typical case of fever. Matter under advisement. Drs Oliphant, Harolson, Sundars and others wiM be here later"
 A copy of this telegram was trans naitted to Surgeon General Wyman at Vineyard Haven, and he immediately re- quested Dr. John Guiteras, professor of the University of Pennsylvania, to pro- cead to Ocean Springs. pr. Guiteras WAS formerly in the marine hospital ssrvice and is the acknowledged author ity on levers in this country. pr. Bail baIoha also ordered pr. Wasdin to in- quire into the result of the autopsy and the consultation, to determine the num- Der of inhabitants of Ocean Springs and the number of fatalities. Dr. Wasdfn rsplied that the population of Ocean Springs, which is a summer resort on the gulf coast, near Biloxi, was about 1,500 in winter and 5000 in summer. He also reported the existence of pasodium of malaria, aI condition which is said not to be present in yellow fever casss.
 LIT. bdilDdcne says tndI LIT. w dSdlh 10 making a meteorological investigation to determine the existence of yellow fever germs. He believes the disease, so far as his information goes, is dengue or bonebrake fever. In support of this l; he poitns to Dr. Wasdin's report that the fever is not epidemic. and that the fatalities have been few, whereas yell low fever is fatal in majority of cases. This lack of fatalities he considers the strongest evidence that it is not yellow fever. The presence of pasodium of malaria is another evidence against the yellow fever theory. About ten days ago, he says. the state board of health of Mississippi investigated the fever and pronounced it dengue. About ten days however, prove to be yellow fever pr. Bailbache says the lateness of the sea- son will materially aid the authorities in keeping it confined to the locality in which it has broken out, and he gives assurances that there will be no wide spread epidemic of the dreaded scourge.
The age-herald., 1897-09-07
TEXAS TAKES STEPS.
State Health Officer Institutes Rigid Quaran-
 tne-Citizens Much Stirred Up.

Austin, Tex, Sept. 6.-State Health Officer Swearingen this morning issued ironclad quaraitine against Ocsan Springs, Miss, and all other points now affected or likely to be affected by vel low fever. It will go into immediate effect and last indefinitely. Reports from the gulf coast are to the effect that the inhabitants are badly frghten- ed at the prospects of yellow fever en- tering the state and somls of them are talking of organizing their own quer5n- tine forces similar as those that patrol ing the gulf shore some years ago to keep out aM persons a.nd thereby pre- vent the disease from entering the sdlatn