Kansas City journal., 1897-11-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES.


JOURNAL ENTRIES.
Van Wyck's determination to put none
but Democrats on guard really puts the
whole country on guard.
The trouble is. Kansas Republican can't
throw his hat very high without encoun-
tering a depressing Democratic current
from New York.
The Republican candidates for congress
man in the First Kansas district are so
busy shaking hands with each other that
the arm of the voter is getting a needed
rest.
Bryan's comment on the Ohio election
reads like chapter from the red-headed
part of THE Prisoner of Zenda.'
Gugenheimer is on deck in New York,
Isparhecher is coming to the front in the
Indian Territory. and the glory Of Ickel-
heimer is waning.
James Gordon Bennett is only forty-seven
removes from the throne of Great Brit
ain. but has not yet gone into training for
the job.
Senator Teller complains that nothing
Is likely to be done for the plain people"
has already been done for.
Spain has exhausted her last louisd'or
matadore. pcador and toreador, and is now
trying to pawn her cuspidor.
General Miles returned from Europe Just
in time to send tracer after a regiment
of United States troops that got lost in
Georgia General Sherman never had any
trouble in that direction.
People are waiting with breathless inter-
est to learn when Croker and Tammany
will play a return engagement with Carter
Harrison in Chicago.
R. ". Turner. one of the silver orators in
Kansas. says he can explain the present
high price of wheat, but that he doesn't
like to talk about it. The public is in
hearty sympathy with him on this question
that is. it doesn't like to hear him talk
about 1t.
While Tracy was bucking Lows center in
Brooklyn, Van Wyck got the ball on one
of the worst downs of the season and easi-
ly kicked goal from Broadway.
A singular feature of the election this
year is that the smoke of battle refuses to
clear away. 1t is still a little foggy in
Maryland and Ohio. but If Bryan keeps on
writing letters Of congratulation to Jones
1t is probable that the inky pail will soon
be dissipated.
Even Governor Leedy realizes the neces-
sity for speedy increase in the Populist
| vote of Kansas. He Is registered in two
counties.
That pert little miss. May Wheat. must
be getting ready for Christmas-she has
| touched old man Dollarmark several times
lately.
| Henry George wondered where Croker
| got it. The returns seem to indicate that
| he didn't get it anywhere in the vicinity
of the neck.
The average speculator in political fu-
lures would rather have young Growers
chances for a first term in the presidential
| chair than his fathers for third.
| The last words of Henry Watterson's
star-eyed goddess of reform are to be set to
music and sung at the next Democratic
| national convention.
Luetgert made great mistake when he
| went to Missouri for lawyer. St. Louis
can never win on Chicago's grounds. Mr..
Luetgert has only jumped from the chop
ping block into the frying pan.
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| curfew law will be enacted in Greater New
| York during the reign of the high rollers
| Professor D. E. Salmon's illustrated es-
| say on chickens reached the country news
| papers just in time for celebrating the re-
suit of the election.
| George Fred Williams is having the re-
mainder of his remains patched up for the
next annual round with the man who is
sure to be elected governor Of Massachu.
setts.
If the birthday anniversary of jeff Davis
! should be made legal holiday some people
might observe it, but John Browns SOU
would go marching on, without losing a
minutes time.
The halls of congress are being rehabili
tated for the December session. and Presi
| dent Mckinley Is preparing to make hi.
annual statement of the objects .of the
meeting
Senator German is explaining how 1t hap
pened-thus disputing the old saw thai
dead men tell no tales
Croker would be all right IL he were no
so well advertised by his loving friends
Those who feared that David B. Hill
might become a confirmed celibate will b,
glad to learn that he is welded to 81
lence.
Young John A. Logan has been trans
planted from the Horse show in Chicag,
to the chrysanthemum exhibition, where h
is equally at home.
In order that he may keep In touch will
domestic affairs. Cleveland has subscribe,
for all the 'yeller kid newspapers.