Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-08

E[---<6EelSx !. of American citizens,
S1~hEssm|7Tn and when represent
S&SI- KHsFfTtp atives of other parts
exEsszgG@- IElf II ID of the world begin to
fy1HlN Qllh IL To- complain about it it |
is safe to assume that the purpose of the |
bill is being accomplished. /
Twenty per cent OF gain in twenty |
weeks is a pretty good record for any po- |
litical party to make in work. This is |
the gain which the Rhode Island Repub- |
licans made in the recent State election |
over the vote for Mckinley in 1896 This |
is the only spring election in which ma |
tional politics has cut any figure, the |
elections in the cities having hinged upon
purely local issues which had nothing to
do with the growth or otherwise of Re
publican or Democratic sentiment from a
national standpoint.
Democrats Tired of the Pops.
The Democrats are getting tired of their
bewhiskered allies in the late election
Not only have a large majority of the par
ty in the House of Representatives re-
specially declined to follow the sockless
Simpson, but leading Democratic news
papers of the Populist tainted sections are
beginning to swear off from supporting
Populists- The Topeka, Kan, Democrat,
q representative Democratic organ which
supported Bryan in 1885, says: Fusion
is dead in Kansas. A united Democracy
and no further fusions with the selfish and
duty of the hour for Democrats in Kan
sas is to cut loose from the fostering
corpse of the Peoples party. The ranting
!Populists with full power to act have tried
their hands at State government"
! Great minds will differ. Mr.. Bryan
assumed in his utterances regarding the
recent elections that his cause and him
self have been indicated. On the other
hand, that sterling Democratic paper, the
Macon, Ga, Telegraph, which expresses
the sentiment of the genuine Southern
Democracy, says: The Democratic sue
cess of Monday shows Enthusiastically that
Organism and Altgeldism are done for in
this country"
Washington had two distinguished peo-
pie in one day recently-Robert Fitzsim-
mons and William J. Bryan. OF the two
Fitz attracted the far larger crowd and
awakened more enthusiasm. He was
greeted at the depot by a brass band,
while Mr.. Bryan's only music that of
his own horn which he never neglects to
blow.
Democratic Officials in Trouble.
Democratic statisticians whom the
Cleveland administration foisted upon the
Government through the civil service sys-
tenn getting themselves into bad odor.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson recently
suppressed a .single tax document is
sued by one of these gentry, while cor
respondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean
comes to the front with figures to show
that the statements of the chief of the
bureau of statistics of the Treasury De-
partment regarding expectations of man
ufactures are grossly inaccurate. Stats
tcian Ford recently asserted that the eX-
ports of American manufactures for the
calendar year 1896 amounted to $685.
l962,50o, and were a considerable increase
over those of the last year of the McKin-
ley law. In answer to this the Inter
Ocean correspondent asserts, and sup
ports his assertions with official figures,
that the exports of American manufac-
lures in 1896 were only S13S, 493, 637. Fig
ures, it is said, won't lie, but to make this
statement accurate, it should be added
that the people who deal with them
should be truthful.
The Union soldiers Jared badly under
the Cleveland administration. More
than & thousand of them were dismissed
from the Government service in Washing
ton city alone by that administration and
comparatively few soldiers appointed to
fill the vacancies thus created One of
the first things done by the new admins
ira tion was to set about reinstating these
dismissed soldiers. Secretary Wilson of
the Agricultural Department reinstated
a dozen or more in his department during
the first week in April, and the heads of
the other departments are following the
same plan. so that it is probable that
most of the dismissed soldiers will be re-
stored to their positions during the first
half year of the new administration.
Democratic Dissensions.
Sam Randalfs famous remark about
the wings of the Democracy '.1apping to-
gether" would scarcely apply to the con-
dition of the remains of that party to-day
In the House of Representatives where
Mr.. Randall was once SO prominent a fig
ure in Democratic ranks, the party is di-
xided into almost infnitesimal factions.
The Bailey and Bryan factions are con-
stantly at war as to the control of their
side of that body and to the methods to
be pursued. Another factional question
is as to whether the alliance with the Pop
,ulists shall be continued, and in regard to
this there is a wide difference of opinion
and much bitterness. The question of pro-
lection and free trade is making a wide
breach in the party and the various fac
Itions are being again rent in twain by this
issue. Add to this the great and incurable
division on the financial question and ii
win be seen that the once strong Demo
cratic party has absolutely lost its cohe-
slveness or definite purpose of action.
Nothing has SO alarmed the element which
controlled the Popocratic organization of
.ast fall as the prospective dissolution OF
Aoe Partnership which then existed, The