Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-19
KANSAS TOPICS.

I'm every previous year in the history of
Populism," says the Wichita Eagle. some
prominent Republican in Kansas has gone
over to the Populist ranks. This year not
a single Republican of prominence has be-
conn PopuliZed.'
There is nothing startling in the action
of the Hutchinson reformatory board in
opening the prison chaplaincy to a COM
petitive examination. When n church
wants a new pastor it does practically the
sane thing.
Bent Murdoch chose an unfortunate mo-
ment for discouraging young men from GO
ing into politics. His list of Kansas poll
ticians who nave become wrecks loses
much of its force at a time when members
of the Kansas legislature are paying off
mortgages, setting themselves up in bust
ness, and displaying other evidences OF an
| unusual prosperity. Then. too, We have
the examples, Of Jerry Simpson. Senator
| PETER, Uncle Billy Baker, Coal Oil Taylor
and a dozen other Populist politicians who
have found politics and reform an easy
road to wealth.
1t is announced from Wichita that Rufe
Cone will pay no attention to the demand
from his Populist enemies that he resign
from the Populist state central committee.
If Mr.. Cone will not resign he ought to be
| removed. Tie Is IL liditbi III CAMP. ~ les
nothing in commo with the great reform
party of which he prctends to be a men,
Der. He pays his debts. conducts his Off
cial business in an honest manner, tells the
truth, believes in patriotism, and conducts
himself generally after Il very respectable
fashion.
Colonel Fred Bently, the Wichita states
man and lawyer said to Topics the other
day: Il am not Il free silver man. ani
neither do l believe in the fiat greenback
as a money for this nation alone. but | am
convinced that the world is less advanced
in financial methods than in any other d.
rection. Why cannot the whole world have
IL scientific money that will circulate uni
vcrsally and be as good in one country as
another? Suppose all the nations of the
e;.rth should meet together and resolve to
issue paper money. in proportion to the in
habitants of each. which would be legal
tender in all countries alike. wouldn't that
forever settle the vexed question of a sta
be circulating medium
Perhaps it would: but it Is equally certain
that when Colonel Bently is able to bring
his financial millennium to Il consumma-
ticn, the people of the earth will have be-
come too good for this life. and will be Ell
route for glory in the same handbasket.
DR.. Shellac, who built up a vanished rep
utation for himself as surgeon at the
Dodge City Soldiers home, has been rein
stated in his old place at that institution.
1t is announced from Finney county that
Representative a. II. Burtis will become
a candidate for the Republican nomination
for secretary of state.
Del Valentine says the Kansas Editorial
Association is going south in February
to find out whether or not union suits are
worn in the Confederate states.
Harry Bone has 4 Younger brother out
in Clark county who can ride a bucking
broncho and play the piano after Il fash
ion that makes him the pride and envy
OF the whole region.
Tie Arkansas City Traveller leaves us to
and hurt himself while carrying 4 pale
O. milk. met with his accident by slipping
upon the ice about the pump.
That Winfield man who is suing Con.
gresham Botkin upon a promissory note
for 81, 200 will enjoy reading again the
congressman's only speech during the las,
l session in which he Indignantly denied
t that kanas Ropulism stood for the repudia.
ton of debts.
Whatever else the New York Life Insur.
ance Company may have accomplished
[ with Webb cha it seems to have eff
f~ectually closed his mouth. There ha: