Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15

| ready TO resume the war for free coinage
they will find their Populist allies all seat
ed astride the fiat paper hobby.
With John Sherman as his secretary of
state, Mr.. Mckinley will have no reason
to wish for an Olney.
Senator Mills wants to go at Spain with
the red blade of war" If Spain is pru-
dent she will lose no time in asking that
Mills be placed under bond to keep the
peace.
In his answer to criticisms of the Eastern
press Governor Leedy succeeds admirably
in refuting everything except what the
Eastern press has been charging-to-wit,
that her yield of cranks is the biggest
crop Kansas has raised.
Five of Kentuckys presidential electors
have expressed themselves as opposed to
the use of wine at the White House. The
other seven are presumably willing for the
president to have wine if he wants it, but
they, too, would think more of him If he
decided in favor Of something stimulating
cinnati Enquirer, 'is very solemn busi-
ness" The country has found that Demo-
cratic revision of the tariff is not only
very solemn business, but very destructive
business.
1t is rumored that Major Mckinley has at
last satisfied himself as to the albright
ness of General Alger for secretary of war.
In his last message Governor Pete Tur-
ney urges legislation against the gold
standard. 1t is not the gold standard from
which Tennessee is suffering, however, but
her standard of political honesty, as exem-
plified in thefts of the governorship.
When Mr.. Thurber reads in the newspa-
pers that Secretary Olney is the only man
who can manage the president he smiles
complacently and says nothing.
The governor of Ohio is suffering from
the stomach ache. A good many politicians
this side of Ohio are afflicted in the same
way but the trouble is not referred to in
precisely the same words.
Congressman Johnson wishes men might
be judged by their present instead of by
their past Democrats have been wishing
the same thing about parties for the last
twenty-five years.
1t may or may not be true that Secretary
Coburn, of the Kansas board of agri-
culture, has been chosen for head of the
agricultural department under Mckinley,
but it is certainly true that the president
elect could not find a more capable man
for the place. or one who would fill it with
more credit to himself, to the administra-
ton and to the country.
John P. st. John says If he were gov
erTor he would enforce the law However
desirable enforcement of the law may be,
few Kansas people will regret that st. John
is not governor.
A reader calls the Journals attention to
the fact that Governor Leedy worked some
poetry into his inaugural. That is bad
to be sure, but the public was
quite prepared for few atrocities in Mr.. |
Leedy's inaugural.
The only unfavorable comment that could |
be made on the forming of historical So
ciety in Kansas City is that the formation !
did not take place earlier. Many interest |
ing facts in regard to the city's infancy |
and youth have been lost because they |
We're not garnered years ago. However, |
the society has a great work before it,
and in the performance of this work the |
citizens whose services are
enlisted in the worthy enterprise will have |
the earnest sympathy and cooperation of |
the community.
Now that the United States and England |
have an arbitration treaty, we may hope |
that there will be an end to the bloody
wars which have devastated the two coun-
tries for half century.
Notwithstanding the great amount of
trouble the press correspondents are hav-
ing with its construction, it is believed the
next cabinet will be framed in time and
that it will contain some first-class ma
terial.