The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-10


! him and I would never ask him to take it
When ne said: II will not accept this
nomination until can confer with the
central committee" I hurried off to its
rooms, for I am a member. l was there
when he came in. He did not come as the
! conuuering hero comes, but he came as
one bowed down by q mighty misfortune.
/ He threw himself all doubled up on a cor
ner of the bed, his face hid from US. We
were all mute at the singular spectacle
| In vain we essayed to speak, and Ike
| Jobs comforters, we were silent. At last
/ I said: This convention has cast a bur
/ den upon him greater than he can bear
and we must bear It for MIN" FLYNN, 1"
l said, 'in this campaign / pledge you my
| personal service and my property, in your
support, and the people of D county, who
have forced this upon you, must come to
your help"
One after another Of the committee
men pledged their counties and them
selves TO him. Such devotion. such ten
der sympathy, such willing sacrifices, were
never laid at the feet of a congress
sional candidate before. AS some
more ardent and eloquent than others
would express themselves, the cloud would
lift from his face as he would raise it to
US and his glad smile would light it up.
At last he said: Boys, I will accept
the nomination. but I have been beaten
once. and II 1 am beaten again l am
ruined. And oh, the work, and the toll,
and the long rides I must make the
speeches must make, will kill me. 1
like to have talked myself to death in the
other campaign"
Some men may pretend to believe that
Flynn played for that nomination, but 1
do not believe that he did
The following detailed story of the
death of INC of D" is from the current
issue of the Kingfsher Free Press:
Mrs. Alice N. Mcdonald, wife of Hon.
W. C. Mcdonald, of D county who was
assassinated on the public highway Tues
day, August 80. 1893, as he was driving
from his residence Ivy Postoffice) to Ia
loga. drove into this town Monday even
ing in a. lumber wagon. She was accom-
panied by her grown-up daughter. Miss
I.ottie Mcdonald, her ten-year-old son,
Noble, and a gentleman neighbor. Her
mission was partly of commonplace bust
ness character, but more especially to
call upon Hon T. Z. Gillette, Of FL Reno,
whom she desired to consult in regard to
the prosecution of her husbands MUIR
derer. Tuesday morning she took the
train, visited Ell Reno for that purpose
and returned to Kingflsher that afternoon
The other parties remained here.
"Wednesday morning she and her
daughter called at the federal land office
The homestead upon which the family lived
was the south half. y. e. u and lots one
and two, section 4. township H. range Is
1t has been entered by the daughter. Lot
tie. her father having previously exhaust
ed his homestead right. Since her fathers
murder she decided to give the homestead
to her mother, and her business at the
land office was to relinqush her claim so
that her mother could file on it. The
business was attended to.
BY the way. TO show that there was no
old feud' between Mcdonald and Mahaf-
fey, the records Of the land office show
that Miss Mcdonald made application
June IS. 1888, to make fina! proof of her
claim, and Of the fur witnesses named in
her application, two were Ed A. Mahaf-
fey and Belle NIahffey. husband and wife.
Final proof was to have been taken before
United States Commissioner Bugsby, of
Talosa. on the 80 instant
'All there is in the feud story occurred
about ten days before the murder Nc
Donald was in Taloga. Ed Mahaffey ac-
costed him in an angry manner and
charged him with having been talking
about him" some hot words were
spoken. Mcdonald charged Mahaffey with
ingratitude. and rected ac,s Of kindness
which he had done him. Why said Nc
Donald, your little boy. Tommie, knows
how well have treated you, and seems to
appreciate it
1t was a commonplace Quarrel. at
tracing little attention. which no one
considered serious. Mr.. Mcdonald told his
family about II, however. on his return
home seemed little uncomfortable over
IT, and said ne intended TO ask the sheriff
to prevent MahaTey from going armed.
The writer had an hours conversation
with Mrs Mcdonald and her daughter IN
regard 70 the circumstance Of the muir
der, Mrs M-Donald is a woman Of about
My years Of age. looks careworn and
distressed, but shows. by her canversa-
ton. thar she = a woman Of iuteIli-ence
and refinement. The story told by these
TWO heart-broken women is substantially
Is follows:
Mcdonald had returned from the
II Reno Republican convention greatly
elated over Nj Flynn's nomination. He
never said Mrs, Mcdonald. appeared 70
have been better pleased over the result
Of a convention He was planning how
he intended 20 work harder than ever
Tor Hymns election. ana expressed great
confidence IN a successful result He
started from home abou. 5 O'Clock. He
mad planned TO ga 70 Taloga and Try 10 !
induce the Republicans and Democrats /
to unite upon ,he animation OF a county +
tcke,- He had a friend who was 9 candi- I
date for county treasurer In whose sue {
cess he was greatly Interested That was I
the day q t1e Popalist convention II Ia
loga. MahaTey was a strong Popules;.
The poifc al which me murder Occurred /
was about eight miles from the Mcdonald /
homestead, and about four miles from I
Talosa- 50 Is nlust have been about half /
past nine elock-prooaoly ten. Henry /