The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-21
Outlines of Oklahoma,

Phil. Rosenbaum is captain of COM
pany of volunteers at South McAiester.
W. R. French of Chandler is now chair
man of the territorial Populist central
committee.
For the first week a stranger lives in
an Oklahoma town he is invariably known
as a capitalist"
What. oh what will Callahan DO with
all those pocket-knives he was 70 give
away during the campaign?
A Ponca City wife told her husband to
remember the Maine. He went down
town. but did not stay late. He feared
a blow-up.
It is reported that the Populists may
get together and nominate candidate for
congress yet. IL they DO II they are dead
forever in Oklahoma
Most of the Rough Riders write home
that when they were in the battle they
had no idea Of the day OF the week or
month. having lost all track Of dates
Two squaws got 10 lighting the other
day and Bill Walker. to part them, soak
ed a sponge in ammonia and Eeld IL 10
their noses. They quit. Bill is diplo-
mat.
The Republican party has always claim
ed ii was the party OF patriotism. The
Cuba fighting. One OF them should be
nominated.
Keaton is smart He made no promise
they could have the nominee for delegate.
Keaton will be candidate for renomina-
ton himself.
It is said the Populists have decided to
read W. O. Cromwell, R. Z. Bray of Enid
and Clark Hudson out of the party. They
should let Hudson alone. No other party
will have him.
In Greer county the Democrats and Pop
ulists who are fighting each other with
county tickets bitterly are expected 10
vote for Keaton. OF course, the Populists
will not do it.
Dennis Flynn will return from Washing
ton August l. The Populist papers Will
howl that he is an aspirant for congress
He will not be. Dennis will be for the
nomination of a Rough Rider.
For the last eighteen months the con-
certed movement among farmers for bet
ter residences has never ceased. The
booms in the Oklahoma towns have been
intermittent, but the farm improvements
have been steadily forward.
Enid Wave: The Shawnee Blade says
that men who have families should not
go to war. Well, it depends altogether
on circumstances. If the family is sup
porting an able bodied old man the soon
er he goes to war and gets shot the bet
ter"
Guthrie Leader: 1.-THE fad of reading
men out of the parties to which they
belong is unique. 1t has been started in
Kay county, where A. A. Byers has been
read out" of the Democratic party. But
Byers can stand this. He is a sterling.
energetic Democrat. and at the Oklahoma
City joint convention held his dslega-
ton solidly in line for Keaton."
If the Democrats of Oklahoma are to
follow up their first victory they must
work in secret together. Keaton must
have an understanding with all Demo-
Gratis that he shall associate wholly with
Populists until the campaign is won. The
more be consults with Democrats, the
less his chances are. The Democrats have
fooled the Populists so far and with dis
erection they can keep 1t up. The Repub-
licans will not peach on them because
the Republicans have wanted the Demo-
Gratis to down the Populists from the
first.
George Redpath, a sergeant in the
Rough Riders, whose home is just across
the Kansas line IN Oklahoma, writes as
follows from Santiago: After that first
days battle was over I was the happi-
est man on the soil of Cuba. I don't
mind telling you that had half a notion
that I was a coward. I had taken the
place Of sergeant, and knew that II
would be awful If ran away, but did
have sneaking notion that might show
the white feather some way. When the
bullets first commenced to come walzz -z-z
whizz-z-8, PUNK. tell you my heart went
up into my throat, but grit my teeth
gave yell and charged right along with
the rest OF the boys. The scare was over
in q minute, and I believe can go into
the next battle and joke like some of the
boys did in this one, for know now that
I have nerve enough TO stay"