The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-09
Along the Kansas Nile.

A good many of the Kansas Populists
would become Republicans if the supreme
court of the United States would give
them a chance.
1t is said to have been a Kansas youth
| who, on hearing his first guinea hen,
yelled: "Oh, mamma, come and hear this
chicken a-winding hisself up"
prominent member of a church at
! Topeka has been arrested for burning mis-
house and barn to get the insurance.
| The mask continues TO fall from Topeka S
| features.
| The lola people refused to issue bonds
! to buy the natural gas plant there. oGv-
eminent ownership means more jobs for
| politicians and the people seem to be on
to the fact.
It might as we'll be understood that if
there is serious war every candidate for
county Office will be belittled and abused
for not volunteering to go and help the
government out, as he shall deserve to
be.
The mail-clerks on a west-bound train
into Salina the other day resolved TO ex-
cite the town. So they reported at Salina
that the soldiers at Fort Riley had been
ordered to report at Key West at once. 1t
excited the town all right
John J. ingalls, says that Leander K
Richardson, the noted dramatic critic,
was born at Sumner, three miles below
Atchison. His father, Albert D. Richard
son, lived at Sumner IN the early days, as
correspondent of the New York Tribune.
Along with the era of conservatism and
non-hysterics prevalent in Kansas comes
a mercenary mood. Most Of the Kansas
newspapers rather intimate to the can
didates who do not put in $ announce
ment cards will not get very swift sup
port.
The Kansas editors without postoffices
are asking the Kansas editors with
postoffises who are complimenting Nc
Kinley for his conduct in the trouble with
Spain. if they expected Mckinley 10 get
out on the front lawn of the White House
and have spasm.
There is one member OF the Kansas
militia whom Spain need not fear. He
was a member Of the Hutchinson com
pany. He was married at O'Clock in the
afternoon and at five o'clock received Or
ders 10 repair to Stevens county on the
six O'Clock train. He resigned after the
trip.
Some Of the younger Kansas politicians
need 10 have the starch taken out q
them. Without the brain Of the old set
or the character they affect dignity By
calling other politicians Mister. as Mister
Hood, Mister Stanley. Mister Seaton. The
old politicians call them Stanley. Hood
and Seaton, and thai S all they deserve
They can get along without the dignity.
After reading the following. I good ma
ny Populist editors viii no longer Be Lin
coin Republicans: During the rebellion
the. New York World was suppressed FOR
sensational publications. and its editor
put in jail one day u appeared with al
extra declaring that President Lincoln
had ordered day 81 fasting and prayer.
and calling for million more men. The
story was an invention. and the paper
was promptly suppressed"
A Missouri ahseonder recently fed g
kansas- At Topeka he noticed & mar
locking strangely a; him and fed 20 o.
wego. The next day he saw THAI the
same cid white-hzired gentleman was N
toWn- The absconder skipped 20 Garden /
City. There again vas the same old
white-hs!red gentleman Again the thiet 1
jumped across the state. arriving II Fort 4
scott Again he saw the old whIte-hasred I
man he resolved 20 surrender ard Re 1
walked Up 70 his purscsr and said: NJ 4
PiEkeTton- / surrender -Pinker10r - 4
exclaimed The old man Net much In i
Joan SsSioz. candidate for governor Are 4
you liable 20 be OF the state dsleSaloaT~ j..