The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-24
Along the Kansas Nile,

The Populist central committe at Topeka
is making an effort TO keep the Socialist
state ticket off the official ballot.
With better times Kansas is dropping a
lot of old phrases. Politicians no longer
accuse each other of seeing the hand
writing on the wall"
The Twentieth regiment is very likely TO
be on the ocean election day and miss
its vote. Ed. Little says the regiment
would give 800 majority for Leedy.
A Kansas volunteer. Sergeant Boyd OF
Newton, Twenty-second Kansas, says
bareback is so hard that you can put il
out in the rain ten minutes and il won't
get wet.
Townsend. the colored politician OF
Leavenworth. rips Leedy up the back in
an open letter. He says the Populist
state ticket is composed OF "negro-hating
material
Some say there is nothing in religion,
but it is said that It is impossible TO get
an atheist engineer or infide conductor
or brakeman to run on the Santa Fe's
Fast Mail.
Stanley, as governor. will not reform
the state so much as he will cleanse II
of the deep-sea ooze that practical poll
tics has deposited over It, particularly
the state institutions.
This year the Populist campaign fund
in the state is larger than the Republi-
can fund. and notwithstanding this Tay-
lor Riddle, Populist chairman, is dunning
state employees to pay their assessments
promptly.
The town OF Americas, in Lyon county,
has passed an ordinance that not more
than four people shall stand together on
the street at one time. II Emperor VII
helm hears OF that town ne will want 10
annex il.
The boys in the Twenty-hrst regiment
want to come home. They accuse their
officers of saying that they want 10 come
home and OF working at the same
time like beavers TO keep the regiment
in service.
On the march from Camp Alger TO
Thoroughfare Gap. Major Doster OF Kan
sas. heard a man who was standing knee
neep in the mud say sorrowfully: I'm
lobster II I'm ever found drunk around
a recruiting station again"
In the days Of dreams in Kansas there
were many oPpuHsts who believed some
man had perfected an sir-ship but his
secret had been bought BY the great rail-
road corporations and destroyed. lest il
HJ4IS u AIt 1AlA38AAAbs present means o.
transportation.
IN his first written speech Stanley had
a good cheeT-getting joke II was writ
ten: our ships may Be tin and our naval
I heroes duaes-the navy may Be no account
but ] notice that IN such tropical regions
as Cuba ard the Philippines Il cuts con-
siderable ice" when Stanley made MS
speech he forgot thiz and has never
thought OF Il since
Not one OF the nineteen men n eonKrsxs
who refused 70 vote for war because CUBA
beIHEereEcy was not recognized viii re
returned 20 congress There Sss ore Re-
publican n ne group. johnson. % lad
ana. and the Republicans ~0ui3 not ever
remnomlnate him. Jerry Simpson was o1e
of tHa nineteen he cannot 20 back. Ire
people will not listen . u
Professor Bake of the state University.
vas IN charge u tire SeE York City coast
survey u hen ScHIsy Wak the-s working
on fog signal invsrtlon- Blake con graf
uiate6 Srh.ey o. hss .lct9ry AZ Santiago
and received leffsT IN reply from Schssy
in which he says. Your kind 'st-er does
ne more honor than I deserve for ny
part IN TIE great victory
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