The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-08
Along the Kansas Nile.

A district school in Harvey county has
been closed on account of scarlet fever
The chief reason that Kansas is apa-
thetac this year is simply because the
state got an overdose of politics in 1856.
Affdrmatively Jerry Simpson has never
been for anything. He is for something
simply because the other fellow is against
it.
The Colored Voters Free Silver League,
a Topeka. graft has deserted Leedy and
enjoins all colored men 70 vote -gainst
him.
The PopuHst papers used TO cali them
''niggers." Now, when Leedy is angling
for the colored vote they call them
Afro-Americans."
In the history OF Populism the man who
stands pre-eminent among the leaders
for honesty, purity and truthfulness.
lasted but one term-Peffer.
Extract from a letter home 20 Girard,
Kansas from Ralph Conangs IN Ma
mia: But the fun was Saturday when
We stOrTned Manila and took It.
While making a speech in eastern Kan
sas the other night Attorney General
Boyles shadow froze 70 the stage and
the janitor had to pry it up, to let him
make a gesture.
The PopuIist central committee at To-
peka had a 5000 bet on Stanley pOked at
/ il last wreck and backed out. The Pop
ulists. that is the state central commit
tee. know that Leedy is gone.
/ The men who have been fighting NJ
Kinley and Long in TINS district have
( been doing i on the ground that the war
was misnanaged. Now. both Wheeler
ard Lee. both adOred Democrats. come
/ out and say 1t was not mlsrnanag>d-
( The last Republican county attorney
/ in era wford county tried 20 enforce the
! prohsbitory law. He was beaten after
/ ward At the polls That was ten years
ago. This year the Republicans refused
20 put IN a plank demanding the enforce
I n9eut OF al avs
l Governor L,ee-iy, should he be elected
! might institute some reforms. but the
/ re~Jole would have 70 wait long time. u
I took Ies1y seventeen noacias out of his
/ total twenty-fo9r 70 see that the abolition
! CT the metropolitan police commission 7Fas
I q good thing.
Or. Daughe-ty. head of ire state Ten
/ -araocs League has made a canvass q
! no state ard SAYS that tf1e fight between
-he resua rltsssdDssts and the Prg1i hElcr-
ists 50 far rs enforcing tEe law In Kan
eas 5 concerned, - a. present q stand
or
A year AFRO when IerrT Slmps1n made
MS prediction % & panic he argued taat
= re panic cane as prediction Fol-'i
e1hance hza c1z-ees q election. Z -
( panic cane b. would not - e.eo,ee arg
way. i, Is about tire kausas eettle1 a
statesman whose fortune aiEays 6sps1ea
ca ne misfortune OF Us constituency.
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