The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-24

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The Kansas Campaign.
Leavenworth Times: Governor Leedy
has been at Omaha OF a visit, and says
he feels good because he did not read
a Kansas newspaper. X is doubtful
the rebel sheet published in the Missouri
Kansas City.
Lawrence Journal: Is il not about time
for our governor 10 give the war depart
ment a lacking up? Kansas hasn't had
a tilt with the national government since
Governor Leedy went away on MS vaca-
ton trip.
Hutchinson News: Some curiosity Is
expressed as TO why Governor Leedy' 5
contingent fund was tapped for s.. 100 10
hire David Martin 10 do the work At
torney General Boyle is paid for The
question is asked why wasn't the amount
s.. 600 or 81 500 The answer is easy. The
firm Of which Judge Martin is the head
is Martin, Boyle & Little. and z.oo0
wouldn't divide by three, so the amount
was made 500 apiece.
Lawrence Journal: Dave Leahy says
that Billy Morgan. who would almost as
soon think of going back on" his mother
as the Republican party. has declared
he will vote for Boyle fer attorney gen
eral. This reminds US of a suggestion
made by one of the Topeka newspaper
men for an epitaph for Dave: Here
lies Dave Leahy; it is nothing unusual
for him
Sterling Gazette: When a Republican
is nominated for office in Kansas. the
first persons TO attack his character are
the Prohibitionists, then the Pops. and
finally the Democrats squirt little mud.
AS the Republicans generally select hui
man beings for candidates. their Imperfect
tons are usually so magnified by the
end of the campaign that their own fam
lilies don't know them.
The Topeka Mail and Breeze has been
perpetrating some up-to-date fables on
the Pop campaign, Of which We quote
three, as follows:
A Kansas horse which had often suffer
ed from collie, was listening TO a Populist
orator speak, when he turned TO a COM
panion with a sympathetic expression of
countenance and said: Il know what is
the matter with that poor man; he has
had an over-feed of green corn. l have
been there myself many time
bedbug in a Kansas hotel, meeting a
detected looking contemporary. inquired:
How is business?" Mighty poor with
me just know" said the other bug. THE
landlord put a couple of Populist politi-
clans in my bed last night and the only
thing l could get out of them was gall,
which made me sick at the stomach; l
have bitter taste in my mouth yet"
Kansas female horse who was the
mother of a mule colt, watched over her
offspring with care and solicitude, hoping
that it would finally develop into the like
ness of her family; but one day when
the colt was getting well growa, 1t turn
ed loose a loud bray, whereupon the
mother exclaimed sadly: ALIAS, this is
the result of fusion. | thought ! could
raise you for horse, but whenever you
open your mouth you speak like an ass"
Moral-The result of fusion is necessa-
rily disappointing.
Columbus Advocate: II Leedy's admin
istration had put forth the same efforts
to correct the mismanagement of the
state institutions, including the peniten-
tiary and the state coal mines, for the
past year and a half, that ii has for the
perpetuity of the present administration,
it would have reflected credit upon its
pretended policy of reform" Reform
with the Pops means simply a transfer
of official power into their hands, and
nothing more.
Arkansas City Traveller: Wednesday
night the executive committee OF the Pop
ulist state central committee held meet
ing in Topeka 10 perfect plans for the
campaign. For some reason Dave Leahy,
who has been furnishing the brains and
doing the dirty work for the committee,
was excluded from the meeting. Dave
is to be congratulated.
Burlington Republican: The new issues
created by this war will afford a great
many Populists who were formerly Re-
publicans a long desired opportunity to
get back into the party where they be-
long. They left the party generally be-
cause they got queered ON the money
question. They have never been salts
fed in the party of calamity and social
ism, but stayed away from home and
sulked because a return was equivalent
to an admission that they had been dead
wrong. Now the issues, which appeal
more directly anu pow ul4S ~ tilt ldi 6rI
patriotism of all men, will afford them
an excellent chance to walk back without
any confessions or admissions of any
kind. and they are going to avail them
selves of 1t. In opposing territorial eX-
pansion the Democratic party is simply
keeping up its old record as suicide.
Clay Center Times: Mrs. Digs has or
ganized some .azy semi-pohtical social
istic society and in 81 as officers are
Mrs. Breidenthal, Mrs. DOster, Mrs Hof-
man, Mrs Waite, and other husbandly
known rainbow chasers. Mr.. Tennyson
when he wrote his famous judicial love
poem and laid down as law that as the
husband is the wife Is. thou are mated
to a clown" knew what he was talking
about.
Hutchinson News: The Topeka Advo-
cate which is one Of the fairest Populist
pa pers, makes the mistake Of saying that
the old soldiers OF the Seventh district
are sore because Chester L Long turned
them down on the pOstOfices. The exact
reverse is true. We haven't a cOmplets
list OF the postmasters appointed. but
we do know that twO-thirds OF the i'm
portant offices in the district are filed
b. old soldiers. The charge 81 aot true
and we will further assert that Chester
l. Long secured the appointment Of more
old soldiers than any other Kansas con-
gresham. and that more 81 them are
postmasters in the Seventh district than
were under the Democratic administra-
ton in the whole state Of Kansas and
a few more states 10 boot.
Douglas Tribune: David Overmyer gets
81 op1 out OF the state treasury for alleged
legal services rendered Webb AcSsii. rs
no wonder that David delivered the Demo
Gratis over 70 LseGy.