The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-29

over the Phoenix-like arising of Wichita
| his former home.
why" he said, ''old Wichita is grow
ing and fourishing like a green bay tree.
In company with my old friend, r. A
Rohrbaugh, behind a near relative of
Joe Patchen, 1 drove through your mag
nificent parks. The whole plan End sys-
tenn of them was revelation to me. l
had kept posted, of course, in a general
way through the columns of the Eagle,
but the half has never been told Your
parks are magnificent Not another city
west Of the Mississippi can point to such
magnificent drives, such delightfully."- cool
retreats such rustic, rural simplicity and
pleasure-giving grounds. You have hun
dreds of acres of it apparently, and while
do not know who is entirely responsible
for the system, some day the inhabitants
will rise up and call them blessed. Then,
too, your real estate is picking up again
wonderfully and your city in common
with the whole country is getting her
portion Of the general prosperity.
What about Oklahoma? Oh, well, she
is singularly blessed. Granaries over
flowing, cattle on every hill, another good
crop being harvested, why should not
our people be happy? Statehood is need
ed badly in political way, so the people
at the polls could determine who should
rule over them. They would stand much
more then if they were responsible for
the official tenure of her office holders.
Barnes has made good governor; ener-
geuc, able, he has cared for the inter-
ests of his territory well, but his ap-
pointments have been singularly void of
political sagacity and foresight. He has
kept away from the people. has honored
pets and fractional belligerents and ignor-
ed the rank and ile-the political hewers
of wood and the drawers of water.
Flynn, on the contrary, puts his ears
close to the prairie grass and listens to
the rustic of the farmers brogans as he
swishes through it. He is close to the
people and keeps there, and always will
win with the people. No one can blame
him for his speech at Jefferson, although
if he had been all politician and only a
time server he would never have made
it.
United States Marshal Thompson is
all right, clean, smooth, clever, obliging,
courteous. His Office will carry no scan
dals with it. Yes, Jenkins is all right.
too, and he is honest and clean and does
not seem to be quarrelsome. take him
to be pretty well satisfied with himself,
and then his assistant, who does a lot of
his work, ]. ]. Houston, is from Perry,
and of course he is all right, and he is
a politician too, if anybody inquiries
about it. OF course, though. there are
others-even in Perry. T. H. Doyle of
Perry, rock-ribbed Democrat, with a
tongue that is long enough at any time
when necessary to touch the barney
stone way across the say in Ould Ire
land is an awful thorn in the flesh of
the fusionists. Like Banquo's ghost, he
will not down, and besides Tom has
money to burn if necessary to have his
say about matters, for he is every inch
a fighter Then there is Dick Morgan of
our town, with his long, flowing beard
Prince Albert coat, and address second to
none, keep your eye on him, We. who
watch Oklahoma politics, for if he can
get enough time from his Sunday school
and general religious work to mix little
more, his power will be felt
Judge Hainer of the Fourth judicial
district, with headquarters at Perry, con-
sidering the fact that he is from Guth-
RE, is par excellence, a good judge, So
ciable as a rocking chair and a wide
awake judge, and where county interests
are concerned, scrutinizes everything
closely. For the first time district clerk
fees are fixed upon a regular and proper
basis and the counties of his district may
well thank him for his close scrutiny of
all county fee bills.
And the city of Perry is all right
The era of railroad building is upon US
and our city and county will get her
share in the distribution of the contem-
plated lines"