Gloucester County Democrat., 1899-07-13
Especial washington Letter. !

of the Spanish War Democratic
Creed.
Especial Washington Letter1
Recently | was out in Kansas on a
lecture tour. Unless all signs fail the
Fusionists will carry the Sunfower
State this year-and next hands down.
The Republicans are all split up the
back over several things, especially
about patronage. Even at this early
date Charley Curtis, now representing
the Topeka district, and Mr.. Bailey,
congressman at large, are engaged in a
Kilkenny cat fight as to who shall rep
resent the Topeka district in the Fifty
seventh congress. Boss Cy Leland is
taking hand in the fracas and abus-
ing Curtis like pickpocket. among
other things bowling about Curtis be-
ing part Indian, a thing which Curtis
couldn't prevent, as nobody that
ever heard of could choose his an
cestors. 1t seems to me that in that
regard Leland hit Charley below the
belt. That was certainly stupid on
Leland's part, for Curtis is bright as a
dollar. a hard fighter and will never
forget or forgive that insult The war
is so bitter that certain persons are
calling on ex-senator John James In
gals to come into the race in order to
save the district. As that has usually
been considered the bulwark of Re
publicanism in Kansas, RepubIicanism
ont there must be considered as on its
last legs when the Topeka district is
reckoned as doubtful.
AS near as / could ascertain about
one-half of the Kansas Republicans
keep their vocal organs in training by
cussing Governor W. Eugene Stanley.
It's Lincoln's old tale about the rela-
tive number Of pigs and teats over
again. with variations.
| saw Hon. jeremiah Botlin, ex-con-
gressman at large, and Senator w. A.
Harris, both men of experience, ca
paeity and veracity, and they both say
that the Fusionists will sweep the
state as with new broom.
f0kfG1cS ana E4ucfIk0B.
One thing that worries the Republic
ans out there is Prohibition ingalls,
once said: .Out in Kansas the tiplers
have all the whisky they want. The
Prohibitionists have all the law they
want So everybody is happy" That
statement, however, of the brilliant,
yitriollc and iridescent statesman was
only glittering generalization. They
are not all happy and never will be so
long AS Republicans rule the roost, for
some Republicans are Prohibitionlsts
and some are not, nearly as the Eng
lishman takes his liquid refreshment,
alf and 'alf" So they keep up a
quarrel about it perpetually.
Other causes contribute to the un-
happiness of Kansas Republicans, but
perhaps the one that has disgusted
most people of intelligence and decen-
cy is the outrageous manner in which
the bosses are forcing politics into the
Kansas university and normal schools,
turning out professors of unquestion-
ed learning, capacity and integrity
OCCaUHC lAC9 dAC AtCA1ON1otN VI
Populists to make room for another
set merely because they are Republic
ans, and this, too, in institutions sus-
tanned by general taxation. In order
to furnish more pap for Boss Leland
and Governor Stanley to distribute
among their henchmen to keep their
own political heads upon their own po-
iitical shoulders the schools of Kansas,
which have hitherto been the pride of
all her people and the crowning glory
of the state, are to be made the foot
balls of the hazardous game of poll
ties. For shame on lot of pothOuse
politicians who would thus debase
their official positions to the injury of
the rising generation. If there is any
one thing that ought to be kept out OF
the maelstrom of politics it is popular
education.
What contrast to this small, con-
temptlble, peanut politics of persecut-
ing college professors because they do
not believe IN a robber tariff and a
robber goldbug system was the recent
action of Professor w. T. Darlington,
superintendent of public instruction in
Missouri, in voting TO make Professor
Kirk president of the kirksyille nor
NAL school Darlington, a Democrat,
and Kirk, Republican, were twice
pitted against each other for the posi-
ton which the former now holds.
Kirk won in the landslide of 1894, and
Darlington came out on top in 1898.
Yet in 1899 Darlington votes in his ex
officio capacity as regent. votes to
make his Republican competitor presi-
dent Of one'of four great normal schools.
Pharisees Not All Dead.
While writing the foregoing para
graph as to education in Missouri the
following astounding excerpt from the
ST. Louis Globe Democrat fell under
my eye: "Nine-tenths of all the persons
in the United States tit to hold college
professorships are Republicans.
How any sane and respectable man
could write that sentence passeth all
understanding voltaire once said,
Keep on lying and some of it viii
stick" which appears to be the CON
trolling idea of those radical Repub-
licans who write such stuff. The
Pharisees are not all dead yet. l re-
peat for 1t Is a glorious fact in Mis-
souri, history, Democratic history. that
e per cent of the Missouri delegation
In both house and senate in the Fifty
fifth congress were college bred men.
AS the delegation In the Fifty-sixth
congress is the same as In the Fifty.
fifth with two exceptions the per
centage win run about the same. OF
the II men composing the Missouri
delegation IA are stalwart Democrats
and, to say the least Of it, will average
up fully with the three Republican
members from st. Louis Several
Democrats of that delegation have
been teachers In high schools and col
leges and two Of them presidents ot
colleges, one at the very early age ot
%, and vet The Globe Democrat ID its
rage because the Republicans cannot
carry this state takes out its venge-
ance by slauderiag not only the Dem
ocrats Of Missouri. bat the Democrats