The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-02
KANSAS Is SNARIESI
Heads the List in Number of
Applicants Passed
FOR CENSUS CLERKSHlPS
How Expansion Sentiment is
Spreading in the South.

reason to feel proud in the showing made
On the recent examination for clerkships
IN the vensus bureau. Kansas applicants
passed with higher grades and made a.
more creditable showing than in anv
Dther of nine American cities scattered
all over the country. The examination
was held at Topeka, November 3D.
F'ifty-one took the examination and 70
! passed. This was a percentage nj y
This was the highest percentage made
/ IN any of the nine cities where exam
! lhdt1ons have been held. Examiner Car
I Der OF the census bureau has lust re-
turned from his trip over the country
/ he has given out information about his
trip The cities where examinations were
heId, and the percentages of successful
/ examinations, as compared with the en-
tire number who took the examinations,
IL as follows: Topeka, II; Portland. Ore.
To- Omaha, Y; Lansing, Mich. e.; Gin
clnnau, 81; Chicago, 80; Atlanta, 81; st.
! Louis, 80; New Orleans, 49. So. Kansas
heads the list. In this connection. it
might be well to know that the census
bureau has given it out that under no
circumstances will women be made emu
! merators
One of the rather peculiar things about
the ante-campafgn talk and speculation
| Is the absolute fact that while the whole
! country knows what the Republican cam
palgn will be, there is lnucn uncertainty
ABOUT what the opposition will do There
! Is general disposition to ignore free sill
| yer; at least, to subordinate il in inn
| portance. Elliott Danforth chairman of
| the Democratic state central committee
| OF New York, is out in an interview
, winch comes on the heels of a visit he
! has made to the south Down there ex
| pansion is gaining ground among the
! bourbons. Mr. Danforth stopped here
! while on his way home and conferred
with Senator Jones and other Democratic
| leaders.
Speaking of the gain of the expansion
/ sentiment in the south. reminds one of
the way the Democratic leaders are
bravely coming out for expansion. It is
, good deal to them, too even though
they seem to be against the trend of
! feeling on that proposition among their
party in the north Senator Morgan Of
Alabama, one of the strongest national
characters in or out of congress, is hav-
| ing fight on his hands for reelection
He is an eXpansionist and favors the
Nicaraguan canal and is making a cam
paign on these issues. Senator Berry of
Arkansas, one Of the old-timers, also has
fight for reelection. His opponent is
Governor Jones of that state, who has
come out f1at-footed for expansion. SEN
ator W. V. Sullivan of Mississippi. who
now holds short-term election, will also
make his campaign for reelection on the
issue of expansion.
Speaking of Senator Sullivan, brings
Andy Richards of Wellington, editor of
the Mail and a prominent Kansan. on
the scene. Mr.. Richards a few years ago
had considerable legal business in Mis-
sissippi, and Senator Sullivan was in the
same cases. The two became wei ac-
quainted and when Mr.. Richards depart
ed for the north, he and the senator were
good friends. They have renewed their
acquaintance, since both are here now.
Senator Kyle of South Dakota voices
a sentiment that is very pleasing to the
Republicans. He will vote for the pend
ing currency bill in the senate-goId
standard, if you please-and this is dia-
metrically opposed to his former views.
Again, he says he will be doing what
many of his former friends will do at the
polls. In short, he intimates that the
west and northwest are not nearly as
infatuated with the silver idea as four
years ago. This is all the more important
taken into consideration with the fact
that at the first Populist nation al con-
vention, in 1892. in Omaha, the name Of
Senator Pyle, then a newly-made sena-
tor, was presented as a candidate for the
presidency. Mr.. Kyle says that the OBJ
ject lesson in his own state is sufficient
to warrant him in taking his present posi-
ton. He talked interestingly yesterday
about the political conditions there He
was elected as an Independent having
been prominently associated with the eff
fort to overthrow the Republican ma
chine, but he says that the third party
movement has degenerated into an in
dorsement Of all that is radical and So
ciaistic. The chairman of the Populist
party in South Dakota. he SAYS. is a So
cialist of the most pronounced type,
whose newspaper advocates an entirely
new form of government The Republi-
cans and conservative Democrats who
were associated in the Independent move
ment in the past have returned to their
former political allegiance. not caring to
follow Altgeld, Debs and other agitators
At one Of these radical meetings, he
says. the American flag was twice torn
down and the red flag Of socialism raised
in its place. Il am in favor OF Ameri-
can Institutions" said Mr.. Kyle. and I
would rather take the Republican party,
with all in it that is distasteful to me-
than be allied with those who have no
respect for our flag and who want to
tear down our government. In
the election last fall there was 10 organ
lied Democratic party and no Democratic
ticket The name was completely ob,it-
Grated, and yet il was not so very long
ago that the Democrats cast 27e0 votes
in my state This conglomerated party
never can win. The present Popu-ist gov
ernOr was elected by a bare majority of
800. although previously the PopuliSts had
several thousand majority. In the last
election the Republicans. without money
and without struggle, won by nearly
700o. In the presidential campaign next
year South Dakota will go for Mckinley
by I0000 70 l5.0o0 The sociaIistic teaden-
cies OF the third party people and the
prosperity which is being enjoyed by the
South Dakota farmers have sounded the
death-knell OF the old movement
When congress reassembles the two
houses viii settle down 10 q long season !
Of business. which may possibly extend
far into the summer. There Is great {
deal Of work 70 be done OF 7 public char (
acter. which viii absorb the attention q /
congressman. while, OF course. esc1 rep /
resentative ard senator has legislation 4
personal 10 his own interests TO look !
after. There are large number Of new
members ef the house who desire 70 meke 4
a record for themselves 81 their first sas-
sion and 70 make q strike for their con- i
stitueuts To this class the river ard f
har6or bill the private pension aiiis. tire 4
public building bills and the n1Isceliane- +
Gus appropriation measures afford oppo-- 4
tunities OF the kind desired. There Is a 4
question. however. whether a river and F.
harbor Biz viii be framed az this sss-
sion Chairman Burton cf the river and 4
harbor committee has stated as his 5pfr- .
ion that no bili vii D. made Up tbs +