Kansas Vim from McPherson, Kansas • 1

"Our Country first, and then we'll stand by honest party men." NO. 50 Mcpherson, Kansas, February VOL- II. The Kansas legislators who designa ted the soldier's petitions as "old sol dier racket," will learn the true defini tion of tec term. lation, which in reality is distrib-utig 130 millions broadcast among our most worthy and needy citizens It helps the "circulating medium" more than any other pro A REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE EEKLY days when these machinesare in market, every man can have one of his nwn, and when the morning of wash day symptoms of the disease known as "cleaning house appears in his family, he can just attach: his wings and sail away to more pleasanter scenes. Nearly all the souteern rebel leg political sentiments, and it was left for the alliance to practice the wholesale piece of deception, that constantly gives the lie to their professions.

Bro. Ruckman might with justice to himself and good to his party throw off the alliance mask and dispense with its dark lantern mumnierie3, for its Sst effort has enticed it to the hjtjt for collosal lying. Publishefl every Friday, at McPherson, by HALL' POTTER. ject. The Santa Fe, makes a cut.of twenty per cent the number of men to be retained in the round hous'e, so we were informee Tuesday.

That means every iii'ihinaii must lose his Geo. P. Hall, editor. islatures, and also their nortoern assistants in Indiana Michigan. What would the alliance do, if Peffer was to die as soon as Elder wants him too? Wisconsin and other places, have job and that those retained will be The question of the ''free ball will never be settled till the ballot is free.

resolved that if congress passes the election bill which is intended to stop democratic murder of repbli-cans about elections times, they reduced to nine houss per day. I he Santa Fe cleared over ten million dollars last year and this year it wants to clear twelve millions so the wages must be cut down while official salaries remains. Shame-. Argosy will not take part in the world, fair exposition at Chicago. Con The alliance tail continues to wag the democratic dog, over in Illinois.

It always might have, been far worse. Sen. Peffer may not be scholarly, but he has always lived near the heart and lives of the the poor and laboring classes. The Behring sea controversy is is to get the Supreme Court, where England on propositions of law, hopes to defeat the issue as made against them by Secy. Blaine to Lord Saulsbury.

gress will probably let THE GOOD THEY ALL HAVE DON E. The Fifth Anniversary of the organization of the. Wouiens Relief Corp of this city was celebrated with an appropriate program on Monday afternoon at the IOOF hall, beguiling at continu kilhn" proceed. latch union, Int. The terrible disaster by whb'h 110 men lost their lives yesterday The Farmers alliance, at the Omaha session, resolved that only farmers, and not political shysters could become members.

This is another blow at the Kansas legislature. in a Pennsylvania coal mine en ing till evening. An interesting forces anew the lesson that such supervision should be exercised by the state over corporations as will compel the adoption of methods calculated to produce the greatest paper was read by urs. Edwards, of Newton, and one by the president for Mrs. Shields, who could who could not bo present by reason of sickness of Mr.

Shields-Both were heartily received and enthusiastically endorsed. Then The joy over Puffers election is moderating down somewhat, the waiting to see how fast the mortgages will roll oft the iarm, before they repeat the first exhiliration they felt over the defeat of Ingalls and Elder. followed music and son-s the of As To Peffer. The worst thing about Poller's election, is that the people's party will elect a United states senator he will die on their hands hands give Gov. JIumphery and opper-n i ty to appoint Ingalls in his place.

Why he his one foot in the grave now. I attribute his success to the fact for weeks he has had men traveling over the state on Santa Fe passes securing instructions for him. P. Elder, Their is nothing the matter with his record; he has been a republican from Fremont to Harrison, but than he is respectable, and what Kansas is pining for now is respectability. Jerri Simpson.

The nomination of Poller suits the republicans too well to please me. He was the second choice of Joe Hudson and of most of the republicans, 1 am not much smarter than anybody else, bifl I know too much to do the very thing which my political enemies want me to safety. 1 hero was too much work here for one fire boss, anywhere." said a man familiar with thn mine where the explosion occurred. They discharged one a 'couple of weeks igo to reduce expense and one man has been forced to do the wook," The owners of the mine saved the wages of one man for two weeks and the state of Pennsylvania loses 110 of its citizens. There should be.

laws governing the operation of such mines and the laws should be enforced. Hut- days of glorious victory and battle. But he crowmng feature -of their liberality was the banquet they spread for their guests, the G. A. R.

and Sons of Veterans, both organizations were present in a body looks beyond mere party existance out to the broader wider field of bringing prosperity to the state is a forwardstep. If the republican party lives close to the heart of the people there need be no fears for its perputuity. and about 20U were supplied at the tables, witli a supper tnat was THE OLDIiCT MAN ON EARTH. Jerry wants the United States senate abolished. It will be rembered a republican allianceman named Peffer was elected and Jerry was not.

Grapes are still sour, anyway. Before the election the "peeple" were goinu to pans laws to have every usurer tied up in a bow knot and fired out of the state. Now, their prophet "Jerry, mire" says urury laws do no good only to "drive inuney out of the state." -After all, the new legislators are begining to find out the laws not change a man's nature or relieve him from his legal obligations, and the real object of the people's party having been accomplished, the defeat of Ingalls, the evidences point plainly to the fact that no radical legislation will be attempted, in fact there are no anticipations that even the suggestions of the Codifying Commit tee will be carried out. It is asserted that Kansas farm-ers are writing to Indiana for wives. This sort of proceeding is not provided for in the St.

Louis platform, and the end of the state legislature is expected to introduce a bill to correct this lack of patronising home inrtitntions. Link Waggoner has very forcibly a compliment to the uuited host who so generously, and in a spirit of loyalty, entertained them. The Gen. J. II.

like. do souvenirs were a boquoj. and satin badge of their Order pinned on the This is bnta half victory. Poller lapel of the coat. Young men in authority seldom like correction.

In the military maneouvers of the German army under command of the emperor, Count Waldesee told him if hie movements of troops had been against a real enemy, his cavalry would have been annihilated. lie disliked the criticism and will appoint younger men for the army commanders In looking back over the live years of labor and effort it is not with regret, for they have been has too much recently come into reform party to ho thus honored. lie is too acceptable to republ-cans to strike straight out allainco men just right." Congrectimau-elect John DacU. Ben Clover observed "Of course, the 'judge' will do; he pretty close to th.) old gang, but we are hoping years ladened with good resi-lts benefits to the needy and distress cd, have been its mission, and well and wisely has its mission been that lie will about face now and get more on him in the other diroc- performed, by noble women who have sacrificed to make oth ton er homes and hearts brighter. All Sam Wood summed up the situa tion when he yes, it is the best choice that the alliance honor to Wonen's Relief Corp.

Evangelistic Work. Rev. B. E. Shawhan the cvan Secy.

Noble has promised that measures shall be instituted whereby the pension claims of long standing and those ofclaiments before the pension bureau who, have no attorney, will receive immediate attention. This will be good news for the old boys who for years have hoped against hope of ever receiving justice. protested against lynch lw. lie shot a few of the would-be lynchers and it had a discouraging effect on the rest. could have made.

Tnat you known is always the proper thing to say alter the nomination has been made." gelist who is exected to conduct a series of meetings in the Metho dist church is noted fur his sUv, Ingalls as a Scapegoat. The legislature has taken no steps toward reducing its own pay After a brief fight with the senate, it promptly got in line, and even the representative who wears can cess as a revivalist, by reason of his persuasive power over men his sweet spiritedness, gentleness vas clothes and gets his meals at and genuine love for the work of saving men. lie attempts no ac robatic performances, in neither IIo Uvcti In ami in Ae In One ami Year. The oldest man in the world is a citizen of r.ofotn, In Vie Republic of Kan Salvador. Thh new Methuselah, says the Chicc.

70 iluuo, declares that he is, one hundred r.ru! yenrs old, and It would K'ca hi? flatters himself, for his neighbors pvc the assurance that he is older than he says he is. He is a half-hrcM named Michael Bolis, whose cxi' tenco vas revealed to Dr. Louis Hernandez by one of the oldest planters ii V.w- IfdHy, who us a child know Hulls They have found i.i I Tl'i his among1 those of who contributed to tho building of a lY.in. i'seun convent which exists uear San in, His shin is like parchment, long hair of tho whiteness of snow envelops his head like a turban, a. id i look is so keen thut it mud" a disagreeable impression on the doi tr.

Interro-f: by th" doctor, ho an-Bwored that his great ago was due to l.is re.Tnl'.T mode of living, and to his never up to any excess of any sort whatever. "I never tv.t Int once a d-iy," said he, "but I never any but the strongest and most nourishing foedfj. Sly meals last a half hour, fori hrlieve it is impossible to cat iivm-c thr.t time than the lxxly can direst in twenty-four hours. I fr.t the vnil fifteenth day of each mo.ith, e.nd 0:1 those days I drink as much water cs I can bear. I always let my A Income cold before I touch it.

It the things that I attribute my n.T" A GAMCLLITG CUPCRSTITIONS. He Kmokri Omul Wien I.oilng and I'oor wiuvi Winning. There ha well-known r.port, whose face is a standin portit.it In tho gallery of Chestnut street hnbitucs, who Is particularly' hcnihh among his brethren of eh-anee by the brands of cigars ho raokes, the Philadelphia Inquirer. If he wins heavily on the track all 'his friends know it by the tcrriHe shkII the vile tobacco in his smokers. If he is a loser they are aware it by the delicate perfume of the curling sin Vj of the wreaths of a fragrant Iluvu.uu What induces the follower of the of chance to thus contrarily ta his financial condition never could Ik? learned until a week r.go.

when the quality of his cigar was so execrable as to call forth a protest from his comrades, and then he said: "It's my only superstition, boys. If I win and should siaoke a pood cigar luck'd back on so the next day I'd lie in th.a poor-house in a week. But if I am a 1 xr never very heavy, understand, a vl two or three Conchas, ye see? HI call the turn on bad luck. When I playing in great form then's when I draw on cigars made from cabbages. It's my experience that bad cigars and gotxl luck are Mends and Havanas travel in the wake of the losing sport- the 15 cent restaurant, promptly drew his $3.

a day, when he knows he could not earn 75 cents at day at home. But then we cannot expect reform to strike too deep, all Sen. Kelly's proposition is to reorganize the republican party on financial propositions, which are directly in the interest of the West. It is a fact that the gold bugs have dominated the financial policy to suit the East, at the expense of the West, and while the undertaking is one of no little magnitude, yet any method that will unite or cement the party to a plan that caractarist nor a bigot, neither brags, threatens nor proselytes but preaches a conscious salvation at once, and must not put on too through faith in the merits of the broad a smile over the look of dis Saviour's death. Great success gust that came over the members has attended his efforts in other parts of the stste.

He is not in an From the Netwon Republican. AlPthe evils that are, state and national, and many many that are not in fact, have boon prctically laid li the door of this man who has, with gross injustice been singled out from amovng other men whose duties were not more manfully preformed. Ilumankiud are very like the ancient god, id that their wrath, demand a sacrifice; and as those exacting deities were appeased only by the firstlings of the flocks the rarest of the fruits the richest of the wines, so mortals, when their ire is up, demand and take the best given. The truth of this is borne out by many 8 page of history that is slippery with blood. The wrongs done in the name of right are almost beyoitd computation.

Not all the clamor of all the disaffected can lead an ubiascd and thinking man to be-lieve that in making Senator Ingalls the scapegoat of these times there was showing one whit of justice. Hi fall was great for the reason that his stand was high The leading 'figure of a time of faces, when a canvas back orator proposed that the legislature be paid for its actual days service, but not for the time it loafs round. orotorical sense a great preacher but his earnestness and deep hu mility irresistably draw all to him in a bond of enduring friendship His first service will be on Feb An amusing joke is on Sen. Kelly. He sent home a copy of Mo-hler's judicial bill.

Judge Caldwell criticised the measure quite severely in the Freeman, showing if the misfortune should overtake the state provided lor by the bill, hereafter there could be no security of title to real-estate in this state. Kellv voted for the bill. 22nd. The church will begin the service one week earlier, and as the Methodisis are credited with preaching the freeest sort of a gos pel, everybody and their friends are invited to enjoy these meetings. The Index claims it cannot understand how there can be such a thing as an alliance republican or alliance democrat.

Of coure not. after a man, or set of men prevert a solemn obligation, taken in sincerity, which promises no interference with either religion or politics, but straightway vilotes the spirit of both, it is not hard for them to take the other step and deny, by implication, the existance of the obligation. Both sincere democrats and republicans took alliance obligations as they bav taken those ol other Orders, and realized no change in their 'change, he became its leading vic- Moses Harmon, the publisher of Lucifer, The Light Bearer of Topeka, has again been found guilty of depositing obscence publications in the United States mails and must take his medicines. The fm. In America tilde has been no other man like Ingalls; wherefore there has been no other fall like his.

If the republican party fails to pass an election bill that will gar-rantee to every citizen his right to vote, and that vote to be counted: if the president vetos the silver bill, there wtll be little of the last years legialation republicans can point to with hopeful results, unless it be the liberal pension legis- court can now elucidate thepervail-ling conuudrum: "Where was I Moses when the light went out?" Aakansas Citv Traveler. PRESS. The flying machine recently completed at Mt Carmel, 111. is said, to be a great success. One of these.