Jerry Simpson's Bayonet from Wichita, Kansas • 3

JERRY SIMPSON'S some pity for him, albeit there are er the advisability of complying with was fool enough to work himself six- worthier objects of pity, for it must be it. teen hours or twenty hours a day? If KANSAS rooTics. hard to have the mn ua raised to the there were ten iobs for everv nine 1L 1 1 LA I ips, thus cruelly dashed away. ,77., men' employers would be glad to ac- WaSaluJu cept workmens own terms, as to The Bayonet can so seldom find any- for the position of Superintendant of hours of work and workmen would be: hing in any of the politicians who in8urancc BW nc "AS wiac lu luls corresponding! free, to sell their dominate Republican politics in thisview latelY A few weeks the labor for a greater or less number of; state, worthy of commendation, that bayonet stated tnat jyiciNaii was a can- without intervention it is a relief to be able to say. a good waaie ior tne governorsmp aim kmc government.

word for any of their proiects. We ne naa no ougni oi any otner omce. It difficult to brine- abonif can, however, commend, without re- We would need better authority than thig desired condition of jobs seeking; servation, the efforts of the Burton ol- mere newspaper report, wmcn is gen- instead of men seeking jobs, to owing-to have the state convention erauy untrue, to Deiieye tnat nis am those who have not studied the relation of man to the earth, but to those nominate the candidate for the United tude has been changed since then. States senate, herniise it is in line, I VTTf.M 11 A 1. at vvmie mere is never too mucii with the almost unanimous public tention devoted to national politics, who have studied it, the way seems easy.

The course in political economy, the Knights of Labor have determined to institute, is the wisest thing sentiment in favor of the election there is by far too little consideration of the senators by the people. Until the constitution is given to matters which concern the state alone. It is within the power of the state, to secure a fair measure of that great labor organization has ever done. So long as wae-e-workers. amended and the constitution is almost as hard to change as the laws of After weeks of struggling' with himself, Charles Curtis has delivered his defense against the alleged Horton "Bgreement.

Curtis does not deny that an agreement was made, which resulted in his nomination for congress; he does not deny that he reaped the fruits of the agreement, but he declares that the gentlemen who signed the agreement were in no sense his representatives, that they had no power to sign this or any agreement and therefore it is not binding upon him. Curtis may be telling the truth, but there are some peculiar features which require some explanation. For instance, Cyrus Iceland is not according to the general conception of him, a spring chicken, a creature of virginal innocence. Those who know him will confess that it is strange, wondrous strange, that he should have entered into a deal, involving the transfer of valuable political goods, with men who had no power of delivery; that he could have been buncoed into negotiating with men who were not agents, and into performing his share of the contract under the delusion, that these men with whom he had bargained were agents. Then again, the position in which it places the men who did sign the agreement for Curtis is somewhat peculiar.

We are given to understand that wholly without any authority from Curtis, they made an agreement he Medes and Persians the legisla- prosperity, regardless of the vicious character of national legislation. It as a class, are ignorant of the Jmeans to effectively improve their condition, their efforts at amelioration are as useless as the floundering of a fish ures must continue to elect, but if be- is in the power of the people of Kans ore hand the people through party as, to make it the most prosperous conventions signify their choice, this out of water, state in the Union and to set an ex action on the part of the legislature will soon dwindle into mereratifica- THE GLOBE THEATRE. ample for the other states to pat tern after. There is altogether too Continuous Performance of the Great ion of the will of the people expressed much mixing of state with national American Extravaganza. Expansion or Expand and the World Laughs at yon.

at the polls. ii i issues, it is as important to tne peo The Populist state committee is per- pie of Kansas, that direct legislation Characters of the Prologue. Time ecting plans for the great work ahead become the law of the state as that About 1776. of it and there is every reason to be- the fusion forces win a victory in 1900. George III, king of England, a promi- ieve that it wilt do its full duty.

Important as direct legislation, but nent expansionist, afterwards known as a tyrant and oppressor. There will be without doubt, two state more difficult to get is a revision of conventions one for the nomination the state constitution, along lines George Washington, I Thomas Jeflerson, Ragged Rebels, after-Benjamin Franklin, I wards known as Pa-John Hancock, I triots, of delegates to the national conven- which we will from time to time indi- ion and the other to select the state cate in the Bayonet. One or two sim- JNatnan li ale. icket. The talk that the committee pie enactments, now impossible, be Sir William Howe, SSa'AffliS.

Missionaries engaged in is organized in the interest of certain cause of constitutional limitations, binding him to run for the office of congressman-at-large and to leave the candidates is unworthy of belief and would do much to strangle monopoly General Gage. tion. emanates from Republican sources, in this state, however much it might The best answer to such idle gossip is flourish in other states. If we have The Marquis de Lafayette, a friend of field in the first district open to Mr. to be found in the question, "What excited your curiosity, by this asser- vvasnington, ana an anti-expansion- iinnrrrmnan5er1 hv nrftnf lisvo ISC 1900.They may have done this thing-old-time repblican politiciansare capable of doing almost any unsavory good would it do, if it were so?" Who accomplished our object.

The proof TheJDeclaration of Independence, a is there who knows the character and will be forth coming. serious document. personnel of a Populist State conven thing but it requires a most credulous disposition, an eminently child Characters oe the extravaganza. tion, who imagines for a moment, that like faith to believe it. it could be manipulated by a state We do not know whether Rreiden- xwvKO A report comes from Washington, thai desires the nomination for gover- Hi ImPerial Highness, McKinley committee? that Iceland has sent into the first dis xvuier oi ine isies, ouitan ana Jrorto Rico, Commander-in-chief of the Im- nor, nor does any one else know, for Breidenthal has not committed him Napoleon, Mazarin, Talleyrand, trict, under an imitation of Curtis' Machiavelli Cyrus Iceland is again en frank, cockle-burs and various other self either way, in the matter.

Many gaged in some of the underground perial Army and Navy, Defender of the Constitution and business Agent of the Republican Syndicate. noxious weeds, for the purpose of en of his warm friends are, however, en tricks, for which he is distinguished thusiastic in advocacy of his nomina raging the recipients of them against Curtis. The story is plainly silly and aboye all else. Recently he had a What's-the-Matter-Wilh Mark Hanna, tion. lengthy article printed, representing unworthy of belief.

Iceland is cap that he is not for Baker, at all; that on David Overmyer has been honored Manager-in-Chief of the Syndicate, Controller of the Barrel, Procurer of Votes to his Imperial Highness. able of almost anything and if he the contrary, he hates Baker as the by appointment as vice-president for thought he could engage in such devil hates holy water and is prepar- Kansas of the monster anti-trust con Russ Alger, a scapegoat. scheme with impunity, his conscience would not stand in his way; but the ing to give it to him, where the chick- vention, which is to meet in Chicago General Egan, a retired embalmer en got the ax. This is followed by the within the next several weeks. imitation of a congressman's frank would subject the imitator to a term statement that Iceland's real candidate for the senate is Hon.

Ike Lambert There is an occasional echo from with a handsome income. Civil Service Reform, that butt of the Imperial Court. General Otis, a cheerful obliterator of facts discreditable to his Imperial in jail and Iceland is shrewd enough to keep out of the meshes of the law. and a half or three quarters of a E. Brown, of Democratic Sunflower column of space is devoted to showing League fame, in Republican news- He will find other and more potent why this is so.

papers. It sounds, however, very much Highness. means of defeating Curtis. Missionaries of Ex This is so ancient a trick of Iceland's like the squeak of a mouse, simultane- General McArthur, pansion who do their that it smells of him, just as a certain ously in the mouth of a cat and the General duty whether they Burtoman eloquence is not to be paid for at the rate of five thousand like it or not. animal, whose name it is unnecessary throes of dissolution.

The friends of to mention always leaves his odor be- Overmyer snuffed out the Brown flame Truth a character rarely permitted to dollar per annum, by Lo, the poor In hind him. Leland knows the dislike with neatness and disnatr.h. appear upon tne stage, and then dian; the hills of Indian territory are of him among; the plain people of the only in an obscure light. not to echo with the sonorous refrain state and he knows that a man marked The candidates for congress in the Aguinaldo, a poor cuss. of that beautiful and impressive poem too plainly with his brand, is likely to seventh district are getting thick al- Other Niggers, inhabitants of the "Marmion," as interpreted by the Burtonian reading; that resounding go down in defeat.

To avoid this, he ready, and it is a far cry from now, always appears to be sponsor for half until fly-time. period, "Lord Douglas, thou hast a dozen applicants for any giyen po is not to delight the Cherokee and his Philippines, incapable of suffering and possessing no desire for liberty and happiness. Next to seeing their homes burned and their wives and children maltreated, their principal joy consists in being shot down by Poole Grinstead is editing his paper 1 XI sition, and strives, if possible, to have it appear that he is opposed to the very brother. Wherefore there is a grea weeping and wailing and gnashing irom ail anu. mere is no indication that confinement has awed his spirit teeth among the followers of that Lung man whom he most desires to win.

A majority of the Republicans of the or diminished his vigor. Frank El Fxpansion Missionaries. Power and threats of vengence agains liott, although not in jail, continues to T. Piatt Sub managers of the Republican shoot loaded shells into the Czar of S. Quay Trust.

state supposed that Leland was stout Senator Baker, fill the winter air and thaw its frozen particles with their Doniphan, in sublime indifference of Teddy' the rouh rider' the young ly opposed to Stanley in 1898, when, as a matter of fact, he has seldom had a heat. the bed that worthy has in preparation more servile tool to his will in the gu for him. bernatorial chair. Verily, a perverse fortune seems to have encamped on the trail of Burton What a waste of energy, the agita- man who meant well but went wrong. The declaration of Independence, a humorous document, read only by old ladies and children.

Business interests, an idol set up by the Republican syndicate on the pedestal formerly occupied by Five years ago, he seemed to have the News comes from Clay county, that tion for eight hours law. When the senatorship within his grasp and i the Populists will send a delegation wage-workers of the country waste eluded him and the same thine; has from that county, to vote for George their time and money in efforts to se- W. Hanna, for the nomination for cure such ineffective measures for happened, when he was on the eve a five thousand dollar a year plum a Superintendent of Insurance. Hanna their relief, it is not surprising that has a host of friends through- the employing classes have been able Protection, an 1 liginary fence around the expense of the Cherokees. The adverse action has been taken by the out the state and will prove a formid- to run the country.

If there were ten the idol. Interior Department, but Burton sees able candidate for the place. If he hobs for every nine men, what would Office Holders, Office Seekers, Politi the hand of Baker in it and he has cu should be nominated, he would see we want with eight hour laws? If there cians, Contractors, Protection-fed that the law is enforced and the in- were ten jobs for eyery nine men, Trust Magnates, G. A. R.

men, Pen another notch in his stick and will bide the time for scalp-taking. We feel surance companies would soon discov-1 what would one man care if another I sion Agents, etc. Life..