Wichita Eagle

A short time ago Democrats were howling themselves hoarse about the Republican Senate delaying the business of the supreme court, because that body saw fit to inquire into the fitness of the appointee for the important position of chief justice. But now that Mr. Fuller has been confirmed and has begun to draw his salary he is permitted to delay the business of the court by declining to qualify until such time as suits his convenience and inclination, and not a word of criticism from the erstwhile champions of public interest. Bah!

There is great danger, in fact it is absolutely certain, that the old fashioned habit of breeding sheep and growing wool will become obsolete should the numerous politicians, for purely political purposes, continue to elevate their voices and shout their free trade doctrines to the country until, perchance, they shall finally obtain. Your free trade haranguer is an arrant knave: in the presence of an audience he is loud-mouthed, hot-headed, persistent and apparently in earnest for his dogma, but will laugh in his sleeve at the gullibility of silly voters who have given him a respectable hearing the moment he is by himself.

The Democrats are already preparing excuses for the defeat that they feel sure will overtake them in November in Indiana. They are giving publicity to the statement that a large number of Republicans will be temporarily transferred from Kansas to that state to take part in the election and thus make the result sure for the Republican ticket, state and national. Suppose it is true, which it is not, how much worse would it be for Kansas Republicans to help their Indiana brethren than for Ohio and Kentucky Democrats to do the same thing? Nobody denies that they have purchased success by such methods heretofore, and will do it again if they can.

The Richmond, Ky., Climax quotes a farmer of that section as indulging in the following bit of gush: "I never saw more piping times than now. Just think of it--lambs at 5 to 5 1-2 cents, hogs 5 to 5 1-2 cents, cattle at 5 to 5 1-2 cents, corn at 30 to 35 cents, wheat at 75 cents; stock plentiful without disease, horses and mules higher than for two or three years the crop unusually good, the spring creeks and ponds full of water and the grass growing like spring time and money plentiful, what more could we ask?" We should be only too glad to know that such "piping times" really prevailed down in the land of bourbon and blue grass, but it must strike the average reader as just a little singular that with such conditions there should be found so many emigrants from there. Eh?