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# SUNFLOWER SHIMMER. Mr. Ingalls will lay hold of his gun next Tuesday. Talmage is in favor of a grand new revival. So is Senator Ingalls. "Revival" means "new life." It is to be hoped that Tom Moonlight, New Year's day resolved not to retire from politics, any more. During all his service in the United senate, John J. Ingalls has asked for but two leaves of absence. John Willits is one man who has discovered a great similarity between the words "Alliance" and "allowance." Last Tuesday an Alliance man said that in two weeks Cliff Baker would be too weak to run for state printer. If Billy Buchan goes on "gaining ground" every day, it will be necessary soon to annex the Cherokee strip. There is only one Democrat in the state senate, and he feels a good deal like the Republican members in the house. The full moon appears the 24th of this month, three days before the senatorial contest. It will probably have blood on it. Apropos of Senator Ingalls' prejudice about Friday it is an item of curiosity that last November, the fourth, came on Tuesday. Nobody is working harder for Ingalls than the newspaper correspondents at Washington. A brilliant man is meat to them. Col. Jim Hallowell has a great, favorable opinion of Jerry Simpson. Simpson would think more of Hallowell if the Prince had beaten him. News is so scarce that the weekly papers of Kansas have resorted to sundry schemes to fill up, such as: "Howfunnyalinelooks whenitisnotseparated." One of the Alliances in Washington county, that once had fifty members, now has but 8. The eight were elected to office or have a promise of one. Corn is higher in Kansas than it has been in nine years, and some of the men who raise it are higher than they were ever before in all their lives. The Democratic party in Kansas is not dead. It is it that applauds J. P. St. John when he says something mean about the Republican party and its men. Tim McCarthy, A. P. Riddle and Morrili are all being pushed for the governorship, but the Republican party in Kansas just at present is in no condition to undergo internecine strife. A Washington county man stole oats with a leaky wagon, and the owner tracked his property to the thief's house. The moral of this is that when you have a leaky wagon take corn. It was Jerry Simpson who wrote that "Kawkus rule will not live in Cansas." His wife, who is a good speller herself, had just been giving him some instructions about the mysteries of "hard C." Bill Higgins says one Alliance member of the legislature has returned his certificate. He gives as his reason that he objects to being made a subject of surveillance by the Alliance herding committee. It is matter for curiosity and sagacity as well, that none of the men whom the farmers allied to represent them were farmers. Clover is a politician, Baker a school teacher, Davis an editor, Otis a city dairyman and Simpson a city marshal. The Bank of Republic, a Republic City institution, has voted to go into voluntary liquidation, which will deprive the place of a bank, and compels borrowers to hustle for cash to meet their notes, as all loans will be called in. Reports are that other banks of western Kansas will follow the Republic City bank's example, which will cause an increased stringency of money, and consequent embarrassment among the merchants. William Springer, the Democratic congressman from Illinois, received the following letter from an old friend out in Kansas, who is now a constituent of Jerry Simpson: NESCATUNGA, Comanche county, Kan., Dec. 24, 1890-hon. w. m. springer, Old time and much Respected friend Sir: i thought i would drop you a few lines i se that you got there again in good shape And i am glad of it what is the mater of Jerry Simpson from Ower District only that he does not ware socks but wait untill he comes To Washington and then you will a se he Ses that He is going to make new Rules he Ses congressman Must get up at half Past Six in the morning and at 7 O Clock the horne will blow and then they all must go to work or not get credit for a full day When Jerry was out canvasing this fall He road through the country on a mule fed on sourgam but he got ther all the same we thought anything to beat old John J Ingells and we hav him in the hole this trip he is a ded coon the Peopl hav dropped on him and his Bludy Shirt Racket we all went in with The alliance and come near turning the hull State up Side down i think we will carry the state for cleveland In 92 if we dont we will keep the flies of Ove them they will think they had a fight at any rate i se Old John M. Palmer is good for the Senet from Ills good for him will you bea so kind as to hav Me sent Som garden seeds and other seeds For my Self and a few neighbors for the agriculture department at Washington and oblige your Old Time Friende ps take good care of Jerry Simpson and show him around when he come down to Washington # A CALL FOR AID. DERBY, Kan., Jan. 5, '91. To the Editor of the Eagle