The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-10-22

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which he had beheld that day for the
first time, he launched ont into his
regular written speech. OF the mat
ter of the speech we have little to
criticize or find fault with. True, we
were little disappointed that j. X.
Hudson should show himself, in the
least, the demagogc and sycophant.
His praises and enconiums of the ia, m
ers and grangers was carried to such a
| length as to become almost offensive.
We know what we are talking about
when we say that the grangers of
Sedgwick county, at least, are as intel
ligent, independent aud self-reliant q
body of men as we ever held inter-
course with, and who, politically, can
no more be soft saldered or whecdled
than can Mr.. Hudson himself He got
off the old democratic sCre-head moan
over he corruption of Kansas men,
and the rotten commonwealth, writhed
awhile under the idea of seven per
cent. taxes, lit into railroads most gal
lantly, and went for the 100000 Bar
bour county bonds. But the major said
nothing about his beating NJ. E. Hud-
son out of the nomination for govern
or upon the plea that it would not do
for the grange to be dragged into pol
tiles; did not tell that whenever and
wherever seven per cent. taxes
were paid they were purely a
local tax, generally for school pur-
poses and self imposed by men of
all parties; that the state tax was aud
is really trifling; with all his TRADE
against railroads, still nc was for one
more, i. e., one down this valley to
Galveston--for he knew we are all for
it; and failed entirely to inform his
hearers that the 100000 Barbour
county bonds have not been and never
will be sold. With these few excep-
tons we found no particular fault
with Hudson's speech. 1t was particu-
larly republican, and did not go down
with large portion of his democratic
supporters here in Wichita. He
dwelt largely upon the abuses of the
patent laws, reformation in which
the republican party is pledged in its
platform, but not one syllable about
such abuse can be found in the
so-called reform platform. Upon
the tariff question the major acknowl-
edged himself at sea, but upon the
financial question he favored a national
currency convertible at will of holder
into low interest bearing bonds, and
the doing away with the national bank
system entirely. In that he was nei-
Their new or original. Upon the whole
major made a very favorable impress
sion. He was followed by
col. JOHN RICHEY.
of Topeka. an old time free state hero
and John Brown abolitionist. The
Colonel pulled off his coat and the
very first drive he brought down the
house and kept bringing it down to
the end Eccentric, all could see. ear
nest and honest we know him person
ally TO be. He commenced by read
ing the personal criticisms that the
EAGLE made upon him last week, Of
fering many comments and appealing
to us right among all those reformcrs
and democrats TO know if it wasn't so.
lie thought it just as consistent for
John Richey to be where he was as for
Marsh Murdoch to be with old Judge
Lecompte, who once indicted the Col.
for stealing a jackass; and then asked
us if we had forgotten the Sunday
morning in 1856 when we helped old
John Brown and his fugitive BLACK
me II through the kaw river ice. We
have forgotten meme of those things.
Col. Richcy, nor the time we stood by
You when one of old Buchanan's tools
tried to arrest you for robbing L. ).
mails. But, Col. Richcy, had you
trained with the same party then that
you are training with now you would
have been bounding instead of aiding
old Osawatamie Brown, and old Bu-
chanan's minions would have protected
rather than prosecuted you: and old
Judge Lecomptc would have given
YOU two jackasses rather than indicted
you for the THEFT of ore.
The Colonel made big hit at the
present Indian policy, and he had the
sympathy Of his audience. we assure
him, upon that question. He wound
up with short argument for woman
suffrage, asserting that the political /
would never come until I
woman had the ballot
Judge Saffold, of Winfield. the re-
form nominee for the state senate. |
wound up the meeting in short |
speech principally made up of person.
Al "reminiscences. He does not expect /
10 be elected, but goes around with
The menagerie to bell in.