The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1888-09-27

Il
candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
Mr. LeonardsOn. the candidate
for Congress, and DR.. Gillespie him
self, when DR.. Brooks was intrOdue-
ed. The Doctor is q fine-lOOking
man and in the main san entertain
ing speaker. He has many Of the
characteristics Of the Southern
stump orator, and plainly shows In
by his language his Southern birth.
When we have said that be is witty
and entertaining, We have said
about all. His speech was full Of
contradictions He denied that he
had been a rebel and spent & fourth
Of his speech in the denial, and
finally admitted that he was a rebel,
but not q rebel soldier. He took de-
light in pOmmeling both the old
parties and each organization en-
iOyed ia turn the pOmmeling Of the
other. He Is the first prohibition
speaker that has not found more to
condemn in the Republican than In
the Democratic party. He is the first
to deelareCthat the mission Of the
Third party is to kill both Of the old
parties-BOt simply the Republican
party. But like all Third Party
| speakers he does not attempt to
! show how any more can he accom-
plished for Prohibition by their
party than through the Republican
party-especially in Kansas. DR..
Brooks referred TO Kansas as being
the state in which great reforms
have been born, viz: the movement
for the suppression Of slavery and
the propagation OF Prohibition; but
not n word had he TO say that sll
this prohibition was accomplished
under the nurture and fostering care
Of the Republican party. He was at
times unfair, especially when chal-
longing his hearers to cite instances
OF manufacturers dividing the
profits OF earnings with their en-
plOyees. When several answers
came from various portions Of the
audience he shut them of, abiding
to them as inierrupting him. He
believed in protection, and then
again he didn't. As q matter Of fact
he did not seem TO have any we'll
defined ideas about the tariff. He
made fun Of protection as an issue,
and being Of no consequence, and
still spent a large amount Of time i'm
discussing IT, He had a little
"tahy" for everybody. At times
the whisky drinker was applauding
him upon some cutting allusiOn be
made to the Republicans, and the
next moment the whisky drinker
was calling him crank when the
Doctor alluded feelingly TO the pro-
lection OF the home.
He had the highest cons liberation
for the great work which the old
parties bad done. Zach had at
different times, during many years,
had charge Of the affairs OF this
country, and both had furnished
the Nation with some Of her
grandest statesmen. But these
parties had done their work. They
now spend time in fostering the
hates and aniInOsities Of former
years. They look down on each
other with supreme cOmmiseratiOn.
Why don't they break up the trusts
and combinations? The old parties
cant legislate. for they haven't the
power. The Democratic admins
tratiOn effected q treaty with Cana
da and the Senate wouldn't ratify
il. The house passed the Mills bill,
and the Senate killed il. The Sen
ate wanted to change the tariff, and
the Republican party came home
from Europe and put his foot down
on il. These parties are continual
~ 10 cut one anOtheris Threats, aud
he wished they would do il quick
and get out Of tie way. They were
quarreling about how 10 reduce the
revenue and save the country &70,-
600 600 OF taxation, while the Pro-
hibitiOn party proposes to save the /
country q billion OF dollars annual
~. Speaking Of protection and the |
tariff, he defined revenue as q tax
paid by the consumer, and used Mr.. |
Mills familiar wool illustration TO |
prove it, He said this country had |
now as much protection as il would |
ever have. We might have less, but |
never any more. The farms Of the |
west are plastered half over with |
mortgages held by protected manu-
facturers Of the east, and in twenty !
years more they would be plastered |
all over, il present system were con- |
tinued. In free trade England, !
wages were higher than in any
other European country, and the |
more protection those countries had |
the less wages they paid He be-
iieved in protection, that kind Of
protection which is practical, which /
protects the homes and the boys and
the gills Of this country from the
vices and curses that surround them.
The Republican party wanted 10
protect the iute bags, curry combs
and hair pins produced in this eOun-
try and let the wives and babies 20.
One thing Of the speech can be
safely said: All had a good lsugh,
and if people did not go away wiser,
they were at least well entertained.
The following dispatch concerning
a ruffian known to the old inhabi-
tants Of this country, was published
as q special in the Kansas City
Times:
SANTA FE, n. NJ, Sept. ls.-Tbe
notorious desperate Jim Curry, was
to-day turned over TO Warden Bur
nette Of the territorial penitentiaTy,
to serve a term Of six years for the
murder OF Foley OF White Oaks.
Curry was formerly q locomotive
engineer on the Kansas Pacific, and
fifteen years ago was terror in cen
trail and western Kansas, where he
committed several murders and fed
TO Texas. He it Vas who killed Ben
Porter, the actor, at DenisOn, Texas.
When sober be was gentlemanly and
pleasant and had many friends, but
be was q murderous demon when In
lisuOT.
This same man killed q man AZ
Hays City and = woman at Ellis
worth.
The Manhattan Mercury says:
Ulrich Bros. Maid out Saturday