Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-30


newspaper correspondents, comprising
Colonel w. a. Taylor and Allen o.
Myers, of the Cincinnati Enquirer; l..
P Stevens, of the Columbus Dispatch, and
B. S. Cowan and A. c. Armstrong, of the
Associated Press. The party was carried
in the special car of General Manager w.
P. Shaw, of the Columbus, Hooking Valley
G. Toledo railroad. Conductor Tom Neville
and Brakeman Fred Ruder were on the
cars, while Engineer Tom Humphreys and
Fireman Ed Kuhn were on the engine.
For the comfort of the party Porter Tyler
was on hand, and to further care for them
were General Passenger Agent R. /. Fall
chenbach and Travelling Passenger Agent
F. z. Tristram.
At Elmwood the train stopped for a mo-
ment, but the first crowd was encountered
at Powell, and in response to numerous
calls, Judge Thurman spoke briefly. The
train pulled out as the crowd gave cheers
for their candidate. A sign on high pole
next the car read: Free muslin" and
above the words was tame coon.
An enthusiastic crowd was at the depot
at Delaware and the air was red with
bandanas as the crowd waved them and
cheered at the appearance of Mr.. Thur
man. The crowd filed up the platform
and stretched out across the track. A
band added to the enthusiasm. Hon E. F.
train and brought the Judge to the plat
form, where as soon as the cheering sub
sided, he spoke as follows, having been
introduced by Mr.. Poppleton: eff Mr..
| Poppleton had the making of the next
| Vice-President of the United States, L
| have now doubt but would be the man
| laughter and applausel, but there are a
great many other people that have a word
to say on that subject. 1 will tell you this,
my friends, that if you want this old fell
low to be your next Vice-President of the
| United States, you must go to work. APP
| plause and cries of Wen do it'll Now,
| you know 1 have no time to make a
! speech, and it is only owing to
| the politeness of the conductor of
the train that 1 am permitted to
say a few words, for two or three or
four minutes is as long as the train can
wait, and, as 1 have so little time, L can
not do better than to confine myself to a
single idea. You have heard a great deal
about the tariff, that is the great subject
upon which speeches are now made. /
have heard, in long political experience,
! a great many attempts to humbug the
people, but of all the attempts that l have
seen or heard, the pretension that high
protective tariff is for the benefit of
the laboring man is the great
est humbug. Applause.l What is a
tariff? 1t is a tax, a tax levi led by
the General Government upon the COM
modities that the laboring men as well as
as other men 1t is tax that takes a
hold of every thing from the crown of your
head to the soles of your feet; that taxes
your hat, your coat, your vests, your
breeches, your boots, your shoes; that
taxes every implement which you use in
your mechanical and agricultural opera
tions. And now to tell me that to take a
laboring man and tax him from the top
of his head to the soles of his feet, and to
tax him on every thing that he uses in his
trade, and to tax him heavily, is benefit
to him, seems to me to be nothing else than
absurdity." [Applause.l
From this point the trip to Toledo was q
continual ovation and when the train
reached Toledo he was received by an i'm
mense crowd, with music and torchlight
procession, and again spoke.