Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-03

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| have believed .le."
| He declared that the Democratic party
now desired to free millions of poor white
| men and thought it REPUTATION
! of Republican lie that the Democratic
administration had not re-enslaved the
| coiored men.
| The pensions granted to the union sol
diers. in his judgment, was also refuta-
ton of an old-time Republican lie. The
speaker INDUCED in a laudation OF the
manner in which the various government
departments had been cared for, and OF
course concluded the record was good
one, and hence the people should put the
| Democratic party in power again
| As preface to his tariff remarks he
called On the people TO lay aside party
prejudice. If Kansas was in the Demo
/ cratic colume, one suggested, he would not
ask for prejudice TO be cast aside, no mat
| ter what political question he should de-
eide to discuss He predicted free raw
material would increase commercial enter
| prise and be much better for the country.
| He also put in word for free lumber and
| free salt. This feature was capped with
an appeal for Ebey votes.
! The speaker then took up the Repub-
| lican platform and it did not
seem to suit him. After analvzing it by
/ Democratic chemicals he thought the tariff
reduction was more desirable than de-
! crease in internal taxation. He charged
the trainers of the Republican platforms
| being insincere, thinking they knew better
| than 20 conscientiously support such "ao-
surd doctrines" He thought ten years
tariff should fit any industry to live II it
| was worthy of living He accused the
English as being ignorant and unfair
about tariff reform" as the Republicans
| He read an article, the object being to
make it appear that England wants Har-
rison elected president. He denounced
tariff laws a cowardlJ impeachment
of American genius as it ought
| to be able to stand alone
without that with all other countries.
/ He argued that a tariff did not increase
the wages of the laboringmen and IN the
| last half of the same breath he accused
/ loan companies being formed from capital
made east OF the Allegheny mountains on
protected industries. The existence OF
tramps in his Judgment was due to a
| high protective tariff and if tariff made
| higher wages that would not be true He
slung out his usual halt for Republicans
who would not go Democrats TO 20 Union
| Labor 1t consisted of comments on the
! Commonwealth recent editorial on
certain class of that organization. He
seemed to think that the Republicans in
| national convention had concluded that
whisky was a necessary Of life. In at
| tempting to enforce this point he revealed
! a quart bottle of red liquor with a drink
absent but the amount left was
quite sufficient to get cheer
/ from a Democratic crowd. He also ex-
hiblted plug of dog Leg tobacco as an
advertisement to the manufacturer.
! The ingalls, letter to Bonebrake was
| given considerable attention and the sena-
| tor was complimented on some features
| of it.
/ The speaker closed his remarks with a
| few complimentary words to the ladies,
and was bold enough to say he would kiss
/ all the young ladies if ne had chance.
! C. 5. EBEY TALKS.
| Shortly after o'clock last evening the
| Board of Trade band was taking in the
/ streets in the interest of n crowd at the
Crawford for Ebey. In a half hour they
had turned in close to the footlights. The
parquette and balcony were well filed
There were a few in the gallery; in fact,
/ more people were present than there were
| in the afternoon to hear Judge Martin.
The Lotus club rendered a number of
campaign songs, and the band was also
called on in the interest of variety.
! Shortly after o'clock Judge Harris
called for order and stated that Mr.. Ebey
/ had been speaking almost every day and
was very much worried and as result ne
asked that the crowd be as quiet as posi-
J BILE Mr.. Ebey was soon hacking on the
! biggest log in the political forest-the tar
/ If question Before in the discussion very
/ long rather than believe in tariff he would
/ favor assisting prominent manufacturers
/ by private subscriptions about like pau
! pers are maintained He argued that tar
| if was a losing investment and similar 70
internal revenue and county taxes Ac-
cording to his belief of the tariff il has no
more beneficial influence than taxes col
lected for county or state affairs
| He had a severe criticism for the Hon. 5.
r. Peters speech. He translated his
speech as representing the Mills bill have
death in store for northern industries and
kisses for southern states. He thought
center OF lumber trade in Arkansas, sheep
raising in Texas and hence concluded
the Mills bill was not a sectional
! effort. He thought Peters represented
himself as dealing sledge-hammer blows
20 the south and at the same time had
been voting TO protect southern enter
prises.
| The Democrats have gone in partner
ship with the dukes" he claimed 10 quote
| l,l oer 49, -
ocratic leaders who had paralyzed the
dukes, and hence he concluded the Demo
Gratis of the present day were not with the
dukes in business. He thought Peters
bould as vel! be said TO be in
partnership with the Chinese as the
Democrats in partnership with the dukes.
From this the speaker went back into
/ early geological days for something TO
demonstrate that the Mills bill vas all
right.
/ Coming back to Peters be declared had
/, committed intellectual suicide. He &c
cused Peters of declaring that manufact-
ure can be carried on cheaper in this eoun-
try than in any other, and then turning
round wanted protection. He said Wash
ington tariff had one argument FOR
| the producer and anothe. for the coasum-
er, and Peters in his Judgment mad neg
lected TO bring either with him. He de-
clared the Mills bill would put America
on an equal footing with England He
referred TO the free raw material question.
In his opinion the Mills bill was a great
blow 70 England, especially IN the free
wool clause. This was followed By aaoth-
er reference TO Peters position or the
lumber question. He thought the tariff
| -Srrnuad from, Iun,iar vynr Ii not resrlIr In