Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-31
THAT NEGRO'S SPEECH
About a Crowd of Recreant Venals and
Old Played-Out Hacks.

About Crowd of Recreant Venals and
Old Played-Out Hacks.
There is a confusion in the minds OF
some as to whether the "Union Labor
party" and the Omitted Labor party"
are one and the same. They are not.
The convention held here this week was
the "Union Labor party or the old
Greenback party. Every leader of it
had been a leader in the old Kansas
Greenback party, from P, P. Elder,
Perry B. Maxon. and John Davis, of the
Junction Tribune, down to the little So
cialist Hoffman, the Dickinson county
miller and capatilist. The man whom
they nominated for governor holds
more mortgages on the farmers
Of Franklin and adjoining counties prob
ably than is held by any other capitalists
in Kansas. For the most part, SO far as
we personally know them, they consti
tute the rottenest lot of hypocritical po-
litical demagogues that ever tried to
blight the prospects or cloud the faith Of
the faireSt state Of the new worlds hope
and glory. These men with their records
simply make every man, who knew them
in early times, gag with disgust and
nassau at the mention of their names.
They even tried, in their convention. TO
place the name of the Topeka anarchist
on their ticket for associate justice of the
supreme court Think OF it, We men who
fought to preserve to the world nation
whose freedom of life, thought and act
ion, permits such a thing to be even pro-
posed. With such men in power and in
control of this or any other state, the
American eagle would in agony scream
out its life and freedom fall and die.
Undoubtedly good per cent of them
ought to be in the penitentiary for
swindling, another per cent in the in
sane asylum for imbecility, and the bal
ance sent 10 school until they had learn
ed that there is difference between the
drool and blubbers of a slave and the
brains and voice of freeman. Ninety
men III that convention, who claimed
that they were ex-U Mon soldiers, ap-
plauded to the echo a big mouthed,
brainless yawping negro who declared
that the war what gave him his liberty
but which has notably failed to make a
man Of him-was fought to successful
conclusion solely for what money there
was in sight for the white soldier. Such
a man, such black beast, ought not to
be permitted to breathe the pure atmos-
phere of America. He ought to be the
slave of Mexican greaser. As for the
men who applauded this black fools SEN
timcnts, they ought, in very shame, to
hide their heads, for the sake of their
children who had believed their sires to
have been patriots, and not self-confessed
venals Of such low order that they
went out to shoot men down for thirteen
dollars per mOnth-to murder southern |
men for money on contract by the year,
with millions of true patriots all around |
them offering up their lives for senti-
ment 50 lofty that it transcribed all re-
ligion and touched God, Himself. |
Away with such so-called men, |
they desecrate the very name of an
and in the damnable filthy |
dust of that which Judas demanded for
the Life OF Humanity's Christ, they trail
not only their own honor but the inno-
cent souls of their unfortunate offspring.
Its great pity that when they We're
other people for SO much per
month that they did not fall instead of
the patriots whose blood now cries out
from the sanguinary fields Of the
Potomac and of the Mississippi against
the unhOly cheer set up over the debasing
sentiments of that nigger's brutal speech,