Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-30
FIRST WARD MEETING.
THE REPUBLICANS HOLD FORTH AT
MARTINSON HALL.
George L. Douglass, W. T. Buckner
and ]. F. Mccoy Speakers
of the Evening.

Quite number of Republicans from the
East Side attended the Fifth Ward Repub-
lican meeting last evening in the Martin
son block. They were accompanied to the
hall by the Wichita Drum corps. The
corps kept up the music during the hour
for assembling resulting in a good crowd.
At the hour appointed for the meeting to
convene, the chairman of the county COM
fnittee, Mr. B. Downing, called the meet
ing to order and stated that Judge Sluss,
who had been booked and billed for the
occasion could not be present, owing to
4 sickness in the family. He announced
that there were other good speakers pres
ent who would address the meeting
On motion G. B. Campbell was made
chairman of the meeting, and took his
seat amid cheers. Without preliminary
he introduced Mr.Geo. l.. Douglass, candi-
date for representative in the Eightysecond
district. After referring to the unexpect-
ed absence of Judge Sluss he said:
IF am judge of party necessity there is
no need Of great work this fall. If l am any
judge of the signs of the times we are
homeward bound.
The Union Labor party my friends mean
well. They are mistaken for this reason.
for either Cleveland or Harrison will be
president. If there is one thing that his
tory demonstrates is is that the Republican
party has been the friend of the laborilg
man. When a party asks to be trusted by
the people its history should be
examined. The Democratic party defend
ed slavery in California and fought the
Mexican war to aid slavery, and tried to
| o1or Il.
Nothing in the world has so tended to de
grade free labor as slavery A free labor
er by the side of slave had no chance
In seeking to extend slavery the Demo
cratic party before the war at least opposed
free labor. Before the war at least the
Democratic party was against free labor.
The Fremont campaign was to put
slavery in vogue. Suppose the Democrats
had been in the Kansas contest, slavery
would have been perpetuated. In go the
! Democrats seeded and the constitution
| founded on slavery. Stevens said the cor
ner stone of the constitution was founded
on slavery. The thoroughly Democratic
constitution called for slave labor and free
trade. Any friendliness to labor in that?
think not The 'Morrill'' tariff is the
cause of our great prosperity. We today
are the pride of the civilized world,
| [cheersl and yet they tell us we are all
wrong doors, [cheers.l yet they want to
tell us that the constitution that went
down by the loyal bullets of the north is
! right
| You can spend hours reading tariff
! figures and it is dry work
| There is another way to consider it. The
man who has always been right is usually
right 1t is a fact not disputed that the
| Democrats are controlled by southern con-
| federate government They come up with
the idea that the south is right and tue
north is wrong. Free trade comes up as
an echo of the southern confederacy. Is it
probable that men who committed the
| greatest error are right and the loyal citi-
zens wrong? The probabilities are that
the Democratic party is wrong and
the Republicans are right Cheers
The Republican party and protection
amt to blame, nor is Grover Cleveland to
blame for dry weather.
In go the wages of labor nearly so per
cent higher than now. The cost of living
has decreased; blankets have decreased in
cost. The cost then s.. 50 apiece by the
wholesale, and now, after twenty-seven
years of protection, one dollar and fifteen
cents, wholesale. Prices of blankets re-
duced so per cent and labor 30 per cent, so
a man can do more with his money now
than i'll go. This is true of every article
that Is now put among necessities. So IN
'SS we live better than in 60
They ask you to place all this aside for a
theory. Before we are prepared to adopt
this we want a Democrat to rely on.
They say we must take off the tariff on
wool In 1887 there was a slight reduc-
ton made on wool and of course they pro-
tested and there was large importation
of foreign wool This resulted in cutting
down the sheep raising in this country.
The Argentine Republic can raise cheaper
wool than we, and have shown that with
the slightest reduction of tariff on that
product.
When the farmers are pinched for money
you in the Fifth ward suffer Yet that is
what you are trying to do today They
want to throw down the barriers and put
in free wool. The Republican party is
opposed to that and l am with them.
[Cheers.
When Cleveland's message came out
the word went out that the Dem
OSlalIS piiby was III 1dNor Oh
free trade. Now they want to go back on
it, but we haye them committed Mills
says we propose to take the tariff off of
every competing article The principle of
protection is to give foreign products the
preference.
Where there is competition between
home and foreign product the Democrats
want TO favor the latter Senator In
gals said the Democratic party was
inflicted with foot and mouth disease.
Vest said that President Cleveland had
challenged the protective industries of
this country and it is life or death with
them. This is not the only time
they have challenged us. This
is not the only time for they
did it in go and we downed them. and we
can do it again. [Cheers and cries of you
bet."l
Mr.. Buckner, candidate for probate
judge was loudly called and acquitted
himself nobly in ringing Republican
speech. He was followed by Mr.. Mccoy
who spoke for few minutes about national
and local politics. The meeting was asuc-
cess and Republicans were well pleased to
see such interest shown.
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON.