Wichita eagle., 1888-07-12
FREE TRADE.
THOSE SPEECHES At THE TILDEN
CLUB MEETING CORRECTLY
REPORTED.
Some Inaccuracies in the Pretended Organ
efDemocracy in Attempting to
Conceal Facts.

that he would sign his individual name.
In this instance it Is only done because OF
a still more unusual proceeding which oc-
Cured in certain obscure evening paper
of this city no later than yesterday, in
which the name OF An EAGLE representa-
tive is used and aspersions cast upon him
in other than a reportorial capacity. In
pursuance of my duties and my desires as
a representative of daily Republican
paper l attended the meeting of the Tllden
club on Tuesday night and wrote
an account of the same, which
was published in Wednesdays EAGLE. In
that report | gave, among others, a correct
synopsis of the speech delivered by Judge
w. P. Campbell quoting extracts from
the same Among them were utterances
Of an ultra free trade type, aud because
this point wasstrongly brought out, the
Evening Beacon" knowing that the
Judge, who is candidate on their state
ticket, had ''put his foot in it," so TO speak,
| made the following personal reflection up
on the writer:
'lIr. Gillespie, detailed by the city edi-
| tor Of the EAGLE to take the meeting,
was present. The plans of the campaign
which were TO be discussed and the meth
DDS of carrying it on were of a nature TO
! demand secrecy. but IN as much as secret
| sessions were undemocratic, the club did
not insist on an executive session ana
| charitably allowed Mr.. Gillespie to remain,
! the supposition being, Of course, that his
report would contain facts and not mass
| of incorrect statements and mlsrepresenta-
! tons The extracts IN the EAGLE from
! the speeches. unconnected from their con-
/ texts are not only unTar reports of the
| sentiments expressed, but are incorrect-"
/ The doors were open TO everybody, hence
there was no charity shown
In the Beacon's report there follows
purported verbatim report of Judge Camp
bells speech, which omits among other
things the very gist Of the same, /. e. that
a committee be appointed to inspect and
TO approve only free trade literature to be
! distributed among the voters Of Sedgwick
county. 1t was upon this suggestion OF
Judge Campbell that the following signifi-
can't notice, double-leaded at that, appear
ed in the same issue:
NOTICE
! The Tilden club committee, composed of
Messrs Campbell. Ceilings, Smith, Ebey,
/ Crook, Burns and Edwards, to select cam
paign literature for distribution, will
/ please meet at Ebey & McMechan' office
1 tomorrow morning at Il o'clock.
NJ w HOPKINS, President.
The Beacon says had not the honor to
report the speeches as made. quoted
Judge Campbell and others on the subject
/ Of free trade exactly as they uttered their
words, and | viii leave it to any fair
minded Democrat, wao was present, to
decide whether or not they said as the
1 EAGLE reported them, and as again shown
/ in this communication.
] IN 10 II
! lows:
Now, as TO the kind of free'-but catch
ing himself in time be changed his words
and said: Now as 10 the kind OF tariff
! literature that will do. would distribute
nothing else but otEai ght-OuI, unadulter-
ated free trade literature. 1t won't be
/ much trouble after you have converted
man 10 free trade to get him TO vote for
Cleveland You can I distribute too much
/ Simon pure, free trade literature, written
even by free trader, and by no poll
! ticiau."
The speaker, continuing, said that there
ought to be a committee TO pass upon the
/ character of the literature sent out and al
| low none but the proper sort to go.
| While he was on the subject of Simon
| pure unauthorized free trade" literature,
s Mr.. Mccoy asked him what ne thought OF
I the presidents last message. The judge
! said with emphasis: Il don't think there
( Is any stronger document on that issue.
/ That is the only issue. Don't let any
/ thing else be crowded into the campaign.
/ 1t is the grandest thing ever written on
| the subject"
The Beacon tones his words down to this
mild form:
favor the dissemination Of free trade
! documents. pure and simple, together with
I the presidents message, in order that the
/ farmer may see what free trade Island then
/ compare it with what the Democracy has
( IN view in the way of tariff reform. If a
I farmer should by this means come to be-
lieve in free trade as the best thing for him
/ then he won't hesitate long before casting
/ his vote for Cleveland Mr.. Mccoy here
asked the speaker what he thought OF the
presidents message as tariff tract You
/ couldn't find a better thing. It IS the best
exposition of the present situation that
| has ever been written, and would have
/ one placed in the hands OF every farmer in
the land.
Speaking of the speech of Mr. Ceilings
who followed the judge, the Beacon's re-
port says:
The judges speech was well received and
was frequently interrupted with loud and
enthusiastic cheering and applause
Mr.. Ceilings followed IN neat and very
/ appropriate speech in similar vein.
Just what is mean by "a similar vein"
viii be best understood By reading the fol-
lowing correct reference to Mr.. Ceilings
speech. not a word OF which, By
the way, is quoted in the Beacon
as il was zoo "out and out"
Il am an out and ont free trader" was
/ the way he put il. He had some forty or
J fifty free trade works, which he had pro-
/ cured by correspondence with the New
| York Free Trade club. He Also had 800 or
| 800 comics OF a most elegant work on frse
! trade which he would DC glad TO distribute
ii Sedgwick county.
Now as 20 how the Beacon got such 4
report Of the judges speech, cannot say.
Possibly. il was obtained yesterday morn
ing by a Beacon representative, who call
ed upon the Judge and in view OF the fact
that there had been 100 much free trade"
in il 10 be given 20 the public had the
gentleman say it over slow for the Bea-
con man, according 70 the judges best
recollection of what he actually did say.
The travelling editor Of the above paper
referred 70, Mr. c. Atchisoa Edwards. that
| wholly unjournaiistic freak, who erst-
while. for brief. very brief spell, reign
ed over the destinies OF the late lamented
Daily Democrat, and has since been at
tempting 20 Ill position that has for the
mast wear or more been worse than empty.
that Of .keepey Of the Beacon light"
which alas. has lcnz since lost its brill
fancy and is rapidly exhausting its
| sqp0Iv OF oil. makes the following
comment upon the so-called edfto-ia! page
OF the late Captain Whites late paper.
The EAGLE reporter who reported the
meeting OF the Tildsn club last night
! should De discharged for ignorance he