Wichita eagle., 1888-09-28


| ton is success in Kansas and Is or 80 pc
cent of Republican party in Kansas viii
not agree with me. always have to ad-
| NIT we have beer wagons and joints.
Republican lawyer said prohibition is {
| failure. have never said it is failur,
but said not enforced as it ought to be mol
such success as it would be should Re
publican officials do their sworn duty We
have caused the liquor business to hide
itself The Republican party amt doing
its duty. The law and order league here
has no Democrats in it. Why not league
for burglarys Because Republican Off
Gals prosecute them, but not so with the
joints. At meeting of the league the
other day one Methodist said, lets enforce
the law now aud a Republican lawyer
jumped up and said, You will defeat the
ticket" Why, am butt that way. We
are here for picnic tonight. (Cheers and
cheers
Now here find in the EAGLE of August
IA, "a Sweet-Scented Outfit" So Botkin
was nominated on Memorial day, and !
want some one to tell Murdoch that was
nominated on July 10, and Memorial day
was on the 30th of May. He will get in
trouble if he don't find that out. Moth
ing said about the old soldiers'-referring
to EAGLE article. Botkin then read some
platform, and ''yet nothing about union
soldier"
Taking up EAGLE of August %: Bump
tious Botkin," a mighty sight of logic
in that, as in other things l have seen.
The EAGLE made fun of Monroe, who lost
his feet in front of Vicksburg.
He was poking fun at a union soldier be-
cause he is cripple, made so in protecting
Murdock's house. Murdoch was not there,
but in the well it is said. Where was Bot
kin? He was home on his fathers farm
trying to support the boys who wore the
blue. 1t was not my fault that was not
born in time to go IN the army. But it is
a fact that cried to gettinto the union
army and if Murdoch had spent half the
time in trying to get into the army as he
did in getting into the well he would have
got there. l do this because he wanted me
to for he has advertised me and ought to
return the compliment.
There was great speech in this
town or city week ago by Peters.
want you TO think on this a
little. Let us read section. It's dull
reading know. If we are suffering from
tariff law it's Republican law, but don't
understand say you are suffering from
this. He then read Peters remarks about
lumber tariff. and in his estimation of
course paralyzed him. When he had mop
ped him up he said the man put out of the
lumber business in Michigan would go
into some other business. One suggested
that they might go to farming and be COM
petitors instead of consumers. Getting
enthusiastic he said: Bring those lum-
Der laboring men to Kansas and put them
onto unoccupied quarter sections and solve
hot winds trouble. There is lots of ways
of settling this question. Let Canada do
the lumber making and let those men
come here and we can have another boom.
you see." Most of people saw he had
busted everything he had tried to say.
The speaker then went back and up to
the EAGLE and read tariff article written
by Dean Gordon and as a preface said the
EAGLE editorially was authority on
preachers and women. Now, if the good
people will arrange for me l will meet you
and discuss the main issues before the
campaign closes. God bless Wichita, for
/ am Wichita man first, last and all the
time" Such were the last words Of
Botkin.
The chairman proposed three cheers for
Botkin, which were given and the people
filed out.