Wichita eagle., 1889-11-05
REPUBLICANS AT BENTLEY.
Senator Bentley and W. X. Payne. Esq, Give
the Democrats Heavy Hits,

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Senator Bentley and w. K. Payne. Esq, Give
the Democrats Heavy Hits.
| One of the most successful meetings of
the campaign was held at Bentley.
Speeches were made by w. r. Payne and
Senator o. II. Bentley. Mr. Payne was
the first speaker and was received with
cheers. The meeting was held in the city
hall and was filled.
Mr. Payne commenced by showing the
hipocracy of the Democratic party on their
resubmission gag. He represented the
Democracy to fortune wheel; showing
that they keep turning it, turning it,
turning it, and hoping by continued turn
ing that they Will eventually reach
winning point. He proceeded to show
that the Democratic party could not be
trusted on the money question; could not
be trusted on the slavery question; could
not be trusted on pension legislation:
could not be trusted on the homestead
law; the Democrats being opposed to the
homestead law and that the last Demo-
cratic president except the BEEF of
Buffalo" vetoed homestead law That
the Democratic party could not be risked
to deal with any important measure
and could not and should not be trusted
with resubmission. Will you trust that
old party of sounding brains with such a
question voices No, MOI The names Dor
ans, Thode Brown and Murphy were greet
ed with cheers. When Alexander Clark
mentioned voices from the audience shout
ed amid the cheering che will lead the
| ticket"
How can democrats expect Republicans
to vote for them on the ground of having
been soldiers? Did our friend j. R. Brown
ever vote for soldiers not found on his
Democratic ticket? No! He voted for
Seymour instead of the greatest military
chieftaln Of the age in 1868. He voted for
| Samuel J. Tilden instead of the gallant
| General r. B. Hoys in 1876: he voted for
the great copperhead, Thomas A. Hendrix
instead of the great citizen soldier. John
A. Logan, in 1884, That is not all he vot-
ed for the Beef of Buffalo in 1888 instead
Of Gen. Ben. Harrison. Now what do you
| soldiers think OF such a record will you
shut your eyes to the plain truth and for
get the great record of all thesG noble
hearted brave soldiers that this Demo-
cratic candidate has failed to support and
vote for him simply because he was u
| soldier? Let the result be shown by your
| vote tomorrow. We hear the rumblings
of Democratic defeat. (CheerS.) We look
along the line and see the Democratic
wake preparing after Alexander Clark
| has sit On its dead carcass and the voices
from the more knowing at the lead sing
ing, 81 told you so, | told you SO; it has
nearly always been SO" Cheers. There
is but one way said the speaker to check
the growth of the Republican party and
that is to destroy the school houses of our
grand state. So long as a school room
can be found for every 1S5 souls in the state
the Republican party will grow and its
majority will increase. The speaker said
first, am a Republican: second, / am
Republican, third, l am a Republican.
(Cheers.) 1t does not make any material
difference whether the burning ISSUE"
resubmission, goes up or down, still will
stand by the great Republican party. When
the time comes to elect officers who will
have to deal with constitutional questions,
the Republican party can be trusted as it
been in the past. The Republican party
has but one plank on which it stands on all
constitutional matters, and we are proud
to say we are a unit, and that is whenever
large number of people of any state de-
sire to pass Oh any question Of cOnstitu-
tioaal Importance; it is the Imperative duty
of the legislature to submit it to the peo-
pie, the source OF all power, that they may
dispose of it. Do you know there never
was single petition ever presented to the
legislature asking that body TO resubmit the
prohibitory question to the people? Not
word OF request presented, not a petition
even by the burning isaue would-be re-
formers Democrats ever was presented to
the legislature in all the eight years of
prohibition in Kansas. Not a Democrat
has ever asked the legislature for resub-
mission. How are they expecting to get
it by electing local officers? 1t is the |
greatest nonsense. Bring in your old |
time majority. Roll up the votes. Roll
up the Democrats also. Cheers.
At the close of Mr.. Paynes speech he |
was heartily cheered.
SENATOR BENTLEY.
Hon. o. II. Bentley was then introduced |
and said he was acquainted with every |
man, woman and child in Eagle township; |
that he could pick out every Democrat in |
the audience and every Republican; that /
there were at last falls election nine |
Union Labor votes in Eagle township. |
Good crops have driven this party out of |
the field. There is now no Union Labor |
party of any consequence in Sedgwick |
county. The battle tomorrow is between /
the two old parties. The country is in |
line, the battle ground is in Wichita, and /
we will send you a good report from Wich- |
ita for the whole Republican ticket. |
hold in my hand ticket headed "Resub-
mission Democratic ticket" This is q |
trick A party hopelessly in the minority |
like the Democratic party of Kansas can
never bring about resubmission nor
ANYTHING else. The great DOM
inant party Of Kansas is the |
only party which can afford you any relief,
this is the Republican party of Kansas,
which has $1,000 majority in this state. /
never failed to vote the straight Republi-
can ticket except on one occasion, this was
a spring election in 1877. l was led off by
something like this Democratic trick of
resubmission. The Democrats have this
year set up man of straw and think to
fool the Republicans. This township will
give the old time Republican majority for
the whole ticket. What can you do with
Sedgwick county ont OF line with the
states. Simply nothing. The fact that I
as your senator represented the most popu-
lous senatorial district in Kansas. gave me