The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-21
ALLIANCE INSTRUCTIONS.
A FEW GENTLE HINTS FOR THE
REPRESENTATIVES.
An Appetite for Office Just Like Other
People as Shown by the One
Chance and the One Scrin-
mage The Copious
Resolutions

The county Alliance meeting held at the
Garfield yesterday afternoon was fairly
well attended There was quite an echo
of the campaign enthusiasm left, and the
speeches were cheered quite freely. The
more radical the speech the better it mt.
Nothing was said that appeared to be quite
| to the limit on radicalism. They wanted
it said hot and hard and lots of it. IL was
soon discovered that they had much re-
solving to do and were going to do it. 1t
was discovered by looking over the crowd
that some of the local politicians were
smiling lusciously. They were trying to
work themselves ''in it," They were IN
certain about how it is going to be next
spring and have recently Joined the
liners" They Zine" everything. The
more mysterious it appears the quicker
they become a member. They are looking
out for the move and want to get hold to
hang onto the parasite act a little
| longer. One of the amusing things
of the meeting was TO see
the manipulations of some Of the local
political harlots.
In the resolutions it appeared that the
| Alliance boys love Office just about like
| other people. The last election had made
! only one hole for an appointment of their
| kind, and the first time they got together
! they improved the time to jump some
/ fellow into that hole. Ives having been
! elected attorney general he has the power
| to appoint an assistant using the same law
| to do it that Kellogg found. A resolution
was passed wanting him to appoint man
! to that place and named the man That
war has been going on ever since the cleo
| ton. In fact the day after the election
about 500 appointments were farmed out
| by the boys here. They wanted them but
| it turned up that there was only one The
| fight for that was continued. Z.
Campbell in the state Democratic couven-
ton knitted Fred Bentley for the at
| torney general nomination. He was
the one man that downed Fred.
Fred would have received the nomination
had it net been for Campbell and hence
| Ives owes his Democratic. support, and
hencei again, election to CampbelTs act
ton. 1t is said Campbell commenced inn
mediately to tear up the ground to get
| Ives promised to give him the appoint
ment of attorney-general and it is claimed
succeeded. Bentley has never fell onto
the old mans scheme yet. Fred is young
and Campbell is a good deal older in ex-
perience and says he wears a bigger hat,
and when Fred finds out some time next
month that Campbell has won the race be-
fore he hoped out of his feather bed he
will froth at the mouth and make uncer-
tain sounds something like that attributed
to the prairie dog. But now it is the ALI
ance comes out for the place and gives
Campbell an upper cut under the right
ear and Babb is to be the man. IL Camp
bell has it fixed with Ives there will be
fun, and if the other fellow gets it there
will be more fun. and any way it pops
Bentley is riding pony that goes up and
down so much he can't keep up with the
bandwagon, and in fact has already got out
in the woods and may at ank time be
taken in for a straggler.
THE ALLIANCE AT WORK.
The meeting was organized for business
by making Mr.. l.. d. Lewelling president
and Mr. c. T.. Goodyear secretary. This
was followed by few remarks of rejoicing
by Mr. Keis, which opened up few
flashes of enthusiasm.
1t was decided to have committee on
resolutions, composed of five members, and
Mr.. Parkhu rst was made chairman. This
feature was just like the proceedings Of
Their conventions where the resolutions
had already been prepared. and it was
simply matter of form TO have some one
act the father and escort them in as fresh
eggs.
Col w f. Hutchinson was called upon
and after giving the crank rest for a few
rrit = no ft1P a
started up again just like it did before,
just little better rounded out than was
possibly. He announced that Kansas was
now an independent commonwealth, and
a dandy, and destined to be more so than
ever He wanted per capita 800
circulating medium. The times
demanded it. The people must
have it, and especially was the great
west pressing the claim. 1t would increase
the number of happy homes and make the
millionaire crop shorter. About time
Mr.. Hutchinson left for the committee
room and O'Brien. of Viola, was called
for but excused himself and
Fred Baily. of Kinguan, an
old time organizer soon showed evil
dence of having run over the danger story
many times He said there was never
time when the liberties of the people were
so infringed upon as now. But possibly
the present trouble would be remedled by
the ballot and not with the bayonet. In
two more years they would gobble up
everything. This year they could do some
thing and would do it, but they had not
as yet agreed upon legislative plans. "We,
the great labor class, now have only los
per cent of the wealth of the country" and
here he struck the pathetic track, which
was well ballasted and he glided along
like a scared wolf He went over the
mortgage story and attributed suburban
town lot mortgages due 10 the pernicious
legislation somewhere Nine-tenths Of the
state west of here was in financial snow
storm and the former owners were caught
in the blizzard. He said the mortgage
companies were now taking another step
in the great financial conspiracy. They
were going TO depopulste the country, own
all of il. and dictate who should live In IT
He thought this was in the scheme
originally He intimated that the people
must save their homes even If the coming
stay law and redemption law could not
reach them.
The COMMITTEES on resolutions, composed
Of J. p Parknurt. W. C. Webster, ). VI.
Belden, Mary Z. Lease and W. T. Hutch
inson. reported the following, which was
read by the chairman:
Whereas. 4 condition, and not theory,
coufronts the people Of Sedgwick county
inasmuch as many men have lost their
homes, and many more through no fault
Of their own are being every day forced 10
the wall. justice and equity being lost
sight 81 ia the mad scramble 10 realize;
the forced sale Of 50 much property bear