The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-19
TO THE coLoRED VOTERS.
The Hon. John l. Waller at the Court House
Last Evening Before Large Crowd.

Last Evening Before a Large Crowd.
Mr.. J. j. Jennings was made chairman
of the meeting at the court house last
evening and presented Mr.. Robinson, who
said that no colOred man in Wichita had
reason for leaving the Republican party
this year. A few of the colored men in
the country belong to the Alliance. They
did not know that the Alliance originated
in the south and down there no colored
man was allowed to belong to the organ
ization. The speaker was quite sure he
did not want to see the colored people
going to anything coming from the south.
Mr.. Waller was presented and received
with chrers. He said he had often been
kindly received in Wichita and hence felt
somewhat at home. In the meantime he
was a Republican In the full sense of the
term. There was one national issue be
desired to discuss. 1t was very important
TO every congressional district. He refer
red TO the federal election law. In the
judgment of the speaker it was by far
more important than anything else. 1t
was question of casting a vote and hav-
ing it counted. In the union one vote was
as important in one state as another. In
Mississippi and Louisiana 1900 votes
elected all the congressman. In
the north in many places it took over 300, 900
votes to get the same representation in
congress. This is an important question
and no man dare maintain otherwise.
The Republican party was in favor of
every man casting one vote and having it
counted. A Democrat in Kansas by virtue
of biC =,
satlon that's right" But the party was,
in theory and practice, against the policy.
The Democrats called the bill to make
fair ballot. and fair count the force bill"
They had probably called it that because
1t was an effort to force them to do right.
The speaker recalled the Democratic
struggle in the south to disfranchise
the negro. The educational restriction
had cut out $1,000 white Democrats in that
state. So they made another change
about understanding the constitution of
the state and of the United States. Then
the next thing was to tackle the Fifteenth
amendment. This had always been their
intention.
The Republicans in the state convention
had favored the Force bill. and the Demo
cratic convention that had disgraced
Wichita had declared against the federal
election bill
In the state campaign Mrs. Lease was
saying forty-five millions of people are in
slavery. She WAS trying to get the people
to cry. The speaker asked if Mrs. Lease
roally knew what slavery was. If she
was acquainted with the blood hound,
the lash and slavery. The speaker said he
was in favor of the present kind of slavery
but not in favor of slavery Mrs. Lease
and Glover running around in the Third
district saying that the Republican party
had never helped the laboring man. The
speaker took up the mortgage question and
recalled that the Republican party had
made interest and 10 per cent and any
mortgage calling for more was the result
Of a contract between individual 5. The
feature was also handled in a
most creditable way 1t was recalled that
the Republican party protected the labor
ing man in his home and protect
ed the wages of the laboring man
giving him a chance for his life. The la
boring men of all parties would gladly
force n compliance with this kind of
vicious legislation. For labor a man ac-
cording to Republican law, man could
get his pay going over the statute of linn
tation. No honorable man would at
tempt to deny that the Republican party
/, "A friend of a labing man.
The speaker read from the alliance
Bible" about the white" Clans. The St
Louis effort history was given showing
where the thing came from clearly. Yet
Willets wanted negro votes.
The speaker referring to Jim" Halo
well said when he was elected no man
would be unable to reach him and he
would serve the entire district He would
never cease to do his duty He had the
to defend all that was dear To
The people. But Jerry Simpson was going
to induce the government TO loan the
farmers , per cent money, but nobody to
get the cheap money but farmers. The
trouble was that the farmers of the district
have too much sense to put any faith in
such n bait.
Referring to the legislative ticket the
speaker said that the people should
be proud of John j. Ingalls,. Mrs.
Lease had said ingalls, never did anything
but the speaker recalled that Ingalls, was
for the arrearage pension bill.
Of the $1,000 Republican majority in Kan
'as. 2j,0 We're Democratic soldiers who
Gould not stand the Cleveland veto.
The speaker referred to local affairs in a
most pleasant way and was often given a
lever hand The speech was quite
happy one as all who have heard Mr. !
Waller would suspect, as he is a most |
pleasant speaker.