The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-23
sLUss AT HUTCHINSON.

| state central cOnlmlttee the St4tc S1Ah-
paign for the Seventh district was form
aly opened at Hutchinson, Saturday
evening, by Hon. II. G. Sluss, OF this
city, and j. R. Burton, of Abilene. For
lowing is a synopsis of Judge Sluss'
speech as reported for the Newe:
Hon. II. c. Sluss opened his remarks
by reference to the peculiar condition
of the country. and said that without
being 'irreverent he desired 10 say that
the Republican party had been arraign
ed for running up against Providence IN
that the years of crop failure, which had
preceded the organization of the Peoples
party and the 10 cent corn of last 1889,
had all been charged as the effect of Re
publican policy, and upon this faunda-
lion that movement had been organized,
the same as the Greenback movement
was rganiZed years ago.
He said that the Peoples party wanted
a paternal overnment-wanted the gov
eminent to run all the various branches.
That today they wanted corn warehouses
and wanted TO have the government loan
money on deposits of corn; that it was a
! peculiar condition of things; that here in
town some men made shoes and that he
ought to be permitted to deposit his
shoes and receive a loan; that another
man had henery and had eggs that he
wanted TO deposit, that some were rot
| ten perhaps, but not any more rotten
| than currency based on such deposits
would be: that we did not want any corn
monopolists any more than any other
kind; that it was the first time in the his
tory of the country that party had been
heard of advocating the policy of men go
ing into the treasury with basket upon
each arm, asking the government TO take
his eggs and potatoes and give cur
rency. He said this party is asking
the refusal of the national banking
law; that the Republican party is asking
for the same thing; that the Democratic
party is asking for the same thing; that
they are opposed to the deposit of bull
ion and granting of certificates. That in
forming corn or wheat deposits and in
opposing the issue of currency on a de-
post of bonds, as in the national banks,
or certificates as on the deposit of bullion
they are inconsistent and opposed to
themselves.
He said that in 1888 Wichita had
marched up to the ballot box solidly.
both prohibition and resubmission Re
publicans and voted then for Ben Harri-
son and they would be found voting sol
idly for Republican principles this fall.
He said they called him free trade
crank, but he thought he was the best
kind of trader for the government.
That he read in history that the tariff of
our government was enacted during the
administration of Washington and it had
been running in one grand channel ever
since. 1t had worn deep grooves and
had irrigated the nation with CONNER
cial prosperity, that it was claimed it
done incalulable damage; that the Mis-
sissippi river had been flowing in its ma
jesty across the continent since creations
dam; that it was a mighty stream; it had
done great unreasonable damage, vet
the country could not get along without
it. Somebody might undertake to dam
it: they might dam it, but the necessi-
ties of the case would soon remove the
dam and it would resume its channel as
before, and this was the way Of
the tariff. 1t was a struggle between
the importer, who sits on his cushioned
chair in his richly furnished office In
New York, and, knowing the kind of
cloth our people wear in Kansas, touches
button and through a cable dispatch
orders from London ship load of that
cloth ready made up and puts it
down in Kansas. This is the man
who wants the duty to go down 50
that his business will improve. On the
other side is man IN Kansas who is
manufacturing this cloth. He has his
factory equipped with all the necessary
machinery, and he has 1000 hands en-
ployed. and behind him is another facto-
ry with 1900 employed. If that New
York importer puts his ship load of
clothing down in Kansas, those factorle-
must close, and those consumers 90 out
into other fields. and the provision they
consume in those manufactures must be-
sent to LondoI to supply tAe English
laborers who make it.
This is the struggle the Republican |
party is making. But he said the manu- |
facturer wants the duty to go up-up-up. |
That is his side. Now this question Is
being ad justed. Ii may not be just right. /
but it will be made right. This is the /
principle.
He said in conclusion that we have two |
new men running for congress. They |
perhaps volunteered in the thee months |
service on the same day when the tap Of .
a drum was inspiration for every man; |
that the same noble impulse had doubt
less prompted each: that HallOwell in a
force of two dozen met three or five times
his number and showed himself equal 10
the emergency and won ore f the
grandeSt victories of the war. At the
end of three months he came home and
again volunteered.
Jerry Simpson volunteered gloriOuslv,
he served his country gloriously in camp
in Illinois, at Cairo, at the end of his
three months service, returned home
ylOriously and resolutely stayed at home.
After Mr.. HallowelI had become dis
Linguished az "A commander of "A regi
nent, at 81. he read law. was admitted.
had practIced his profession with distinc-
lion, had been heard of in public gather
ngs. in the house of representatives and
senate of his state. in all of which posi-
ions he had acquitted himself with high
honor.
Jerry came home. came west and was
never heard of until he was made city
marshal and nominated for congress.
Those men went in equal; the public
chools had been open to both; one had
made his life a benefit 10 others and
success; the other. with the same OppOr-
unities. had never been heard of. You
must choose between those men this fall.
They may be exactly equal, but Judging
" the past. who is the more likely 10 Sc
.ure your demands from congress.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Guthrie gets her deeds today.