The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-12
WE'RE ALL HERE"
THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN IN
THE COUNTY.
Truly Earnest and Enthusiastic Meet
ings Held-The Alarmist Quar-
tiers Being Renovated
by the Sunlight
of Facts.

| camDaign with a VlgOr ana energy scarce
ly ever before equaled in the political his
tory of the county. Two, three and four
meetings Der night have been held during
the past week, and addressed by the lead
ing Republican speakers. The attendance
has been by far better than is usual in
campaign meetings and everything is re
ported entirely satisfactory by the Repub-
licans The IS per capita misrepresenta-
ton was blubbered out by Viola alarm
ist and it was spiked effectually. The
! speakers say the Alliance members are be-
ginning to find out where the politics of
the organization come from and what the
politics Of the organization come from and
what the southern Polk is after with some
others Of his kind.
AT GRANT TOWNSHIP.
The first Republican meeting in Grant
township was held at McCracken school
house last night. Alliance men have
! claimed that there were not over six Re
publicans in the township, but such an
! idea was rapidly dspelled by the large
audience that assembled at this meeting.
! The school house was fairly crowded with
! eager voters DESTROYS of hearing public
| questions discussed.
The Valley Center band furnished music
/ for the occasion. Mr.. Foulks was chosen
chairman and introduced Mr.. Dean Cor
/ don as the first speaker. Mr.. Gordon
! held the undivided attention of the large
audience for thirty minutes, during which
time he made a comparison of the differ
ent party tickets. He was particularly Sc
we're on the Democratic nominations for
representatives in the various districts,
! calling attention TO the fact that they all
were engaged in the banking business and
had no sympathy with the wage earners
and farmers. He paid a well earned tribute
| to Charley Luling our present district clerk
and illustrated how, under his excellent
management of the affairs of that office.
| He had some thousands Of dollars to
! litigate.
He said Morris should be reelected to
the Office of county attorney, as business
proposition, Indicating how conservative
and discreet he had been in his official
! business.
Before he would fight a criminal prose
cution he would carefully and conscient-
ously examine into the merits of the
would not be incurred against
y,
the Justice of prosecution he would pros
ecute with all the vigor and unrelenting
! perseverance of which he was capable. He
| explained how conservative and safe Judge
! Buckner had been as the guardian of the
estate in the probate court.
The next speaker was j. +. Henley, Esq,
| candidate for representative in the Eighty
! fourth district who was received with every
manifestation of enthusiasm. Mr.. Henly
congratulated the Republicans of Grant
! township for the splendid audience present
! in the hot-bed of the Alliance and the en-
! thusiasm manifested.
He wanted to reason with them on the
questions nearest to their hearts and about
which they were thinking and talking
most. He showed the causes outside of
! legislative enactments that have
contributed ia bring about the
stringency Of the times, laying much
Of the blame to the individuals themselves
who have deserted the lessons of economy,
! fougality and conservatism instilled by
! their fathers and have come west and
plunged into malstrom of speculation.
He was willing to admit, however, that
the machine of the government needed
]
! secured the peoples attention and should
take hold of the legislative authority first.
/ The question of transportation and freight
rates and second the question of fhe
volum of the circulating medium.
! He advocated legislative control of rail
road freight charges, limiting their
/ charges to a fair profit on the actual
money invested and cost of operating
the various lines. Congress had
already legislated against combines
and trusts and he believed that the
next session of the state legislature would
give the people needed relief. He unquali-
fiedly pledged himself to work for the re-
! form.
! On the question of the amount of the ac-
tual circulating medium he cited the silver
bill that recently passed a Republican con-
gress, as a sure means of increasing the
money circulation in the United States and
that the policy of the Republican party
was to still further increase the circulation.
! ingalls, was in favor of increasing the cir
culating medium from S23 per capita to
$50 per capita.
In reviving the tariff he deplored the fact
that the late bill was not altogether what
the Kansas people wanted. Yet it was a
vest improvement over the old
law. That many articles included
on the list would have been
made free were it not for the fact
that about S50O00O had to be raised an
nually for the support of the government,
a large portion OF which sum was pension
money set aside by the beneficiency and
and patriotism of tae Republican party
under the eloquent supervision of John j.
Ingalls,. Here he adverted criticisms re
Gently made by Democratic candidates in
the south that the Republicans
were public robbers and plunderers in
appropriating such vast sums OF money
to co Union soldiers and their widows, and
/ advising Democrats of the north to unite
with the Alliance party for the particular
| purpose OF cutting of such robbery. The
speaker in a very eloquent manner por-
trayed the iuCalculable services rendered
10y the old veterans and the utter impossi-
bility of repaying them and their repre-
sentatives in an adequate manner
for their sacrifices. lie hoped that
none Of the Union loving people
of Grant township had joined the
Alliance for such an unholy purpose
He referred TO the loyal services o. In
gals and the utter folly of retiring such a
man. whose public career had so honored
and dignitied our great commonwealth in
the eyes Of the country.
Mr.. Henley was Justify cheered and was
warmly congratulated at the close OF his
remarks.
Grant township is in line and the big
demonstration Of this meeting Is carrying
/ CONSERVATION 70 the heart Of the Alliance