The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-19
AT GODDARD AND OHIO CENTRAL SCHOOL
HOUSE.

dard came off yestesday. The people assem-
bledin the opera house. Mr.. j. H Rhodes
was made chairman and VI. Pittenger secre-
tary. w. :. Morris read kilograms from
the state central committee stating that
Farmer Smith could not be there and that
Judge Sluss was detained at Coldwater in
a murder trial. The chairman then intro
duced Judge A. X. Museller, who spoke
for more than an hour. He said legisla-
ton was not to blame for our financial
condition-it was our own insane desire to
speculate. The farmer who stayed at
home and worked his farm during the
boom was not complaining now. Such
men generally are not in debt, but the
most of us fellows went wild and lost what
we had, and then soured on everybody.
And some political charlatans profess to
have discovered the fountain of perpetual
wealth, and propose to make laws that
will by some legerdemain make Us all rich
Why don't you know that all governments
are paupers? That governments don't have
| a dollar but what they get from the people?
Now they say the Republican party Is to
blame for all this trouble. There are but
two great parties in this county, the Dem
ocratic and Republican, and we must look
| to one or the other for the legislation to
come; the Democratic party never passed
bill in the interest of labor or the farmer.
| He then discussed the reduction of tariff,
| the silver bill, the interstate commerce
bill, the anti-lottery bill, the Mormon or
Edwards bill, the pension bill and many
other laws enacted by the Republicans in
the interest of the agricultural classes, the
| home and the laborer. He spoke at length
| of the reciprocity bill as "A Republican
measure originating only in Republican
| brain. and said it was the key TO interna-
tional traffic Judge Musseller made
mastery speech Mr. r. A. Rathbough
| followed in an hours speech in which he
said wild and delusive idea had seized
the people, that in the stress of hard times
they had conceived the idea that there was
some radical difference between the sew
eral classes of society; this was all wrong.
we are one people of a common country,
that our interests are the same. No mys-
teal wand of the demogouge could fill
our pockets with gingling coins, that
wealth was the price of toll, the farmer
was the great producer and bank full of
| gold coins would avail a man nothing II
the farmer ceased TO p reduce, the earth
though placed at mans disposal would
leave the former beggar unless tickled by
the hand of toll The mountain of coal
would remain border mountain until the
magic hand of industrious toll digged the
black diamonds from its bowels. We must
not deceive ourselves in the deluded idea
that the criticisms of Jerry Simpson and
Judge Dixon on the past conduct of the
world would ripen into some magic spell
by which our debts would be paid by leg
islation. The government could not buy
the railroads, nor lend money at l per
cent that cost it per cent, neither could
the government make baskets full of
greenbacks and make them retain their
value any more readily today than they
could in 1865 That the mistake was too
commonly made that the representatives
in the legislature and congress was the
government, this is not true the people are
the government and the supreme sover
eighty of this country rest under the hats
of the individual citizen. If the
farmers alliance should elect
majority of the members of
the legislature and congressional
representatives and they should enact
some of the things in the Peoples party
platform into laws the men who voted for
them would never cease cursing the rep
resentatives. He compared the resources
of North Carolina and Kansas, showing
that although the former state was more
than 100 years Old yet Kansas led her in
all her products and line of intelligence,
and then referred to President Polk as
Democratic politician from an old fOgy
state teaching the progressive Kansas
farmer his duty He showed that the AL
lance in Georgia was supporting the Dem
ocratic party and fighting the Republican F!
party in Kansas, and that even in Sedg- !
wick county the Peoples party filled their !
county ticket with Democrats, although !
the majority of the Alliance were Repub- !
licans.
W. s. Morris was called for and said |
that the Democrats were abusing Speaker /
Reed for compelling them to proceed with |
business; he hoped the Democrats If ever |
they got into power would pursue the /
same course. He believed in the peoples |
servants doing the business of the people |
promptly.
Judge Musseller spoke of all the county |
candidates on the Republican ticket. He |
said he could see no good reason why Nor
ris Luling. Buckner, Pence, Phillips and /
Col. Hallowell should not receive the /
hearty support of the Republicans.
AT OHIO CENTER SCHOOL HOUSE.
On account of some misunderstanding in
regard to dates the meeting at Ohio Cen
ter was not as large in attendance as might
be desired but lacked nothing in enthu-
siasm and interest in the success of the Re-
publican ticket.
The meeting was addressed by Mr.. Ed.
Phillips, representative Of the Eighty
third district, and Mr. W. L. Sturdevant
and Rev. y +. Hartman.
Mr.. Sturdevant, the first speaker Of the
evening. dwelt at some length upon the
causes that have produced the present
financial and political conditions in this
state. and showed tina. the finan cial en-
barrassment under which the people Of
Kansas, generally, are now laboring is the
direct and logical result Of an unbridled
spirit of enterprise which no legislation
could have restrained or ayerted.
The speaker spoke briefly upon
the currency question and late silver bill,
and exposed the fallacies in regard to the
of the currency SO loudly pro-
claimed by the alliance orators. He show
ed that under the present Dill the currency
would increase at the rate Of about SO
O10. 600 per annum and at the option of the
people all Of that amount could be had in
silver and which in ten years would add
50 per cent to the present circulating me
dunn
Rev Hartman was introduced next and
spoke at some length on the origin OF the
alliance and demonstrated by the utter
Of its leaders that it was operated in