The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-29
REPUBLICANS IN MORTON.

An enthusiastic Republican meeting in
Morton township at Center school house
was held Monday night, w. B. Moran,
one of the most earnest Republicans in
! Morton township, called the meeting to
order and j. NJ. Teogne was made chair
man. p. A. Rohrbaugh was introduced
to the meeting and spoke for nearly two
! hours. Mr.. Rohrbaugh arragned the
Democratic party severely, and scorching
! criticisms on the political aspirants in the
! Farmers Alliance brought.down the house
! time and again. He reviewed the causes
which led on to the hard times and
| showed that the Alliance movement was
! the Outgrowth of these times that were the
necessary result of speculation and real
estate gambling into which we fell and the
short crops of the preceding years. If the
Republican party could have had their
way in Kansas during these years they
would have had rain and that would have
saved them the necessity of educating the
| people against a great many visionary
schemes of the orators of the Alliance. He
discussed the legislation of both state and
nation and said that there never was a
congress or legislature which passed so
many laws in the interest of the farmer
and the laborer in one session as
the last congress and the last session
of the Kansas legislature. He referred TO
The fact that the Kansas legislature
had always been dominated by the farmer
that there never was a time when the
farmers were not in the majority in that
body, and of course, if they didn't get the
laws they wanted, they alone were to
blame. He said the political Alliance or
Peoples party was simply a Democratic
trick to elect Democrats TO Office that the
Peoples county ticket was composed
entirely of Democrats, and he thought in
all fairness the Republicans should have
had some representation on the ticket. He
compared the Republican candidates to
the candidates on the other ticket, and
paid them just tribute for the manner in
which most of them had performed the
duties in the past He referred to the ALI
ance procession in Wichita, said it was
good showing, but one of the floats in the
procession was enough TO bring the blush
of shame to the brow of any sober minded
man. The representation of one of the
leading citizens of this state. Col. J. r.
Hallowell, by jackass with a banner bear
ing the inscription, Prince Hal. A young
man in the audience belonging to the ALI
ance interrupted the speaker with THAT
was right" The speaker. looking at the
young man, exclaimed: You are a young
man, but if you were no older than that
boy back there, and lived until the feet
ing years should crown your head with
silvery hairs, you would not live long
enough to see the solid yeomanry of Amer
lea look with favor on such a scene as that !
That is not the way that loyal hearts re
ward the man who, like Col Hallowell, |
earns the title OF prince at the head of |
gallant charge, holding in his hand a
sword red with the crimson stain of trea- |
son. No, sir, you will not live long |
enough to witness the approval of that |
scene by the farmers of Kansas It never |
originated in the brain of a farmer. Some l
disgruutled sorehead who never farmed |
was the father of that representation and /
a man, too, who never carried sword or |
musket into battle"
Mr.. Rohrbaugh closed his speech amid |
cheers.
Morton township was the stronghold of |
the Alliance and both the rank and file of |
both parties are becoming well acquainted |
with the whole scheme TO force them like 1
cattle to support ranting alarmist Office
seekers, and are leaving the political part |
of The organization mucn more rapidly /
than they went into it.