The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-28
HALLowELL AT HIS HOME.

CIlCI, ana so lneUeCIual nave proved all
attempts of Jeremiah's Democratic con-
tingent to stay his rising popularity
which for three weeks has rendered it
probable that his majority will prove
greater than that of Judge Peters, that
they are resorting to the silliest lies
against him. One among the most fool
! ish that has reached us comes from the
extreme western counties in this district
and purporting a Wichita parentage. 1t
| is to the effect that HaIlowell is not
going to carry his home city and county.
Without doubt jeremiah Simpsons
little coterie of Democratic bosses
in this city are the fellows who
have been circulating this story. The
only ground they could have had for
such declaration was that furnished bv
their own hired tools. When Hallowell
was first nominated it looked as if eight
out of ten of all the Democrats of this city
weer going to vote for him, and that too in
spite of the influence of the Democratic
contingent who had previously agreed to
join the Alliance in nominating a man
at Pratt. To check the wave which
threatened to carry the whole body Of
the Democratic party of Wichita and
Sedgwick county over into the arms of
Hallowell some Of their number were
delegated to bluff the game by offering
bets on every street corner that Hal
lowell wouldn't carry his own city
nor his own county. The whole
thing was so palpably absurd that
nobody here paid the least atten-
ton to it. Hardly had a
week passed before the whole scheme
fell into the soup and was abandoned.
Upon this circumstance alone must have
been based the campaign lie, sent out all
over the district, that Hallowel would
not carry his own city or his own county.
As to what are the facts, the people of
this city and county need not be told.
Wichita has become famous for standing
by and for herself. She is what she is
today from and through her unity. Her
people were never known to go back ON
anything or on anybody that belonged to
Wichita. That well known fact ought
to prove a sufficient refutation to all such
Demo-Alliance lies as the one alluded to,
especially with the men of southwest
Kansas who know of Wichita's idiosyn-
Grassy, and who in southwest Kansas
does not know how Wichita people always
have hung together? But for the others
who do not know, we assure them that
the Republican party of this county is
not only for Hallowell, in that he was
not only chosen by them for their
standard bearer but the delegation to the
Dodge City convention where he re-
Ceived his nomination was reinforced by |
two car loads, or more, of influential |
citizens who went there to urge
his superior fitness to represent this
great district in congress. 1t would be
ridiculous to claim that these Republi- |
cans and representative men of Sedg- /
wick county changed their minds, what |
ever the hirelings of the Democratic /
contingent in this city may assert to the
contrary. And the Republican party of
this city and county are not only for
him, but all the old soldiers are
for him, and without regard to
party. And all of the old soldiers
are not only for him, but
he has personal friends and admirers
by the score among the Democrats in
this city, who would rather have Halo
well represent them in congress as a Re
publican than to have a dozen Jerry
Simpsons who has belonged to every
party in existence save that of the Dem
ocratic party which he has fought and
cursed all his political life, except at
such times as he would use it. And Re-
publicans and ex-Union soldiers and
many self-respecting Democrats are not
only for him, but there are numbers of
Alliance men throughout the county who
are possessed of too much general intel
Iigence and are too well informed
Of the political trend of the
times to ever cast their vote
for man whom they know to be wholly
to represent the most popu-
ous district in the United States on the
Iloor.of congress, and who therefore can
not vote for a man who is more entitled
10 their pity than to their suffrage.
While we can hardly conceive that
such a story has had any effect in adj
joining counties, we desire to assure our
neighbors that Hallowell will receive
arger vote in both city and county than
any man on any ticket, and that he viii
be elected to congress by not only safe,
put by rouSing majority.
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