Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-10-09
HUMPHREY AND HANBEOK HOWL.


The Humphrey -Hanbeck single item
ted show gave performance in this
city, on last Friday evening at the
Grand The clown of the little co2%
bination was introduced by G- WASH
Nimocks, the great pTohi-repub-
knocked d-out-aRd-tramped-on eN-boSs
of the county. His double faced clown
ship grimmaced and gesticulated, and
for about an hour wheezed out through
his nose lot of stuff chat could not
te called argument though 1t seemed :
to 60 down with the brass collar party
ties.
tIf our republican readers do not
like the wording of the above paragraph
let them refer to Caraway's report
OF the Robinson meeting in last weeks
Register it is his style, moi ours-l
Mr.. Humphrey confined his remarks
mostly to the tariff and money guess
tons and only mentioned prohibition
when he hit the third party prohibi-
tionists a lick by saying they were not
worthy of consideration. He attribur<kl
the hard times in Kansas to lover
production" but did not say. Nhats
caused the hard times in other states
where there was-no ''over production"
Lou Hanbeck, the fat and slick well
fed, and well dressed eS-congressman'
was next introduced. Having the re-
putation of being ''silvery tonEHd'
and all that something good xas look
how good a republican he was, admit
ting that he had worn the republican
collar, as ii were, since he was seventeen
years old, had not gone off after any
side shows or fat women; he IhouglR
that God took especial pains to snake
Tom Reed for the place he fills; de-.
nounced the democratic congressman
for their quorum breaking tactics. and
then admitted that he a republican
congressman, had done the same
thing time and again. He admitte@
that the republican party would usurp
all precedents in order to maintain
the bloody shirt for a half hour, after
which he struck the Mckinley bill
and painted it as 1.-THE greatest
tariff measure ever passed." he said it
reduced the tariffs to 26 per oent,
while the Mills bill proposed TO reduce
it to but %; land yet the Mills bill was
Free trade,'') He then began telling
of what some of the opposite speakers
had said, and mentioned the name of
Jerry Simpson" At the mention
Of Ierry's name some one sang ont
''hurrah for jerry" and a deafening
yell went up from all parts of the hail
for the peoples candidate for congress.
The speaker then called upon '-tile
faithful for three cheers for Hallow-
ell, and got them, but the three that
Jim got would hardly make ii single
cheer equal to the ONE that went UP
for Jerry. The speaker admitted that
the western states were more in need
of a reduction of the tariff chan were
the eastern states; said kansassarmers
had 26 bushels of wheat TO the acre
and Lord knows, what more do you
WANT" He gave d jumbled up lot
of figures on the financial question
and wound up with an appeal TO the
old soldiers mot TO part the twins
(meaning, probably the republican
party and the protected monopolists--
Altogether, the ex-congressman S
speech was entertaining but it showed
him up as a coneeited demagogue- a1ld
a man who would not stop at anything
to bring about the success of e}ae
republican party.
Mr.. Hovey tried to address the au-
dience at the close of Hanbecki s speech
but the people would not stay to hear
him. ..---.-