The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-25
Tn. y. M, r.. A. Picnic.

| Editor Register: Having never at
tended an +. NJ. B. A. picnic 1 con
cluded to attend the one held on
Thursday Of last week northwest o
lola. I arrived on the ground abou
II O'Clock q. m. and found not large
but fair sized crowd in attendance
Nearly all the men and boys wer'
collected around the swings and
candy stands, while the ladies were
Occupying the seats In front of thu
stand. Frank Power seemed to bt
chief "Giascutas" of the day. H. HI
Hayward was just mounting the ros'
trum to speechify. To my surprise
he launched out in favor of woman
suffrage. He said he had lately beer
converted to woman suffrage and
seemed to take special pleasure In
telling the ladies about 1t. He apol.
ogized sweetly for his being tobacco
chewer aud threw great chunks Of
taffy to the ladies as he went along,
Who would have thought that Mr..
Hayward could get such lovely
twinkle In his eye or smile SO sweetly
when in the presence of the ladies?
He .rivaled Aaron Burr or Chester.
field.
The next after Mr.. Hayward's effort
WINS dinner. The people gathered in
groups and families around i'm the
grove and for an hour or more enjoyed
their dinners and q social chat gen.
erslly and seemed to enjoy themselves
hugely as the hearty laughter all
through the grove attested. 1t was
in strong contrast to the calamity
whines some Of the speakers INDUCED
in afterwards.
The speaking I'm the afternoon was
something of friendly joint debate
between several Democrats on one
side and OF Republican on the other.
The first speaker was Mr.. Aitkin.
Like all true Englishmen he is q free
trader. He also INDUCED i'm tho cal
smity howl, and plainly intimated re-
pudistion of our mortgage indebted
ness. He had something to say about
men being SO prejudiced they would
stick to the old parties right or wrong
and in short time he said Mr.. Funs-
ton deserved no credit for voting for
free coinage of silver as public opinion
forced him to vote that way, showing
at once that Mr.. Aitken is so preju-
diced against Mr.. Funston that he
(Aitken) cannot do him (Funston)
justice. Mr.. Editor whenever you
hear man bowling prejudice, preju-
dice, just spot that man that he is q
slave to prejudice himself. Mr.. Ait
ken seems to think he has special
mission to down Mr.. Funston and
Ingalls,. Just let me kindly and
meekly suggest to the gentleman that
maybe he is biting off q little more
than he Is able to chew.
Frank Power spoke next. He made
about the same old speech he has
been making for some time. He said
the people Were paying $500, 900, 900
national taxes annually. He left the
impression on the minds of the young
people and on some older ones that
when we went to the court house to
pay our taxes u large proportion of 1t
went to the national government,
when not one cent goes there. People
that will use whiskey and tobacco
pay an indirect revenue tax, but the
higher that tax is the better. Now
Mr.. Power for fear you don't know 1t
I will tell you the tariff is not tax.
Just paste that on the back of your
hand SO you may not forget 1t.
The next speaker was Mr.. Pearson.
He first paid attention to the calamity
whine. He showed that as low as
the price of farm products is the
country had improved largely In the
last twenty years. He reproved
sharply any intimation of repudi.
alton, and then tackled the other side
on the tariff. He laid Aitken and
Power both out on the first round:
time three minutes. The writer mas
seldom heard a debater crush his OPP
ponent SO quickly and effectually as
Pearson crushed his free trade OBJ
ponents. Mr.. Hayward spoke next.
He did not seem to be quite so fluent
or in 80 good a humor as he was in
the forenoon when talking woman
suffrage. I noticed he steered clear
Of the tariff. Guess he had found ont
that it was dangerous to run onto
Pearson.
Mr.. Bartlett then spoke few min
utes. He is young man with pleas
ing address and something of wag.
II he will learn not to be quite 60
crude in some of his sayings he may
yet make quite a pleasing speaker.
Inoticed the editor Of the Farmers
Friend occupied conspicuous place
on the stand. AS he did not say q
word L suppose he was put up there
for purely ornamental purposes.
There was no music, which was a
bad failure. Kansas people love
music and such a meeting is not COM
plete without it.
For nice crowd of nice people en-
joying themselves nicely i'm a nice
grove on o nice day the F. M. b. A.
picnic was a nice success. But for a