The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-16

asked for the nomination for governor and
1t had cost him good deal his farm being
heavily mortgaged at the time Still no
body had ever heard Willis complaining.
Ii had been elected. he was continuing
when voice from the crowd interrupted
land you was too).
Mr.. S. NJ. Scott next appeared Mr.
Scott is young man and lecturer for the
Seventh district. The rou ndness of his
stomach and the girth oil his pantaloons
proves that he is not suffering for want of
victuals. Mr.. Scott made a empassioned
and usual appeal for the Alliance
newspapers of the state. He
| Wichita the Com-the Conform
and finally got it ''Commoner." He also
undid package Of tracts on the sub-treas-
ury scheme, and also large chart show
ing the financial fluctuations of the coun-
try. He wound mp his talk with general
invitation to come up and get one of the
tracts. This caused a general rush for the
stand until the late arrival of supple
mentary provision that they were % cents
apiece.
| Mr.. Babb, who was presiding, announced
adjournment for dinner. and the crowd
scrambled for the baskets of calamity deli
cacies. The crowd in the morning could
scarcely be termed enthusiastic. The ap-
| plause was in no wise spirited. 1t is no
fiction to say that with the exception of
Jerry Simpsons ten-minute talk
IN the afternoon there was moth
ing approaching thorough and general
applause all day. The crowd gave vent
to good yell at Jerry's witticisms, but
the patriotic teachings of Mr.. Polk and
his gentle protestations with the northern
soldier. the dull sluggardly length of Sen
ator PETERS labyrinthine puzzle of stats
tical woe only brought out a clap here
and there and q nod of approval from
isolated listeners. Occasionally there was
some applause, which might have passed
off the very acme of the possibility of the
crowds enthusiasm, had not Jerry Simp-
son at the last, woke them up.
The cloths were spread upon the green
and under the shady trees. where seven
layer jelly cakes stood gloriously high in
the center, fat apple pies and peach cob
blers were thrown around in sweet con-
fusion, jars of picked peaches, the kind
with cloves stuck in them, great white
loaves of bread that were buttered first
and then the slice cut off in the woman's
lap-buttered too with the rich unaduI-
terated product of rich milk-and milk
and cream, sweeter than it is found any
where in town. Fried chicken, apple but
ter, grape jelley, crab-apple marmalade,
doughnuts and cakes to your hearts con-
tent. So they starved. Sweet are the uses
of adversely.
After dinner the picnic paid it's attention
and good deal of its coin too to the num-
erous catch-penny devices on the ground.
The man with the whirlimagig was there
and did good business. The sledge ham
mer machine bumped away all day. NJ
merous conspiracies were put up to bank
rupt the man who recklnssly offered "all
the lemonade you could drink for a nickle"
and were successfully baffled. The
colored Individual stuck his |
head through slot in canvas and could |
be thrown at twice with eggs for the large |
price in these calamity times of nickle.
IN THE AFTERNOON.
At Q o'clock Miss Walling of South |
Haven, started the entertainment with a
effort on "Who Is to Blame?" |
Miss Walling may or may not have pro-
Lease, but she satisfied the audience and
herself fully. Mr.. Polk was then intro
duced. His voice was a trihe husky, hav-
ing been overused on the preceding day. as
be explained, still he made very credita-
BILE speech and one that held the crowd
much better than PETERS. He prefaced
his remarks with the assertion that he
was glad to see so much love
and patriotism left among the masses
He was stranger to all these people, in
the faca of the fact, he said, that they had
heard so much about him. Still he felt
ike brother to them. He believed that
The people should know something of the
men that lead them. He had been brought
up to hard work and had always been
hard worker; had been elected to the legls-
AZURE and other responsible positions in
ais state when quite a young man. Mr..
Polk devoted great portion of his speech
20 assertions that the north and south had
allen into each others arms. He spoke
If the bravery of the southern soldier and
'elated how he had gone back
home from the var with moth
ng but forty pounds of borrowed
bacon. His little wife, who had been
typical SOubu6IA gill; up AcI |
leeves and went to work; work that she
lad never known before.
Mr.. Polk referred to an editorial in the
EAGLE in which he was asked why he was
lot down in South Carolina instead of |
lere in Kansas at this time.
Because" said Mr.. Polk, 81 am here in
esponse to a general invitation from the !
Whole state of Kansas"
Because this is my home"
liam here because l feel like this is my {
He had made speeches up to the last
noment for the Union, but when his state
allied him TO arms he responded, Just
S you would have done had you lived
here" IF I had lived in a northern
tate 1 would have fought the
'orld, the flesh and the devil I
0 have maintained the union. fought
on like man. We surrendered to you
t Appomatox like men. If the two gen. Z
rails, Grant and Lee. had left it to the '
oys, standing up in two rows that day, as |
} what to do. believe they would have
one nothing else but rushed into one an I
theirs arms. All the population of the $
orth, if every man, woman and child l
Mould be a brave soldier, could not go '
ack to the south today and re-establish e
avery.
Mr.. Polk said that the politics of the y
ruth at present had come to be a happy =
fixture of Thomas Jefferson Democracy :
I'D Abrsham Lincoln Republication. a
When Mr.. Polk had finished, Mr.. Wish, G
local cslsmityite, mounted the platform 5.
Id. as a union soldier. proposed three =
laers for Polk This was given but not :