The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-31
THE ALLIANCE JUDGE,
The Man Who Thinks He is Bigger Than tn
supreme Court speaks.

The calamity howlers" held anothe
meeting in the city last night. They wer'
evidently not pleased with the attendance
on the previous evening and as Judge
Mckay, the little man who thought bt
was bigger than the supreme court, was
in town they concluded to get him to in
fuse little more enthusiasm into the few
! Union Laborites that are in the city, than
was manifested the previous evening. The
effort was not extra successful, for there
was not single man present who had any
inclination to believe in the Alliance
theory who was not present the previous
| night Some were there out of curiosity,
however, who would not go otherwise.
They heard SO much about Judge Mckay
they wanted to see him, but even then
there were not more than $50 persons
present. if, indeed, there were that many.
l. p. Campbell was chairman of the
meeting and opened it in the Gus
tomary ran PAM Alliance manner.
He introduced Judge Mckay in glowing
terms and referred to him as the man
who had the nerve and honesty of pur-
pose to take step in advance of the
times in the interest of the people by his
JQllCluA anu dcClSlOuS.
When the judge arose there was a loud
outburst of applause from twenty-five or
thirty of the noisiest "howlers" present
He is a small man in stature with full
beard and rather fat, although reason
ably broad head There was slight
touch of the peacock about his carriage as
be walked about on the platform; just
enough to indicate that he felt the dignity
that was accidently and Unexpectedly
thrust upon him. He wore a bran new
suit of store clothes for the crease still ap.
peared on the trousers leg, which by the
way, was about two inches too long. His
coat was a genuine Prince Albert and
shoes were fine and well polished. His
address was short and had decided pro-
hibition flavor about it. 1t was also per-
sonal, and although be did not use the
personal pronoun very often, he referred
to the judge of the Twenty fourth district
about one in every twenty words be uttered
He talked good deal about the press and
as is usually the case with men of de-
munitive minds. he thought every paper
In the country outside of the calamity
sheets was subsidized and as a matter of
course corrupt. He intimated very
strongly that all the virtues which man is
heir to is monopoliZed by the Peoples
party, and from the tenor of his remarks
on this subject he would like to have the
people believe that he possessed a large
interest in the monopoly himself. He
made a great deal out of the fact that he
nosed around after the Republican sheriff
of Barber county recently to find out
whether he was neglecting to pull the
joints of Kiowa, and made a great deal
of capital out of the fact that he made the
telegraph operator at Medicine Lodge
show him certain dispatches under the
penalties of contempt, among which he
found telegram signed by former Re-
publican officer of the county directed to
saloon keepers in Kiowa and telling them
to hide their whisky, as the sheriff was
going down there to search the supposed
joints. He stated these facts to
show what good judge he
was and then put his foot
in it'' by intimating that if the Alliance |
for judge is elected in this coun-
ty he will follow the same line of policy |
This was a hard hit at Mr.. Babb as there |
are many liberal men in the Alliance party |
in the city who do not care to vote for |
man who would pursue course like that |
n dealing with the prohibition law. The |
Judge uses reasonably good language but
here is no force whatever to it. He is not
/ logician and it seems he thinks that no
statute is a law unless it is common sense,
and Alliance common sense at that. In
other words, he minated that he doesn't
ARE straw for law that is not in CON-
llete harmony with his common sense.