Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-28

ever held in Ohio and one of the most
inharmonious as we'll, convened at
Cleveland on the 18th inst. From the
first arrival of advance delegates it was
foregone conclusion that Governor
Campbell would be renominated, with a
plenty of votes to spare, but upon tie
arrival of the Hamilton county delega-
lion from Cincinnati it was nothing
daunted and each member of it proceeded
to make himself committee of one to
defeat the denomination OF the govern
or. This Cincinnati opposition crea ted
considerable confusion but accom-
plished nothing as will be seen by the
result.
The convention was called to order
by Chairman Norton OF the state CEN
trail committee, with stirring address.
Among other things he said:
"Sons of democracy. what contrast
you present to that gathering OF the
peoples OppressOrs that convened in
the states capitol but short month
ago. Here the mechanic. the artisan,
the true tiller of the soil, the business
man and the hOnored professions fresh
from the people meet to confer and eX
ercise each for himself his Independent
Judgment, guided by reason, devoid of
passion, jealousy and revenge. There,
were the autOmatOnS, mounted, wired
and operated by the cunning hand of
the political juggler who was seeking
only his own personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT
and the humiliation of his political as
Ociates. You meet to consider the
peoples interests. They met unmind-
full of them. You meet to speak the
honest words of hope, truth and So
berness TO the toiling thousands. They
met wearing an emblazOned American
lie upon British tinplate. You meet
to protect and save. They meet to de-
celve, through fraud and ruin. Your
mission is in the interest and direction
of happiness and prosperity; theirs,
that of shame, dishonOr and devasta-
tion. In almost every state of the
union from the fair far east to the
grand great west, the people had but
lately placed the seal of condemna' ion
and the stamp of dishOnOr upon the
Mckinley bill. Yet, with the thunder
GUS protests of the people still ringing
in their ears, they met to do homage to
and to elevate the author of that bill
TO-day.w we meet to demand that the
wrongs the people have suffered for
more than quarter of century shall be
righted and not perpetuated; that the
clutch of the protectionist freebooter
shall be loosened from the throat of the
nation; that the foot of the oppressor
shall be removed from the necks of the
laboring millions and that in free
country under a free flag the people
shall be free from the despoliation of
their homes and the mpoverishment of
their children by law that is no more
to be honored than the levy of the ban
dit and buccaneers. They met, as they
say, to emphasize and couragoOusly
defend the principle of protection"
that principle that for twenty-five years
and more has been undermining the
life foundations of our government; the
principle that, applied by them has al
most nullified the good vOuchsafed to
the people by an all wise and beneficent
Creator; principle that has made the
rich and fertile acres of our husband
men almost as worthless as the sand
desert OF Sahara: a principle that has
closed the markets of the world to the
most productive and busy country of
the earth; principle that has central
lied the wealth of the nation until it
rests in the vaults of the arrogant
monopollsts who to-day fix the price of
all our necessities; principle that is
antagonistic to the interests of the mil
lions, beneficial only to the few; prin-
ciple opposed to reason, Justice, inteli-
gence, education and christian decency.
''They say that the author OF this law
that is the acme of this principle is a
good man kind, generous and gentle,
/ believe that it is so. More than that,
he is my friend. 1 would to God that