The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-21
THE ADVENT OF DIR. BoNNEY

THE ADVENT OF DR.. BoNYEY
With one exception. 1t was immedi-
ately after Dave Dale had read the report
of the committee on permanent organiza-
tion. This provided for nine men
on the central committee, one from every
precinct which makes five in the
city and four in the country.
Over in one corner sat a stranger:
young man such as Longfellow's excelsior
young man might have been. He was
dressed in a Prince Albert, well worn
and dusty, but still setting neatly on a
pair of broad shoulders; in his mouth
cigar, sticking out beneath sandy Teu-
tonic mustache. This stranger tilted his
chair back on its hind legs and held di-
lapidated and badly ruffled plug hat in his
lap. He had no vest on and the button
flap at the bottom of his shirt-bosom was
waited on the breeze listlesely. Nobody
had noticed him up till this time He was
a stranger and unknown. A Sedgwick
county Democratic convention had never
known him, and among the notables of
Auld Lang Syne he could have lived un-
known.
But no. At this juncture he arose to
his feet and faced the convention.
He wanted to amend the re-
port of the committee on
permanent organization. The chair ruled
him out of order He sat down and bided
his time This ruffled the convention
little there were fewapgry glances at the
disturber who was not only unknown but
unlimited and unbaptised also. The con-
vention, however, speedily forgot this and
the blendings of affiliated companionship
resumed. 1t was not until after the NOM
nations had been made the crowd was
thinning out and the spectators breaking
away that the cyclone camel In the midst
of the hubbub the strong resonantIvoice of
the stranger broke out again. Mr.. chair
man he yelled, with slight German sc-
cent, Mr.. chairman, is this the time Tor
business?'i The chair in lieu
Of something else guessed it was
well, said the stranger. Il move re-
of the report of the commit
tee on permanent organiztion."
"Your motions out of order" said the
chairman.
The strangers neck flushed and his ears
became crimson "Mr Chairman, he |
shouted, a motion to reconsider is never
out of order"
Somebody here moved to lay his motion |
to reconsider on the table. The convention |
was going to set down on the stranger.
The chair was putting this motion when |
the stranger, now thoroughly aroused, |
yelled. "Mr Chairman, a motion to re- /
consider cannot be laid on the table
The chair was ratified and didn't know |
hoe 4 Sfr ha
best of him Here Harry Stewart arose |
with bland smile and a mark how plain |
/ tale shall put him down" look of conf |
ience on his face He said that on the |
adoption of the report, the gentleman, /
meaning the stranger, had voted in the |
and had sacrificed his voice for
But the stranger knew more about par
iamentary law than Mr. Stewart. "The l
gentleman, he yelled defsntly, ''voted
With the affirmative for that very reason. "
THE BOSSES BEwILDERED.
This settled the convention. The chair
nan had to put the motion. The stranger
old the chairman that it was debatsble,
ook the center of the floor and sailed in.
. nj he had Bismarckis tongue in him.
de went IOr the COuNc1liOu- I1c NdAlcu
he executive control distributed. He
lidn't want it all in the city. He wanted
ach township to be represented instead of
ach precinct he knew that there was a
against the country and in
he name of Democracy he demanded why.
In fact be made the only ringing speech
4 the day. The crowd got worked up and
,egan to cheer, to cheer hard with no
ound of affected harmony in their voices.
And the look on the Democratic bosses
aces. Who was this stranger to break into
heir confines like this? Where had this
lew sprung Demosthenes appeared Dave
)ale cooked his eye in surprise. Frank
smith peered over his spectacles IN amaze
nent az the intruder, and the rank and
lie marveled in open-mouthed astonish-
nent
But the speaker laid it of TO them. And
e captzred the crowd. He told them that
ie had never been in a Sedgwick county
Democratic convention before. but that he