The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-15


ton and am willing to let my constit-
uents understand me on every point at is
sue" The perfect fairness of this strikes
home and he answers their questions IN a
dignified and courteous manner. How
unlike Jerry. When Jerry is asked a
question instead of answering it he begins
TO pour abuse on his questioner and while
the rattle brains of the audience approve
1t with loud suffaw the more reasonable
do not approve It, His method of cam
paigning is model one. His readiness to
answer every question asked OF him Is
phenomenal and proves him to be possess
ed of an extraordinary amount Of knowl-
edge with reference to the political history
of the country. His remarks at Cheney re-
ferred to the crowd first and then read the
letter Of Chairman Bailey, wherein he de-
clines in behalf of Simpson, Mr.. Longs
challenge to joint debate for the reason
as ne states that he does not propose to
furnish the crowd for Long" This state
ment was very ludicrous in view of the
immense crowd in attendance and cause
good deal of merriment He then
showed how Jerry was running as the
candidate of two parties on two platforms,
neither one Of which conforms 20 the pub
lie utterances of his political ideat. For
instance he Is running on the Omaha
platform which contains a free coinage
plank when the fact is he is on record IN
his sub treasury bill as being in favor OF
the abolition of the coinage OF any
kind of metal and in favor of paper
money exclusively. He quoted from the
Congressional Record speech by Sirnp
son in which that gentleman says in sub
stance: Il am not Democrat. If l was
the party would be purer and better than
what it is. " Just think Of such an ego
tistic remark about the party of Jefferson.
He also quoted from the same speech, in
which Jerry referred to the aggressiveness
of the Republican party and the yielding
temptation it afforded young men to join
it on account of this aggressiveness. This
Mr. Long considered a good indication of
Jerry's inclination to join the Republican
party after his defeat in November. He
quoted Jerry on taxation and his ipsatia-
bic desire to see the Henry George
theory adopted, theory that
if put into effect would reduce every land
owner in the country to the condition OF Il
tenant, for IN his speech in congress, en-
dorsing the Henry George idea, he said
that if the idea was converted into law,
The government would have she kernel
and the farmer the SHE'LL" meaning that
while the farmer would own his home
nominally. the government would own it
in fact He nsked the farmers how did
they like the ideas of their congressional
candidate, as outlined, and not one present
had the temerity to endorse it. He con-
trasted that idea to the homestead act Of
the Republican party. in which every man
is encouraged by the government to own
their own homes instead of the govern
ment owning it for them. He then COM
pared their ticket of two years ago to the
present one and showed where the Peo-
pies party nominated all farmers then
and practlcally no farmers this year. This
was fine argument and showed plainly
that the Alliance has been swallowed up
by the place hunting politicians. He said
that ticket two years ago WAS made up OF
farmers, while the present ticket is made
up of agriculturalists. He defined the
difference between them by saying that
farmer farmed his land while the
agriculturaiist, Mr.. Lewelling of Hillside
avenue, Wichita, for instance, farmed the
farmer. He took up Jerry's record
in congress and challenged any man
to show him what he has done while there
except to abuse his state, his district and
his constituents. IF you will send me to
said he, II will promise you
that the first thing will do is to undo
what my opponent has done. l will tell
the people there that Kansas is young and
that my district is rich and
affords homes for thousands of people and
that my constituents are happy, virtuous
honorable. educated, religious and will
pay every dollar of their debts"
1t is impossible in the space allotted to
relate to one-tenth of the wise and good
things Mr. Long said in his speech.
He was followed by Colonel Hallowell
who, at the unanimous request of the
audience, consented to make a short talk
which ahounded with good things includ-
ing some excellent campaign stories.
About ninety Wichita people were so
much interested in Mr. Longs speech that
the train pulled out and left them all
night in Cheney, where about sixty OF
them had to sleep on the downy surface of
the sidewalk. An effort was made to get
the train to return, but the company
would not do it. To hear an average Al
lance demagogue talk one would think
that all "a Republican had to do was to
raise his finger and the railroads would
submssively accede TO his requests: but
the Republicans who were at Cheney on
Thursday night know better. They know
that the railroads do not care any more for
them than they do for the Peoples party
or anybody else.