People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-05-06
RATIFIED.
THE WORK OF THE ST. LOUIS CON,
FERENCE ENTHUSIASTICALLY
ENDORSED BY THE PEOPLE
OF SUMNER COUNTY
In MASS CONVENTION,
A Powerful Presentation Of the Peoples Plea
by Hon. Harrison Kelley, an ex-Republi-
can cOngressman.-Liberty Nall
Ablaze with Enthusiasm.

can Gong gressman.-LlperIy MAIL
Ablaze with Enthusiasm.
There was another rafting of the
dry bones of the dead O. Alliance Of
Sumner county in WellingtOnlaSt Sat-
urday-a ghOStly show of spirit land
enthusiasm as it were. For some two
or three weeks it has been heralded in
the VOICE that on the above date the
people of Sumner county would assem-
BILE in Liberty Hall in Wellington to
ratify the action of the st. Louis plat
form and to endorse the second decla-
ration of independence there formulat
ed. The day arrived with threatening
weather, but Notwithstanding, all fore
noon and until 2 o'clock in the after
noon vehicles of all kinds laden with
the good people of the empire county
Of Kansas came rolling into town from
every township, and to the self-COngrat-
ulating servants of plutocracy it be-
came vexatiOuSly apparent that there
was something on the tapis.
At2 o'clock A guns were fired in
honor of the A states in the union and
Liberty Hall was already filling with
people. At 2:3O the walls of the build.
ing were crowded to their full capac.
ity.
Acting as chairman of the county
central committee, r. Bruce Magee ap.
pointed the following committee OIL
resolutions: A. G. Forney, J. NJ
Doubleday, Lyman Naugle, A. c
Lambe and G. H. Fish. The chairman
also announced that collection of Sl(
was needed to defray expenses and tht
same being taken the amount contrib
uted was reported as $50.
The Hon. Harrison Kelley, of Coffe!
county, who had been engaged to ad
dress the people on this occasion, wa
then escorted to the stand amid tn,
applause of the audience. He was in
trOduced very appropriately by Chair
man Magee and proceeded to address
the audience. Mr.. Kelley is a tall
brOad-ShOuldered man with gray beard
apparently about So years of age. H,
was a member of the last congress
from the Topeka district as al republi
can and was defeated by John G. Otis
in 1890. Soon after, he announced hi
abandonment of the republican party
and that he would in future act will
the Peoples party. He is a fuen
speaker, has powerful voice, gOoC
language and easy carriage.
He opened his remarks away back,iI
primeval times, showing how reformer
in all ages had suffered prescription
and been characterized as "cranks," re
ferring to Jesus Cmist and tracing his
tory on up to Martin Luther, John Ca
vim and the heroes of the revolutionar
and civil wars unwittingly in cOnvinC
ing cOntradistinctiOn to Ex-GOv. Ar
thOny recent sage remarks that indt
pendent vOterSwere "Self-disfranchise
fools" and towards" He related tn
evidences he had gathered while i
congress concerning that great Grim
and conspiracy against the America
people, whereby silver was demonetize
in 1873, showing beyond doubt ths
S the scheme was concocted among til
!. bankers and brokers of the cities {
J the old world, who raised a fund {
s5OoOOO to carry out the plan. Thes
cities held our securities payable
both gold and silver and with silvt
S demOnetized and gold the only met
= in which they could be paid they pro
: tied great fortunes by the consequel
appreciation and at the expense of Il
honest, cOnfding and justice-loyir
:. people of America. Mr.. Kelley gav
Congressman Phillip S. Post, "a mer
l Der of the present house, as corrob
+ rative authority. Mr.. Post was
1873 I. S. consul at Vienna, Austri
aud had intercourse with the fnanci
institutions of Europe. He knew
H Doodle funds being raised at the tin
and knew also of the result hayiI
been accomplished in "a hours tin
Y after 1t was done, when it was n
known in America for months aftt
ward. Gen. Grant acknowledged tn
he signed the bill ignorant of that pI
vision being init. The bill was smu
tgled through both houses from co
I ference committee, John Sherman
porting it to the senate and Mr.. Hoo
er, af Ohio. reporting it to the bou
both making similar statements
their honor as to the provisions of
bill, the reading of which, owing to
. extreme lengh, was waived.